Author: Rhys Gregory

The Chief Executive of the charity regulator has today [3 September 2025] visited two Cardiff-based charities. His first visit was to LATCH, a children’s cancer charity, supporting children, young people and their families, who are under the care of the Paediatric Oncology Principal Treatment Centre at the Children’s Hospital for Wales. The CEO’s visit coincides with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month which takes place every September and aims to generate awareness and support for children affected by cancer. His second visit was to the charity Daring to Dream, which supports and promotes the emotional health and well-being of adult hospital patients in Wales. Daring to…

The nominees for the 2025 South Wales Business Awards have been announced. Since the awards launched in 2008, the number and standard of applications have grown year on year. However, 2025 has set a new benchmark, with a record number of applications received and an exceptional standard across the board. Despite economic challenges, Wales continues to demonstrate remarkable progress, with entrepreneurship thriving across the region. The Nominees are as follows: Business Services Business of the Year Always Responsive Commercial Cleaning Moorhouse Group Ltd GS Verde Group Clean Mate Ltd Ajuda Fleet EV Business Services Business of the Year (SME) Robertsons…

Marston’s and Michelin-starred chef Tom Shepherd have teamed up once more to serve up The Best Ever Pub Pie to locals across the UK. Tom Shepherd’s Best Ever Pub Pie, inspired by his Great British Menu main course-winning dish, that he created in partnership with Marston’s is back on the menu, after selling out in just 6 weeks in April this year. The Best Ever Pub Pie will be available to order in over 100 Marston’s pubs from 4 September – until they sell out! The triple layer pie is made with rich hand-pulled beef cheek and pulled beef shin, sweet and…

Businesses in Wales are invited to attend the Amazon Innovation Accelerator, a programme that provides free training to local SMEs. The exclusive Amazon Innovation Accelerator (AIA) is coming to Swansea for the first time, hosted at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in the city on 12th September, and Welsh businesses are invited to sign up now. The Amazon Innovation Accelerator provides small and medium businesses with free training on how to innovate as they grow. The Accelerator also offers a dynamic setting for training and provides an exclusive peek into how Amazon has scaled its own operations in the UK. Through the…

UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded more than £1m to a research team from Aberystwyth and Swansea universities to lead the Welsh Election Study 2026 (WES 2026), a four-year project that will provide high-quality, impartial survey data on political attitudes and voting behaviour in Wales. The collaboration brings together Dr Anwen Elias (Aberystwyth University), Professor Matt Wall and Dr Bettina Petersohn (Swansea University), working in partnership with the Wales Institute of Social Research and Data (WISERD), as part of the ESRC’s investment in data infrastructure for electoral research. Professor Alison Park, Deputy Executive Chair of ESRC, said:…

Alexander Dale, 31, grabbed the 11-year-old and pushed her to the floor while she was walking her dog in Cyncoed. Two days earlier, on October 23, 2024, Dale approached a 15-year-old girl on a bus travelling from Barry and showed her explicit messages on his phone. Detectives sourced CCTV from the bus and, using Retrospective Facial Recognition, Dale was quickly identified as the suspect. He was arrested, charged and remanded within a week. Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology compares still images of faces of unknown subjects against a reference image database. Further enquires confirmed Dale had used a mobile phone app,…

Neath Port Talbot Council is inviting residents to give their views on proposals to enhance walking, wheeling, and cycling (Active Travel) routes across towns and villages in the county borough. Through the enhancement of existing infrastructure and the development of new routes, the council aims to make Active Travel the preferred mode of transport for local journeys. This initiative supports improved air quality, healthier lifestyles, and the overall attractiveness of communities as places to live and work. The Active Travel Network Map outlines the routes the council intends to prioritise for future improvements. It is designed to make walking, wheeling…

People in Swansea will benefit from faster diagnoses following a £1.3m Welsh Government investment to upgrade x-ray facilities in Morriston Hospital’s emergency department. The funding will replace a fifteen-year-old system with modern digital technology that produces instant high-quality images – meaning quicker results. The new digital system will help reduce radiation exposure for patients and staff and automated positioning features will make machines safer and easier for radiographers to use. Unlike the older equipment which can cause delays in patient diagnostics, the new reliable systems will help medical teams assess more patients efficiently. Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care,…

Monmouthshire-based Hive Mind Mead and Brew Co has launched into Marks & Spencer stores across the UK, making use of the SALSA certification secured with the help of the Welsh Government’s HELIX Programme, formerly Project HELIX.  The company’s first major retail listing has seen their Pure Honey, Honey and Rhubarb, and Honey and Elderflower sparkling meads, which are made using British honey, launch into 50 Marks and Spencer stores. It’s the next step in the growth journey for the business that was founded in 2018 by brothers Kit and Matt Newell with the goal of modernising the world’s oldest alcoholic…

Macmillan Cancer Support is warning that almost 1.4 million people with cancer across the UK (40%) have been let down by a ‘cancer postcode lottery’, as people struggle to get the treatment and care that’s right for them, simply because of where they live. The charity says inconsistent cancer care is leaving some people with cancer with fewer treatment options, and very little choice but to travel long distances for the treatment they need. Many face increased costs, stress, anxiety and exhaustion as a result. At its most extreme, the UK’s ‘cancer postcode lottery’ could be putting an estimated 100,000…