Author: Rhys Gregory

A new campaign hopes to set Cardiff on the path to becoming one of the UK’s most sustainable food places. Food Cardiff, a city-wide partnership of more than 200 individuals and organisations – is asking people from all walks of life to ‘make a pledge’ and take action, to help Cardiff achieve Gold Sustainable Food Places status by the year 2024 .It is hoped that the pledges will empower Cardiffians to create a thriving local food economy, where everyone has access to food that is both healthy, and environmentally sustainable. A Sustainable Food Place Last year, Cardiff was awarded Silver Sustainable Food…

A multi-award winning programme which transforms school playgrounds into vibrant outdoor fruit and vegetable gardens, has been officially launched in Cardiff. Cardiff Council in partnership with environmental charity Trees for Cities (TfC), has so far delivered15Edible Playgrounds to schools across the city with the aim of getting children excited about growing and eating healthy food, whilst providing valuable outdoor learning resources. Hosted by Glan-yr-Afon Primary School in Llanrumney, the project was officially launched yesterday by Cardiff Council’s Cabinet Member for Education, Employment and Skills, Cllr Sarah Merry, alongside TfC Chief Executive, David Elliot, and Director of Grow Cardiff, Isla Horton.…

HRH The Countess of Wessex has been helping celebrate Swansea as a Queen’s Green Canopy “Champion City” during a Royal Visit to the city on Wednesday 9th March. To mark the occasion, Her Royal Highness planted a Jubilee tree at the city’s new coastal park, which is next door to the newly opened Swansea Arena. The Countess toured the park, which is the first new urban park in Swansea for a century. HRH The Countess of Wessex also met VIPs, local groups and school children who are green champions in their communities, planting trees and promoting environmental initiatives in their areas.…

Pembrokeshire County Council is pleased to announce the start of improvement works at Bridgend Square, Haverfordwest as part of the wider construction of the Haverfordwest Transport Interchange Project. Evan Pritchard Contractors Limited will progress a package of engineering enabling works in the existing Bridgend Square Car Park. This consists of kerbline realignment, relocation of bus shelters and signage information, installation of crossings and footways, and relocation of existing lighting and CCTV assets. These works are required to implement a temporary bus station which will serve as the primary bus station following decommissioning of the current facility at the existing multi-storey…

A ceremony was held at Bassaleg School to mark the start of work to replace aging buildings with state-of-the-art teaching facilities. It will be the latest scheme to be delivered with match funding from the Welsh Government through its Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme. Over the next three years, a modern teaching block, dining and assembly areas will be created to replace the older structures. It will also ensure there are sufficient school places to meet growing demand.as the overall capacity of Bassaleg School increases by 300 from September 2023. Pupils and staff joined the Minister for Education and Welsh…

Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Cabinet has this week (9 March) unanimously approved plans to develop and construct a new visitor centre at Parc Penallta, Ystrad Mynach. The new multi-purpose visitor centre will be delivered in partnership with Welsh Government and will act as a community hub and discovery gateway for the Valleys Regional Park initiative and provide a potential home for their ‘guardian scheme’. It will incorporate education and conferencing facilities, a café, toilets, showers, and act as health and wellbeing hub. Designs for the centre incorporate sustainability and future proofing; utilising local building materials, such as larch timber felled…

With help from Cantref Primary School’s eco club, Abergavenny’s Bailey Park now has five brand new English Oak trees and five Copper Beech trees, which have been dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen for the Platinum Jubilee under the Queen’s Green Canopy project. After inspections of Bailey Park’s green infrastructure, a number of the trees in the park had to be removed for safety reasons. To compensate for the loss, 21 trees have been planted this year. Working well as a team in some challenging weather, Cantref Primary School’s eco club gave a helping hand to the council’s grounds staff with…

The Welsh Government is calling on people across the country to join a national consultation that will shape its strategy to make Wales smoke-free by 2030. Tackling health inequalities and increasing support to help people quit are key to the Welsh Government’s ambitions to see Wales become smoke-free within the decade. Around 14% of people in Wales currently smoke and there are strong links between smoking and deprivation, with those in more deprived areas more likely to smoke. Success for the Welsh Government’s long-term tobacco control strategy, A Smoke-free Wales, would see less than 5% of the population smoking by…

Chambers Wales South East, South West and Mid has revealed the impact of rising costs on businesses in Wales following the British Chamber of Commerce’s (BCC) latest UK growth forecast. The BCC has downgraded its expectations for UK economic growth in 2022 to 3.6%, less than half the growth of 7.5% recorded last year. The downgrade reflects a deteriorating outlook for consumer spending and a weaker than expected rebound in business investment amid soaring inflation and major tax rises, as well as the impact of global shocks including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The downgraded projections for the UK economy highlight…

Post Office has re-opened Barmouth Post Office this week at a new location – SPAR, King Edward Street, Barmouth, LL42 1AN. The store now offers 37 extra hours of Post Office services a week for the convenience of customers. The previous branch at High Street, Barmouth, LL42 1DW, closed yesterday (3/3) due to the resignation of the current operator. Our priority is to safeguard our services in the locality in the longer term and the relocation of Barmouth Post Office will enable us to maintain our Post Office service to our customers in the local community. The opening hours of…