Author: Rhys Gregory

Whether you are running a two-person shop or running a big business with hundreds of employees and workers, hiring the right person for work is key to your business’s success. You need to use effective strategies that help you find the candidates whose expertise matches your criteria.  Although going through a recruitment process is a challenging task, technology has made it far simpler as compared to the old times when you didn’t have many resources and access to online tools and platforms to attract talent. But now technology has made it easier for the recruiters to reach the talent.  There…

Over the last decade, the Cryptocurrency market has undergone significant transformations. The market volatility of Bitcoin has dissuaded a few Crypto investors, but its overall investment trend has been on the rise. Its technology has revolutionized the medium and is affecting every industry in which it operates. Not only Bitcoin but also Ethereum has gained significant traction in the market, and as their market value has increased, investors are spending money behind altcoins now more than ever before. Even though it has been a bumpy ride, the entire Crypto market condition has been on the rise. If you are familiar…

When it comes down to investing in Cryptocurrency, one of the biggest challenges for investors is to avoid getting caught in the FOMO effect. The Crypto trading market has the reputation of making investors make decisions based on their emotions. Perhaps this is because of its high volatility. It feels like only a couple of years (it’s just a feeling, it’s actually over ten years) have passed since the first Cryptocurrency – Bitcoin – was introduced in the market. It has since risen to a prominent place in the portfolios. Despite performing better than all the assets in the market,…

Are you thinking about starting your investment journey? That’s great! But have you planned anything on how you are going to start your investment journey? Not yet! Investment is a great way of earning money. At the same time, it can be dangerous and can cost you a huge amount of money lost if you make a single mistake. This is the reason why many people do not start investing even though they are willing to. Due to the fear of losing all they have, they keep themselves out of any type of investment. When you are doing everything right,…

Five talented chefs must wait until this evening (Thursday) night to discover which of them is the new National Chef of Wales. The two-day final ended today with three chefs involved in a cook-off in the heat of the kitchen at the Welsh International Culinary Championships (WICC), organised by the Culinary Association of Wales (CAW), at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai’s campus in Rhos-on-Sea. It was the turn of Matthew Smith, 38, sous chef at Chartists 1770 at The Trewythen Hotel, Llanidloes, Wayne Barnard, 39, sous chef at Manor Parc Country Hotel and Restaurant, Thornhill, Cardiff and Thomas Herbert, 24, from Bridgend, chef…

An application for outline planning permission to build 1,800 new homes at the Coed Darcy development near Neath has been submitted to Neath Port Talbot Council by St. Modwen Developments, the UK’s leading developer of new communities and high-quality homes. The new planning application registered this week (23 February 2022) covers around 316 acres (128 hectares) of the former thousand-acre BP oil refinery acquired by St. Modwen in 2008. It is the culmination of more than two years of detailed research, partnership work and community engagement, to arrive at an exciting new masterplan that will reinvigorate Coed Darcy, and meet…

The value of fraud cases heard in the Welsh courts in 2021 reached almost £7.9m, nearly double the value of £4.1m in 2020, according to KPMG UK’s latest Fraud Barometer. This substantial increase is largely attributable to a general rise in the value of cases heard in the region’s courts: in 2021 the three highest value cases had a combined value of £5.5m, whereas in 2020 the three highest value cases totalled £2.5m. There was also a 60 per cent increase in the number of alleged fraud cases heard in the region’s courts, from ten in 2020 to 16 in…

A biodiversity project will receive more green shoots to grow from for 2022. Denbighshire County Council’s local provenance tree nursery at Green Gates Farm, St Asaph, is seeing the first signs of a successful boost for the Wildflower Meadows Project. This project has also been funded by Welsh Government, through the Local Nature Partnerships Cymru ENRaW project and Local Places for Nature grant. The nursery aims to produce 5,000 native wildflower plants a year alongside 5,000 native trees And already the team at the site is seeing the fruits of their labour with the first native wildflower seeds germinating. Following…

A midwife who has helped mums give birth in the frozen Canadian Arctic and the parched heat of the Australian Outback is leading the way in looking after expectant women in Wales. Glasgow-born Sheila Brown worked in Canada’s Arctic Circle and in the stifling heat of Australia’s Red Centre before moving to North Wales and now trains the next generation of midwives for Bangor University. The University’s team have just retained their Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation for their midwifery programme, the only programme with this endorsement of excellence in Wales, which pays special attention to the importance of…

The health board’s Fabian Way drive-through Covid testing unit has made the short journey to a new home in Port Talbot. The unit carried out around 94,000 tests, since being set up last July, but has now relocated to Longlands Lane, in Margam, to allow the Fabian Way Park and Ride site to return to full use as Covid restrictions are eased. Simone Manning, Swansea Bay’s Operational Lead of Covid Testing, said: “We have taken somewhere in the region of 94,000 drive-through tests here at Fabian Way since last year. “We would like to say a very big thank you…