Author: Rhys Gregory

BRIT award winner and multi-platinum selling artist James Bay played live at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff on Saturday 19th February for a very special and incredibly intimate solo show. Earlier this year, James got behind the Independent Venue Week campaign, designed to showcase local venues with strong musical roots. He began visiting venues across the UK, bringing his ‘New Songs New Stories’ tour small independent venues. The Hertfordshire-born singer-songwriter’s tour has taken him as far East as Cardiff and Norwich, and as far north and south as Glasgow and Brighton – returning to some of the stages he first performed on at the…

During the introductory period of cryptocurrency, the market experienced a mixed review from tech-aficionados. Many people thought of it as a fraudulent nuisance, while a fair few believed in the system. Nonetheless, since then, the market of cryptocurrency has grown quite extensively. It has become a much more prominent, acceptable, and hyped-up transactional method. For example, you can simply use an application like bitcoin prime to exchange cryptocurrencies with others. Due to its efficiency, many businesses are integrating cryptocurrency into their organizational ecosystem as well. Please keep reading to learn more about it. Applications Of Cryptocurrency In Business  Cryptocurrency, in…

As much as being exposed to social media is a typical scenario in today’s generation, there are still cases when users prefer not to show everything about their engagements and interactions to the rest of the online public. For instance, a certain post in Instagram is plain likeable and engagement magnet in nature, yet the user would not want his or her followers to see who and who didn’t like such a post. The news feed is set to show no interaction at all. Either the user hide likes on Instagram or such an activity is basically turned off. Instagram…

Technology has ingrained itself in our lives and can be extremely useful for students to manage time efficiently and improve their academics. There are plenty of services online that students can use while studying in college to make their lives easier and organize their academic goals and daily tasks.  Here are five useful services that students can use to improve their lives while studying in college.  Slack Slack is arguably one of the best services students can use to keep track of assignments and study together in groups. It is a free-to-use service that allows you to create text servers…

The A487 Caernarfon and Bontnewydd bypass has been completed ahead of time and will now open to traffic on Saturday 19 February rather than Friday 18 February in order not to encourage any unnecessary travel during Storm Eunice. Construction of the £139m scheme, delivered by the Balfour Beatty Jones Bros Joint Venture, began in 2019 with work continuing throughout the Covid-19 pandemic with safeguards in place to protect the workforce. One of the largest recent infrastructure projects in North Wales, the 9.7km bypass runs from the Goat Roundabout on the A499/A487 to the Plas Menai roundabout. 17 major structures were…

The legal requirement to show a Covid Pass to enter certain venues and events in Wales has now been lifted by the Welsh Government, the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden has confirmed. The move comes as the Welsh Government continues to lift some of its remaining coronavirus protections as cases continue to fall. From today (Friday 18 February), the domestic Covid Pass will no longer be required for entry into indoor or outdoor events and venues, including nightclubs, cinemas, theatres and concert halls. But events and venues will be able to continue to use it if they…

A new app has just been launched that puts the power to rate and help improve communities in the hands of young people. Now, thanks to the new RPlace app, it only takes youngsters a few clicks to share what they like – and hate – about where they live, play and go with their friends and have their say on what needs to improve. The free secure app, supported by Play Wales, has been developed by the HAPPEN and ACTIVE research projects based at Swansea University which both study ways of improving young people’s lives. RPlace allows young people…

The prestigious Wales Harp Festival returns this year after the Covid-19 pandemic forced its cancellation two years ago and into becoming a virtual event in 2021. There will be a live audience at Galeri Caernarfon when it becomes the centre of the harp playing world with the staging of the event for two days on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 12 and13. Under the artistic direction of Elinor Bennett, an internationally-renowned harpist, the festival combines concerts with master classes and workshops, offering harpists of all ages and abilities the opportunity of learning from some of the best performers in the world.…

A popular Welsh TV soap star and singer has taken on a new starring role – at a care  home in Caernarfon. Well known actor and S4C favourite Emyr Gibson told how the career move was one of the most surprising of his life, but one about which he has no regrets. He has been bowled over by the way his acting skills and musicianship fuse perfectly with the demands of his new job working within the enrichment therapies team at Pendine Park’s Bryn Seiont Newydd. Emyr works three days a week, six hours each day, as the actor-in-residence at…

Two teenagers from Cardiff have beaten learners from across Wales to win a national debating competition and represent the UK at a global exhibition in Dubai. Marzooq Subhani, 16, and Crystal Tran, 15, both Seren learners at Willows High School in Splott, secured their places to attend and debate at this year’s World Expo in Dubai after winning the Welsh leg of the ‘Dubai Expo Factor’ – a UK competition which sees teams of two young people from across the four UK nations compete in a series of debating challenges. The learners were crowned the winners for Wales, bagging themselves…