Author: Rhys Gregory

The Farmers’ Union of Wales and FUW Insurance Services Ltd. are looking forward to welcoming members and customers back to Carmarthen Mart in March 2022. The partners of Nock Deighton Agricultural Ltd have announced that the mart will officially reopen on Wednesday 2 March following a significant refurbishment by Carmarthenshire Council. The opening sale day will include a sale of calves and weanlings and dairy cattle followed by a sale on Friday 4 March of barren cattle, store cattle and sheep of all classes. These sales will be repeated weekly and will be augmented by sales of suckled calves and…

Almost 100,000 Self Assessment customers have used online payment plans to spread the cost of their tax bill into manageable monthly instalments since April 2021, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed. Once a customer has filed their 2020/21 Self Assessment tax return, they can set up a Time to Pay arrangement for up to 12 months on debts up to £30,000, that they’re unable to pay in full. This can be done online at GOV.UK without speaking to HMRC. Since April 2021, Self Assessment customers have used the online Time to Pay service to pay more than £310 million…

More than 1,000 additional homes have been created or brought back into use in the past five years in Denbighshire. Denbighshire County Council has helped deliver 394 affordable homes, worked in partnership to develop two extra care facilities providing more than 100 homes, delivered 34 additional council homes while 695 empty homes in the private sector have been brought back into use. Additional properties have been provided in communities right across Denbighshire – including Rhyl, Prestatyn, Dyserth, Rhuddlan, Cefn Meiriadog, Trefnant, Meliden, Denbigh, Ruthin, Gellifor, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Llangollen, Corwen and Llandrillo – including the first brand new council homes…

Packaging solutions company Viscose Closures is celebrating the launch of its new branding and website to reflect the company’s robust growth and investment plans. Now incorporating its green mission, the new logo focuses heavily on its sustainable yet secure solutions to support responsible producers and contribute to a green recovery following the pandemic. The website, which has a strong focus on sustainability, launched on 15 February, and offers an improved, more personalised user experience. The site caters for all customers from the smaller artisan producers to large, multinational corporations. The website has full e-commerce functionality allowing customers to follow dedicated…

Leading commercial law firm Acuity Law has partnered with brand reputation specialists Effective Communication, to add an expert Crisis Communications provision to its latest launch. Acuity Reputation Management (ARM) is an innovative, outsourced service providing day-to-day commercial legal support, bespoke to each client or business, no matter their size or needs. ARM gives subscribers instant access to their legal matters, invoicing and legal templates via the Knowledge Bank, while providing a gateway to services and access to experts like the Effective Communication team. Effective Communication has built a reputation as the go-to for crisis management, social media support or bespoke training in…

AN ELITE athlete who claimed the scalp of Olympic legend Sir Mo Farah is setting a different pace by launching a new business. Abergele’s Tom Carter, a former Great Britain mid-distance runner, has opened up the Trainer Container selling On, a new up-and-coming brand of Swiss trainers, alongside a range of sustainable sportswear from Wrexham’s Vinyl Bear. Based at Y Shed, Meliden, the Trainer Container is one of three new businesses to set up there in the last few weeks. Joining Tom in the converted shipping containers-turned business spaces are beautician Johannah Hughes and podiatrist Lorna Hicks. Tom, who beat…

Revered DJ, broadcaster and global dance music legend, Pete Tong has today announced the return of Ibiza Classics with a brand-new show for Cardiff Castle on Friday 8th July, 2022. Since its fruition in 2016 with long-time collaborator and conductor, Jules Buckley, and The Heritage Orchestra plus a whole host of special guest DJs and vocalists, Ibiza Classics has firmly cemented itself as part of the live music calendar becoming the world’s most iconic classical electronic music event. Inventively bold, Ibiza Classics has showcased incredible reimaginings of classic house tracks from ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’, ‘Right Here Right Now’ to…

The founder of FABRIC: The Care Leaver Community, based in Swansea and Neath in Wales has called on local businesses for donations, in order to continue to provide loving homes for children in care. Harri Helvon-Hardy founded FABRIC in 2016. The business provides loving homes to young people aged 16+ who are either Looked After Children, Care Leavers, Homeless young people or Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, with additional trauma informed support. Last week, she took to LinkedIn with a post which portrayed the stark reality of working in social care in 2022. Harri said: “Right now I feel like the most…

Netomnia, the UK’s fastest-growing wholesale fibre broadband operator, has today announced that its full fibre multi-gigabit network is being rolled out in Barry, South Wales as part of an £8 million investment in the area. Netomnia will provide Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure to around 29,000 premises in Barry, delivering access to its robust and reliable broadband network. This follows the announcement of its first move into Wales towards the end of 2021, to provide access to around 55,000 premises in Bridgend to its full fibre network. Barry is renowned as the home of much-loved TV comedy drama Gavin and Stacey…

The latest labour market stats show there is continued strong demand for candidates as evidenced through record vacancy levels which is broad based across all sectors. The challenge for businesses is that there are fewer candidates available as unemployment continues to edge down while employment edges up. Increasing attention is being paid to the inactive group which has grown during the pandemic and in many cases represents people leaving the labour market entirely. A permanently smaller UK workforce compounds recruitment difficulties for employers. Policymakers will also worry about the effect on savings and pensions of early exit from the labour…