Author: Rhys Gregory

Parents looking for fun ways to entertain their children during the summer holiday are being encouraged to check out an enticing offer by a popular Mid Wales escape rooms attraction. As part of Powys County Council’s ‘Summer of Fun’ programme, Beyond Breakout in Newtown will be making its Outdoor escape games available to play for free on certain dates. Each outdoor game is for a team of up to six people and lasts two hours. To qualify for ‘Summer of Fun’ funding, at least one team member must be aged between 10 and 25 years. Beyond Breakout’s Outdoor escape games…

The managing director of the company that is organising the first ever GWCT Welsh Game Fair is hoping to attract 20,000 visitors to the event at Vaynol Estate, near Bangor from September 9-11. James Gower, from Stable Events Ltd, has revealed that visitors to the three day event, held in partnership with The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, will include a delegation from Abu Dhabi who will be looking to buy from Welsh businesses. His company also organises The Game Fair at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire and The GWCT Scottish Game Fair at Scone Palace, Perthshire. The Games Fair, which has…

Award-winning comedy The Play that Goes Wrong has opened at the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) in Cardiff, brought by the wonderful Mischief’s company. If the last two years has made you forget what a joy it is to visit the theatre and share in the laughter alongside an auditorium full of people, then this could be the play for you. If you’ve ever taken part in a school production before or have been part of amateur dramatics, then you’ll know, not only of the wonderful characters that you meet but also that inevitably, something always goes wrong. Whether it’s a…

Stereophonics and Tom Jones will be performing at Principality Stadium on Friday June 17th and Saturday June 18th and to facilitate these events, a full city centre road closure will be in place on health and safety grounds to ensure people can safely enter and leave the stadium after the concerts. On June 17th, there will be a full city centre road closure from 2.30pm until 12.30am. On Saturday June 18th, the road closure will be put in place slightly earlier, from 12 noon until 12.30am. Those attending these concerts are strongly advised to travel into the city early, leave large bags…

Construction of Swansea’s new £135m Copr Bay destination has led to a major boost for local workers and businesses. New figures show over 8,000 person weeks of employment, apprenticeships and trainee placements were secured throughout the build of the new district, which includes Swansea Arena. Developed by Swansea Council and development managed by RivingtonHark, Copr Bay includes Swansea Arena as well as the 1.1-acre coastal park, the new bridge over Oystermouth Road, new car parking, new apartments and new spaces for food and drink businesses. Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd are main contractors for the scheme, with the arena being part-funded…

The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay is confirmed to visit Pembrokeshire during its final journey before handing over to England this summer, as the full route is revealed. Birmingham 2022 is hosting the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – a journey which brings together and celebrates communities across the Commonwealth during the build up to the Games. In Wales, the Queen’s Baton Relay will provide the opportunity for communities to experience the excitement for Birmingham 2022, as the 11 days of show-stopping sport nears ever closer. The Queen’s Baton Relay is set to travel through Wales over five days, before…

Plans to progress an exciting new multi-million-pound redevelopment scheme in the heart of Caerphilly town centre are progressing at pace. An ambitious mixed-use commercial workspace and residential scheme is proposed on the site of the existing indoor market and adjoining properties on Pentrebane Street. The privately owned buildings, which are currently in somewhat poor condition, will be completely redeveloped by Linc Cymru Housing Association with support from the Council and the Welsh Governments Transforming Towns programme, in order to provide new carbon zero homes and modern flexible workspace, which forms part of wider regeneration plans for the town. Deputy Leader…

A new nursery school has officially opened in the Gurnos Estate, Merthyr Tydfil called ‘Safle’r Gurnos’ ’ which is currently a satellite provision of Santes Tudful Primary School but will grow into a third Welsh medium school for the County Borough. This is a big step forward for Merthyr Tydfil in expanding Welsh language education into the North of the County and developing the Welsh language environment. The Council have been working hard for many years to ensure that Welsh language provision and communications are visible across the whole of the Borough, and this is another leap forward in achieving…

A building project that will transform education for vulnerable learners in Powys has reached an important milestone, the county council has announced. ISG Ltd has been awarded the contract by Powys County Council to build a new school for Brynllywarch Hall School.  Construction on the £9.1m project will start early next year. The school, located in Kerry near Newtown, provides education for pupils from 8 to 19-year-olds, with a wide range of complex emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. The project will help the council improve learner entitlement and experience. When completed, the council will have delivered a purpose-built and flagship…

Finance and Local Government Minister Rebecca Evans visited a workshop in Merthyr today to see carbon neutral plastic trombones being assembled for Wales’s 7yr olds. The Merthyr Institute for the Blind (MTIB) workshop in Pentrebach is part of a consortium employing disabled and disadvantaged workers to assemble instruments for primary school pupils as part of the new national music service. The PMusic Cymru consortium, which consists of MTIB, Elite Solutions and Warwick Music, secured the £500k contract as part of a new purchasing system put in place by the Welsh Government in partnership with the Welsh Local Government Association. The…