Author: Rhys Gregory

Ministry of Furniture, the company which emerged from Remploy Furniture, has made a further investment in its workforce, creating seven new positions, six of them new hires, as it enjoys further growth on the back of its enhancement of its offering during the pandemic. The new appointments, which span design, production and operations, have been made by the firm on the back of an expansion and diversification of its services, a move prompted initially by the COVID-19 pandemic. Terry Mortimer has joined as a technical designer and estimator. He has more than 20 years’ experience in bespoke design. Qualified in…

This week, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced the launch of a new Business Council, with a mission to boost jobs, unlock investment, accelerate net-zero ambitions, and promote Global Britain. The new Council, co-chaired by the Chancellor, will convene a new cohort of business leaders to work in partnership with the Government, helping to drive a high productivity, high growth economy over the next 12 months and level up local economies around the country. Joanna Swash joins other UK business leaders on the Council, from a range of industries and sectors, including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and world-renowned science and…

Ceredigion’s Language Charter’s latest project was to provide a workshop on how to create a podcast for Ceredigion schools under the care of Marc Griffiths of Stiwdiobox. 27 schools took part and podcasts were created on the theme of ‘Our Square Mile’. You can find all the podcasts when searching for ‘Clonc Cynefin’ on the Pod platform and Apple podcasts. Each podcast presents information about the various areas of Ceredigion. The history of the Nantymoch Dam can be heard by Ysgol Sir John Rhys and the history of the Cnapan game and Llanwenog sheep with Cledlyn Valley School. Plenty of…

People suffering with long Covid symptoms are benefiting from getting out in the great outdoors as part of their ongoing recovery. A new walking group sees those taking part exercising at their own pace as they are accompanied along the route by a GP and a physiotherapy assistant practitioner. Patients who have been referred to the Long Covid Rehabilitation Service, which runs from the Bay Field Hospital, are invited to take part in the weekly walks as an extension of the support available to them. The service supports patients to return to their daily activities by offering rehabilitation that aims…

A police boss is beefing up frontline policing in North Wales with 82 new officers, 10 extra PCSOs and more than 40 additional police staff. The pledge from North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin came after his funding plans for the coming year were unanimously signed off by a watchdog body. His proposal for a 22p a week increase in the price of policing the region was given the go-ahead by the North Wales Police and Crime Pane. The 3.68 per cent rise will cost Band D householders an extra £11.25 year – around the price of two…

Nursing is in the blood for the woman charged with training the next generation of carers at a leading North Wales care organisation. Celia Jones is the new Clinical Development Officer for the award-winning Pendine Park which looks after 450 residents at eight homes and employs over 800 staff. She will be responsible for training and upskilling staff at the company’s care homes in Wrexham and at Bryn Seiont Newydd in Caernarfon where the 46-year-old mother of two is based. Celia, from Llanfair PG on Anglesey, qualified as a nurse at Ysbyty Gwynedd in 2003, following in the footsteps of…

Swansea-based Raven Delta (RD) Group, a group of companies providing a full spectrum of building services and engineering solutions, is supporting enterprise education in six primary schools in Swansea by providing ‘The Bumbles of Honeywood’ skills programme to each school. Created by Swansea-based 2B Enterprising Ltd, The Bumbles of Honeywood is a suite of bilingual resources mapped to the national curriculum to help primary schools embed enterprise skills into their day-to-day learning. The participating schools are Gors Community School, Terrace Road Primary School, Sea View Community Primary School, Gendros Primary School, Christchurch (Church in Wales) Primary School and St Helens…

Hywel Dda Health Charities has helped fund an ambitious 18-month project that has seen sixty-five state-of-the-art cardiac monitors to Withybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire. The networked cardiac monitors have been installed across eight clinical areas with six fully integrated diagnostic central stations. Hywel Dda Health Charities have funded the extension of the telemetry cardiac monitoring system to wards one, three, four and puffin ward. The monitors will reduce the need to move patients around the hospital and enable them to be cared for in the most appropriate setting. The clinical pathway starts at the Emergency Department where patients are admitted onto…

Empty home owners can take advantage of a free matching service with potential developers. Denbighshire County Council is running a matching service to put empty property owners in touch with potential investors to increase the chances of the property being transformed into a home.  There are potential investors ready to take forward opportunities. It is part of the Council’s work under its Corporate Plan to reduce the number of empty properties in the county and to create more housing for residents. Cllr Tony Thomas, the Council’s Lead Member for Housing and Communities, said: “The Council has been working hard to…

Redrow customers at Great Milton Park in Newport are beginning their journey to net zero with the introduction of air source heat pumps as a trial alternative to traditional gas heating. Air source heat pumps are much more energy efficient than a traditional gas boiler because they extract heat from the environment. They also reduce local air pollutants like nitrogen dioxide that is emitted by boilers. Supplied by Mitsubishi Electric, an air source heat pump has been installed in an Oxford house type with a traditional radiator system. The house was handed over to its new owner James Bailey in…