Author: Rhys Gregory

Double platinum and BRIT award-winning artist PALOMA FAITH will be coming to Chepstow Racecourse this Summer. Taking place on Friday 8th July 2022, this special ‘Live After Racing’ show will see the highly esteemed singer, songwriter and actress perform a magnificent headline set, with the added bonus of a full day at the races beforehand. Stopping-by in Chepstow as part of her second major arena tour in less than a year, Paloma will be performing songs from her acclaimed new album: ‘Infinite Things’ and much more. Speaking about her return to the live stage, Paloma says: “I’ve been touring my…

The newly refurbished Café R at Ruthin Craft Centre will be hosting an exclusive late night opening on Saturday 12th February to celebrate Valentine’s. This will be the first late night opening for Café R since it reopened with a new look and brand in October 2021. The modern eatery located within the walls of Ruthin Craft Centre will be opened as usual from 9am throughout the day but will be welcoming Valentine’s diners between 5:30pm-8pm with a glass of prosecco on arrival. Talented musician Jacob Elwy will be entertaining diners while they eat, diners are encouraged to book a…

Ceredigion Museum will open a new exhibition on 29 January 2022 entitled ‘Moving On, Looking Forward’. The exhibition will display works by a group of mid-Wales and Ceredigion-based artists’, The Picturemakers / Y Llunwyr. It offers a fresh take on recent times by encouraging the public to enter the New Year with a sense of hope after another challenging winter. ‘Moving On, Looking Forward’ features new work from The Picturemakers. It will grant people who cherish Ceredigion the opportunity to see it represented in art through a variety of creative methods. It will also appeal to people looking for something…

Home renovations have become extremely popular, so much so that the worldwide home improvement market was valued at 560 billion pounds in 2020 and is expected to grow significantly over the coming years. In the UK, searches for ‘cinema room ideas on a budget’ (+400%) and ‘walk in wardrobe kits’ (+100%) have seen a huge increase over the last 12 months. But what types of luxurious rooms should you be creating if you’re wanting to make your home more desirable? VonHaus has conducted research around the UK’s favourite luxury rooms and worked with experts at Bramleys to reveal the value…

Following a two-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the date for the 2022 Welsh Varsity between Cardiff and Swansea Universities has been confirmed. Swansea will host this year’s week-long festival of sport, with most fixtures and the showpiece rugby matches taking place on Wednesday 27 April. The Welsh Varsity initially began as a rugby match between Cardiff and Swansea Universities at the Cardiff Arms Park in 1997 but has since grown year-on-year and is now the largest student multi-sport event in the UK. Throughout the week-long festival of sport, students will compete in more than 30 different sports for…

Resource Denbighshire CIC has received the good news that £170,856 in National Lottery funding will support local people and communities to tackle the climate emergency.  The funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, will focus on reducing waste by developing an understanding of circular economy approaches. The project, Resourceful North-East Wales: Borrow, Share, Repair: Library of Things (LoT), has been developed by local authorities and community groups in Llangollen, Mold and Ruthin and will connect skills across communities in Denbighshire to deliver a shared mobile library of things. The 12-month project…

The Welsh Rugby Union has partnered with Welsh Government to launch a competition to find a new design for a facemask to be worn by Wales men’s, women’s, and U20’s teams during the 2022 Guinness Six Nations championships. The competition comes as the WRU partners with Wales’ #KeepWalesSafe campaign following confirmation that home fixtures will be played at the Principality Stadium in front of crowds. The competition is open to anyone in Wales under 17. The winning design will be selected by Wales’ rugby stars and worn by the Welsh squads during the Six Nations. The winner will also receive…

More than 80,000 additional homes and businesses in Wales are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £25m investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky and TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen. When work is finished, people living and working in a further 9 communities across South Wales will be able to contact their broadband provider and upgrade to full fibre broadband, with the new network being built to the majority of premises in: Sketty, Gowerton, Ravenhill, Culverhouse, Llanrumney, Llanedeyrn, Cwmbran, Risca and Maindee. This is a further boost…

After two tough years for everyone, the UK’s fastest growing wellbeing festival, The Big Retreat, is back – this time with some healing vibes topping the bill. Whilst discovery, wellbeing, music, food and drink are still being delivered in scoopfuls, the headline theme of 2022 is about reconnection, celebration and a little bit of much needed repair. “Everyone feels something has shifted in us during the pandemic and The Big Retreat is shifting too,” says Amber, founder of the Welsh festival set in the heart of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. “We’re putting more emphasis on mental health on the…

Wales’s folk music will take centre stage – and screen – as the focus of a celebration of contemporary Celtic music and culture at one of the world’s leading international music industry events next month (2-4 February 2022). For the first time in 15 years, Wales is the featured international partner at Showcase Scotland, a prestigious spotlight event for the music industry at the Celtic Connections festival. In 2020 the festival in Glasgow played to an in-person audience of over 130,000 people which included booking agents and cultural leaders. Last year’s digital event was watched by more than 27,000 people…