Author: Rhys Gregory

As a leading supplier of a range of sustainable equipment, including solar hybrid generators and lighting towers, the MHM Group has launched a new eco initiative, that offers lower emission solutions to the plant hire and construction sectors. The Group continues to increase its sustainable hire fleet, with more than 30% of its equipment currently being solar or hybrid-powered, as part of a comprehensive approach to a greener future. The business will be adding three new, low emission and innovative products to its portfolio this year, which will form part of the ‘MHM Eco’ plan – promoting equipment that emits…

A mum-of-two is living the dream after signing up to a pioneering scheme at a care organisation to train as a nurse. Clinical care practitioner Michell Bevan, 41, is among a quartet of staff at Pendine Park in Wrexham to sign up for the course with the Open University. The others who will be doing nursing degrees are Stephanie Lloyd, Kirsty Morris and Courteney Jones. It is the latest initiative in a long-term programme of investment in staff training by the award-winning Pendine organisation. Mitchell said: “It’s a dream come true for me. I’ve always wanted to progress into nursing…

A community-based football club that “punches above its weight” is aiming for more European glory next season. Established in 1880, Bala FC is one of the oldest clubs in Wales but its focus is firmly on the future. The Lakesiders have qualified for the Europa League in seven of the past nine seasons. But it will be more difficult next time because the number of Welsh Premier League clubs that can qualify is being reduced from four to three. Supporting the Maes Tegid outfit all the way in their quest for European competition will be the continent’s biggest trailer maker.…

Wales’ longest running public sector procurement framework, the £1bn South East and Mid Wales Collaborative Construction Framework (SEWSCAP), has announced funding support for leading national charity, the School Of Hard Knocks, as part of its social value strategy. In line with its commitment to meeting the goals and objectives of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, the award-winning framework, in partnership with its sister framework, the South East & Mid Wales Collaborative Civil Engineering and Highways Construction Framework (SEWH), has committed funding to the charity, ensuring Behaviour Specialists can be recruited to undertake valuable work with school children…

Apprentice Molly Tanner’s personal experience of being a dyslexic learner has inspired her to become a teaching assistant supporting children with additional learning needs at Gowerton School in Swansea. Molly, 23, who lives in the city, was not fully diagnosed as dyslexic until this summer but that has not diluted her passion to support children in the Special Teaching Facility at the school. She supports year nine pupils who have a range of additional learning needs. The diagnostic assessment for dyslexia was arranged through her apprenticeship provider, Gower College Swansea, as part of the support available to apprentices “I love…

Care homes in Wales are on a “war footing” because of desperate staff shortages caused by the skyrocketing Covid infection rate. According to Mario Kreft MBE, the chair of Care Forum Wales, the sector is facing its worst ever crisis with reports that 75 per cent of staff were off work in some homes, either because they had contracted Coronavirus or they were self-isolating. The situation is so bad that as a last resort homes were introducing “firebreaks” to temporarily restrict visiting as the highly infectious Omicron variant tore across Wales. Domiciliary care companies were also struggling badly and were…

A strong final quarter of the year saw the take up of industrial property over 50,000 sq ft in Wales reach 3.49m sq ft in 2021 – up from 2.74m sq ft in 2020, and 2.5 times the amount transacted in 2019, according to research from Knight Frank. The global property consultancy reported that 1.84 million sq ft of industrial units of 50,000 sq ft and over was transacted in Wales in Quarter 4 (Q4). Neil Francis, head of Logistics & Industrial at Knight Frank in Cardiff, said: “The figures were boosted by the sale of 1 million sq ft…

Volunteers have rolled up their sleeves to help bring blooms of colour to a biodiversity project. Green-fingered Ruthin and Denbigh residents have stepped forward to help prepare for the new season of Denbighshire County Council’s Wildflower Meadows project. Following the Council’s declaration of a climate and ecological emergency in 2019, this project is part of an ongoing commitment to enhancing biodiversity across the county, Nearly 60 sites, including highway verges, footpath edges, cycleways and amenity grasslands, are now being managed to create wildflower meadows. These sites, along with the 11 roadside nature reserves, equate to about 30 football pitches worth…

One of the newest private schools in the UK has scooped two major awards at the independent education sector’s ‘Oscars’. Myddelton College, in Denbigh, which was only founded five years ago, was the only school in Wales to be honoured at the Independent Schools Association awards. Headmaster Andrew Allman and his team came away with two prestigious prizes, for Outstanding International Involvement and for Outstanding Sport in a Small School. It has been a meteoric rise for Myddelton, the UK’s newest independent school when it opened in 2016 on the former Howell’s School campus on Denbigh’s Park Street. Andrew Allman…

Members of the public can now easily view the public rights of way they have access to within their locality and further afield in Pembrokeshire, thanks to a new interactive map. The map allows users to view footpaths and bridleways throughout the county, as well as restricted byways, and byways open to all traffic. It is known as the working copy of the Definitive Public Rights of Way map. It can be viewed on Pembrokeshire County Council’s website at: https://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/definitive-map/working-copy-of-the-definitive-public-rights-of-way-map A useful feature is that if users click on a path, it will show its ID number and so if…