Author: Rhys Gregory

As part of International Nurses Day 2022, we’ve spoken to Kelly Howell, a University of South Wales (USW) nursing graduate, about continuing her studies after a shock diagnosis. Over Christmas 2018, Kelly Howell from Bridgend, discovered a lump in her breast. She was studying to qualify as a Health Visitor at USW and was approaching the final leg of the course. Kelly was referred as an urgent case and, within a fortnight, had met her oncologist who diagnosed HER2 triple positive breast cancer – a very aggressive form so she needed to start treatment immediately, much to her and her…

THE house price surge is set to fall away as the cost of living crisis bites, a leading property association warned today. New figures recently revealed the average asking prices of a house in Britain has hit a new record of £360,000. According to RightMove the median asking price has surged by £19,082 over the past three months, reaching £360,101. Some 53% of properties are selling at or over their final advertised asking price, the highest percentage Rightmove said it had ever seen. Properties are achieving 98.9% of their final advertised asking price on average and the time taken to…

Generations of surfers know there’s nothing like catching the perfect wave, but now new research has looked at just how beneficial the power of the sea can be. The Swansea University study examined how a group of adults living with the consequences of acquired brain injury benefited from group-based surf therapy on the Gower coast. Lead researcher final year PhD student Katie Gibbs said: “Nature has long demonstrated the capacity to facilitate wellbeing. Increasingly interventions involving the natural environment are used to help aspects of wellbeing in clinical populations. “But we wanted to find out how nature-based interventions such as…

Who doesn’t love a good movie car chase? The good guy chasing the bad guy. The police in hot pursuit of the main protagonist. And of course, the “that would never happen in real life” feats of driving skill. But what about the rules of the road? Which of our favourite film car chases are in fact the most illegal? Brand new research by PassMeFast reveals the most dangerous car chases from the movies, according to an in-depth analysis of more than 70 of the most popular films with impressive chase scenes. The famous seven-minute car chase from 1971 Oscar-winning…

This week, BBC Children in Need Schools Ambassador, Joe Wicks visited school children at Howardian Primary Schoolin Cardiff as part of BBC Children in Need’s Thank You Tour to celebrate the fundraising efforts of schools across the UK following the charity’s 2021 Appeal in November. During the visit, Joe met with school children to find out more about their fundraising in 2021, and what fundraising they plan to do to support the charity’s 2022 Appeal. As part of the visit, Joe also led a mind and body fitness workout for children and teachers to help encourage positive mental wellbeing. For…

Gemma Grainger’s Cymru will take on New Zealand, next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup hosts, in an international challenge match on Tuesday 28 June (KO 18:00 BST) in the Pinatar Arena in Spain. The two sides last met in June 2019, when a Kayleigh Green goal secured the 1-0 win for Cymru in drizzly conditions at the Leckwith Stadium in Cardiff. The match will see a return to south-east Spain for Grainger’s side, after competing in the 2022 Pinatar Cup in February. New Zealand, ranked 22nd in the world, will be hosting next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup alongside Australia.…

National law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has announced its 2022 promotions list which includes one Cardiff-based lawyer.   Corporate lawyer Sally Grech has been promoted to associate and is one of seven new associates across the firm’s seven regional offices. Meanwhile two lawyers were also promoted to partner and eight to senior associate.  Clarke Willmott CEO, Stephen Rosser, said: “Developing our people is absolutely fundamental to us as a business. The great service that we can provide to our clients is only possible due to the great people we have within the firm, and this has become even more critical as…

Top 100 UK law firm, Hugh James, has been reappointed to the Development Bank of Wales’s legal panel framework. Lawyers at Wales’s largest firm have been supporting the Bank, including its predecessor body Finance Wales, for almost 15 years. It now retains its role, despite a number of changes to the make-up of this latest panel of five firms. The framework will run for a period of three years, with the possibility of extension for a further 12 months. The Development Bank of Wales is one of the UK’s largest regional SME investment companies, established by the Welsh Government to…

rincipality Building Society has been recognised with ‘Cynnig Cymraeg’ by the Welsh Language Commissioner’s office for its commitment to the language throughout the business`. The award is presented to companies who integrate the Welsh language through its strategy and policy and is a reflection of the partnership that Principality has been developing for a number of years with the Welsh Language Commissioner’s team. Principality’s Head of Customer Development, Harri Jones said: ‘We’re very proud to have been recognised by the Welsh Language Commissioner’s office on our efforts. The use of Welsh language is extremely important to us, so to be…

Researchers at Bangor University’s Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre have found a cost-effective way to improve the performance of networks which supply mobile services and broadband to our homes and businesses. As well as improved performance, the new technique is also kinder on the planet. Because of the technique’s lack of complexity, less energy is needed to transmit a given amount of data, so there is less of an environmental cost. In the process, they have set a new world record for using DSP to transform complicated, non-linear, low-speed optical transmission systems into simple, linear, high-speed ones. Results from the…