Author: Rhys Gregory

A festive scheme to encourage people to use local businesses in a sustainable way in the run-up to Christmas is being launched by Newport City Council It will be paying for people’s local bus journeys from Monday to Saturday (excluding Sundays) between 1 and 24 December. Free bus travel will be available on all journeys that start and end within the city boundaries on services run by a registered operator. Councillor Jane Mudd, Leader of Newport City Council, said: “This initiative is aimed at providing a boost for our wonderful local businesses as well as encouraging the use of more…

RCT Council has started work to deliver a Welsh Government-funded drainage scheme near Heath Terrace and Llanwonno Road in Ynyshir – to upgrade a culvert inlet and increase its resilience during heavy rainfall. The scheme started on site from Monday, November 29, utilising £127,500 secured from Welsh Government through funding available for small-scale drainage works – complementing the Council’s own contribution towards the £204,000 scheme. The Council has appointed Hammond (ESC) Ltd as the contractor responsible for delivering the scheme, lasting around 12 weeks. Upcoming work will increase the capacity of the existing inlet and improve its resilience – upgrading…

The Welsh Government’s commitment to end homelessness will be made clear in the Senedd later today as Climate Change Minister Julie James launches the Ending Homelessness Action Plan. The Minister, who says that when homelessness occurs it should be ‘rare, brief and unrepeated’, will also announce a new £30million funding pot over five years for local authorities. Under the Private Rented Sector Leasing Scheme, private property owners will be encouraged to lease their properties to local authorities in return for a rent guarantee and additional funding to improve the condition of their property. Local authorities can then use these properties…

Gone are the days when a holiday meant jetting off to another country to enjoy sangria on the beach. With more options than ever, going on a staycation in the UK has become a popular option for many in recent years. The big push towards staycations began with the COVID-19 pandemic where travel restrictions meant that we couldn’t get away to our favourite overseas vacation spots and so, were encouraged to holiday in the UK. This meant that the UK population got to see new places around the country with North Yorkshire being the most popular staycation county in 2020.…

After such a challenging 18 months, it’s no surprise that many people up and down the country are now looking at their lifestyle and habits and trying to suss out what they can do to live for longer in good health, or what measures they should put in place to support family if the worst should happen. Life insurance experts, Reassured, recently did a study into life expectancy up and down the UK, and found out the average number of birthdays that new-borns in Wales can expect to celebrate using the latest ONS data. The figures showed that in Wales,…

Oral hygiene is of high importance to everybody. Everybody must clean their teeth twice daily and undertake regularly scheduled trips to the dentist for check-ups and treatment. After all, it has been reported that oral health is an unrecognised barrier to general health, so it is crucial to take these matters more seriously. These needs may become pressing as they reach the 40s and 50s too. There is no room for compromises here. Here’s why oral hygiene is so important for middle-aged modern workers. Offering a Workplace Perk Workplaces are becoming increasingly involved in their employee’s personal life. The well-being…

When we find ourselves in a stressful routine, it can be very difficult to see a way out. By the time that we have noticed that we should probably make some changes, those bad habits have become fully ingrained. It can be particularly tough to see a way towards making positive changes at this time of year. We all know the feeling of just trying to get through the cold, dark winter days until the holiday break, and then it’s January before we know it and we are just trying to get through to spring. The important thing to remember…

Storm Arwen had a major impact on rail services over the weekend and services will continue to be affected this week. Speed restrictions were in place across much of the network across the weekend with wind speeds of up to 90mph in some parts of Wales. The extreme weather throughout Friday night and early Saturday morning resulted in damage to overhead line equipment and fallen trees and debris landing on the track creating a hazard for trains. Network Rail worked throughout the weekend to reopen as much of the network as possible by Monday morning. However, where TfW trains have…

Rory Charles Graham, better known as Rag ’n’ Bone Man, will headline a Saturday night set at Cardiff Castle next summer. English singer-songwriter Rag ’n’ Bone Man’s first hit single Human was released in 2016. His 2017 multi-platinum selling album, also named Human, won British Breakthrough Act and Critic’s Choice Award at the BRITS, as well as Best British Single for the title track. Now firmly established as one of Britain’s most successful artists of the past decade, Rag ‘n’ Bone Man is poised to assert himself as one of its most authentic and original talents. His second LP, Life By…

The Cardiff Business Awards have celebrated the achievements of many of the capital’s businesses from across a range of sectors. With a packed out City Hall, 18 awards were handed out, with the Cardiff Business of the Year accolade going to Genesis Biosciences while the Outstanding Contribution to Cardiff award went to Rightacres. Now in their seventh year, the awards hosted by the broadcaster Jamie Owen, recognised those companies and individuals who have enjoyed impressive success over the last year and have made an outstanding contribution both to their respective sectors and to the wider Cardiff economy itself. The Winners…