Author: Rhys Gregory

As anticipation for the World Cup play-off final increases, you’ll soon be able to order a refreshing pint of Bale Ale, Bale Pale or Bale Lager whilst you watch the match at pubs and bars across the country. The three beers, brewed by Glamorgan Brewery in collaboration with Gareth Bale’s Elevens Bar & Grill in Cardiff city centre, will also be made available to the off-trade, and will be hitting supermarket shelves in the next couple of weeks. Bale Ale was initially brewed by Brains Brewery to celebrate the launch of Elevens Bar; the venue was a partnership between the brewery…

Get ready Aberystwyth, because Street Food Warehouse is finally returning to the seaside town after two years. The festival will be taking place in Aberystwyth Marina (SY23 1AS) 22nd – 24th July 2022 and we’re sure it won’t disappoint. With a deliciously diverse range of luxurious street food, the festival looks set to fill the hungry residents of Aberystwyth with some of the tastiest street food the UK has to offer! It’s been a long two years of cancelled events and disappointment, but this has only fueled the fire for the organisers, Street Food Warehouse, to make sure that this…

At the heart of the creative sector in south-west Wales, Canolfan S4C Yr Egin, located on the Carmarthen campus of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, inspires creativity and imagination, and cultivates talent for the future. The Urdd will join a range of other tenants as it settles in at Yr Egin, S4C’s headquarters and home to a number of production, design and translation companies. The Urdd’s new office is home to the Urdd Myrddin team and is also used by a number of the organisation’s staff and departments from across the region, including the Eisteddfod and Sports department,…

With main construction work due to start in the coming weeks, city leaders have visited the Swansea site where a major new ‘living building’ project will soon be taking shape. Cllr Rob Stewart, Swansea Council Leader, and Julie James, the Welsh Government’s Minister for Climate Change, were talked through details and timescales for the development, which will be located at the former Woolworths unit on Oxford Street. Earmarked for completion by the end of 2023, Swansea-based Hacer Developments is behind the scheme, which is one of the first of its kind in the UK. Made up of the former Woolworths…

Horses have returned to the traditional farmyard at Llanerchaeron near Aberaeron, which is cared for by National Trust Cymru. An elegant Georgian villa, designed by architect John Nash, Llanerchaeron is set in beautiful walled gardens, farmyard and lake, in the wooded Aeron valley. Remarkably unaltered for over 200 years. Tomos and Seren, two eighteen-year-old Welsh Cobs, have been living together for over a decade and recently moved into the Welsh farmyard. Visitors will be able to meet the horses when they visit, during certain times of the day at the stable blocks.

Bethan Scott has continued her mission after raising a remarkable £100,000 for the hospice that cared for her late husband. Following the death in 2017 of her husband Dave, known to his friends and family as DRS, Bethan, who works at Nightingale House Hospice, vowed to raise as much money as she could for several charities close to Dave’s heart. Having smashed a £100,000 target, which was shared in 2020 between Cancer Research, Alzheimer’s UK and the Hospice, Bethan then decided to increase the £80,000 she had given the Hospice to £100,000. Her amazing fund raising will continue later this…

On Friday 27th May, Hay Castle will open its doors to the public for the first time in its 900-year history, following a major 10-year restoration and regeneration project.  Situated in the small town of Hay-on-Wye in Powys, best known for its leading annual literature and arts festival, Hay Castle is one of the great medieval defence structures on the border of England and Wales still standing.  Thanks to over £5million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and £2m match funding from various trusts and individual donors, Wales now has an important heritage destination, a vibrant new centre for learning…

A new art exhibition commemorating four decades since the Falklands War will bring together a collection of poignant pieces inspired by the memories and images collected by military veterans who fought in the conflict, including Simon Weston. Proceeds from the collection will be donated to the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF). April 2022 marked 40 years since British forces from all three services were deployed to the small, but diplomatically-charged British territory off the coast of Argentina following a surprise invasion by Argentinian forces. Before an eventual ceasefire was declared on June 14 1982, a total of 255 British servicemen were…

Bridgend County Borough Council is pleased that Awen Cultural Trust has been awarded a grant from the Welsh Government to reconfigure and modernise Pencoed Library. The registered charity, which manages library services on behalf of Bridgend County Borough Council, will provide match funding to install solar panels on the south-facing roof, contributing to creating a more sustainable building. The plans for Pencoed Library, which will close later in the autumn and reopen in early 2023 for its 50th anniversary year, include: Updating static, old furniture with more mobile options so that the space can be used more flexibly for activities…

ouncillor Graham Hinchey has been confirmed as Cardiff’s new Lord Mayor at a meeting of the full council on Thursday. Cllr Hinchey, 64, who will be supported by his new Deputy Mayor, Cllr Abdul Sattar, succeeds Cllr Rod McKerlich in the honorary role and has chosen Guide Dogs Cymru as this year’s charity. “As someone who was born in Cardiff and lived in Cardiff all my life, I’m pleased, proud and honoured to have been chosen as the new Lord Mayor. “I have no doubt that I have an exciting and memorable year ahead of me, and I relish the…