Author: Rhys Gregory

A new initiative has been launched to coordinate regeneration activity which will assist with the economic recovery of Ceredigion’s rural towns and outlying community. The initiative is supported by Cynnal y Cardi Local Action Group (LAG) and a Ceredigion Rural Towns Development Officer has been appointed who will work alongside the Cynnal y Cardi Team to support the development of a package of ideas to create thriving people-centred and resilient towns. Building on from previous engagement, the process will commence with officers engaging with town representatives to support them to deliver of their ideas. A collaborative approach will be taken,…

Cardiff Bus is offering travel advice to customers ahead of Halloween and Bonfire night. The bus operator is alerting customers to service diversions that will come into effect from 17:00 on Saturday October 30 for Halloween and Friday November 5 Bonfire Night. These diversions will be put in place for the safety of both customers and staff, in collaboration with South Wales Police. Route alterations will apply to City Circle service 1 and City Circle service 2 as well as services 11, 13, 44, 45, 49, 50 on both days, and may be in place on other days if required.…

Cardiff Metropolitan University are setting out plans to tackle climate change using its university estate as a research and development lab to help find innovative ways to reach net zero by 2030. Academics, estate managers, industrial partners and students are coming together to tackle climate change at scale, developing and showcasing ways to live and learn more sustainably across our work and social lives, effectively building a ‘living laboratory’. New innovations in construction, thermal heating and energy production and storage will be developed side-by-side with industry and evaluated across the university estate over the next decade with the view to developing new ways of dealing with climate change in our day-to-day lives. Focused on two main campuses,…

An intricate silver seal dating back over 300 years that was found in a field in Wrexham during a charity treasure hunt could soon go on display in a museum. The seal would have been used to stamp wax on letters and has pictures of a bouquet of flowers on one side and a bull on the other. It was found by detectorist Paul Davies on farmland owned by the Wrexham-based care organisation, Pendine Park. The seal has now been declared to be treasure and will be offered to Wrexham Museum, where the public would be able to view it.…

One of Wales’ leading exponents of traditional folk singing will feature in a special concert filmed exclusively for a top music festival. Gwenan Gibbard took her harp to the Sain Studios near Caernarfon to record the concert which will form a key part of this year’s North Wales International Music Festival in St Asaph. The event is being held in a hybrid format for the very first time and resumes virtually in mid-November. Gwenan is well known in the Welsh folk music scene as a harpist and singer, performer, composer, and adjudicator and accompanist at a national level. She is…

Global technology company Healthy.io has launched the first use of its innovative wound care app in Wales, allowing patients to have their wounds assessed and monitored from the comfort of their own home. The eight-month project, currently being rolled out in Swansea Bay University Health Board across Swansea Bay and Neath Port Talbot, is financed by Welsh Government’s Digital Solutions Fund (DSF) that is coordinated by Digital Health Ecosystem Wales (DHEW). The project has already reached 30 patients in between the period of the 11th and 26th of October, with 36 individual wounds being digitally monitored and 9 wound types…

Daffodil Foods has scooped an export deal with a Japanese importer to begin delivering their Welsh clotted cream in response to the increased interest in British afternoon tea. This means in the New Year, Japanese consumers will be able to buy the Welsh clotted cream in supermarkets across the country. With the rise in interest in taking afternoon tea, the market is opening for more Welsh dairy brands, as Lynne Rowlands, Director of Daffodil Foods explains, “Japanese consumers have a particular interest in our British afternoon tea and we have been able to secure a lucrative deal and unlock this…

The inaugural Cambrian Mountains Food, Drink and Craft Fair has been hailed a great success as visitors from across the UK discovered more than just the Elan Valley reservoirs last weekend. Located beneath the towering Caban Coch dam wall and safely tucked away in the Elan Valley Visitor Centre, 12 members of the Cambrian Mountains Local Produce Network set up a mouth-watering selection of their locally made and inspired produce. With nearly 250 visitors through the door, and with a real buzz around the occasion, encouragingly many are now asking when the next event will be. Nearly all the producers…

A green era has dawned at Morriston Hospital which has gone live with its own full-scale solar farm. The £5.9 million development, the first in the UK to be directly wired to an acute hospital, is the latest in a series of environmental improvements across Swansea Bay, with more to follow in the months ahead. Commissioning work on the 10,000-panel solar farm at Brynwhillach Farm was completed earlier this month and the electricity began flowing along a 3km private wire to the hospital last week. The 4MW farm will supply almost a quarter of Morriston’s power, cutting the electricity bill…

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Institute of Management and Health has recently hosted its third annual Young Hoteliers and Hospitality Conference at the Swansea Stadium. The event was hosted by the University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (SoHaTM) and attracted 230 students from schools and colleges from across South Wales. John Howells, Academic Director (SoHaTM) said: “We use this annual conference to inspire people for a career in hospitality and tourism, and to provide an understanding of the possibilities within both industries.” The conference was also an opportunity to showcase what’s on offer within the University, and…