Author: Rhys Gregory

Checking other customers’ reviews is an important part of your shopping experience. It helps you determine whether a business is reliable and worth buying from. These consumer reviews highlight the good and bad of a business, its products, and its services. When doing your due diligence, check online reviews on review websites and across forums. The information presented in the reviews on websites like Pissedconsumer.com will help you determine whether to buy from a given business or not. Here is how customer reviews help you make better decisions when shopping. Check for Reviews on Reliable Sites There are numerous review…

Has CFD trading stirred your interest, too? CFD is short for Contract for difference and is a relatively new type of financial trading that has been gaining in popularity, especially in the UK. CFD is a derivative product, meaning you do not actually own the assets. You can trade with CFDs on stocks, shares, commodities, and currencies like foreign exchange currency (forex) or even cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. CFDs are used to speculate on these assets without having to own them. The popularity of CFD trading also means that today there are several helpful websites where you can compare and find…

Mold-based P&A Group is celebrating two years of successful charity challenges for Macmillan Cancer Support, raising over £16,000 during 2021 contributing to their 2 year grand total of £25,819.99, the highest figure raised for any P&A Group chosen charity in the last 11 years. From marathons to cake days to raffles, employees of the company, from different divisions and at various sites, have gone the extra mile to raise money for this worthwhile cause. The P&A Group comprises Zest 4 Leisure, a leading supplier of award winning timber garden products, The Woodworks Garden Centre and Café in Mold, P&A Pallets…

A 19-year-old beauty student from Caerphilly is bringing new meanings to ‘foundations’, ‘brushes’ and ‘extensions’ after launching her own roofing business. Rose Williams, a second-year student at Coleg Gwent launched her roofing firm All You Need earlier this year with the support of the Welsh Government’s youth entrepreneurship service Big Ideas Wales and since has been providing homes across Caerphilly and beyond with their roofing requirements, offering services such as small tile repairs to complete replacements of fibreglass, rubber or slate roofs. Rose found herself feeling unfulfilled in previous roles, having previously worked as a support worker, as well as…

Between September and November 2021, young people from Ceredigion Young Carers Service created a new project in partnership with Arad Goch, Ceredigion Youth Service, Action for Children and Ceredigion County Council’s Carers Unit. The young people alongside these organisations worked together to create a short film in a bid to educate and raise awareness of what it means to be a Young Carer. Carers Trust UK defines a Young Carer as “someone under the age of 18 who helps care for someone in their family, or friend, who is ill, disabled, has a mental health condition or has a drug…

Five-year-old Leo White from Greater Manchester is the first child in the world to receive a paediatric leg cover. Leo was presented with his own Pokémon leg cover at Christmas by Mark Williams, founder of Wales’ Limb-art who invented it. Leo was born with a left leg 50 per cent shorter than his right leg due to a congenital condition called Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD) and Fibular Hemimelia (FH) which were picked up at his mum’s 20-week antenatal scan. The family were put in touch with the Ability Centre in South Manchester, where they met the team who would…

A father-of-three has gone from being a 23 stone couch potato to running 5k races thanks to life-changing TV show. Sion Huw Davies, who teaches Welsh at Sir Richard Gwyn School, in Flint, had seen his weight balloon to 23 stone before he took the plunge and signed up to S4C’s popular FFIT Cymru series, made by Caernarfon-based Cwmni Da. Now 50-year-old Sion, a much healthier and happier man at 19 stone, has even built up his own collection of colourful medals from a series of races over the last few months. His message is that, for anyone fighting a…

An award-winning graduate programme launched at the height of the pandemic to tackle a national data and artificial intelligence (AI) skills shortage, has been heralded as setting the example for how Wales can create stronger employability and development offerings. The Fast Track Data/AI graduate Programme is a partnership between leading Welsh businesses and academics led by the Welsh Contact Centre Forum. Speaking at the event to welcome the second intake of graduates to join the Programme, Minister for Economy, Vaughan Gething, credited the partnership’s success in supporting the growth of Wales’ technology sector. Today, businesses operating in every sector across…

The Farmers’ Union of Wales’ Milk and Dairy produce Committee has warned that rising energy prices are not sustainable for the sector. The warning comes after reports from dairy farmers of energy costs rising by up to £1000 a month, with costs expected to increase further. Responding to the crisis, FUW Milk and Dairy Produce Committee Chairman Dai Davies said: “The farming sector in general is already under huge pressure. The increase in energy prices, which in some cases have been reported to be an extra £1000 a month for dairy businesses, is a blow for all in the industry.”…

Known as ‘Blue Monday’, the third Monday of every January is said to be the ‘saddest day of the year’ based on a number of factors, including debt levels, weather and post-Christmas gloom. However, not all the evidence behind the day is accurate and the annual event could actually have a negative impact on those struggling with their mental health, argues Christina Papadopoulos, GP at digital healthcare provider, Livi. The origins of Blue Monday: “The concept originally appeared in a travel firm’s press release to sell holidays in 2005. It was supported by Cliff Arnold, psychologist and life coach, who supposedly developed an algorithm for when the saddest day of the year would occur.  It was said to be based on the…