Author: Rhys Gregory

RCT Council has helped 69 local businesses access Welsh Government funding to develop their outdoor spaces, which has increased their trading capacity and provided flexibility during coronavirus restrictions – via £366,000 funding across two grants. In January 2021, officers in the Council’s Regeneration department wrote to small and medium-sized businesses across Rhondda Cynon Taf, to promote funding opportunities via the Town Centre COVID Recovery Grant in the Transforming Towns initiative, as well as new funding available from the Valleys Taskforce COVID Recovery Grant. Businesses in the County Borough’s larger town centres were eligible for the Transforming Towns scheme – for…

Tails were wagging at Dogs Trust Cardiff last week as the team celebrated finding homes for their very first residents.  Staff waved a fond  farewell to four of their first arrivals, just two weeks after opening the centre, and the lucky dogs are now enjoying life with their new families. 18-month-old ex-racing Greyhound Toby, was the first to find his forever home. Having retired from the track he was very pleased to be trotting off to his new home and a new life with adopter Julie Smith from Cwmbran. Hot on his heels were one-year-old Chihuahua cross, Bertie, Bryn a two-year old Crossbreed and five-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, Buddy.   Toby’s new owner Julie Smith said: “After the sad loss of my previous dog, I was looking to bring another four-legged friend into my life. I started looking on…

The rural community of Glandwr, in Pembrokeshire, will now be able to access some of the fastest and most reliable broadband speeds in Europe thanks to a partnership between local residents and Openreach. The secluded village of Glandwr, situated 4 miles south of Crymych, will soon be able to access speeds of up to one gigabit bit per second (1Gbps) using Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) technology where fibre is run directly from the exchange all the way to property. In order to build this ‘full fibre’ network Openreach engineers ran 21km of fibre cable overhead and underground from the telephone exchange in Cardigan to…

A new service has launched in Swansea to provide advice, guidance, support and signposting to young people who are uncertain of their next steps in employment, education or training. Launched by Better Jobs, Better Futures, a Swansea city centre-based initiative established by Gower College Swansea, the ‘Futures’ service is available throughout the summer to all young people aged 16+ in Swansea who are undecided on their future path. Based at the College’s Employment Hub on the Kingsway, the Futures team are available to answer any questions regarding next steps after school or college, and to help young people explore all…

National Playday Wales 2021: Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith welcome the Children’s Commissioner for Wales – Sally Holland – during a day of fun and play at the hospice in Sully On National Playday (Wednesday 4 August) representatives of Wales’ two children’s hospices welcomed Sally Holland, the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, to Tŷ Hafan  to discuss children’s palliative care services in Wales. National Playday is an awareness day that highlights the importance of play in children’s lives and saw the Commissioner also discuss Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith’s Lifeline Fund campaign for fair and sustainable funding for Wales’ children’s hospices.…

ECTS has partnered with Cube Modular to bring convenient and reliable COVID-19 testing facilities to British holiday-makers, available at various ASDA car parks across the UK. ECTS is part of the Eurofins Group, the global leader in bio-analysis and laboratory testing. Alongside a new hybrid fuel cell system which uses stored power to generate electricity for the pod, substantially reducing generator use, this project also makes use of Continest – a unique, foldable building solution. This innovative building technology allows the units to be folded down and stacked for transport, thus enabling a reduction of CO2 emissions by up to…

From fossil footprints to food festivals, National Museum Cardiff and St Fagans National Museum of History have announced a packed summer of events to keep families entertained over the school holidays and into September. While visiting this summer, Amgueddfa Cymru is asking visitors to share their unique and authentic stories on social media using #MyStoryOfWales. Highlights from the summer programme include: Lily’s Fossil Footprint, National Museum Cardiff (free) – see the 220 million year old dinosaur footprint discovered by 4-year old Lily at Bendricks Bay. The fossil footprint belongs to a currently unknown herbivorous dinosaur. Wales is…Olympics, St Fagans National…

Job Match @Working Wales is a new service offered to employers, which connects employer vacancies with suitable job seekers. Running until 31 March 2022, employers will be able to register their vacancies with Working Wales who will source suitable applicants from its pool of job seekers. It will consider factors such as geographical locations, experience and skills to directly match them with suitable roles. Employers can expect support in raising awareness of their vacancies, identifying suitable candidates, and information on Welsh Government funding and other support initiatives. The scheme is funded by the Welsh Government, supporting its Employability Plan and…

Police officers will be able to live stream incidents back to the control room when a new high-tech system is operational. According to Paul Shea, the manager of North Wales Police’s control room, the sophisticated On Call software will save lives and reduce stress for staff liaising with officers on the ground. He was speaking to the new North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, Andy Dunbobbin, who has just signed a £5.8 million  cheque to buy the new system that’s an upgrade of the force’s current command and control technology. The control room in St Asaph already handles an average…

Cardiff Bus customers are being advised of service changes which are set to come into effect from 5 September 2021. The operator is set to improve timetables across its network which will affect many routes and Cardiff Bus urges customers to check their website for full information. Route changes will also be introduced on services 13 and 52 along with some school routes, and service 95 will serve the bus stops within Llandough Hospital grounds from this date. In addition, two new routes have been introduced by the operator. Service 5 will replace part of the 13 route and will…