Author: Rhys Gregory

One of the biggest challenges people face in the 21st century is dealing with global warming. Global warming already has significant effects on the environment. Ice on rivers and lakes is breaking early, glaciers have shrunk, trees are flowering sooner, and animal and plant ranges have shifted. Basically, the effects that were predicted by the scientist in the past are occurring now. Global warming is a problem that should be taken seriously by all the people around the world, but these past years, many young adults and students are the ones that are especially trying to make a change with…

Aled Jones, a doctor with the City University Hospital, has admitted to defrauding the NHS of £68,000 for the reason of his gambling debts according to multiple sources. The 39-year-old doctor was sentenced at the Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. On both counts of frauds, Aled Jones pleaded guilty. The court had earlier heard that he owed a massive debt from gambling, an addiction he developed back from when he was still a student studying medicine. Within a space of two years working as a registrar at the City University Hospital, under the Nephrology and Transplant Unit,…

Wales head to Euro 2020 with the hopes of recreating their 2016 heroics, where they reached the semi-finals of the competition. Wales have a settled squad and come into the Euros in good form. They have won four of their last five matches and lost just once in eight internationals, a 3-1 loss against top-ranked side Belgium. Despite their solid form on the international stage, there are still question marks over the future of manager Ryan Giggs, who missed the November and March internationals after his arrest last year. Interim manager Robert Page has guided Wales to four wins from…

The South Wales Industrial Cluster (SWIC), a partnership between Welsh industry, energy suppliers, infrastructure providers, academia, legal sector, service providers and public sector organisations, has been awarded £1.5million from UKRI’s Industrial Decarbonisation programme to map what is needed to support South Wales in becoming a net zero carbon region by 2050. Wales has a long and rich industrial heritage, leading the way in the industrial revolution. Now it plans to be a leader of the green revolution. South Wales is the second largest industrial emitter in the UK, releasing the equivalent of 16 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year…

Welsh bank Hodge has made a landmark investment in up-and-coming payment platform Yoello. The investment will help the Wales-based FinTech continue its accelerated growth of their mobile payments and banking platform. This investment has landed at a fantastic time for Yoello, with the multi-award winning company making further headway in UK markets and international expansion. After launching its mobile payments platform into the UK hospitality and retail market last year, thousands of businesses are now trading through Yoello not only in the UK but also in Australia, USA and Ireland. Sina Yamani, Founder and CEO of Yoello, said of Hodge’s…

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David and MCR Race Cars Ltd has debuted a new aerodynamic package, which was fully student designed, at Donington Park. The bodywork design was the result of a collaborative partnership between University of Wales Trinity Saint David, MCR Race Cars, sports racing car manufacturers and John Iley. As part of the Motorsport Engineering course at UWTSD in Swansea, students conducted wind tunnel and track testing before developing a computational model of the original sports 2000 MCR bodywork package so that its performance could be assessed. By applying validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques, students…

Detectives searching for Wales’ most wanted man – Mohammed Ali Ege – are following up new lines of enquiry as the hunt for him continues. Information has been received as resulted of a recent public appeal and South Wales Police wishes to thank those individuals who have taken the time to make contact. We are still appealing for information. Sunday, April 11 marked the 11th anniversary of the murder of Aamir Siddiqi in Cardiff. 17-year-old Aamir was brutally murdered at his family home in Roath on the afternoon of Sunday, April 11, 2010 while waiting for his Quran teacher. One…

Carmarthenshire-based accountancy firm Wynne & Co, which has offices in Carmarthen and Cross Hands, is set for further growth following the promotion of accountant Catrin Burt to the role of Director. Catrin has been with the firm for 6 years and has now gained her ACA Practising Certificate from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). This qualifies her to take a more senior role within the company, so she has been appointed Director alongside the company’s founder and Managing Director, Sarah Wynne. Having two directors will enable the company to continue the steady growth it has pursued since…

An RSPCA inspector who rescued an injured red kite who was found beside a road unable to fly has filmed the magical moment she released the majestic bird back into the wild after a month of rehabilitation. RSPCA Inspector Suzi Smith had been called to rescue the bird after a concerned member of the public found the red kite unable to take off because of an injured wing Found at the side of the A470 in Builth Wells on March 16, the bird was safely captured by Suzi before being taken to Vale Wildlife Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre to be…

A grant scheme is helping property owners and first-time buyers to get empty properties in the Valleys Task Force area of Bridgend County Borough back into use. The Valleys Taskforce Empty Homes Grant, which was launched in September 2019, allowed homeowners or prospective owners to apply for grants of up to £20,000 for renovations and up to £5,000 towards energy measures. During the first phase of the scheme, which ran until March 2020, £76,820.42 of funding was paid out with works completed at eight properties in valleys communities like Maesteg, Pontycymer, Brynmenyn, Blaengarw and Tondu. Under phase two, which ran…