Author: Rhys Gregory

A hard-working Care Home Assistant and young mum from Treharris, South Wales can ditch the learner plates for a life in the fast lane after winning £1,000,000 on The National Lottery’s 50X Scratchcard. Sara Thomas (26) plans to pass her driving test and treat herself to a Jeep after scratching off the top prize whilst taking a well-deserved break on a work shift. Sara explained, “I popped to the local shop on my break to buy some bits and grabbed a Scratchcard whilst at the till. I don’t buy them often but I did get one a few weeks ago…

Music and theatre lovers in South Wales will be delighted to hear that producers of Cardiff’s Live Under the Starshave secured new dates for their inaugural live music and theatre attraction at Cardiff Castle this year. The event is now confirmed to take place from 2 – 11 August 2021. After being forced to delay their opening festival due to the winter lockdown, the producers of Live Under the Starshave now announced new dates for their series of live theatre and music events from the original date of March 2021 to August 2021. Live Under the Stars producers believe that…

Community Testing will be available for anyone over the age of 11, who DOES NOT have COVID-19 symptoms and who is NOT self-isolating, throughout most of April in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Community Testing will run from Wednesday, 7th until Friday, 30th April, and  located in Treorchy (Park and Dare Theatre), Aberdare (Coliseum Theatre), Pontypridd (Llys Cadwyn Building B) and Mountain Ash (Darren Las Community Building), with the centres open 7 days a week between 9am and 7pm. All centres are walk-ins with no appointment necessary, although last to queue entry will be 6:30pm. Further details are provided below. Community Testing will…

Caerphilly County Borough Council have reached a year of delivering free school meals to pupils around the borough. In March 2020, the Catering team were challenged to feed over 6,000 children and young people in the Caerphilly borough area who were eligible for free school meals. Sandwiches were provided for the first fortnight, until the team and local suppliers could organise frozen meal packs to be delivered to eligible households. Deliveries continued when the children went back in September until catering was safely reintroduced and have continued during the 2021 lockdown when school were closed. The delivery service operated for…

Establishing and arranging a productive and secure business environment in the contemporary world require new modernized approaches. And installation of access control systems is one of those solutions that will ensure convenient and hassle-free access of authorized people to the commercial object, limiting the probability of unauthorized persons entering the building. Configuration and functionality of access control systems are determined by the set business objectives that have to be attained. Such equipment is a quite justified investment since it is capable of monitoring, controlling, and regulating any single person who comes in and out, and it can be integrated with…

Landlords have goals, concerns, and challenges they face daily, different from hotel managers.  Getting into property rentals and management is challenging because there are many things to learn and issues to overcome. And you’re probably also juggling the rental-related responsibilities with a full-time job and handle all the issues that arise without asking for help or assistance. But this can overwhelm you in the long run because this role requires a lot of time and effort on your part. You need to run the rentals, attract and retain quality tenants, maintain and manage the property and ensure this side-gig contributes…

As the popularity of online casinos has increased, so has the number of games each casino website offers. The people behind casino websites recognise that they need to cater to audiences all over Wales and the world and by offering variety they are doing this well. The great news for people new to casinos is that the variety in games helps make sure there is something for everyone. You can even look at websites such as kasinomaisteri.com for ideas on where to play and what games you might enjoy. So, if you are a beginner at online casinos, what games…

Hundreds of people have been photographed together on the Senedd steps in Cardiff Bay on Good Friday. What can only be described as a ‘massive party’, an aerial view shows crowds gather during the warm weather on the steps of the Senedd with no social distancing. It comes following the relaxation of travel rules within the Wales’ borders just before the Easter holidays. Despite Wales beginning a phased approach from alter level 4 to 3 from 27 March, people must continue to follow social distancing rules with those you don’t live with or who are not in your support bubble.…

Imagine sipping on an expertly crafted cocktail filled to the brim with local botanicals, whilst gazing out over the lush greens of the Wye Valley. Meanwhile, an award-winning street food trader is preparing lunch. Following the most recent hospitality announcement from the Welsh Government, this delicious daydream could become a reality this summer, as Silver Circle Distillery in Monmouthshire has announced a new summer program of ‘Street Food Saturday’ events. Every second Saturday of the month (from May to September), the craft distillery based in Catbrook (near Tintern Abbey) will invite a different street food trader to ‘pop up’ for…

A village in the Vale of Clwyd will be taking centre stage in a new TV show starring popular singer the Welsh Whisperer. Welsh, aka Andrew Walton, pops in to Llanrhaeadr near Denbigh, as part of his televised tour of rural communities across Wales. The other star of the show is his trusty Ifor Williams Trailers livestock trailer which he uses to transport his equipment and as a backdrop for the concert at the end of each programme. The episode featuring Llanrhaedr will be shown on S4C at 9pm on Friday, April 16. During the filming it was revealed that…