Author: Rhys Gregory

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has announced some changes to parking and travel to improve access to its hospital sites for patients, visitors and staff. During the pandemic, the health board lifted all parking restrictions temporarily, but increasing on site activity has led to higher demand for car parking spaces. This has resulted in difficult and unsafe parking conditions and increased congestion on site. From 1 December, patients and visitors at University Hospital of Wales, University Hospital Llandough, Barry Hospital and St David’s Hospital will need to park in designated patient car parks and comply with local on-site parking…

TV’s Matt Baker has hailed a trailer firm for playing a “crucial part” in getting the 2021 Great Rickshaw Relay Challenge on the road. Ifor Williams Trailers, who have factories in Corwen and Cynwyd in Denbighshire and Sandycroft and Deeside Industrial Estate in Flintshire, supplied the trailer which has been ferrying the bright yellow high-tech McLaren-made rickshaw from place to place during each leg of Matt’s fundraising venture in aid of BBC Children in Need. They made the flat-bed model to a bespoke design, specially wrapped in the colourful Children in Need and Great Rickshaw Relay Challenge livery. The energy-sapping…

Enhancing access to hospital services for children with the help of technology is the aim of a pilot project in Swansea Bay. Virtual live consultations will be tested for referrals from primary care. The aim is to reduce the need for children and their families to visit the hospital to be assessed, avoiding disruption and unnecessary travel for them. Dr Pramodh Vallabhaneni, a consultant paediatrician, is introducing the project to help streamline the process. He said: “The technology is already there and virtual clinics are now well-established in health care. “However, they are normally used for scheduled outpatient care. “As…

Comedian Jason Manford will be kick-starting the festive season by switching on Rhyl’s Christmas lights this month. The much loved comedian, singer and television presenter will be switching on the town’s Christmas lights on the High Street in Rhyl on Saturday 27th November between 4pm and 6pm. Entertaining the crowds will be a 6ft Glowbot, Co-Creative performance company, face painting, balloon modelling and the night will finish on a bang with a fireworks finale. Also on stage entertaining the crowd will be Mike Andrew as Robbie Williams and the wonderful Gem Johnson. Jason Manford said: “I can’t wait to come…

A new business centre in Lampeter has been officially opened for community and business use this week. The Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters MS opened the Creuddyn centre on 4 November 2021 in a recorded speech due to not being able to attend in person. Senedd Constituency Member for Ceredigion, Elin Jones MS was in attendance for the opening Creuddyn is a state of the art building offering business units for local businesses, the social care sector and charitable organisations and will be perfect for start-up businesses looking for premises in the town. It will be an exciting…

A new service for Nursing in South Wales has been launched by a leading training and recruitment company. New Directions Health & Social Care, which has over 20 years of experience in the Care sector, has expanded its services to offer short and long-term Nursing placements and permanent Nursing positions in private Healthcare. After investing in the growth of its team in recent months, New Directions Health & Social Care will be led by Sam Marriott, who has extensive specialist knowledge of Nursing recruitment. “Having built trusted and established relationships within the Care sector, we know the services we offer…

TEENAGERS at youth centres across Cardiff are to take part in free live events and are being offered online classes encouraging them to start businesses, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). Over three thousand young people are entitled to join classes with titles including “How to make more money than your friends” and “Lessons from YouTube influencers” through the ‘Think Like a Rebel’ campaign. The week-long event series is being backed by Cardiff Youth Service and Cardiff City Council. Fun-packed workshops and lessons will be taking place in youth centres and online, where teenagers aged 14-19 will be educated,…

Swansea Building Society has opened a new office in Monmouthshire to provide a local base for its mortgage team who cover that area. The new office comes as part of its five-year growth and investment plan for developing its presence in the region. The office is located at Swan House, 33 Cross Street, Abergavenny, where recently appointed business development manager, Dan Goulding, and his assistant are to be based – and which other Society business development staff can utilise as and when needed. The aim is to allow Goulding and his colleagues to meet customers and brokers face-to-face, and to…

A Wrexham-based engineering firm has been praised for their “quick-thinking and kindness” after helping RSPCA Cymru come to the aid of a stricken bird. RSPCA officers were alerted after a gull was spotted caught by his wing to a communication aerial approximately 30-feet from the ground, at a warehouse on the Wrexham Industrial Estate. Unfortunately, no suitable ladders were available to reach the troubled bird – so RSPCA inspector Phil Lewis visited the yard of the nearby JB Fabrication (Wrexham) Ltd, a North Wales-based engineering contractor. Staff at the firm were happy to help – and provided an aerial platform…

Two drivers who caused the death of a beloved grandmother days before Christmas, as they raced along a valleys road at speeds of up to 100mph, have been jailed. Witnesses described seeing Levi Edwards and Morgan Sansom “driving like idiots” shortly before Edwards lost control of his red BMW and collided with a car being driven by 84-year-old Shirley Hope on the afternoon of December 20, 2019. As Mrs Hope lay dying at the scene of the collision on Rhigos Road, Hirwaun, Sansom drove off in his white BMW, briefly returning and leaving again before emergency services arrived. Edwards was…