Author: Rhys Gregory

COLEG Cambria will host a series of virtual open events for prospective students over 10 days in March. Staff and lecturers from across the north east Wales college will be on hand to answer questions on A Levels, full time courses, apprenticeships, degrees and more. The 5pm-8pm weekday sessions – which run from March 8 to March 18 – are taking place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, tutors from a wide range of subjects including Business, Animal Care, Hospitality, Health, Engineering, Tourism and Sport are available to support participants and offer guidance. Coleg Cambria Principal Sue Price said:…

Transport for Wales is delighted to confirm that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has won a poll to decide which charity will appear on the side of one of its trains later this year. The RNLI received nearly half of the 3,625 votes cast on Twitter, to finish ahead of fellow charities the Wales Air Ambulance and Mind Cymru. The RNLI logo will now feature on the end carriage of one of the three sets of modern Mark 4 carriages, which are being introduced on Cardiff-Holyhead services later this year. There will also be carriages featuring the logos of…

As part of a four-nations agreement, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has today (Thursday 25 February) announced the ending of a ban on using UK plasma to manufacture medicines. The lifting of the ban follows a review by the Commission on Human Medicine (CHM) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It was introduced in the UK in 1999 in response to the variant Creutzfeld–Jakob (vCJD) epidemic, believed to be associated with the consumption of meat products infected with BSE, commonly known as “mad cow disease”. Since the introduction of the ban, plasma-derived medicinal products have had to be imported,…

More than £10m will be made available to extend a Welsh Government programme that provides support to the most disadvantaged learners in Wales, Education Minister Kirsty Williams has confirmed. Speaking on a visit to Cardiff primary school Ysgol Glan Morfa, the Minister confirmed that funding for Wales’s Pupil Development Grant Access scheme would be doubled to cover additional years in 2020/21 and that the grant’s terms would be extended to allow the purchasing of laptops and tablets in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The funding of £10.3m – an increase from £5.1m in 2019/20 – will allow the Welsh Government…

Work on a long-awaited new Wellbeing Hub in Cardiff has begun following months of planning between Cardiff Council, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Llanedeyrn Health Centre. Thanks to a £14 million pound investment from Welsh Government, construction has started on the new Wellbeing Hub @ Maelfa. The new centre is being built onto the current Council Powerhouse Community Hub so it makes use of the services provided from the Powerhouse with a community café, shared community rooms and an advice area, where health, local authority and third sector groups can provide advice, education and wellbeing services. Having the…

The Welsh Government’s Health Minister has today confirmed that a Community Testing programme will commence across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board area from Wednesday, March 3. Focusing on key areas that have been identified as “hot spots” for continued high levels of COVID-19 infections, the programme will operate across six Community Testing Outreach Centres in Rhondda Cynon Taf.  These Centres will be located at: Maes-Yr-Haf Community Centre, Trealaw (Tonypandy area) Porth Plaza Llanharry Community Centre Gilfach Goch Community Recreation Centre Rhondda Fach Sports Centre Abercynon Community Centre Residents over the age of 11 in each of those local areas who…

Swansea Council has strengthened its cleansing workforce by purchasing two mini cleaning vehicles called the Hako Citymaster. The council is hopeful the micro sized street cleaning machines will get to parts of the city other vehicles have previously not been able to access. The main job of the new machines will be to wash heavily walked footways throughout the city centre, but the machines are also capable of grit spreading and snow removal. Mark Thomas, Cabinet Member for Environment Enhancement & Infrastructure Management, said: “Visitors to our city centre expect to see clean litter-free streets and we do our best…

This month, Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly’s Youth Offending Service (YOS) donated 25 colourful bird boxes to Parc Cwm Darren. The donation came in time for National Nestbox Week which ran from February 14-21 and encourages the public to create homes for nesting birds and promotes the conservation and diversity of wildlife. The 25 bird boxes were made and painted by children who carry out reparation activities with the YOS. The focus of reparation is to repair the harm which has been caused by a child’s behaviour in the community. The time and effort spent in making and painting the bird boxes…

At 6pm on Monday 1st March 2021, choirs from across the Caerphilly borough will come together to sing in a fantastic online event to celebrate St David’s Day. To join in you don’t need any special equipment, you just need to visit www.facebook.com/cwtshcymru at 6pm on the 1st March and you will be able to view the live stream and join in from the comfort of your own home! Throughout the pandemic, many of our local choirs have been staying in touch with each other via online meetings. Nerys Porch of Caerphilly’s Male Voice Choir has been working closely with social…

If you have complexes about hair loss or baldness, you need to take immediate action! Is your baldness making you too shy about taking pictures? It’s not the end of the world! Here you will learn how to hide bald spots. Many women and men around the world face this problem. It lowers a person’s self-esteem, makes him/her feel self-conscious, and makes them feel unattractive. Teenagers also have this problem. It negatively affects their self-perception, generates insecurity and a lot of fears, complexes and doubts. Especially young girls suffer from this problem. First of all, you need to deal with…