Author: Rhys Gregory

Triton Construction has secured a contract to deliver a new 80-bed Premier Inn hotel in Porthmadog, North Wales. The £5.4 million instruction through Liberty Properties includes the design and build of the hotel on the former site of Ty Moelwyn Tax Office, as well as external services, roads, yards and car parking. The Porthmadog contract follows an instruction with Swangate Developments to deliver a new 63-bed Premier Inn hotel in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, which is now under construction.  Triton has also recently completed a 14-bed refurbishment with new reception area for Premier Inn at Telford. Premier Inn is the UK’s…

Bilingual communications agency, Equinox, is celebrating its 25th year with a campaign of promises — which will include providing free support to Welsh businesses in need. Launched today (18 March), the 25 Peth campaign will see Equinox deliver 25 things to benefit the local economy, environment, culture, its people, and the wider comms industry, in 2021. From providing in-kind business support and innovative initiatives that will create opportunities for aspiring talent, to participating in hands-on environmental activities and establishing new partnerships that will improve the use of the Welsh language — the campaign will go beyond standard corporate commitments by…

Many dog owners are surprised to learn that their pet is diabetic. A majority go without knowing until it is too late. After learning this confounding new, one is usually at a loss on how to deal with a diabetic dog. Is nutrition like in humans? What is too sugary for a dog? What diet is lean enough to manage the pet’s weight? This pet health issue is problematic, but you can manage with the right nutrition plans. Diabetes in Dogs  Dog diabetes is the same metabolism disorder that is observed in humans. It occurs when a dog is not…

DETERMINED fundraisers across Wales are set to Race for Life at Home and carry on the fight against the disease as the nation looks beyond lockdown.   Organisers Cancer Research UK have postponed events for the spring and early summer to protect people’s health as the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic- and this includes the Race for Life 3K, 5K and 10K, which had been due to take place at Cardiff’s Bute Park on July 4.    COVID-19 has caused a devastating loss of research funding. Cancer Research UK is predicting a staggering £300 million drop in income over the next three years which could put future medical breakthroughs at risk.      Now, undeterred women and men are vowing to…

Cardiff-based AI research company, AMPLYFI has partnered with Georgetown University’s Center for Security & Emerging Technology (CSET) to develop a new machine learning platform capable of uncovering previously unlisted companies. The platform, developed by AMPLYFI, uses AI to access previously unexplored data on the Deep Web, finding a large volume of ‘hidden’ Chinese companies that are AI-related, but not listed as such on leading commercial data sets such as Crunchbase and PEData/Zero2IPO. With policymakers, market analysts, and academic researchers often using these commercial databases to identify artificial intelligence-related companies and investments, this new report suggests they may be making decisions…

Over a year since many companies first told their staff to work from home due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a Welsh independent advertising agency has decided to embrace the model of the future, by moving to a ‘blended working’ policy full-time; allowing its people to work from a mix of home and the office moving forward. While the pandemic posed initial challenges for S3 Advertising’s workforce of 34, the team quickly fell into the flow of remote working, delivering stand-out creative advertising campaigns, virtually. Based on this success, S3 – which has recently undergone a rebrand and revealed its new…

A trio of Welsh companies has successfully passed SALSA food safety certification audits thanks to the support of the Welsh Government and EU-backed Project HELIX. Rhondda Cynon Taf based SamosaCo is celebrating securing the crucial certification whilst Powys based Cradoc’s Savoury Biscuits and Monmouthshire’s Trealy Farm Charcuterie have successfully extended their certification. The companies all received assistance from Project HELIX, a pan-Wales strategic initiative delivered by Food Innovation Wales, which provides funded technical and commercial support for Welsh food and drink companies. SALSA certification is important for many food and drink producers to supply their products to national and regional…

Jointly-funded by Transforming Towns, the Welsh Government’s town centre regeneration programme and the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Barry Regeneration Fund, Central Park and Gladstone Road Interchange are the latest outdoor spaces to benefit from green infrastructure improvements and town centre enhancements in Barry. Located behind Barry Library, Central Park is now home to a host of new outdoor family-friendly facilities, including modern table-top games, an outdoor chess board and picnic benches. A five-by-ten-metre paved stage and secure power-point have also been installed at the centre of the Park — allowing the venue to host future outdoor events and entertainment activities…

Following the success of a specially produced gin, which has helped raise funds for patient care, Nightingale House Hospice has branched out to develop a new berry flavoured edition. Last year the hospice collaborated with Shropshire Gin Distillery to produce a bespoke Nightingale House hand-crafted gin to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. The independent distillery, based in Ellesmere is known for creating their own artisan-handcrafted premium gins using traditional copper still methods. The company is the proud winner of two International Wine and Spirit Competition awards. The new Berry Gin has been carefully selected from a handful of tailored botanicals. It…

A South Wales company has developed an innovative way to recycle single use personal protective equipment (PPE) in a bid to tackle the mountain of waste being produced as a result of the pandemic. Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group (TCG) has become one of the first in the world to create a device to recycle disposable plastic PPE at source, which re-engineers an average 24 tonnes of polypropylene waste each year per unit. Following the outbreak, estimates suggest that hospital trusts across the UK have been using a combined 10million PPE items a day between them, the majority of which are…