Author: Rhys Gregory

Keep Wales Tidy has unveiled this year’s Green Flag Award winners – the international mark of a quality park or green space.  The flag will be flying at Cwmcarn Forest in recognition of its excellent visitor facilities, high environmental standards, and commitment to delivering great quality green space. Cwmcarn Forest has undergone some amazing transformations over the past couple of years, most recently the visitor centre’s Raven’s Café received funding to extend the kitchen and serving area, along with complete landscaping of the exterior space to increase the seating area. A new toddler play area was installed at the side…

RCT Council has announced that the Mountain Ash Cross Valley Link will open on Friday, October 16, following the completion of the major construction process by contractor Walters-Sisk. The completion of the major scheme will see the Council delivering on a commitment made to residents in early 2017, providing a new link between the A4059 and B4275 which will improve traffic flow in and around Mountain Ash and the wider A4059 arterial route. The project has been progressed over four phases, with the first of these starting on Cardiff Road in October 2017. Road users are reminded that the traffic lights…

Bute Park in Cardiff could be getting a new catering outlet to serve the northern area of the popular green space in the city centre. Cardiff Council have issued a tender seeking to find an experienced catering operator to run a mobile operation, covering one of three locations at any given time. The three sites, near Blackweir Bridge, Tal-y-bont Halls of Residence and Blackweir Changing Rooms are popular all year around and have high footfall at different times of the day and week. Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure, Cllr Peter Bradbury said: “We want to offer visitors to Bute…

National contractor and developer, Wates Residential has been formally appointed to deliver the next phases of its 10 year ‘Cardiff Living’ partnership with Cardiff Council to deliver 1,500 homes across the city by 2027 to help tackle growing housing demand. At least 40 per cent of the new homes being developed across the city as part of the next phases will be earmarked for rent from the Council or for sale via the authority’s assisted home ownership scheme. The first new developments are due to start on site this Autumn and include the largest single Cardiff Living development to date…

Work on a major scheme to further protect the A55 against flooding and improve safety is under way, Minister for Transport and North Wales Ken Skates has announced. The Abergwyngregyn to Tai’r Meibion scheme will improve safety along a 2.2km stretch of the carriageway by removing direct accesses off the A55 as well as removing eight gaps in the central reservation which currently allow slow moving agricultural vehicles to cross the A55. An improved drainage system will further boost the resilience of the carriageway, protecting it against flooding.  This builds on the advanced drainage works carried out in 2017, which…

Cardiff-based Genesis Biosciences has developed a new, cost-effective and low site footprint solution to convert waste products into energy faster than currently possible while drastically reducing final waste volumes.

Winters can be extremely long, very cold and mostly cloudy. These extreme weather conditions can be tough on your car and tougher on your car tyres. Cold weather conditions like snow, sleet and ice can reduce your tyres’ grip on road. Therefore, we have a few tips that’ll help our readers based in Kent to keep themselves safe on road: 1. Checking Tyre Pressure Tyre Pressure has a direct impact on your car’s braking and handling abilities; therefore, it is extremely important to maintain an optimum tyre pressure. Cold weather can drop your tyre pressure by one pound per square…

One of the UK’s largest recruitment agencies, Smart Solutions, has seen a major shift to the use of its virtual recruitment portal since start of the Coronavirus pandemic, and predicts that this new way of processing candidates will play a large part in the future of the recruitment industry. Since the start of the pandemic here in the UK in March 2020, as ‘safe distancing’ companies scrambled to recruit in sectors under demand, over 50% of Smart Solutions’ candidates have been registered through their remote application process. Their virtual recruitment portal allows applicants to apply for roles and go through…

A CCTV company recording 20 years in business used lockdown to reinvent itself and focus on national growth. Adrian Standerwick, Director of Active CCTV, unveiled a new-look website, branding and mission statement to celebrate two decades of the Mochdre-based firm. It has been a challenging time for Adrian and wife Debbie; four years ago, their beloved son Sam died of an unknown heart condition aged just 25, a tragedy that shook them to the core. Adrian threw himself into charity work and launched the Sam Standerwick Memorial Fund – which has raised more than £50,000 – but admits he “took…

A new digital marketing agency, Foundation, has launched that will help the UK’s ambitious independent beauty brands hit their growth goals. Foundation is a team of digital marketers with decades of experience in the beauty sector, that uses performance marketing techniques to facilitate growth. Foundation covers a number of specialist services, including paid media, content marketing, digital PR, affiliate marketing and SEO. The agency formed after Google data in May 2020 showed that there was a huge shift in online user behaviour due to the pandemic, and trends data showed a surge in beauty and skincare with 70% of consumers…