Author: Rhys Gregory

Ahead of its reopening later this month, football star Gareth Bale has signed a new 15-year lease for Elevens Bar & Grill in Cardiff city centre. Elevens first opened in May 2017 following an extensive redevelopment of the S.A Brain-owned venue on Castle Street; it was a new partnership between the brewery and the newly formed Elevens Group Ltd. In December 2020, S.A. Brain announced that contracts had been exchanged with Marston’s plc. to operate its portfolio of pubs in Wales, on a combination of leased and management contract arrangements. As a result of these operational changes , Elevens has now become a fully independent venture, co-owned…

Teams from Westerleigh Group’s crematoria walked a total of 1,000 miles to raise more than £3,500 in honour of pandemic hero Captain Sir Tom Moore to mark what would have been his 101st birthday at the end of April. Westerleigh Group, the UK’s largest independent owner and operator of crematoria and cemeteries, challenged teams at its 35 sites nationwide to do something to support the Captain Tom Foundation. The Foundation supports organisations and charities which were close to Captain Tom’s heart, including those which help people with life limiting illnesses or who are facing or coping with bereavement. This resonated…

The Joy Formidable are today announcing their new album, Into The Blue,  along with second single “Back To Nothing”. Into The Blue will be released on August 20th via Hassle. Into The Blue follows the band’s critically acclaimed, kaleidoscopic 2018 album AAARTH, during which the band played the mainstage at Reading & Leeds Festival, supported Foo Fighters on their North American tour, and were invited by The Cure’s Robert Smith to play his Meltdown Festival at the South Bank, London, and Pasadena Daydream Fest in LA. The band’s new album will arrive into a much different world this time around, but it is birthed possessing a new…

Age Cymru has launched its annual creative festival for older people across Wales. Called Gwanwyn, the Welsh word for Spring, the month-long festival celebrates creativity in older age and highlights our ability to renew, grow and create. The festival offers opportunities for older people to become involved in arts and creative activities either as practitioners, organisers or audience members. Gwanwyn also helps older people to recognise the benefits that being creative can bring to their health and well-being. It also aims to challenge preconceived and stereotypical ideas of ageing and older people and, at the same time, encourage artists throughout…

Pobl Group are celebrating after exceeding the ambitious target of creating 3,000 new homes in the five years to 2021. The target was set at the time of the Group’s formation in 2016 and, despite the unforeseen challenges thrown up by the Coronavirus pandemic, they have created an impressive 3,368 much needed new homes. Ground-breaking developments such as Loftus Garden Village (Newport) and Parc Eirin (Tonyrefail) have seen the construction of high-quality new homes in beautiful surroundings, demonstrating Pobl’s commitment to placemaking and to providing homes that are genuinely sustainable and that will stand the test of time. Meanwhile, the Group’s innovative approach is further evidenced through schemes such as Biophilic Living (Swansea) and Gwynfaen (Penyrheol) which will become the benchmark for low carbon…

The first images have been released of the two showhomes at Bellway’s Rhiwlas at Plasdŵr development in Cardiff. These photographs provide the first glimpse inside the three-bedroom Shipton and four-bedroom Wilbury, which are both now open for viewings by appointment. Bellway is building 120 homes at Rhiwlas, part of the emerging Plasdŵr community which is taking shape four miles north of the city centre. Located just off Llantrisant Road and within Plasdŵr’s Maesllech neighbourhood to the north of the new garden city, the development will deliver a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses. A range of detached, semi-detached and…

Wales is a small country in the UK that is well known for having a passion for gambling. Residents of this country have enjoyed visiting land casinos and now have the ability to legally play at top-rated online casino sites. Casino sites that are available to residents of Wales are licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission. All players from Wales can legally access these sites and engage in real money play. For players who love to gamble Wales is perhaps one of the best countries to live in All forms of gambling are legal and no taxes are…

After spending pretty much the entire past year in lockdown, many people across the UK have turned their attention to their homes and used the time to catch up on DIY jobs and projects around the house. Whether you own or rent your home, there are plenty of simple DIY tasks that can help give your home an upgrade, or even have you falling in love with your space again. Some home improvement jobs can be quite a big undertaking, for example, laying a floor or plastering a wall, though there are lots of small, easy projects that don’t require a…

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As part of Coleg Cambria’s award-winning sustainability programme – in partnership with the Woodland Trust – the copse at Northop includes a mixture of hawthorn, goat willow, downy birch and crab apple trees. The Flintshire site was chosen so two existing areas of mature woodland could be united, allowing birds and wildlife to move easily between them and enhance the area’s biodiversity. The trees arrived complete with recyclable canes and spirals for protection, and the half-acre of planting was overseen by Jenny Jones, the college’s Grounds Officer. “We had a good day with the students, learning the finer points of tree…