Author: Rhys Gregory

Welsh Ministers have today announced a new £800m stabilisation package to help the Welsh NHS to continue to respond to and recover from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. This latest package takes the total amount of Welsh Government Covid-19 support for NHS organisations to more than £1.3bn. The £800m fund will support NHS organisations across Wales to prepare for the anticipated challenges that winter will bring – responding to a potential second wave of the virus, alongside normal winter pressures – whilst continuing to further increase access to essential services. Plans for the new funding include a strategic approach…

As crazy as it might sound, the internet and mobile technology have been getting more popular here in Wales in the last few years – especially with adults. People may be streaming. They may be playing games online. They may be downloading apps. Whichever way you look at it, Wales is embracing life on the information superhighway more and more. Here are some of the findings of the last few years when it comes to Wales and the internet: Smart phone most important device for going online A Welsh citizen may well be lost without their smartphone. In the last…

Last week, the Food and Drink Wales Industry Board (FDWIB), the industry body established to encourage and sustain the growth of the Welsh food and drink sector, shared its priority actions to help support sector recovery following the current impact of Covid-19. The pandemic had a sudden and significant impact on nearly all businesses and supply chains across the food and drink industry in Wales, and it is recognised that there is a huge challenge ahead for individual businesses’ to adapt and survive as we emerge out of the first stage of the crisis. There may also be opportunities which…

Cardiff Bay’s leading entertainment destination, The Red Dragon Centre, has introduced a multitude of additional health and safety measures with the wellbeing of both visitors and staff at the heart, as venues inside the complex reopened to the public yesterday (3 August). Savills Management Resources, who manage the venue, have worked collaboratively with the Centre’s leisure and dining occupants, to implement the safety measures in accordance with Welsh government guidelines to reopen safely this week. Take a tour of The Red Dragon Centre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFpfc3DxMU The most dramatic measure in place is a one-way system to ensure that social distancing is…

Diners across Wales will see their restaurant bills slashed by as much as 50% as the government’s landmark Eat Out to Help Out scheme officially opens for business. Anyone visiting a participating restaurant, café or pub on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout August will receive the half price discount – keeping more money in hardworking families’ pockets and giving a vital boost to the UK’s hospitality sector. The scheme – part of the government’s Plan for Jobs that will spur the country’s economic recovery from coronavirus – applies to all food and non-alcoholic drinks, with a maximum discount per person…

Cardiff-based business advisory firm Quantuma has completed a merger with AIM-listed K3 Capital Group plc (AIM: K3C), for an initial consideration of £26.95m, to create an independent global advisory practice. The merger will help K3 to build a more diverse professional services group with enhanced capabilities in restructuring, corporate finance, tax advisory, forensic accounting and expert witness services. The deal sees a cash free, debt free initial consideration of £26.95m, in addition to maximum combined earn outs of £15m and an additional 645,513 growth shares. Quantuma was set up in Southampton in 2013 by Carl Jackson. The firm has grown…

Today, Taco Bell UK will show its appreciation to the British public with something we all know and love – free tacos. Taco Bell fans across the UK can enjoy a free Crunchy Taco every Tuesday in August. “Our brand is all about treating our fans with unexpected good, and what better way to do that than with free tacos,” said Gino Casciani, Regional Director for Taco Bell Europe. “This is our way of thanking our fans for coming together during such a difficult time and prevailing together as a nation.” In addition to giving away thousands of tacos throughout…

Fraud in Wales has fallen by three quarters compared to this time last year. Only three cases totalling £1.6m have been taken to courts in Wales so far this year, compared with 12 cases totalling £9.9m for the same period last year. While all perpetrators have been men, there is no clear pattern to the type of person committing the crime, nor is there a ‘typical’ victim. This differs to the first half of 2019, when professional criminals in Wales were involved with more fraud cases seen by courts than any other perpetrator type. Damian Byrne, Forensic lead for KPMG…

GlobalWelsh today announces that following the completion of his three-year term, Martyn Phillips is stepping down from his role as chair of GlobalWelsh, a non-profit organisation focused on connecting and engaging the Welsh diaspora. Martyn will remain actively engaged in GlobalWelsh via his new role as Founding Patron. Under the leadership of Martyn, GlobalWelsh launched in 2017, and with an ever-growing community of members located across more than 40 countries, is celebrating three years of actively pursuing its purpose to help Wales prosper and bring about new connections, commercial opportunities and ideas that will enrich the lives of Welsh people…

Sixty-eight year old former soldier, Brian ‘Eddy’ Edwards, set off on Saturday 1st August from St David’s Head, Pembrokeshire, at the start of an epic 360 mile hike. He will be traversing the widest point, coast to coast, in the UK across Wales and England, ending up in Ness Point, Lowestoft, in Suffolk – all to raise vital funds for Help for Heroes. The Welsh leg of his journey takes in the impressive landscapes and terrain of White Sands in Pembrokeshire, Whitland, Llandeilo, Sennybridge and Felinfach, before he embarks on the English stretch at Hay on Wye.  While this is…