Author: Rhys Gregory

Wales’ public services will receive a cash boost of more than £682m to support their COVID efforts over the coming months, the First Minister announced today. The package includes more than £635m for the NHS and local councils to help them support the people of Wales over the next six months. This significant funding boost will support our world-leading vaccination programme so we can protect as many people as quickly as possible; boost our testing capacity and bolster our highly effective contact tracing programme. The package also includes an additional £206.5m for the Local Government Hardship Fund, supporting vital social…

The Aloud Charity have gathered their mass virtual choir Everyone Aloud for a special St David’s Day performance, with Sir Bryn Terfel joining as a soloist. The charity asked members of the public to submit videos of themselves singing in order to join the virtual choir, and they received over 100 videos from across the world, from the USA to Japan, Germany to Holland. Current and ex-members of Only Men Aloud, Only Boys Aloud and Only Kids Aloud joined in along with the public, and multiple members chose to submit as a family, with three generations submitting videos. With the…

A boys choir that wowed judges on hit TV show  Britain’s Got Talent is looking to have the same impact in Japan. Only Boys Aloud will be taking part in a televised concert in the Land of the Rising Sun with three Japanese youth choirs from the cities of Kitakyushu, Kumamoto and Oita that hosted the Welsh Rugby team and so warmly welcomed Wales during the World Cup in 2019. Around 120 singers from all 14 of the organisation’s choirs will be taking part in the performance. The original plan was for the Welsh singers to travel to Japan but…

There’s nothing worse than a bad night’s sleep. Tossing and turning for hours on end leaves us feeling irritable the next day, as a result of low energy and frustration. While it’s perfectly normal to have a poor quality of sleep from time to time, frequent occurrences may lead to more serious problems. This is why it is so important to prepare your body as much as possible for a good night’s sleep. Here are seven top tips to do so. Avoid Technology Technological devices emit blue light, which suppresses melatonin, our sleep hormone. This means that watching TV or…

These six business technologies can help your company run smoother, gain and retain customers, improve productivity, and even avoid public scandals.  When the entire world shut down due to the pandemic, that’s when technology shined really bright, showing its worth. Overnight, the ability to connect to customers and even employees became almost impossible as governments around the world have imposed lockdown and social distancing measures. That’s when businesses realized that they need to move online to keep their business running. After all, customers moved online to shop for goods and services. So, it only made sense for brands to meet…

To celebrate St. David’s Day this year, Papa John’s has added a new recruit to its fantastic delivery team. Introducing: ‘Dave’ who – we won’t lie to you – will be serving up proper tasty slices to the residents of Barry Island in an extra-special ‘Dave’s Pizzas’ delivery coach. Sounds crackin’, right? As a local coach driver, Dave has forever lived in the shadows of Barry Island coach drivers that have gone before. However, for one day only, he has joined forces with his favourite delivery chain to give the gift of pizza in celebration of the national day. Pizza lovers will…

Wales Tech Week will return this summer, following a successful inaugural event in 2020. The week-long festival, which brings together leading figures in the global technology community, will take place across the 21st – 25th June 2021 as a virtual festival streaming across the world, in real time. The free to attend event promises a five day summer festival experience packed with world class speakers from some of the most innovative companies in Wales and beyond, across multiple ‘stages’ throughout the week. Each virtual stage will play host to different technologies and sectors, featuring interactive workshops, talks, roundtables, panel sessions…

A bespoke gaming room has been developed at Coleg y Cymoedd ready for the launch of two new specialised video game development courses at the college later this year. A £50k investment has seen the creation of an industry-standard gaming suite at the Aberdare campus with sector specific computers and equipment used by a range of professionals in the field, from programmers and designers to video game testers and sound engineers. Following the creation of the gaming facility at Aberdare, the college is also in the process of developing a bespoke IT and animation room at its Rhondda campus with…

Cyclists of all ages and all abilities across Wales are invited to get on their bikes and take part in an exciting new virtual Ride to The Rugby for Tŷ Hafan, the hospice for children in Wales.   This March, a group of 50 riders were due to embark on an epic challenge, cycling from Cardiff to Paris over four days to Ride to the Rugby ready to watch Wales take on France in the Six Nations on 20 March.  However, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and current travel restrictions in place, this challenge has been postponed – and in its place, a brand new, super-inclusive, virtual event has been created.  “I am thrilled to bits to say…

Swansea University is giving its backing to the UK’s first ever Food Waste Action Week. The week, which launches on Monday, March 1, will link organisations across the food supply chain and beyond to stop food going to waste and curb the contribution this makes towards climate change. Organised by WRAP, the UK’s leading sustainability charity, the week of action will promote the simple message “wasting food feeds climate change”. In total, 6.6 million tonnes of food waste comes from our homes each year in the UK, at a cost of £14 billion. Of that, 4.5 million tonnes is food…