Author: Rhys Gregory

When you’re searching for a new car, there’s a lot of factors you’ll want to consider. It is one of the biggest investments you’re going to make so you need to ensure you get it right. It’s important to think about buying a car as a future investment. After all, it’s going to be with you for at least the next three years. Here, you’ll discover a brief guide to buying a car as an investment for the future. Always research your options There are so many options when it comes to buying a car. Are you going to buy…

One of Wales’ leading medical supply company Hospital Innovations has been generously assisted by Sony to securely store thousands of safety gowns at its UK Technology Centre in Pencoed. Hospital Innovations recently secured a significant deal to supply 100,000 disposable medical gowns to one of the UK’s largest private hospital groups. To fulfil the contract, the Talbot Green-based distributor took an immediate shipment of 40,000 non-sterile, waterproof gowns from its European manufacturing facility, and liaised with Sony to safely store the excess gowns before they are distributed to recipients. https://twitter.com/HospInnovations/status/1257327160920084486 Hospital Innovations specialises in delivering innovative solutions to hospitals and…

The winners of Wales’s national St David Awards 2020 were announced last night by First Minister Mark Drakeford. This year’s awards were originally scheduled to be held in March but were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. In a message to all the St David Awards recipients, the First Minister said he hoped the “everyday but extraordinary” winners will find comfort in their recognition. The award categories are: Bravery, Humanitarian, Community Spirit, Young Person, Innovation, Science and Technology, Business, Culture, Sport and the First Minister’s Special Award. This year’s special award winner is former international rugby player Gareth Thomas, who…

The Welsh Government Duty of Care campaign to encourage people to help tackle fly-tipping relaunches today. To remind householders in Wales that they must always use a registered waste carrier to remove unwanted household items and excess rubbish from their homes. With over 70% of fly-tipping incidents in Wales containing household rubbish, The campaign, in partnership with Fly Tipping Action Wales, calls on people to take responsibility for their excess rubbish, keep their local area clean and avoid fines and prosecution by using their duty of care to ensure they know where their waste is going and not put it…

An investment of £450,000 is being made from the Welsh Government’s North Wales metro funding to provide electric buses and charging infrastructure for two Flintshire routes, Transport and North Wales Minister Ken Skates has announced. The investment will fund two electric bus vehicles which will serve routes to Buckley and Treuddyn, as well as the charging infrastructure to maintain them. The routes are part of Flintshire’s aim to link rural routes to main hubs in the county. The vehicles will be housed at the council’s facility in Buckley which includes a solar farm allowing the buses to be charged using…

From this Saturday, the household waste recycling centre in Newport will be open for longer on weekends. Residents can now book a slot at the centre on weekends between 8am and 6pm, where previously opening hours were between 9.30am and 4pm. Since the centre reopened a few weeks ago, Newport residents have helped ensure the new processes in place for booking slots and visiting have worked well. This combined with an increase in staffing numbers has enabled Newport Council to extend the opening times on weekends, in order to deliver greater flexibility to residents looking to visit the site. To…

Caerphilly county borough council will make local town centres a safe space for shoppers as Wales prepares to get back to business over the coming weeks. The authority is also encouraging residents to ‘shop local’ by temporarily waiving charges at town centre Pay and Display car parks until the end of the year. “We anticipate that the First Minister is likely to signal the reopening of some shops and business premises and we want to make sure that our town centres are prepared to welcome back shoppers in a safer and more sustainable manner,” said Cllr Philippa Marsden, Leader of…

Caerphilly County Borough Council has received a number a number of reports of the same telephone trick – relating to the NHS “track and trace” strategy – being attempted. If you get a call that fits the following description, please hang up immediately.  The caller begins by saying they are from the NHS track and trace service, adding: “According to our system, you are likely to have been in close proximity to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. This means that you now need to self-isolate for seven days and take a COVID-19 test.” They are then told that…

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has made a substantial contribution to a major treatment breakthrough for COVID-19. The health board was the first in the UK to open the RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial, which found that the low-dose steroid treatment, Dexamethasone reduces deaths of hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19. The trial, which was implemented by the University of Oxford, found that dexamethasone reduced deaths by one third in ventilated patients, and by one fifth in other patients receiving oxygen. Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19, with…

A Swansea University student is playing a key role in managing supplies of PPE at one of the hospitals hit hardest by the pandemic. Simon Cardozo, a first-year student enrolled on the Applied Medical Sciences degree course is now Covid-19 PPE Coordinator at KFM, a wholly owned subsidiary of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in South East London. Nineteen-year-old Simon had previously worked at the hospital during his holidays to earn money and gain experience before being offered this role supporting the supply chain team during the coronavirus crisis Simon, from South London, said: “I support a team of…