Author: Rhys Gregory

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…

A Cardiff man who transformed his bathroom during lockdown has won £1000 of heating and bathroom goodies in a national DIY competition. The Lockdown Glow-Up competition, launched by BestHeating and Big Bathroom Shop, invited entrants to put forward their DIY projects they have been working on over the past few months. With social distancing rules in place and many hours stuck at home, the entries ranged from staircases to kitchens, gardens and bedrooms with Brit’s trying their hand at some new skills. The competition was launched after research from heating and bathroom experts, BestHeating and Big Bathroom Shop, found that…

Talyllyn Railway in Mid Wales reopened on Saturday after the COVD-19 pandemic lockdown had halted steam train services for 20 weeks. The first public train since February on the world’s first preserved railway was waved off from Wharf Station, Tywyn by local MP, Liz Saville-Roberts, at 10.30am, with carefully designed social distancing arrangements for travel. Fittingly, the train was hauled by Locomotive No.2, ‘Dolgoch’, which has been in service on the railway since 1866 and was used for the first ever train in railway preservation in 1951. David Ventry, Talyllyn Railway Board chairman and safety director, said the railway had…

Wales rugby international Cory Hill and double Paralympic champion Aled Sion Davies are among the stars lining up for an evening with sporting legends to raise money for Tenovus Cancer Care. They will be joined by Commonwealth Games and Winter Olympic athlete Mica Moore, British, Commonwealth and WBA Continental and International champion boxer Joe Cordina and Olympic silver medallist and former world champion Jamie Baulch. The online event, on Friday 14th August, will be hosted by ex-Wales rugby international and Llanelli Scarlets legend Rupert Moon, who is a patron of Tenovus Cancer Care and has supported the charity for more…

An innovative wearable solution which helps to identify certain health risks early on, has been implemented by Cardiff Council as part of their Telecare response service. The ARMED (Advanced Risk Modelling for Early Detection) software, developed by HAS Technology, was adopted by Cardiff Council as part of a response service to put preventative measures into place for its community and residents. ARMED empowers users with easy access to data allowing for better self-management, whilst healthcare professionals can be quickly alerted to potential issues. Twenty individuals have been identified as having a potential ‘falls risk’ and provided with ARMED’s wearable smart…

After an unsettled start to the week in places, it will turn drier and much warmer across many parts of the UK later this week, with hot conditions developing across southern areas. Ahead of the hot weather, northern parts of the UK can expect a wet and windy spell on Tuesday and Wednesday as an Atlantic low-pressure crosses to the northwest of the UK, with more settled conditions across southern areas. A weather warning for rain has been issued for some western parts of Scotland on Tuesday.  From Thursday onward it will turn widely settled and warmer for most as southerly winds…

The Welsh Government’s bespoke Economic Resilience Fund (ERF) is providing crucial support to protect jobs at an important employer in Wrexham, Economy and North Wales Minister Ken Skates has announced. Gresford-based F Bender Limited has received £149,000 from the fund to help it safeguard its 150-strong workforce from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. The ERF, which is part of the Welsh Government’s £1.7bn support package for businesses, is providing thousands of companies across Wales with significant financial support and complements the help provided by the UK Government. To date, more than 12,500 businesses have received financial support worth more…

Wales’ Childcare Offer providing 30 hours of early education and care to the working parents of 3 and 4 year olds across Wales is set to reopen, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Care Julie Morgan has announced today. The Childcare Offer was suspended in April to allow resources to be refocused, to support the childcare needs of critical workers and vulnerable children through the Coronavirus Childcare Assistance Scheme (C-CAS). As of the last week of the school term, just over 9,000 children were accessing this scheme. As Wales moves to ease more lockdown restrictions and with schools set to…

Repair work will shortly get underway to rectify the damage to the 3G sports pitch in Aberdare following damage caused by Storm Dennis – for the benefit of local sports teams, schools and the wider community.  The facility, which is located at the Sobell leisure complex in Aberdare, was closed following severe storm damage sustained during the unprecedented weather event earlier this year. The Council has now appointed South Wales Sports Grounds as the contractor responsible for carrying out the repairs. Work will begin on site in the week commencing Monday, August 3, lasting approximately five weeks – and it…