Author: Rhys Gregory

First Minister Mark Drakeford will today unveil the exciting concept for a National Forest running the length and breadth of Wales. Backed by £5m in this year’s Budget, the National Forest will create areas of new woodland and help to restore and maintain some of Wales’ unique and irreplaceable ancient woodlands. And a further £10m of Glastir Woodland creation and restoration funding will be available to increase tree planting across Wales. The National Forest will be a connected ecological network running throughout Wales, which will play an important role in protecting nature and addressing biodiversity loss. It will also help…

Economy, Transport and North Wales Minister Ken Skates has announced that global, award-winning design and technology consultancy and product developer Keytree Ltd is creating 38 new jobs at its site in Port Talbot with support from the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government is providing £500,000 which will see the company expand at its base in Port Talbot and create new high quality jobs, almost doubling its headcount. Headquartered in London, Keytree has projects spanning 100 countries with offices in Sydney, Madrid and Bangalore in addition to Port Talbot. Today’s announcement will see a major expansion of the Port Talbot office…

Traveling to the United Kingdom would not be complete without a trip to Wales, the region that is known for its beautiful outdoors. Taking a holiday trip to Wales is an exploration of a magical landscape of coasts and mountains whose people maintain a rich culture. There is a timeless atmosphere in Wales. What’s more is that it is also a very friendly place to travel, not only for humans but also for their dogs. Where to Stay in Wales Wales lets you have the best of both worlds because it has one foot firmly in the past with well-maintained…

PR & content agency BrandContent is giving free tampons to all staff in defiance of the ‘sluggish’ response by the government to abolish the tampon tax. After years of lobbying, the government announced in today’s budget that it will abandon the tampon tax with a zero rate of VAT applying to sanitary products from 2021. However, the 10-person agency says the announcement doesn’t go far enough and further delays to the abolishment of this tax ignores the root cause of the problem; discrimination against women which will still continue for months to come. As a reaction to this slow response,…

Olympians Tessa Sanderson and Iwan Thomas will take on sports broadcasters John Watson and Manish Bhasin in a BBC Bargain Hunt Sport Relief special. Which team will bag the best bargains and raise the most money for Sport Relief?  Presenter Eric Knowles will referee the celebrity sporting teams as they search for antiques and hidden gems at Newmarket Racecourse. With just one hour on the clock, the red and blue teams must each find three items which they hope will make a big profit for the charity at auction. On the red team, antiques expert Caroline Hawley will be guiding…

A mother-of-five, who is chief steward of the Officers Mess at Beachley Barracks in Chepstow, has won an Apprentice of the Year Award. Emma Hooper received the honour at the annual Apprenticeship, Employment and Skills Awards organised by Cambrian Training, one of Wales’ top work-based learning providers. Emma Hooper, who works for Compass Group, is using all the things she has learned doing an Apprenticeship in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership in her role. She says the Apprenticeship has pushed her to be the best supervisor possible and she hopes to progress to a Higher Apprenticeship in a future managerial role.…

A successful Welsh pastry chef who saw his creations appear on national TV has returned to the south Wales college he originally studied at to share his top tips and advice with aspiring young chefs hoping to enter the industry. Michael Coggan, who appeared on Channel 4’s ‘Bake Off: The Professionals’, visited culinary learners at Coleg y Cymoedd to give them an exclusive cooking masterclass and answer any burning questions they have about working in the sector. Currently working as Head Pastry Chef at the luxury five-star voco™ St David’s Hotel in Cardiff, the talented pâtissier wanted to give back…

Thanks to the New Theatre for inviting us along in exchange for this review. If you have tickets to see this, then strap in because you are about to endure a  rollercoaster of emotions.  I’m fairly sure we studied the script when I was at school, now I say I’m fairly sure because it didn’t stick with me enough at the time to be that memorable, although it should have considering it’s a classic. Having said that this is a performance I definitely won’t forget. Once it gets going you start predicting certain things and I found myself thinking I was…

Senior figures from some of the world’s largest and most influential technology businesses along with leaders from some of Wales’ most innovative rising stars to create a new Technology Leadership Council to champion the Welsh technology industry. The initiative launched today from Technology Connected will be the largest and most encompassing of its kind, representing the breadth of the technology industry in Wales to create a unified voice for the sector. Drawing on the expertise of its members, the Council will utilise its collective knowledge and influence, to unite, champion and promote Welsh technology across Wales and throughout the wider…

Newport based cyber company Wolfberry Cyber has been recognised as Best International Cyber Security Consultancy Firm at the Acquisition International Cyber Security Awards 2020. The accolade rewards Wolfberry’s strong 2019 growth which has seen it enter markets in Europe, Asia and the US in a year when more than half of UK businesses have reported some form of cyber attack. Wolfberry CEO, Damon Rands said: “The regular cadence of global high-profile data breaches is putting pressure on companies to protect both their business and customers, especially as more and more sensitive transactions continue to move online. But it isn’t just…