Author: Rhys Gregory

Major Improvements have been unveiled at a popular community leisure centre in Swansea. Freedom Leisure has operated local centres on behalf of Swansea Council for almost 18 months – and together they are improving leisure locally, with a £5.1m council-funded investment across the city. The Freedom Leisure team, council colleagues and companies involved in developing the new-look facilities have officially unveiled the refreshed centre at Penyrheol. It has a refurbished fitness facility with new TechnoGym equipment, a new fitness studio as well as a smart new functional training space including an indoor track. This brings an enhanced fitness experience to Penyrheol.…

Jessica has been located safe and well Police in Swansea are appealing for help in finding Jessica Green. Jessica, 22, is from the Bridgend area and hasn’t been seen since Tuesday, 11th February, 2020. She is described as being 5ft 1, with blonde hair and a slim build. The last sighting of Jessica was in Port Talbot, when she was wearing a black Adidas jacket with white stripes. She has links to Bridgend and Swansea as well as places in West Wales. Officers investigating Jessica’s disappearance are concerned for her welfare – she is urged to contact police to confirm…

Taco Bell, the highly popular pioneer of Mexican-inspired cuisine, is continuing its Live Más march across the UK with the opening of a new restaurant in Cardiff on Monday 2nd March 2020. Fans of Taco Bell will be able to enjoy the classic menu, which will be available both to dine in or takeaway from the 49-seat restaurant located on St Mary Street. From tasty tacos and burritos, to its famous quesadillas and Crunchwrap SupremeTM, there’s a dish on the menu to suit everyone. The Cardiff restaurant will also be introducing the ever-popular Taco Tuesday to its menu – a…

Dash-cam footage captured the moment a banned driver smashed in to a fellow motorist and narrowly avoided more collisions as he tried to flee police during a 14-mile high-speed chase. Amritpal Thandi was this week jailed for 18 months after he was convicted of dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and drug possession, following the incident on July 21 last year. Cardiff Crown Court heard 31-year-old Thandi caught the attention of a traffic officer as he dangerously overtook a car at Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff. Despite the traffic officer illuminating the motorcycle’s blue lights and siren, Thandi continued to pick up speed,…

A brave band of women from holiday parks across Wales have created a £22,000 charity windfall by baring all for Breast Cancer Care. The group’s cheeky photographs appear on a month-by-month calendar which has been snapped-up by collectors from across the UK. With their modestly protected by props, the photos capture the women relaxing on the parks in Wales where they own holiday caravans and lodges. When their first calendar came out last year, it raised around £7,500 for charity – but strong demand for a 2020 version has now seen that amount almost tripled. Leading lights behind the project…

Gold medallist cake baker and decorator Jay Humphris has been charged with making an eye-catching centrepiece to wow the world’s top culinary judges at the IKA/ Culinary Olympics next week. The 36-year-old mum of two from Ebbw Vale is set to make her debut as a member of the Senior Culinary Team Wales in in Stuttgart from February 14-19. Jay, who lives in Ebbw Vale and is a catering and hospitality lecturer at Coleg Y Cymoedd, Ystrad Mynach, will leave the judges in no doubt where she comes from, as her masterpiece is based on the Year of the Outdoors…

The health board has given the green light to a multi-million pound scheme to cut utility spending and make its sites more environmentally-friendly. It spends around £6.9 million a year on electricity, gas water, and sewage treatment. This is expected to rise year on year at an above-inflation rate. Now Swansea Bay UHB has secured funding to carry out a series of initiatives at its major hospitals and other locations, starting this month. It is being undertaken through Re:fit Cymru, a Welsh Government-backed initiative providing interest-free repayable grants to public sector organisations for carbon-reducing projects. Planned work includes: LED lighting;…

Cardiff and Vale College swept the board at the inaugural Wales Creative and Cultural Skills Awards, winning in three categories. CAVC hosted the awards, which coincided with the launch of the Welsh Government’s Creative Wales to support and encourage the creative industries. Megan O’Brien, a Foundation Degree in Film student at the College, won Wales Creative Student of the Year. Megan was chosen for always going that extra mile, representing the College on an Erasmus trip to Spain then giving a presentation based on her experiences at an academic conference. Currently managing a live brief for CAVC to develop and…

Today, Those Damn Crows – a Welsh rock band from Bridgend currently sitting at #6 in the UK Album Chart following the release of their sophomore album Point Of No Return last week – hand-delivered their new record to Allan Jones.  Allan is a huge music fan (who owns more than a 1,000 records and who had ordered Crows’ record) and carries out brilliant work at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena within the Live Access stewarding team at the venue, making the dreams come true for many disabled customers, many of whom have met their heroes thanks to Allan. Those Damn Crows…

It is fair to say that the world of technology is evolving all of the time, with new innovations emerging seemingly on a weekly basis and going on to transform our daily lives. So many talking points arise from this area month after month, but arguably the biggest in the past year has been the emergence of 5G. This new technology looks set to take mobile capabilities to a whole new level and could have a bearing on our lives in so many ways. The next generation As the name 5G suggests, the technology is the next generation of wireless internet connection…