Author: Rhys Gregory

Leading pensions and employee benefit advisor Quantum Advisory is calling for companies to make sure they fully understand how to treat furloughed staff in relation to pensions.

Staff at Hospital Innovations have ‘virtually’ joined together to support National Donate Life Month and raise awareness of the importance of tissue donation.

The first-ever digital-only Hay Festival will bring writers and readers together 18-31 May 2020 in free live broadcasts and interactive Q&As. Hay Festival Digital will see more than 100 award-winning writers, global policy makers, historians, pioneers and innovators take part, celebrating the best new fiction and non-fiction, and interrogating some of the biggest issues of our time, from Covid-19 and world health, to the climate crisis and our future, under the theme of #ImagineTheWorld. What would have been the Hay Festival Programme for Schools will also take place online, kicking things off with five days of storytelling and live performances for KS…

Wales’s leading cancer charities are urging people with cancer symptoms to see their doctor as GPs warn the coronavirus outbreak is keeping people with these symptoms away. The 20 charities in the Wales Cancer Alliance are asking people to see their GP as usual if they have concerning symptoms such as changes to their body, unexplained lumps or bleeding and coughs which don’t go away after three weeks. Their warning comes as many GPs in Wales report a worrying drop in the number of people who are seeing them with suspected cancer symptoms. Clinicians are reporting a 75 per cent…

BCB International provides lifesaving equipment for police and defence forces. The focus of the family-run, Welsh-based business has always been to protect those on the front line. Since January their efforts have changed to protecting our public servants on the frontline in our NHS and emergency services in our fight against COVID-19. By converting one of their factories the company is making stronger strength hand sanitisers. Made with 80% alcohol content the sanitisers kill 99.999% of viruses, including COVID-19. Working round the clock the company have taken on 30 additional staff to deliver the orders of sanitisers and other much…

The general manager of the world’s first first preserved railway in Mid Wales has thanked supporters who have contributed nearly £67,000 in four weeks towards a £75,000 appeal for funds. The Covid19 pandemic has meant that Talyllyn Railway at Tywyn is unable to run trains until further notice. The narrow gauge railway, which closed on March 20, has already missed the traditionally busy Easter period, and is set to miss the first Bank Holiday weekend in May at a minimum. An appeal has been launched to cover fixed costs of £25,000 a month for three months. The response from generous…

Swansea University has successfully won funding to reduce the time it takes to sanitise ambulances after carrying a suspected Covid-19 positive patient. Students from the university are helping slash the time it takes to clean an ambulance from 45 minutes to under 20 minutes. Led by the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Centre of Excellence and Welsh Ambulance Service, the challenge was to reduce the current turnaround time to deep clean a vehicle and get it back on the road. Devised and developed in under two weeks, interest in the challenge was overwhelming, with over 200 proposed solutions from across…

Coronavirus survivor Danny Egan knew exactly what he wanted to do after being discharged from hospital – give his wife a kiss. The 73-year-old grandad was one of the first two previously ventilated COVID-19 patients to go home from Swansea’s Morriston Hospital. The remarkable recoveries were marked by dozens of staff who lined the corridors outside ward H to send off Danny (pictured left with Sister Kirsty Hopkins) and 48-year-old David Courtney-Williams, a charge nurse on ward 12 at Singleton Hospital, with a rousing round of applause. Ward H sister Kirsty Hopkins said: “They were extremely unwell and were ventilated…

With the roll-out of 5G ready to be implemented in Wales, it could be a turning point for many people in terms of connectivity. Currently, almost 9% of rural areas in Great Britain have limited access to the internet at home or on the move. This is set to change, with 5G masts being installed across Wales to bring faster internet to mobile phones, and a UK government pledge to ensure that all homes are equipped with fibre broadband by 2025. This may feel slightly ambitious, however, as the UK is currently lagging behind when it comes to connectivity. In…

South Wales Police is investigating a fatal road traffic collision which occurred on the A4050 Port Road East, Barry, today. Emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 11.15am following the collision which involved a silver Yamaha motorbike and a brown Volvo XC 40, both of which had been travelling westbound. The motorcyclist, a 62-year-old man, suffered fatal injuries and was declared deceased at the scene. His family have been informed are being supported by specially trained officers. The road currently remains closed from the roundabout near Brynhill Golf Club, to the junction with Merthyr Dyfan Road, while investigations…