Author: Rhys Gregory

The South Wales Law Awards is set to recognise the outstanding achievements of the law community, at a black-tie gala dinner on Friday 23rd April 2021 at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff. Sara Edwards, one of Welsh Television and Radio’s most popular presenters is to once again host the South Wales Law Awards. The categories for applications are: Commercial Law Services of the Year Employment Law Services of the Year Family Law Services of the Year Personal Injury Law Services of the Year Residential & Conveyancing Law Services of the Year Solicitor of the Year New Practice of the Year…

THE CHANCELLOR has thanked Britons for helping protect thousands of jobs across the UK after statistics revealed that more than 100 million meals were eaten as part of the landmark Eat Out to Help Out scheme. Rishi Sunak said the scheme’s popularity had helped protect the livelihoods of the 1.8 million people working in the hospitality sector and drive the nation’s economic recover from coronavirus.    Latest figures show that Eat Out to Help out significantly boosted restaurant bookings during the month of August, with the scheme growing in popularity each week  2,957 outlets in Wales were signed up to use…

A young cellist who wowed a worldwide audience of two billion people when he performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will take centre stage at a top festival in North Wales. Sheku Kanneh-Mason will be starring alongside his equally gifted pianist sister, Isata, at the North Wales International Music Festival which is going virtual this year for the first time in 49 years. Instead of being held at St Asaph Cathedral the festival will be hosted on the internet on the original dates from Saturday, September 12, to Saturday, September 26, thanks to support from the…

Wales’s leading manufacturer Sony UK Technology Centre (UK TEC) is supporting a collaboration to create educational programmes promoting STEAM learning which is becoming an increasingly important area as information technology advances. The Pencoed-based manufacturing facility, which creates the latest broadcast and 4K technology equipment, is supporting an initiative between Sony Global Education and Raspberry Pi to develop Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths (STEAM) educational packages. The partnership will see Sony Global Education, which aims to inspire technological learning, utilise its educational software, while Raspberry Pi will provide its single board computers, popular for its compactness and versatility. Through the…

The award winning Rhyl Airshow is back for 2021 and promises to be better than ever. Following the disappointment of this year’s postponement, the team at Denbighshire Leisure Ltd have set 28th and 29th August 2021 as the dates for the Airshow’s return, and are busy planning an event programme full of thrills and excitement. With exactly one year to go, the countdown has begun and plans for the event are already well underway.  With last year’s show was regarded as being the best ever and won the prestigious ‘Best Crowd Puller Award’ at the North Wales Tourism Awards, the…

Theatre goers will have an exciting array of top names to look forward to when they visit the Pavilion Theatre next year, including Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon, Toploader and Blood Brothers all confirmed, with over 98% of shows postponed following Covid-19 restrictions, now rescheduled for 2021. In addition to providing a range of top class shows, Denbighshire County Council and Denbighshire Leisure Ltd have also invested over £400k into the Theatre during its closure period. Work undertaken has been designed to improve the customer experience which includes a brand new PA system within the auditorium, and full refurbishment of ground…

The rural community of Llanymawddwy, in Gwynedd, will now be able to access some of the fastest and most reliable broadband speeds in Europe thanks to a partnership between local residents and Openreach. Situated near the head of the river Dyfi and nearly 20 miles from Machynlleth, the secluded village of Llanymawddwy will be able to access speeds of up to one gigabit bit per second (1Gbps) using Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) technology where fibre is run directly from the exchange all the way to property. In order to build this ‘full fibre’- network Openreach engineers replaced and erected a total of…

Property consultancy Knight Frank took the top spot in the national industrial property league table for the first half of 2020. Research by the Radius Data Exchange showed that Knight Frank transacted the most space of any property agent, at over 5.3 m sq ft, in the first six months of the year. In South Wales, Knight Frank’s key deals during the period included the sale of 105,000 sq ft at Brindley Road, Cardiff for Deloitte, and lettings of 124,000 sq ft in Clarion Close, Swansea (jointly with LSH) and 36,500 sq ft at Reevesland Industrial Estate, Newport. Knight Frank…

Two beers brewed by a Mid Wales brewery are through to the final of this year’s prestigious Great British Food Awards. Montgomery-based Monty’s Brewery is chuffed to have two of the seven drinks shortlisted in the Beer/Cider and Lager category. The award winners will be announced on October 29. The final judging is being carried by an esteemed panel of celebrity chefs, Michelin-starred restaurateurs, popular food critics, influencers, buyers and food writers, all known for their love and knowledge of British food and produce. Russ Honeyman, Monty’s Brewery’s commercial director, said: “It has been a very tough time recently for…

A number of changes to local bus services are now in place across the County Borough, to improve upon the foundation level of core journeys that were agreed in the initial response to the Coronavirus pandemic.  During the lockdown period, this foundation level of service was agreed between bus operators and the Council, in order to control the spread of the virus. With travel restrictions in place, this was considered to be sufficient to allow key workers to access their place of employment, and for local residents without a vehicle to access shops to buy essential food and medicine. With…