Author: Rhys Gregory

Following a successful bid for funding, the Welsh Government is providing £500,000 to Cardiff Council to improve the infrastructure which transports fibre optic broadband around the city, Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport Lee Waters has announced. The work in Cardiff, which will be completed next year, will join up with ongoing investment in the duct network along the M4 corridor, bringing benefits across the South Wales region. Across Wales more than 95 per cent of premises can access superfast broadband following the Welsh Government’s Superfast Cymru programme. In addition a further rollout of gigabit speed fibre broadband is taking…

Five years ago, when asked what eSports was, most people would have thought you’d made a typo and meant sports instead. But, after a huge campaign by the eSports industry, including eSports Wales, far more people in the mainstream understand what the industry is – and a great deal are engaging with it. Major eSports team Fnatic announced in August 2020 that they were to sign Welsh player Chris ‘crr’ Williams. Could this help add further legitimacy to the industry for those who still don’t really understand it? https://twitter.com/ohcrr/status/1296884973522292736 eSports Players’ Success The success of some of the key participants…

For most people, retirement is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it means that you no longer have to worry yourself with the often-stressful world of work. But lots of people worry about their finances after retirement. If you are one of those people, here are some simple things you can do to secure your finances. Plan for Your Pension Income We all have that one friend who seems to have been planning their financial future since they received their first pocket money. For these people, good financial health appears to be second nature. All those good habits that…

When you go to the casino, you naturally hope to leave with more money. The chances of this are quite different for the individual casino games. We are going to introduce you to the ten games that have the lowest house edge. A lower house edge means greater chances of winning. So if you’re not just going to the casino to spend money, then this list is not entirely unimportant to you. What is the house edge in the casino games? House edge is a casino term and describes a casino game’s mathematical advantage over the player, e.g. the green…

September’s £1 million Premium Bonds winners are a man from Wales and a woman from South Scotland. The first number drawn, 250SL107433, belongs to a man from Wales. He has a total Premium Bonds holding of £17,745 and the winning Bond was purchased in July 2015. The jackpot win makes the man the fourth Premium Bonds millionaire to come from Wales. September’s second millionaire is a woman based in South Scotland. She has a total Premium Bonds holding of £10,000, with the winning Bond number 093XD777211 being purchased in March 2003. The jackpot win means that the woman is the…

After being forced to shut down all their operations earlier this year due to the devastating COVID-19 crisis, there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel for one of the largest and most successful tourist railways in Wales, as their services get back on track with the help of £250,000 from The National Lottery. When lockdown measures came into effect in March this year, the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways (F&WHR) in north Wales, along with thousands of other businesses in the tourist sector, were just getting ready to open for what would normally have been the…

Organic September, the UK’s largest campaign to support organic farmers and producers, will be encouraging everyone to make planet-positive decisions, to show that nature has the answer, and a small swap can make a big difference. Throughout September Rhug Estate will be taking part in the scheme to entice customers to make one swap to an organic product. Organic September is about celebrating everything organic and the hard work and dedication that goes into growing and making it work with nature, not against it. The year 2020 has brought huge changes to our world – now, more than ever, we…

A WREXHAM care home resident enjoyed a birthday to remember as she discovered a secret concert was taking place on the complex where she lives. The surprise gig was held in the grounds of Pendine Park’s Summerhill site, with residents and staff from the complex’s care homes coming together to enjoy musical offerings by three Wrexham-based acts. Despite heavy rain falling in the days leading up to the concert, the event outside the Highfield care home was blessed with bright sunshine. Dozens of residents sat under gazebos and enjoyed singing and clapping along to old classics such as We’ll Meet…

Budding entrepreneurs Martin Panek and Mike Gajewski from Port Talbot, have launched PG Heights, a window cleaning service that operates in the local community The two, who had been colleagues at a well-known Pizza takeaway, have not looked back since they started their new business in Autumn 2019, and are considering expansion. The firm received a £500 grant from the Kickstart programme, run jointly by Tata Steel subsidiary UKSE and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.  The grant was used to buy specialist equipment for cleaning guttering, the Sky Vac. “We are very pleased with the support we have received…

A pioneering online learning programme, created by academics as part of research into the impact of Covid-19 on schooling, has provided an educational lifeline for a family of keyworkers in Flintshire. Top researchers from Bangor University have recruited families from across England and Wales for the study, which considers how best to teach children remotely during long periods of absence from school. The team, led by Dr Manon Jones, a senior lecturer and researcher at the School of Psychology at Bangor University, designed an eight-week online course for Key Stage 2 pupils delivered by qualified teachers to measure the success…