Author: Rhys Gregory

A high-tech Wrexham company has landed a three-year deal with the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. According to chief executive Paul Barlow, the contract was a massive coup for Disclosure Services who have put together a team of nine crack data analysts to provide the service to SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) which has its global headquarters just outside Brussels in Belgium. SWIFT has created a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive secure information about financial transactions. The scale of the operation is jaw-dropping. They provide a link for more…

Abercrave RFC will celebrate its landmark 125-year anniversary this season. It will mark it with a number of special events and presentations throughout the season with the support of its main sponsor Hale Construction. The club, which was founded in 1884, has produced an impressive list of Welsh internationals during its long history including prop Adam Jones, who won 95 caps for his country, and Clive Rowlands, Wales’ youngest ever captain who went on to coach Wales and the British and Irish Lions. Based at Plas-Y-Ddol since 1953, Abercrave RFC currently plays in WRU Division 3 West Central. It has…

An appeal has gone out to foraging fruit pickers – bring us your bilberries and we’ll give you a beer. The beer for berries deal is on offer from craft brewery Hafod from Mold and will help them make an extra large cache of their tasty Bilberry Brew in time for this autumn’s Taste North East Wales celebration of food and drink. Bilberries grow wild on the heather moorland of the Clwydian Range and Hafod need 10kilos of the small, dark purple fruit to make their planned 15 barrels of beer – just 100 grams of the berries earns the…

Three men have been jailed and a fourth received a suspended sentence after they were found guilty of badger digging in Pembrokeshire. Christian Adam Latcham (d.o.b 02/09/1987) of Cymmer Road, Porth, Thomas Young (d.o.b 16/12/1992) of Pen-Y-Caeau Court, Newbridge, Jamie Rush (d.o.b 13/03/1992) of Beacon View, Trefecca, Brecon, and Cyle Jones (d.o.b 09/11/1987) of Cwrt Tarrell, Newgate Street, Brecon, all appeared at Cardiff Crown Court this week (the court sat as a Magistrates Court) to face one offence. The four men had previously pleaded not guilty to the offence – which came under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 -…

Over 90 of the UK’s most outstanding and community beneficial property schemes went head-to-head for top accolades at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards Grand Final, where Llwyn Celyn, Abergavenny – one of the earliest surviving domestic buildings in Wales – was named the best Building Conservation project in the UK. The prestigious annual contest – hosted by Samira Ahmed, journalist and BBC broadcaster, and held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on the evening of Friday 4 October – celebrates the UK’s most inspirational built projects that are having a significant positive impact on the communities…

A Swansea-based flooring group has launched its first store under the newly created brand, Simply Flooring, with the support of Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Simply Flooring Swansea, located on Mill Street in Gowerton, will serve both residential and commercial sectors, retailing a comprehensive range of wood, carpet, vinyl and laminate flooring. The expansion, which comes in the group’s 10th anniversary year, has been supported by a six-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank to acquire the new Gowerton premises. The group has a long-standing relationship with Lloyds Bank after the bank helped it acquire its 5,000 sq ft warehousing facility in…

Mid Wales cracker company, Cradoc’s Savoury Biscuits, is celebrating after attaining the all-important SALSA accreditation, with the support of the Welsh Government’s Food and Drink Wales. [aoa id=”1″] Cradoc’s received help from the Welsh Government and EU-funded Project HELIX, a pan-Wales strategic initiative delivered by Food Innovation Wales, which is a partnership of three food centres based in North, Mid/West and South Wales. The SALSA accreditation demonstrates that approved suppliers are operating to standards that are recognised and accepted across the industry, and exceed the minimum standards expected by enforcement authorities. Based in Brecon, Cradoc’s Savoury Biscuits began in 2008…

A FLINTSHIRE construction firm team have taken to two wheels in a drive to reduce their company’s carbon footprint. The group from Hollingsworth Ellery Construction, led by Director Steve Ellery, have smashed their target of biking 500 miles by the end of the summer by leaving their cars at home and cycling to and from work at the Hollingworth Group head office in Sandycroft. It is all part of the firm’s determination to improve their green credentials which they have sought to achieve by setting themselves different environmental targets every year. Their commitment to better environmental practices means they have…

The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth will join other organisations across the UK to celebrate Libraries Week from October 7 – 12. This year’s theme is ‘Libraries in the Digital World’ and a series of exciting events will be held at the library as part of the celebrations, including an amazing guided tour. Visitors will be given the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the library in the form of virtual reality headsets and explore areas such as the book stacks, hidden cells, conservation unit, digitisation section and much more. The library is now integrating the use of the Smartify App into its…

Parents looking for ways to entertain their children during this month’s half-term holidays are being invited to bring them to a Halloween Science and Slime Workshop. Morning and afternoon workshops are being hosted on Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier on Monday, October 28, which will help youngsters get into the Halloween spirit. The 90-minute event starts with a team of scientists staging a Halloween-themed science show packed with awesome experiments, fizzing potions, bubbling concoctions, giant smoke rings and spooky science tricks. When the smoke has settled, guests can then visit the slime creation station for a 30-minute slime-making workshop. The sessions run…