Author: Rhys Gregory

Denbighshire County Council is continuing to offer free parking at its town centre car parks throughout July. The majority of the Council’s public car parks in the main town centres have remained open during the lockdown period and continue to be free of charge for the remainder of the month. The free parking is to encourage residents and visitors to use the county’s town centres for shopping and for doing business. Councillor Brian Jones, Cabinet Lead Member for Waste, Transport and the Environment, said: “We wish to remind residents that free car parking in our main town car parks will…

A Swansea University project exploring how to use algae to create the next generation of sunscreens has now teamed up with an award-winning skincare firm to help develop the idea. ALG-SUN, led by the Biosciences Department, has been awarded funding from the Algae-UK (Proof of Concept) Scheme to undertake research with both academic and industrial partners. The Swansea team will now be working on the project with the Natural Products Factory which owns award-winning organic and vegan skincare brand Nourish London along with health scientists from Swansea University Medical School and University spin-off company Membranology. Carole Llewellyn, Professor in Applied…

Wales’ Farming Unions – NFU Cymru and the Farmers’ Union of Wales- held a successful joint virtual roundtable meeting with the UK’s High-Level Climate Action Champion, Nigel Topping. In addition to wider discussions around climate change, the roundtable event provided a platform to discuss the “Race to Zero” campaign, an international campaign for a healthy, resilient zero carbon recovery, which was launched on World Environment Day, and will run up to COP26 . NFU Cymru President John Davies said: “As farmers we are very much on the front line of climate change impacts. The continued turbulent weather events we have…

An Ammanford man has been banned from keeping equines for three years and given a suspended jail term, after a horse in his care was left suffering because she was so desperately thin. Nigel Jeremy Nicholas Ward, 62 – of Penygarn Road – pleaded guilty to the Animal Welfare Act offence – and was handed a 28-week custodial sentence, suspended for 18 months, following his treatment of the brown horse. RSPCA inspector Keith Hogben had previously found the equine – named Lily – in a field at the end of Llwyncelyn Road, in the Glanamman area of Ammanford, with her…

Two prominent Mid Wales businessmen have been shortlisted for this year’s Welsh Veterans Awards. Peter Webber, chairman of Cellpath in Newtown and Arwyn Watkins, OBE, managing director of Cambrian Training, based in Welshpool, are each shortlisted in two categories. Both men are in the running to win the Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Hugh James, while Mr Webber is shortlisted for the Veteran Owned Business of the Year Award, sponsored by Educ8 Training and Mr Watkins is shortlisted for the Leavers to Leaders Award, sponsored by Leavers to Leaders. Mr Webber is no stranger to the awards, having been named the…

The Minister for Health Vaughan Gething has this week confirmed an agreement with Vertex Pharmaceuticals to secure access to the medicine Kaftrio® in Wales. The medicine will be available for eligible patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) from the point at which it is granted its European marketing authorisation later this summer.  This follows a last year’s agreement which made Vertex’s other medicines,  Kalydeco®, Orkambi® and Symkevi® available for CF patients in Wales. The Minister for Health, Vaughan Gething, said: “I’m pleased to confirm Kaftrio® will be made available to all eligible patients in Wales. I know many families will welcome the…

Forth, a Chepstow based medical health care company, has been revealed as a finalist in two Wales Start Up awards categories – Med Tech start up and Digital start up. The awards, started by Professor Dylan Jones-Evans OBE and now in their fourth year, recognise the achievements of those ‘who had a great idea, spotted an opportunity and taken the risks to launch’.  Winners will be announced on 18 th September 2020. This past year, Forth has enjoyed significant growth with a successful £500,000 investment raise with Development Bank of Wales, Best Welsh Innovation accolade and the introduction of new…

The Museum of Cardiff has been shortlisted for a ‘Kids In Museums Family Friendly Award From Home’ in the ‘best website activity’ category for their ‘My Museum’ activities. Although currently closed to the public under Coronavirus regulations the museum has continued its work telling the story of Cardiff through a range of online activities for all ages, with the shortlisting panel particularly pleased with the Museum’s work for young people who “were not well served elsewhere.”  The panel also praised the museum for their “clear presentation” and the way the range of topics “linked back to the museum’s social history…

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NAT Group will launch a brand-new bus route connecting Capital Retail Park and Cardiff City Stadium with Pengam Green (Tesco) this September, as well as extending its C8 route to serve Taffs Well.