Author: Rhys Gregory

Swansea Building Society has recently appointed a new Finance Director. Nathan Griffiths from Swansea has been appointed at the Society’s head office in Cradock Street, Swansea. [aoa id=”1″]A Chartered Accountant, Griffiths has an impressive background in financial services having spent eight years at Deloitte specialising in providing advisory and assurance services to building societies and retail banks across the UK. Upon leaving Deloitte as a senior manager, Griffiths joined Monmouthshire Building Society where he has spent the last four years as Financial Controller.[/aoa] Griffiths joins Swansea Building Society during a time of prosperity. The Society reached record-breaking highs in terms…

Wales isn’t the first country that you’d associate with gambling. We all know who’d win in a gambling face-off between Vegas and Cardiff! Even so, both online and offline gambling in Wales is very legal and highly popular. There’s a tarnished view on the gambling industry in general though. But, does this apply to the gambling situation in Wales? Even though there is a genuine risk of gambling addiction, as confirmed by a recent report from Bangor University, it still stands as a popular past time for many. Online gamblers are discovering new UK betting sites so regularly, with bookies…

The disastrous impacts of a no-deal Brexit was just one of the issues raised during a meeting between the Farmers’ Union of Wales and agriculture Secretary Michael Gove and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns. [aoa id=”1″] During the meeting, FUW President Glyn Davies told messrs Gove and Cairns that no responsible UK Government or Parliament would allow the UK to leave the EU without a deal. “We have been relentless in highlighting the grave economic impacts for agriculture, rural communities and other industries of a hard Brexit, and our concerns regarding the rhetoric of both of the prime ministerial candidates was…

Award winning South Wales company Edwards Coaches has revealed the designs for its ten charity buses at an event in the prestigious Hensol Castle. The ten charities won the opportunity to have free advertising space on the back of an Edwards’ vehicle for a year via a social media competition which launched in April. The original intention was to have four winners on one vehicle for three months each. However, Edwards were so overwhelmed with the response they decided to extend the number of winning entries to ten. A total of 84 charities were nominated. [aoa id=”1″] Each of the…

As the excitement builds ahead of the Rugby World Cup in September, one Welsh lawyer is preparing to travel to the spectacle and play a critical role at the tournament. [aoa id=”1″] Roger Morris, partner and notary public with law firm Hutchinson Thomas, which has offices in Swansea and Neath, will travel to the event as an independent judicial officer. He will play a crucial role in determining the length of bans and sanctions the stars of world rugby could face. A focus on player welfare in recent years has fundamentally changed the parameters of certain parts of the game,…

Small Business support network Enterprise Nation, in partnership with Amazon, has opened the second Clicks and Mortar pop-up shop in St David’s Centre, Cardiff. The shop will be open for six weeks, giving more than 20 small online brands from across Wales and the UK the chance to sell their products, meet customers and experience selling on the high street for the first time. [aoa id=”1″]Clicks and Mortar is a year-long pilot programme to open 10 pop-up shops across to the UK, enabling more than 100 small online businesses to experience selling on the high street for the first time. Amazon…

CJCH Solicitors has appointed two new staff members as it extends its service offering in its Blackwood office. [aoa id=”1″] Residential Property Solicitor Abbi Williams and Chartered Legal Executive Alexis Thomas join the Blackwood team as CJCH acts on its responsibility to meet the needs of the local community. Abbi joins from Watkins and Gunn Solicitors with a wealth of experience in Residential Property Law, having also worked at Devonalds Solicitors and Hugh James Solicitors. [/aoa] Abbi deals with all aspects of residential conveyancing including sales, purchases, transfers of equity and remortgages of both freehold and leasehold properties. Alexis joins…

Researchers at Aberystwyth University are asking farmers for their views on how rural crime is being tackled in the Dyfed-Powys Police area. Dr Wyn Morris from the Aberystwyth Business School and Dr Gareth Norris from the University’s Department of Psychology want farmers and other key stakeholders to share their experiences of farm-related crime, police attitudes towards farm crime and the effectiveness of crime-prevention measures in rural areas. Funded by the office of the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, the study is being launched during the Royal Welsh Show 22-25 July 2019. The new research project will build on the Rural…

Bite will return to Insole Court on the 27th July, and they have plans to make this year’s event even bigger and better. [aoa id=”1″] Once again, the focus will remain squarely on the food – there’ll be no fancy branding, and no trendy food trucks to distract from the provenance and quality of what people are eating, or the skill of the people who cook it. The inaugural event welcomed more than 10,000 people to the gardens of Insole Court mansion in Llandaff, where they could sample dishes cooked by 30 of South Wales’ top chefs and restauranteurs – and…

A LEADING leisure firm is celebrating its anniversary with record profits and plans for national expansion. [aoa id=”1″] And it is double delight for UK Leisure Living boss Gareth Jones, who was this week announced as a finalist in the Businessperson of the Year category at the prestigious SME Business Awards. The North Wales company has grown significantly in the last four years, employing 12 staff in Mochdre and St Asaph. Managing director Gareth has taken an organic approach, introducing a hot tub sales showroom and maintenance service, composite decking and now the revolutionary groundscrew solutions arm, Stop Digging! North…