Author: Rhys Gregory

Despite being a brand-new concept, Bite Cardiff ended up being the unexpected highlight of the Cardiff food festival calendar last year. 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 to make it accessible to all, every single dish was priced at just £3. Today, organisers have revealed that Bite will return to Insole Court on the 27th July, and they have plans to make this year’s event even bigger and better. Once again, the…

Wales’ share of the volume of equity deals in the UK is 3% and relatively close to its share of the UK’s economy, says research unit, Economic Intelligence Wales (EIW) in its latest report about equity clusters in Wales. The report concludes that although Cardiff is an emerging equity cluster, more needs to be done to develop the demand for equity across Wales and in more sectors. [aoa id=”1″]EIW was set-up in 2018 and is a collaboration between Cardiff Business School, Office for National Statistics and the Development Bank of Wales. EIW collates and analyses data to create independent, robust…

A new eco-friendly police station that’s been kitted out with upcycled furniture and has a host of energy-saving features has been hailed as the greenest in the UK. [aoa id=”1″] North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones officially opened the new Eastern Command and Custody Facility in Llay and revealed that some of the refurbished desks and chairs came from the former divisional HQ in Wrexham that it’s replaced. The state-of-the art building, costing £21.5 million, has an 80 kilowatt solar array on the roof and rainwater harvesting for washing 85 police vehicles a week. [/aoa] Smart LED lighting…

A seven-year-old boy from the south Wales valleys has won the exciting opportunity to name a ride at Wales’ largest theme park. [aoa id=”1″] Jett Thomas, from Blackwood, Caerphilly, has been selected by Oakwood Theme Park as the winner of a Wales-wide competition to name three of the planes on its popular aerodrome ride. The Pembrokeshire-based park was looking for inspiration for the attraction, which features eight rotating planes themed around Croydon Aerodrome – London’s biggest airport at the time of the Peter Pan story. [/aoa] With five of the eight planes already named after individuals with connections to the…

A student from Cwmbran is aiming to take the fashion world by storm after winning a placement at one of the world’s leading retail businesses. [aoa id=”1″] Paige Leach, 22, has won a competition run by the British Fashion Council, and now will undertake a six-month contract with fashion house Givenchy. Paige beat a massive pool of students from across the UK to win the prize, and will be working from Givenchy’s base in Paris. [/aoa] Paige, who is in the final year of her fashion design degree at the University of South Wales (USW), said she was overjoyed with…

A new pet health report released by Welsh pet food producer Burns Pet Nutrition has highlighted a worrying insight into the minds of UK pet owners with findings showing that over a third of dog owners are ignoring significant red flags in their pet’s health, and that overfeeding could be a major issue. One in ten Welsh dog owners admit to feeding their dogs more than the recommended feeding guidelines and 47% of Welsh respondents confessed to ignoring guidelines completely. This is despite the fact that overfeeding is responsible for a number of significant health issues. Furthermore, a fifth of…

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cymru and a number of Welsh health organisations want life saving skills to be taught in all secondary schools in Wales as part of the new school curriculum. [aoa id=”1″]BHF Cymru, BMA Cymru, British Red Cross Wales, St John’s Cymru and the Royal College of Nursing believe that adding CPR and life-saving skills to the curriculum, will give students in Wales the chance to understand how they can help in an emergency and will improve the odds of survival for the many thousands of people in Wales who have a cardiac arrest in the future.[/aoa] There…

The family of 21-year-old Lauren Griffiths, whose body was found at a property in Cathays, have described her as a “beautiful bubbly girl”. Emergency services were called to Lauren’s flat in Glynrhondda Street at around 6.10pm on Tuesday, April 30. Lauren’s family, who live in the Oswestry area and who are being supported by specially trained liaison officers, have issued the following statement: “Lauren was a beautiful bubbly girl. She loved being part of a large family and was a real people person. Lauren’s fun and unique dress sense always made her stand out in a crowd and she was…

One of the Great Little Trains of Wales has gone green after harnessing the power of the sun to help run the historic 154-year-old railway. [aoa id=”1″] The historic engines of the Talyllyn Railway, founded in 1951 and the oldest heritage railway in the world, still puff their way from Tywyn to Abergynolwyn and back on a diet of Welsh steam coal but solar power now helps out with the railway’s hefty electricity bills. That’s thanks to a £15,000 array of 40 solar panels Denbigh-based Hafod Renewables have installed on the roof of Wharf Station and which generates 12,000 kilowatt…

TWENTY-THREE of Wales’ most impressive and community beneficial property schemes battled it out for top honours at the RICS Awards 2019, Wales, last night (Wednesday 1st May), where Llwyn Celyn, Abergavenny – one of the earliest surviving domestic buildings in Wales – took the overall ‘RICS Project of the Year, Wales’ title. [aoa id=”1″] The annual RICS Awards, Wales – held at the Exchange Hotel, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff on Wednesday night – celebrate inspirational built initiatives in Wales, and the skills of the teams behind them, across eight categories. A remarkably little-altered medieval hall house built in 1421, Llwyn…