Author: Rhys Gregory

Nine people in Swansea are celebrating today after winning £1,000 each thanks to their lucky postcode. The Siloh Road neighbours netted the windfall when SA1 2PE was announced as a Daily Prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery on Thursday 5th March 2020. People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Danyl Johnson sent his well-wishes to the winners. He said: “What a great surprise to start the day! Congratulations to our winners, I hope they go out and treat themselves with their winnings.” A minimum of 32% of ticket sales goes directly to charities and players of People’s Postcode Lottery have raised over £500…

On Tuesday 3 March at 8.54am New Quay RNLI’s Mersey class lifeboat, the Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge was paged to assist a 16m, 60 ton whelk fishing vessel, approximately 24 miles north west of New Quay, in moderate sea conditions and winds of force 5-7. Following a Pan Pan call requesting urgent assistance, the volunteer crew of New Quay’s all-weather lifeboat launched immediately and located the stricken fishing vessel after a journey of nearly two hours into Cardigan Bay. Dan Potter, New Quay RNLI’s Coxswain said, “We launched in good time into uncomfortable but manageable seas. By 11.00am…

Chairman of the Lord’s Taverners Wales, Andrew Gibson, and former Welsh cricketer Robert Croft have presented Gwent school Ysgol Bryn Derw with a specially adapted minibus to enable pupils to engage in more community activities.

UK airline Flybe has gone into administration, putting 2,000 jobs at risk, after a bid for fresh financial support failed. Flybe has hit the headlines over the last few months as they sought to secure financial support to keep the airline operating. Flybe narrowly avoided going bust in January. The airline had been in talks to secure a £100m lifeline and were seeking changes to Air Passenger Duty taxes in order to save the firm. Flybe is blaming the collapse of the firm on the coronavirus outbreak and lower demand for air travel. This situation may lead many passengers to…

The highly popular Street Food Circus event has announced seven weeks delicious around the world food & drink weekends taking place at the Roath Yard. For those of that don’t know, Street Food Circus is an immersive dining experience like no other, a colourful curated street food court and night market open weekends and bank holidays. Launching 6pm on Good Friday and ending on the late May Bank Holiday Monday. Complete with a circus side-shows, covered communal dining, BoBo Cocktail Bus, Beer Bar and Busking Bands, Sundays are a feastival of family fun with crafternoons and bubble disco for the kids…

A pod that takes lonely pensioners for an adventure and nanoscopic ‘bumper cars’ with healing properties were among the fantastic designs for future mobility entered by UK children in the 2020 Dream Car Art Contest. Ayesha Taniya, 13 from Newport took the bronze prize for the 12 – 15 category for her Serendipity image. With more than 400 entries received, the competition once again demonstrated the creative talents of young people and their ideas on how to make the world a better place through mobility. All the finalists impressed the judges with their desire to help others and the environment,…

Neath-based construction firm JG Hale Construction recently welcomed a group of Year 11 pupils from Radyr Comprehensive onto its site at De Clare Drive, Radyr to teach them about careers in construction. Properties are being built for Taff Housing Association on the site who arranged the visit in conjunction with Careers Wales in order to bust some of the myths about careers in construction, improve the image of construction and inspire some of the pupils to explore construction as a career possibility. The visit was such a success that another visit has been booked by a second group of year…

A 17-year-old has been sentenced at Swansea Youth Court after he admitted to causing deliberate harm to a puppy – leading to four fractured bones.  The youth – who cannot be named due to legal reasons – appeared in court on 27 February and pleaded guilty to two animal welfare offences. There were two separate offences concerning two dates – 30 July and 24 September – where he caused unnecessary suffering to a grey and white French Bulldog type dog, ‘by doing an act, namely the infliction of blunt force trauma and physical violence’. Following the hearing, the youth was…

Eight new family homes, ready to provide a temporary housing solution for homeless families, have been developed in the west of the city. As part of Cardiff Council’s innovative shipping container scheme, the new two-bedroom homes are sited in the grounds of family hostel, Ty Green Farm in Ely, and will soon be welcoming their first residents, as they wait for a more permanent housing solution. The self-contained, re-purposed units are fully-insulated to create warm, safe accommodation with a full electric heating system and solar PV panels. The homes include two bedrooms, a fully-fitted kitchen with living/dining space and a…

A South Wales care home operator has pleaded guilty to breaches of fire safety regulations at a residential care home in Porthcawl and been ordered to pay £24,000 in fines plus £9,930.70 in costs. Breaksea Residential Care Homes Ltd. was sentenced on 2 March 2020 at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court following a successful prosecution by South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS). Breaksea was found to have committed three offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in relation to Newton Care Home in Porthcawl; a private care home containing over thirty. Judge Stephen Harmes ordered that the company pays…