Author: Rhys Gregory

Sharp – part of UDG Healthcare plc, a Dublin-based global leader in contract packaging and clinical supply services, cut the ribbon on the state-of the-art Clinical Services Centre of Excellence at today’s ceremony, enabling the company to now offer an extended range of primary and secondary drug packaging, storage and distribution services from the site. Development of the site began in 2017 and following a successful inspection by the UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in early 2019, the new facility is fully operational. This milestone coincides with Sharp celebrating over thirty years in the…

A young entrepreneur from Aberystwyth has started her a vocal coaching business with plans to open her own vocal studio. Magdalena Mazur, 26 and originally from Poland, has been so overwhelmed with new clients since launching her vocal coaching business, Vocalize, she’s been able to increase her working hours from part time to full time. She started the business with the help of Big Ideas Wales, the youth entrepreneurship service in Wales. Vocalize predominately offers vocal coaching on a one-to-one basis, but Magdalena has also introduced group workshops locally in Aberystwyth. Magdalena said: “I’ve been singing my whole life, but…

A teenager from Afonwen is among a group of young entrepreneurs are launching a new range of eco-friendly products at a food festival. The students from the Northop campus of Coleg Cambria will be selling fruit bowls made from vinyl LP records, herbs planted in empty food cans and coasters made from Scrabble tiles at Llangollen Food Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20. The team, who have additional learning needs, won a competition organised by the festival for students on Independent Living Skills (ILS) to win a stall at the popular annual event, along with a cash…

Commenting on the Welsh Government re-committing to a review of the Animal Welfare (Breeding of Dogs) (Wales) Regulations 2014, Claire Lawson said: “RSPCA Cymru has long been clear that while new dog breeding regulations were a big step forward, legislation would need to go a lot further to provide adequate protection. “We have long welcomed the Welsh Government’s intention to review these regulations, to ensure they best compliment the anticipated ban on the third party sale of puppies. “The RSPCA will continue to campaign for more emphasis on tackling genetic issues at breeding establishments, a staff-to-dog ratio that better considers…

South Wales Police is appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision which occurred on the A4217 Pentreguinea Road, St Thomas, Swansea at around 22:30 hours on Thursday 10th October 2019. The incident involved a silver MG ZR motor vehicle, a silver Toyota Celica and a black BMW 1 Series. The male driver of the MG ZR sadly died as a result of the collision. His family are being supported by specially trained officers. Officers would like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the collision, who may have witnessed the movements of any of the vehicles involved…

Once again, Cardiff Metropolitan University has welcomed dogs on campus in a bid to promote student wellbeing. This time for World Mental Health Day. The Campus Canines initiative was introduced last year to help students experiencing home sickness and stress. Following its success, the initiative has been reintroduced on World Mental Health Day after students expressed the positive impact it had on their mental wellbeing last year. This year’s event took place on Cardiff Met’s Llandaff Campus and was offered to students across the University. Pupils were able to interact with and play with the dogs throughout the 3-hour session…

The Red Dragon Centre will have a donation point to collect socks for the Huggard Centre in time for the cold weather. The Huggard Centre reported that socks are the least donated yet most needed item at collection points for people who are homeless. Because of this Cardiff Bay Tavern in The Red Dragon Centre will be holding a donation point specifically for socks, which are either new or clean and undamaged, to be donated to The Huggard Centre to provide those in need. Huggard is a charity and Wales’ leading centre for people who are sleeping rough and first…

Snap Republic is inviting people to vote for new bus services from South Wales to anywhere in the country, deciding on departure point, pick up locations, final destination and even when the service will run.

Transport for Wales, Development Bank of Wales, Public Health Wales, NHS Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) are working with Social Business Connect to look at ways it can increase its spend with social businesses and embed social value across its major contracts. All five organisations will be raising awareness of the Buy Social for a Better World campaign this week (w/c 7th October), which is being backed by Welsh actor and patron of Social Enterprise UK, Michael Sheen. Social enterprises are businesses set up reinvest the money they make back into their social or environmental cause. There are over 2,000 of…

A handyman has praised the “brilliant” staff at Morriston Hospital’s Pembroke Ward who saved his hand after it was cut off in an accident with a circular saw. “I was helping a friend clear out a workshop,” Ian Horsley from Rosemarket village, near Milford Haven, explained. “We were cutting scrap wood and I was feeding the material in. “When it happened, there was a thump but I didn’t realise my hand was off,” Ian said. “When I looked down, there was the horror of no hand there.” As they were just 15 minutes away from Withybush General Hospital, 61-year-old Ian…