Author: Rhys Gregory

The Joy Formidable have announced the line-up for Formidable Fest / Gŵyl Aruthrol at The Tramshed in Cardiff on Saturday 23 November 2019. [aoa id=”1″] The mini- festival has been organised by the band as a celebration of some of the best in Welsh music and art, while bringing some of their favourite artists into Wales. The special event ties in with the three-piece’s announcement of the release of a special commemorative 10-year double album edition of their acclaimed debut release A Balloon Called Moaning. The double album will include their 2009 EP A Balloon Called Moaning plus a newly…

Construction work has begun on 107,000 sq ft of Grade A offices at John Street, one of Cardiff city centre’s few remaining prime office development sites. Independent development company JR Smart, which is speculatively developing the John Street site, has already delivered and let 370,000 sq ft of offices at the adjacent Capital Quarter. Work on the 10-storey office building is scheduled for completion by the first quarter of 2021. Cardiff Council Leader Huw Thomas, Welsh Government Minister for Economy and Transport, Ken Skates and Alexander Smart, Managing Director of JR Smart,  came together at a ground-breaking ceremony to formally…

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) is to receive £350K over 3.5 years as part of a pan-European project bringing together over twenty years’ research into food and its impact upon health and wellbeing. The Food-Cloud project, funded through the EU’s Horizon 2020 project, comprises 36 partners including research institutes, universities, SMEs and large companies across the European Union working in the medical and food sectors. Its purpose is to make the research carried out by scientists readily available and accessible to inform public health and agricultural policy.  The project will also be of particular benefit the food…

Celebrations were in full swing at HC-One’s Trafalgar Park care home in Treharris, Caerphilly as Resident Ellen was thrown a special 100th birthday party. Born in Ystrad Mynach on 27th September 1919, Ellen Marie Hellings served as a wren in the Women’s Royal Naval Service during World War 2 before becoming a lunch lady at her local school. Ellen married her childhood sweetheart Basil, with whom she had one daughter, two grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren with. In her spare time, the centenarian enjoyed a variety of different hobbies, including knitting, reading, going to the chapel and shopping.…

An annual rugby tournament is helping staff at a Swansea hospital raise awareness of a form of heart disease. The proceeds from the third annual Decky Memorial Touch Rugby tournament, held at Loughor RFC, has raised nearly £4,000 for the inherited cardiac condition service in Morriston Hospital. The tournament was set up in memory of former Loughor player Richard Thomas, who was just 29-years-old when he died of cardiomyopathy – a disease that affects heart muscle tissue – at Singleton Hospital in June 2017. To date the three tournaments, named after Richard’s nickname, Decky, have raised a total of £17,772.06…

Estonian Ott Tänak gave Toyota its first Wales Rally GB win since 1996 by storming to victory at the gruelling four-day event (3-6 October), delivering his Yaris WRC a scintillating 10 second win over Belgian rival Thierry Neuville. Tänak charged into the lead on the ninth of the event’s 22 stages and would never be headed whilst fastest time on the final Wolf Brenig Power Stage landed him an additional five points in the World Rally Championship (WRC) title fight. His performance extended his lead over Sebastien Ogier to 28 points – the six time champion did all he could…

South Wales Police has launched a murder investigation after an incident in Llys Graig Y Wion, Pontypridd at about 8.10am yesterday morning. A 38-year-old woman died as a result of injuries sustained and a 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder. There has been a significant police presence, including armed officers, at several scenes in the area during the day and we would like to thank local residents for their cooperation. Senior Investigating Officer DCI Darren George, of the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: “At this moment in time we are not currently looking for anybody else…

A high-tech Wrexham company has landed a three-year deal with the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. According to chief executive Paul Barlow, the contract was a massive coup for Disclosure Services who have put together a team of nine crack data analysts to provide the service to SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) which has its global headquarters just outside Brussels in Belgium. SWIFT has created a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive secure information about financial transactions. The scale of the operation is jaw-dropping. They provide a link for more…

Abercrave RFC will celebrate its landmark 125-year anniversary this season. It will mark it with a number of special events and presentations throughout the season with the support of its main sponsor Hale Construction. The club, which was founded in 1884, has produced an impressive list of Welsh internationals during its long history including prop Adam Jones, who won 95 caps for his country, and Clive Rowlands, Wales’ youngest ever captain who went on to coach Wales and the British and Irish Lions. Based at Plas-Y-Ddol since 1953, Abercrave RFC currently plays in WRU Division 3 West Central. It has…

An appeal has gone out to foraging fruit pickers – bring us your bilberries and we’ll give you a beer. The beer for berries deal is on offer from craft brewery Hafod from Mold and will help them make an extra large cache of their tasty Bilberry Brew in time for this autumn’s Taste North East Wales celebration of food and drink. Bilberries grow wild on the heather moorland of the Clwydian Range and Hafod need 10kilos of the small, dark purple fruit to make their planned 15 barrels of beer – just 100 grams of the berries earns the…