Author: Rhys Gregory

Leading intellectual property firm Wynne-Jones IP has launched a nationwide search for the “most promising and talented” graduates to join its successful training academy. [aoa id=”1″] The firm is searching for talented graduates to join the Wynne-Jones IP team and be part of its Training Academy programme from September 2019. The Training Academy programme, which was launched in 2016, has so far proved to be hugely successful with four of the Academy having recently qualified as European Patent Attorneys, Chartered Patent Attorneys or Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys. The latest intake of new recruits will undergo training ina diverse range of…

The Health Dispensary based in Neath has just installed the first automated 24-hour pharmaceutical dispensing collection point in Wales. [aoa id=”1″] The £35,000 investment supported by Barclays uses robotic technology to dispense and receive customer prescriptions (think cashpoint but giving out prescriptions rather than cash following the input of a six-digit pin number provided by text to the customer from the pharmacy). This first in Wales comes on the back of £380,000 investment supported by Barclays last year to renovate, refurbish and expand this independent pharmacy which has been based at Windsor Road, Neath since 2004. [/aoa] The business currently…

South Wales construction firms and tradespeople can find out about opportunities to work with expanding Cardiff-based partnership homes specialist Lovell at a free networking event on Friday, 16 November. [aoa id=”1″]Lovell – which builds, refurbishes, regenerates and maintains homes and communities across the region – is inviting local contractors to the Meet the Buyerevent taking place from 9am to 2pm at the Miskin Manor Hotel, Pendoylan Road, Groesfaen, Pontyclun, CF72 8ND (M4, J34 Llantrisant) The company, which has offices in Tongwynlais, wants to hear from contractors covering the M4 corridor from Newport to Carmarthen, including Mid and West Wales.[/aoa] Lovell…

A Welsh exile revealed how he returned to his roots to build a thriving business on the other side of the world. [aoa id=”1″] Businessman Hefin Lloyd Davies, 65, has set up a successful distributorship selling the market-leading products of Ifor Williams Trailers in New Zealand. He was born in Carrog and brought up in Glyndyfrdwy, near Corwen, just a few miles down the road from where the iconic firm is based. Hefin’s company, Southern Trailers, is based in the North Island town of Cambridge, and is part of a global network of 150 distributors. [/aoa] The trailer firm, which…

Seaweed sausages, cheesy Welsh cakes and boozy biscuits – three local food treats with a difference that could soon be in production in North East Wales. [aoa id=”1″] The local delicacies have been cooked up by the team at The Food Technology Centre in Llangefni, for North East Wales Local Action Groups’ Concept to Consumer project with the aim of developing a menu of tasty new regional products. Now Corwen-based regional regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd, who commissioned the project, want to hear from potential producers across rural Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham. [/aoa] They want to help them choose and develop…

A hospital worker volunteered to teach life-saving skills to schoolchildren after colleagues attempted to save her own mum who had suffered a massive heart attack. [aoa id=”1″] Operating department practitioner Sarah Williams-Bellis, who works at Spire Yale Hospital, in Wrexham, believes it’s vitally important to teach CPR techniques to youngsters. Sarah was speaking at an event at Elfed High School in Buckley which was organised jointly by the British Heart Foundation, the Welsh Ambulance Service and the Resuscitation Council. She and retired teacher Derek Hayes were there volunteering as part of Restart a Heart Day 2018 which saw around 80…

The head of one of Wales’s oldest law firms has taken over a legal post that dates back over a thousand years to the days of Alfred the Great and Ethelred the Unready. [aoa id=”1″] Sarah Noton, of leading law firm Swayne Johnson, who have a base in St Asaph and branches across North Wales and Cheshire, is the new Undersheriff of Clwyd, the voluntary legal officer for the Shrievalty of Clwyd – comprising Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham. Until two years ago her powers would have included the authority to raise a posse to pursue criminals but the office…

Following a hugely successful UK Airports’ Safety Week earlier in the year, the team at Cardiff Airport were delighted to win the award for the ‘Best Airport Campaign’ at the AOA Annual Conference Awards Dinner, which took place in London last night. [aoa id=”1″] Hosted by The Independent’s Senior Travel Editor and industry expert Simon Calder, the ceremony brings together peers from across the aviation industry to recognise and reward best practice. The UK Airports Safety Week initiative, which ran from 14-20 May 2018, is a UK-wide week of activities and events led by different organisations over the same seven-day…

Two sailing stars at Rydal Penrhos have retained their place in a British youth training squad after another exceptional season. [aoa id=”1″] Ewan Luke and Zac Blomeley, Upper Sixth Form pupils at the school, have once again been named in the Great Britain 29er Youth squad after further enhancing their reputation as one of the brightest pairings anywhere in the country. It has been another memorable campaign on the water for the duo, who have continued to perform to a very high standard across the continent in the face of stern competition and challenging conditions. [/aoa] Their incredible efforts have…

R&M Williams is to partner with the project team at Bristol Airport to develop the site’s new Administration Building. This will be the second Bristol Airport development for R&M Williams this year, having recently provided framework for the airport’s new £4.3million fire station, which is nearing completion. Darryn Parry, managing director of R&M Williams, said: “We are delighted that Bristol Airport has awarded R&M Williams this second major contract in 12 months. We have mobilised quickly to be on site and ready for work to begin, with the main structural steel framework scheduled for erection in early October.” [aoa id=”1″]…