Author: Rhys Gregory

A group of keen knitters from Barry has helped a Penarth hospice mark the start of Hospice Care Week – by Yarn Bombing its gardens! [aoa id=”1″]The Barry Hookers joined community fundraiser Hannah Leckie at the Marie Curie Cardiff and the Vale Hospice on Sunday night, to secretly decorate the gardens with yellow wool to mark the charity’s colours as a surprise to the staff and patients.[/aoa] The aim was to Go Yellow for Hospice Care week, which takes place from October 8 to 14, and sees organisations talk about the extraordinary work that hospices do at the heart of…

Rhug Farm Shop was delighted to have won Wales Retailer of the Year at the 2018 Farm Shop & Deli Awards earlier this year but next year it wants to go one better and win the National Retailer of the Year Award – but it needs customers’ help to win! [aoa id=”1″]The Awards are highly respected in the farm shop industry for playing an important role in supporting and celebrating the UK’s independent, specialist retail market. Each entrant will be judged on the many factors covering speciality retail including highest levels of service, product knowledge, initiative, innovation and community involvement.[/aoa]…

ONE of Wales’s leading cancer charities is teaming up with local businesses to raise vital funds during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. [aoa id=”1″] Breast cancer is now the most common cancer across Wales and the UK, and accounts for around 30% of all cancer cases in women. To fight these statistics and support women with breast cancer, Cancer Research Wales invests substantial funds in research to help prevent, diagnose and treat breast cancer. [/aoa] The charity currently funds £300,000 on two research projects in Wales. The first research project aims to determine whether a new drug could delay…

Pupils from seven Denbighshire schools dressed-up as Tommies and made colourful forget-me-nots as part of a project commemorating the First World War. [aoa id=”1″] The project was organised by the North Wales International Music Festival who chose Reflections as the theme for this year’s event to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. The festival is held every year in St Asaph Cathedral where the youngsters congregated with Corwen artists Ben Davis and his partner Jude Wood to make 1,200 forget-me-nots which were used to decorate the cathedral. [/aoa] Ben explained: “Forget-me-not flowers were drawn on letters sent home by…

A care home manager whose family heartbreak helped “put her in the shoes” of her clients is in line for a top industry gong. [aoa id=”1″]Karen Rogers, who is manager of Llys y Seren Residential Care Home in Port Talbot, has barely had a day off sick in 30 years’ despite suffering a series of family tragedies and coping with the ongoing needs of her 16-year-old daughter who has learning difficulties.[/aoa] The 52-year-old lost her younger sister, Gayle Clement, 42, to a heart attack four years ago and became the main carer to her two children. Two years later, she…

Following Angharad Williams’ stage 2 Breast Cancer diagnosis in May 2017, she has raised £63,000 for Cancer Research Wales.

Marian Evans, founder of Elevate Business Consultancy, has been shortlisted in the national Women in Financial Advice Awards.

Thanks to funds raised through a crowdfunding campaign back in 2016, the first phase of footpath construction work on the upper section of the Watkin Path has been completed.  The Watkin path is one of the most challenging routes to the summit of Snowdon, not only because it is the route with the greatest ascent, but because the upper section of the path crosses a steep and loose scree slope which is difficult to navigate. With almost 25,000 walkers trampling over the scree each year an unsightly erosion scar had developed on this part of the path. Funds raised through…

A procession along the promenade to kick the bar will be held on Friday 12 October 2018 to mark the day Aberystwyth University first opened its doors back in 1872. [aoa id=”1″] Staff, students, alumni and members of the local community will take part in the Founders’ Day walk from Old College to the foot of Constitution Hill. The procession will be led by the University’s Chancellor Lord Thomas of Cwmgïedd and Vice-Chancellor Professor Elizabeth Treasure. [/aoa] Special guest at this year’s Founders’ Day will be Sioned Wiliam – an Honorary Fellow and Aberystwyth drama graduate who is now Commissioning…

Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan have unveiled their latest selection of books, and are delighted to welcome Cardiff author Amy Lloyd, who joins the Book Club with her gripping psychological debut novel The Innocent Wife. Lloyds’s writing combines her fascination with true crime and her passion for fiction and “it’sbeen deservedly praised by no less than Jack Reacher author Lee Child. Judy and I can only add our own massive approval” praises Richard. [aoa id=”1″]Lloyd studied English and Creative writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University, where she started to plot the thrilling story which tells the tale of a relationship between…