Author: Rhys Gregory

The construction team behind the new Centre for Student Life for Cardiff University is helping to rehabilitate a prisoner serving a five-year jail term for drugs offences. Craig Taylor, 37, from Builth Wells, has been taken on as one of four gatemen at the massive £35 million scheme in the very heart of Cardiff. BAM Construction, the contractor now creating its third successive multi-million pound scheme for the University, takes Craig on from early each morning, until he returns to incarceration later the same day at Usk Prison. Christian Parton, BAM Construction’s Project Manager, said the company took Mr Taylor…

A leading Welsh training provider has achieved one of the highest internationally-recognised standards for information security systems. [aoa id=”1″] Cambrian Training Company has achieved ISO 27001 certification, three years after developing a compliant Information Security Management System (ISMS) to manage information and cyber security across the business. And after demonstrating that its ISMS has embedded and matured to effectively control the personal data and security requirements associated with the delivery of work-based learning in Wales, the company achieved its external certification. Elen Rees, Cambrian Training Company Director of Finance, whose team led the project, put the certification into context: “Providing…

Spring has finally sprung, and Llangoed Hall are celebrating Garden Month with their newly launched Garden Tours, giving you the chance to explore the 17 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, situated in the stunning Brecon Beacons. [aoa id=”1″] Join Head Gardener, Mandy Hobbs, for a seasonal tour of the vegetable and flower gardens from April to September. Mandy will showcase different elements from the unique garden and give you the chance to explore the idyllic surrounding scenery, allowing you to unwind in the natural beauty of the welsh countryside. To end the tour, you will be served a delicious two…

A partnership between local residents and Openreach is to make high-speed fibre broadband available to a rural community in the Vale of Glamorgan. [aoa id=”1″] Llancarfan, situated between Barry and Cowbridge in the heart of the Vale, will soon be able to enjoy some of the fastest and most reliable broadband speeds in Europe as a result of Openreach’s Community Fibre Partnership (CFP). The scheme is designed to help people in places not included in any current roll-out plans to bring fibre broadband to their local area, working with Openreach to co-fund the installation. The cost of the Llancarfan CFP…

Principality Building Society has introduced a mortgage advice video appointment system across Wales and the borders following a successful pilot. [aoa id=”1″] All of the Society’s 53 branches have been fitted with the Principality Connected video system which is similar to Skype. The touch-screen system allows branch mortgage advisors to give the equivalent of a face-to-face interview anywhere throughout Principality’s retail network. So, a customer in Bangor can potentially make an appointment and speak to an advisor who is available in the Society’s Newport branch. Julie-Ann Haines, Chief Customer Officer at Principality Building Society, said: “We are developing our branches…

Rockadove Video Production and Wales Council for Voluntary Action partner to showcase the power of video marketing. [aoa id=”1″] Charities, social enterprise and not-for-profit organisation in Wales will win a £10,000 video marketing campaign in the inaugural Rockadove Third Sector Prize, launched last week. Leading Welsh video production agency, Rockadove is giving away the £10K video project as part of the company’s tenth year celebrations. Working in partnership with Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), the prize will see a third sector organisation supported with a complete video marketing campaign worth £10,000 – devised, scripted, produced, distributed and evaluated by…

Those interested in industrial history and Welsh heritage will be able to discover the sights and sounds of Victorian Blaenavon this spring, with the unveiling of an advanced digital project at the world-renowned Blaenavon World Heritage Site. In partnership with Big Pit National Coal Museum, Torfaen County Borough Council  has launched a brand-new 360⁰ virtual reality experience, which allows users to experience life as it was in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site during the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring real characters from Blaenavon’s industrial past, the ‘Time Travel in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site’ experience uses audio storytelling and three-dimensional…

THE Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) is launching a graduate scheme to enhance productivity, innovation and economic growth among businesses in South East Wales and promote the region as a destination for talented graduates. [aoa id=”1″] £175,000 has been allocated by the CCR Regional Cabinet for a one-year pilot of the scheme which will provide targeted support for businesses to assist in creating an initial 50 graduate internships in 2019/2020. The programme has been developed in partnership with the University of South Wales, Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, the Open University in Wales, and business representative groups in response to the…

A WREXHAM finance firm director is donning his walking boots to take part in a marathon charity trek in the mountains of Montenegro. Medwyn Edwards, Joint Founding Director of Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management, has signed up for the three-day, three-peak, 40-mile coastal challenge along the Dinaric Alps in Montenegro. It will be his second trip to one of the world’s smallest countries which borders  Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. Well known for its spectacular coastline, half of Montenegro is covered in thick forest which is home to wolves, bears, lynxes and wildcats. His aim is to raise around £4,000…

A local Assembly Member has met concerned parents at the school gates of Ysgol Caer Elen in Haverfordwest (Monday 25 March 2019), to hear their road safety issues. Parents had asked her to come and witness ‘school run’ traffic chaos, as they drop and collect their children near the 40 miles per hour Withybush Road. The new Welsh-medium school for three to 16-year-olds opened last September, and is located near the 50 miles per hour A40. Joyce Watson AM, who lives in Haverfordwest, was told of an incident involving a mum collecting her child. She was told that, as the…