Author: Rhys Gregory

Green-fingered primary school pupils have had their prize fruit and veg saved from ravenous rabbits thanks to a local timber company. Fencing giants Clifford Jones Timber came to the rescue when Llanbedr DC Primary School appealed for help against the bad news bunnies eating their crops. [aoa id=”1″] Now the children can look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labours which are destined for the school kitchen to be made into healthy school dinners. Teacher Jaine Heginbotham said: “We needed a secure vegetable patch and we needed it to be more obviously a garden area so it needed fencing…

Each year the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society presents a series of honorary awards to people who have given exceptional service to the society, mainly in a voluntary capacity, and in many cases for well over 30 years. Today (Monday 23 July) a total of twelve honorary awards were presented at an award ceremony on the first day of the Royal Welsh Show, including two of the society’s esteemed silver medals. These were presented to Mr W I Cyril Davies and Mr Edward Morgan in recognition for their outstanding contribution. Cyril has served nearly seven years as Vice Chair of Council…

Daniel Eames, a partner and member of the Family Law team at Clarke Willmott LLP in Cardiff, said the ruling of the Supreme Court in Owens v Owens underlined the importance of the Private Member’s Bill recently introduced in the House of Lords by Baroness Butler-Sloss. Mr Eames, who has specialised in divorce law for over a decade, and is a member of Resolution, the national organisation committed to non-confrontational divorce, said: “This ruling from the Supreme Court about the need to prove unreasonable behaviour under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, underlines the importance of the bill introduced by Baroness…

Parents of three and four year olds are being reminded the FREE 30 hour childcare offer is being rolled out to the whole of Rhondda Cynon Taf in September. By the time children return to school in the new term, eligible children in every ward in the county borough will be able to take advantage of the offer – the most generous in Wales – offering 30 hours of childcare a week for working parents. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council was chosen as one of the pilot areas to trial the childcare offer on behalf of the Welsh Government last year.…

The special connection between agriculture and tourism in Wales will be celebrated by Welsh Government at an event at the Royal Welsh Show today. The Tourism and Agriculture Working Together event at the Welsh Government Pavilion will be hosted by Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport, Lord Elis-Thomas to acknowledge strong and enduring partnership between farming and tourism and to celebrate the role that farmers, food producers and land managers play in making Wales such a welcoming and top quality holiday and visitor destination. It’s a partnership which the Minister was clear would need to be maintained and strengthened if…

Toe tapping entertainment is coming to Cowbridge this September, as Cowbridge Music Festival announces the line-up for its first ever Festival Fringe. Running alongside the Cowbridge Music Festival, the upcoming Festival Fringe (13-16 September) will boast an array of exciting events celebrating young local musical talent and showcasing community groups. [aoa id=”1″] Kicking off the Fringe festivities on the 13th September will be a jazz supper at The Bear Hotel. The hotel’s Cellars Restaurant will be transformed into a jazz club, giving locals a taste of local talent with a live performance from jazz saxophonist Ffion Wyn and a two-course…

Inspire Wales and BeTheSpark officially open applications for their first Pitch It event held in Wales, taking place on Thursday 17th October at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff. [aoa id=”1″] This event captures BeTheSpark’s vision in action as it will attract people and organisations from across three of BeTheSpark’s five stakeholder groups – academia, risk capital and entrepreneurs. Pitch It was pioneered by Inspire Wales who recognised there was a gap in the market for entrepreneurs raising seed rounds of investment ranging from £10k-£50k. [/aoa] “Inspire Wales are aiming to make the investment landscape more accessible to SME’s. Innovation-driven entrepreneurship is…

Welsh Government has been urged to adopt best practice guidelines that are already in place elsewhere in the UK to help deal with issues around the leasehold system in the residential property market in Wales. RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) says that adopting the Service Charge Residential Management Code, which has already been approved by the UK Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, would bring a range of benefits for the housing market in Wales. The potential benefits would include a reduction in the causes of disputes between tenants and landlords over lease service charges and…

Guinness PRO14 games will be shown in Welsh on S4C for the next three years. An agreement between S4C and Celtic Rugby means that there will be Guinness PRO14 games every week on S4C during the regular season. Matches will be broadcast live on television and online via the S4C Clic service, and commentary will be through the Welsh language only.17 games will be live on S4C during the season, including Christmas and New Year derby matches and, should a Welsh region be involved, live coverage of the Guinness PRO14 final. Further coverage will also be available on an as-live basis.…

Keep Wales Tidy is launching an ambitious new campaign to clean up every public beach in Wales, in partnership with McDonald’s. The All Wales Beach Clean will take place from the 14th to 30th of September, with clean up events planned forevery public beach in Wales. Marine litter poses a growing threat to our aquatic and coastal environment. Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enters the world’s oceans every year, equivalent to dumping one bin lorry of plastic per minute into the world’s oceans. Community groups, schools and businesses from across Wales will be joining the two weeks of…