Author: Rhys Gregory

Today, Monday 2 July, S4C have announced that they’re going to stop using single-use plastics at their offices in Cardiff and Caernarfon. To coincide with the announcement S4C will broadcast a week of programmes and online content to encourage a discussion about the recycling of plastic for the environment. S4C’s Chief Executive Owen Evans said the announcement “shows that S4C takes our responsibility towards the wildlife at sea seriously.” The week occurs the same time as Mari Huws, a young film maker from the Nantlle Valley, is on a 12-day cruise in the Arctic Ocean to investigate the true impact…

Almost three quarters of specialist breast cancer nurses in Wales are aged 50 or over so many could retire in the next decade, Macmillan Cancer Support reveals in new research of the cancer workforce published today.

Victims of a historic blood scandal are being urged to come forward in the call for justice as a public inquiry is set to begin today (Monday). Following repeated calls over the past 30 years for a statutory public inquiry to be held into the scandal, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people, Parliament will announce the terms of reference for the inquiry on Monday (2ndJuly). Called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, the infected blood scandal saw thousands across the UK infected with HIV and Hepatitis C from contaminated blood products introduced…

A young entrepreneur from Llantrisant is determined to tackle the world’s environmental issues head on with a new business making reusable nappies from ethically sourced Ugandan bamboo.

Homelessness is increasing in Newport but charities working on the ground and Newport Now BID have come together to launch a new initiative that, with the help of the community, will support people off the streets and into safety. Figures published by Welsh Government last month from their annual monitoring exercise suggest that rough sleeping across Wales has gone up 30 per cent in the space of a year. In Newport, leading homelessness charity, The Wallich, reports a 25 per cent increase in the number of people sleeping rough in the city compared with the previous year. Rough sleeping is…

The Love Where You Live Campaign has now been rolled out city wide, targeting areas in wards across the Cardiff which are in need of a deep clean. The campaign was set up over two years ago to work in partnership with communities across the city to create a sense of pride in the communities that we all live in and to spread the message that littering and fly-tipping isn’t acceptable. As part of the campaign, a Cardiff Council team carries out blitz operations, digging out silt and debris from between the pavement and the roads, clearing gullies and drains,…

CEO of Swansea-based company CPR Global Tech, Andrew Sandbrook and CFO Chrissy Sandbrook have attended an official reception at Buckingham Palace as part of a select group of winners of the 2018 Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The company was chosen as one of just 12 winners of the prestigious award in Wales and was recognised in the International Trade category. The Queen’s Awards are conferred by Her Majesty The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister, to organisations with outstanding performance in one of four categories; International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity. The award is recognised as…

Manchester tech firm MirrorWeb has been awarded a three-year contract by the Welsh Government to digitally archive the Welsh nation’s online presence. This will open up full accessibility for the Welsh Government’s Information and Archive Services team. The cloud-native web and social media archiving company will preserve the Welsh Government’s web-published content in both English and Welsh, including llyw.cymru/gov.wales and all websites of historic and national significance. MirrorWeb will also preserve a selection of key Welsh Government Twitter accounts, including: @WelshGovernment, @LlywodraethCym and @FMWales. MirrorWeb has developed robust and highly scalable cloud-based archiving and monitoring tools to enable frequent archiving of web and social media assets for…

The picturesque coastline of Pembrokeshire has inspired luxury Welsh housebuilder Waterstone Homes to bring Wales its very own Sandbanks, drawing inspiration from the renowned millionaires’ playground in Dorset.

Advances by researchers at Aberystwyth University in the understanding of one of the world’s deadliest diseases have the potential to bring relief to thousands of sufferers around the world. Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, affects over 200 million people world-wide, and causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year. Caused by a parasitic flatworm found in snails in shallow freshwater, 85% of all cases are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. People are infected during routine agricultural, domestic, occupational and recreational activities, which expose them to infested water. Second only to malaria on the scale of devastating parasitic diseases, recent evidence…