Author: Rhys Gregory

A COLLEGE jumped at the chance to house its student restaurant at an award-winning racecourse. While Coleg Cambria Yale in Wrexham is undergoing a £21million revamp its popular Hafod restaurant will relocate to Bangor on Dee in Wrexham. The course hosts 14 jump races a year – as well as weddings, conferences and events – with catering provided by the Horseradish Group. Horseradish and Cambria are already in partnership and plan to open the venue every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday lunchtime until the Yale restaurant reopens in September 2020. Speaking at the launch event – where Catering and Hospitality learners…

Tobacco control campaign group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Wales has praised a manufacturing firm after workers quit smoking thanks to a ground breaking workplace scheme. It is urging other companies to follow the example of the manufacturing firm Sandvik Osprey which holds smoking cessation sessions run by NHS Wales at its Neath Port Talbot plant. Sheraine Thomas, who is the Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) Manager at the company, came up with the innovative idea of organising the sessions within the workplace, after becoming concerned about the number of workers who smoke and the effect this was…

Minister for Economy and Transport and Minister for North Wales, Ken Skates has officially opened the final section of the Llangefni Link Road. During the visit to Anglesey today, the Minister said the completed scheme would bring great benefits to the local area and Anglesey as whole. The Llangefni Link Road connects Coleg Menai and Bryn Cefni Business Park, key sites in the Anglesey Enterprise Zone, with the A5114 and A55 and will improve traffic congestion in the town centre. It is also vital in facilitating the delivery of Grwp Llandrillo Menai’s Masterplan to develop their Llangefni Campus into an…

Dolgellau based event, Rally North Wales launches this week with the organisers announcing a streamlined format that caters for both competitors and rally fans on March 30. [aoa id=”1″] Sponsored once again by North Wales Rally Services, the event is organised by Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Car Club and offers 45 miles of top-quality stages in the Dyfi and Gartheiniog forest complex, just a few miles away from the rally base at Dolgellau Farmers Market. Made famous by the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Wales Rally GB, the forests will offer iconic stages, with some new twists…

Talyllyn Railway, the world’s first preserved railway, attracted the highest number of passengers for more than a decade and achieved record income last year. The railway ran 93,822 journeys and carried 48,857 passengers, the highest number since 2007. Passenger numbers increased by 7.1% on 2017. In addition, the railway achieved an all-time record income, with a 13% increase on 2017. Cafés reported a 16% revenue increase. Among the year’s highlights were celebrations centring around locomotive No.6 ‘Douglas’, which had its centenary in February. This was especially significant as the locomotive was built for the Air Admiralty, later to become the…

26 year old, Steffi Addison, is a mum of one from Glynneath in South Wales who recently penned a best-seller, as a book she co-authored went straight in at number 1 on the Amazon best seller charts in; Business Consulting and Entrepreneurship alongside books by; Sir Richard Branson, Baroness Karren Brady, Sir Alan Sugar, Carrie Green and Jo Malone – it is also sitting as the number one hot new release just about every category. [aoa id=”1″]Only 5 years ago Steffi struggled with her self-esteem and her confidence was at an all-time low, as she felt overwhelmed and stuck in…

South Wales Police is appealing for information on the whereabouts of 78-year-old Alun Price. He was reported missing earlier yesterday (Thursday) but hasn’t been seen by anyone for a couple of days. His car has been found in the Lougher area. He is described as a white man, about 5ft 10ins tall with short dark hair and glasses. South Wales Police is very concerned for his welfare. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 101 quoting occurrence 1900045153

An electrical business set up by two former apprentices who met in college is enjoying a boom thanks to a surge in security work. [aoa id=”1″] Electricians Ryan Griffiths and Nick Dacey teamed up last year as RN Electrical and Security after forming a friendship as apprentice electricians at what is now Coleg Cambria’s Bersham Road campus, in Wrexham. And now half the pair’s business is taken up with installing security systems and cameras for businesses and homeowners across a wide area of North East Wales and the border counties. It has seen them expand quickly so they have now…

Proton Partners International (PPI), the first providers of proton beam therapy in the UK, said today that Britain can take ‘major strides’ this year towards improving cancer care. The development of new facilities providing advanced cancer treatment and accelerated diagnostic services will be important initial steps in helping to improve cancer survival rates in the UK, which have lagged behind European and North American countries. Proton Partners International operates the Rutherford Cancer Centre network in the UK and Rutherford Diagnostics. Rupert Lowe, chairman of Proton Partners International, said: “As someone who had to travel abroad to receive proton beam therapy,…

The Wrexham Enterprise Hub is celebrating an industrious first eight months where it’s held more than thirty events and workshops and supported more than 170 individuals and businesses since launching. In this three part series, we take a look at three enterprising businesses in North Wales that are flourishing with the help and support of The Wrexham Enterprise Hub. About Toddle Toddle is a Wrexham-based, adventure-skin-care company. The business has products ranging from lip balm to sun cream and is marketed towards active, outdoor-adventure-seeking families. Toddle was founded in 2017 by former Royal Air Force Officer Hannah Saunders, who was…