Author: Rhys Gregory

Plastic, the ocean, Emmeline Pankhurst, Donald Trump, Brexit, Korea, Grenfell Tower, unicorns, slime and computer gameFortnite are just some of the people and subjects that influence British children’s creativity and use of language, says a report published today by Oxford University Press (OUP).

A new UK Tech Innovation Index is available today which shows that Wales and the South West of England have significant strengths across a range of sectors including AI and Data, Clean Growth, Advanced Manufacturing and Ageing Society.  It also illustrates for the first time a significant overlap of activity clusters between the regions, with Bristol, Cardiff and Newport showing especially strong links to each other.

Wales is fast becoming a hub of entrepreneurship, according to new figures from the Start Up Loans Company, which shows that it has lent over £20 million to small businesses in Wales since it launched six years ago.

Two brothers who came up with a plan to go into business together while on a 24-hour hike in the Brecon Beacons, say setting up was no mountain to climb, thanks to the long-term support they received from Welsh enterprise support specialist, Business in Focus.

It’s National Picnic Week from the 15th-24th of June, which aims to promote areas of natural beauty to get the UK into the great outdoors this summer, enjoying some great food and great company.

Hundreds of budding film makers turned up at Quadrant Shopping Centre when they had the chance to get in front of the camera and make their very own short film at its ‘Movie Makers’ event.

Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth is appealing for seaside holiday photographs for a new exhibition, which opens next month, celebrating the nation’s relationship with the seaside.

Music fans flocking to a double bill of Beyonce and the Rolling Stones in Cardiff this month are getting vital travel advice ahead of the shows.

A host of beautiful models will descend on the City Centre on Sunday, 17 June, when the Swansea Classic Vehicle Show rolls in.

Roger Parry & Partners are urging farmers to use the recent introduction of new Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) measures to review their heat strategies as there are economic advantages, as well as wider environmental benefits, to be had.