Author: Rhys Gregory

A brand-new musical adapted from David Walliams’ hit book, Billionaire Boy is coming to Cardiff’s New Theatre from 26 February – 2 March, just in time for half-term! Written by Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler, the show is on its world-premiere tour and has received rave reviews from audiences around the UK. In Billionaire Boy the Musical, factory worker Len Spud invents a new loo roll “Bum Fresh – wet on one side, dry on the other.” The wiping-wonder is an instant hit. Len, and his son Joe, become overnight billionaires, turning their lives upside down. Whilst Mr Spud spends,…

Bevan Buckland LLPis now the main sponsor of the Swansea Bay Business Awards. The established chartered accountants and tax advisor, whose history spans more than 100 years, replaces PwC to support the awards and the businesses that it so proudly honours. Bevan Buckland LLP recently signed a three-year deal with the organiser ahead of the launch of the Swansea Bay Business Awards 2019, which takes place at Swansea’s Brangwyn Hall on Friday 22nd February 2019. The glamorous ceremony will be attended by all nominees and many of the region’s best business minds. The event will be compered by journalist and TV…

With a sell-out crowd, there will be a full city centre road closure between 1.15pm and 7.45pm, with kick off taking place at 4.45pm. Enhanced security measures will be in place at Principality Stadium so all those that are coming to Cardiff to watch the game are strongly advised to leave plenty of time to get into the city and into the stadium. [aoa id=”1″] Rugby fans are strongly advised to leave large bags at home and pay attention to the prohibited items listed at  principalitystadium.wales  before they travel into the city. Cardiff Council has issued the following information from public transport…

From struggling to form sentences to a speaking part in his school play – the last few years have been a real journey for RomanAubrey-Cooze. Roman, from Swansea, has verbal dyspraxia, a speech sound disorder that affects children’s ability to learn and coordinate movements for speech. It left him struggling to make friends from the age of two at nursery and answer simple questions, like “What’s your name?”. Now thanks to help and support from speech and language therapy, seven-year-old Roman can produce sentences clearly. And he has achieved a huge milestone – taking part in his school play. When…

With cigarettes costing £10 a packet and nearly of quarter of Welsh residents living in poverty, ASH Wales is asking, ‘Who Can Afford to Smoke?’. This week the tobacco control campaign group will call for action to tackle smoking among Wales’ most deprived communities, where up to a quarter of residents smoke. It has warned that smoking contributes to the deprivation facing many families across Wales and says that quitting the habit would lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. To find ways of tackling the problem experts from across Wales are gathering at the annual Wales Tobacco…

A metal pressings company in South Wales has secured a £1,155,000 finance package from HSBC UK to purchase a new 400-tonne pressing machine. [aoa id=”1″] Aberdare-based CSM Pressings, which manufactures and designs pressed metal products and powder coating, has used the funding from HSBC UK to purchase the new equipment which will enable the company to manufacture larger components, in turn helping it to attract and secure larger business deals. CSM Pressings specialises in the manufacture of steel components for a number of well-known automotive companies, as well as supermarket shelving fixtures for many well-known supermarket chains across the UK.…

A BAFTA award-winning south Wales creative agency has set its sights on growth through export sales, following increasing demand for its services overseas. [aoa id=”1″] Cardiff-based digital marketing agency Atticus Digital, which specialises in virtual reality and 360˚ video production, has seen its export sales more than triple in the last four years, with exports now accounting for around a quarter of its business. The company is now placing a drive on exports and has announced ambitions to double its exporting activities within the next five years as part of wider expansion plans. Established in 1998, Atticus originally provided traditional…

A Kimnel Bay based company that manufactures sophisticated precision tools for Rolls Royce and other automotive and aerospace companies is to create 23 new jobs as a result of Welsh Government support. Economy Minister, Ken Skates visited Consort Precision Diamond in Conwy to discuss the expansion plans, which will be supported by £200k from Welsh Government. [aoa id=”1″] The Minister also spoke to the company’s management team about the types of challenges they are facing in the run up to Brexit, and urged them to take advantage of the range of support offered to Welsh business to help them prepare…

Police in Porth are appealing for the public’s help to locate missing man, Christopher Davies. Mr Davies, 52, was last seen at approximately 5pm on Sunday, February 17th, at his home in Tonyrefail. He is described as approximately 6ft 1in tall, of average build and with a bald head. He was possibly wearing black jeans and a grey hooded jacket, and distinctive navy and multi-coloured trainers when he went missing. He is also believed to be in possession of a large black coat, a woolly hat a tent and a sleeping bag. Officers and family members are growing increasingly concerned…

A private landlord has been ordered to pay over £12,000 for the appalling conditions at his property which he rented out in Riverside. [aoa id=”1″] Robert Hope-Ross, from Camp Hill Road, Nuneaton in Warwickshire pleaded guilty at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court last Thursday (February 14th) to 19 offences relating to his property on Neville Street in Riverside. The three-storey Victorian terraced property was occupied by seven people and, following a complaint by one of the tenants, officers from the Shared Regulatory Service visited on July 26th, 2018 to find a catalogue of problems at the property. [/aoa] There was no fire…