A tweet offering help to teach Cymraeg over a pint has had an overwhelming response on social media. Llio Angharad from Cardiff posted her offer of help to Welsh learners on social media yesterday (12th September 2018). The tweet has since had an unbelievable show of support from the community and at the time of writing, the post has more than 112 retweets and 300 ‘Likes’. [aoa id=”1″] [/aoa] The response has been so great, Llio has decided to set-up a networking and learning event next week. The social and meet will take place at 6pm at The Alchemist in…
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34 of the UK’s best surf athletes will be heading to Surf Snowdonia in North Wales this weekend to compete in its unique one-day inland competition: the Surf Snowdonia Pro Surf Challenge. [aoa id=”1″] The Surf Snowdonia event, which is now in its third year, will take place on Sunday September 16th, 2018. The UK Pro Surf Association (UKPSA), organisers of the UK Pro Surf Tour and Europe’s only pro surf competition event to take place inland, has also announced it will introduce equal prize money for male and female competitors from 2019. David Reed, director of the UKPSA…
House prices in Wales edged upwards during August, the latest RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Residential Market Survey suggests, but data relating to sales activity and the number of properties coming onto the market remained subdued. [aoa id=”1″] The net balance of surveyors reporting rising prices (+39 per cent) picked up from July, but respondents reported a fall in newly agreed sales for the second consecutive month. A key factor in the market in Wales is the constrained supply, with a higher proportion of surveyors saying that there were fewer instructions to sell in August than in any UK…
Award winning mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins reveals Wales’ Armistice Cantata education project as a winner in the National Lottery Awards. [aoa id=”1″]Welsh singing sensation Katherine Jenkins has surprised Cardiff-based project, Armistice Cantata, with the news that they have won Best Education Project in the National Lottery Awards 2018. The mezzo soprano broke the news of the win to pupils at Thornhill Primary School in Cardiff, who piloted the intergenerational education project which commemorates the Centenary of the end of WW1 (November 11 2018)![/aoa] The National Lottery Awards are the annual search for the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects and celebrate the inspirational…
The new £18m neonatal intensive care unit for North Wales located at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd has been officially opened by First Minister Carwyn Jones. The Sub Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Centre (SuRNICC) is a 20-cot unit caring for the most poorly and premature babies born in North Wales and is part of the North Wales Neonatal Network, which links special care units in Wrexham and Bangor. It includes a transitional care service to help parents of newborn babies spend more time with their infant, a neonatal transport service to ensure babies born across North Wales can access facilities at the…
Butchers Arwyn Morris and Ramos Vernys like premium beef jerky snack products made by a Mid Wales company so much that they have bought the business. The workmates purchased Trailhead Fine Foods from Jason and Nilgun Howard of Welshpool and are committed to growing the business and developing the ‘Get Jerky’ brand. [aoa id=”1″] Trailhead Fine Foods was launched seven years ago by Kevin Bigland of Cradley Heath who sold the business in 2013 to Mr and Mrs Howard who rebranded and further developed the company, leading to coveted Great Taste Awards in 2016 for the Original and Spicy…
A team of ABMU Health Board staff and their families will be lacing up their running shoes to take part in the Swansea Bay 10K to raise money for Golau Cancer Foundation. [aoa id=”1″] Twenty-Five people will form ‘Team Golau’ on Sunday, September 16, in a bid to raise as much money as possible. The Golau Cancer Foundation supports the South West Wales Cancer Centre in Singleton Hospital, Swansea – the second largest non-surgical cancer centre in Wales. [/aoa] Sian Morgan, fund manager at Golau said: “It’s down to the generosity of our supporters and work colleagues that we are…
A Cardiff Met lecturer was given the opportunityto exhibit at the inaugural European Art-Science-Technology Network festival. [aoa id=”1″] Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos spent one week at the University of Manchester for the European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) festival on 25-30th June. It was the first festival organised by the network and the scope was to celebrate innovations in digital media with concerts, installations, workshops, and discussions with media industry partners from around Europe. The six days festival took place at the School of Music, the Novars Research Centre which specialises in the areas of Interactive Music and Media, and at the Home…
Ahead of Pension Awareness Day, Stuart Price from Quantum Advisory explains all you need to know about your pensions and how you can retire comfortably.
Budding young creatives are getting the chance to pitch their creative event ideas before a panel of experts to claim £2018. [aoa id=”1″] #2018 is a Dragons Den-style initiative run by theatre company Frân Wen who have set up the scheme for 16 to 25 year olds from Wales. In addition to administering the fund, Frân Wen will provide support and guidance to the winning bid. The scheme will support a young person or group who have an original idea for a creative event and are looking for support to help turn their ideas into reality. [/aoa] “We’re looking for…