Author: Rhys Gregory

FOUR Christ College Brecon students are celebrating after being offered places to study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The competition has never been so fierce for these coveted places. The number of applications has more than doubled to Oxford over the past 20 years, with 22,000 applicants for 3,250 places. Aisling Tarpey has received an unconditional offer to read English at Lincoln College, Oxford; Adonijah Airede to study Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Hayato Kaneda to University College, Oxford for Physics; and Kevin Zhao to read Engineering at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Set within the Brecon Beacons National Park,…

Following an exceptional year of new branches and national awards, Acorn, one of the UK’s leading specialist recruitment agencies, has kick started 2018 with a crucial new appointment to their Accounting and Finance Division.

‘Barclays Eagle Lab’ in partnership with Legal & General has officially opened a new 6,500ft2, incubator facility. Located at Brunel House, the Cardiff Eagle Lab will give the South Wales start-up and scale-up communities a crucial boost.

Welsh aluminium contractor Dudley’s Aluminium is celebrating after securing a major contract to support the development on the latest Central Square project later this year with Rightacres.

A record number of entries have been submitted for the 2017 South Wales Chamber of Commerce Welsh Business Awards, with more companies than ever before making the final shortlist. Entries were up by 19% on previous years and 45 companies have been shortlisted across 10 categories, with businesses coming from Cardiff, Carmarthen and Crickhowell, among others, making the final cut. The awards, which are open to members and non-members, received nominations from across Wales. Leading the pack with two nominations apiece are Concrete Canvas Ltd from Pontypridd who create rapidly deployable shelters for humanitarian disaster relief and is shortlisted for…

THE Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) Economic Growth Partnership (REGP) held its first meeting today, as its new board was unveiled.

LEADING independent school Christ College, Brecon, has been judged as ‘excellent’ in all five inspection areas in its latest Estyn report.

Welsh researchers are on track to make a life-saving medical breakthrough, thanks in part to a generous donation from a much-loved high street chain.

A leading Welsh medical supply company has signed a deal to become the sole provider of single use arthroscopes in the UK in a move that could see huge cost savings to hospitals and drastically cut the risk of infections.

Thanks to a combination of miserable weather, New Year diets and empty pockets post-Christmas, January is often seen as the most depressing month of the year, culminating in Blue Monday on the third Monday of the month.