Author: Rhys Gregory

Green Man Festival – Wales’ largest music festival – came to a triumphant close on Sunday 17th August after four sun-filled days of music, performance and arts, with a thrilling headline set by The War On Drugs, before festival goers made their pilgrimage up the hill to witness the burning of the Green Man. Green Man this year sold out in record time and the festival delighted and surprised 20,000 returning Green Man fans and newcomers at the foot of the stunning Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons. Fiona Stewart, owner and director of Green Man said: “Green Man 2018…

Despite the adverse weather conditions in Cardiff over the weekend, partygoers came to Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend to celebrate diversity and equality and round off an amazing weekend. World famous drag queen, Courtney Act, closed the show in incredible style at Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend’s finale last night (Sunday 26 August). Attendees also saw performances from an array of international and local acts, Glee Club comedy and cabaret entertainment. Friday 24th August [aoa id=”1″] [/aoa] The Big Weekend is a celebration of inclusivity and diversity, held annually by Pride Cymru. 50,000 people are estimated to have attended the event on…

Cardiff Bay was alive with action over the Bank Holiday weekend, as two boats capsized within moments of each other on the Extreme Sailing Series™ racecourse. [aoa id=”1″] [/aoa] Charging downwind on the third race of the day (race 19), the Omani boat and Team Wales were both caught by strong 20 knot gusts that caused their hulls to become submerged and a cartwheel capsize to ensue. All crewmembers on Team Wales were accounted for and there were no injuries to anyone onboard. Although the boat was righted quickly, foil damage unfortunately prevented the local wildcard team from competing for the…

The environmental charity Keep Wales Tidy is launching an exciting project which will help keep Wales’ streets clean by turning chewing gum waste into beach products. Continuing their partnership with Gumdrop Ltd, the first company in the world to recycle and process chewing gum, Keep Wales Tidy have designed branded bucket and spades sets entirely made from the recycled gum material. The innovative project hopes to highlight the problem of chewing gum on our streets while producing sustainable products from the waste collected. [aoa id=”1″][/aoa] According to this years Keep Wales Tidy’s “How Clean Are Our Streets?” report, chewing gum…

Despite the adverse weather conditions in Cardiff today, partygoers came to Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend to celebrate diversity and equality and round off an amazing weekend. World famous drag queen, Courtney Act, closed the show in incredible style at Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend’s finale last night (Sunday 26 August). Attendees also saw performances from an array of international and local acts, Glee Club comedy and cabaret entertainment. Earlier on Sunday, it was announced that Gabrielle’s performance wouldn’t be going head due to technical reasons – unrelated to the artist. [aoa id=”1″] [/aoa] The Big Weekend is a celebration of inclusivity…

Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend 2018 continues in Cardiff, with the famous Pride Parade and over 15,000 attendees at the yesterday’s event (25 August). [aoa id=”1″] The annual parade through Cardiff’s city centre saw 15,000 supporters take part in a rainbow of celebration on the mile-long march, making it the biggest pride in the charity’s history. Families, individuals, groups and local and national organisations came together from all over Wales to join the march to showcase the true diversity and equality across Wales. This year’s parade had a whole new route, starting on North Road, looping down St Mary’s Street and…

A TOP attraction has quadrupled visitor numbers and spent £1.6m revamping accommodation to support a rise in adventure and heritage tourism. [aoa id=”1″] The Slate Caverns in Blaenau Ffestiniog is also employing more staff than it has since the mid-1990s, following a 2011 restructure which changed the fortunes of the ailing company. JW Greaves has operated the mine for almost 200 years and oversaw its rise to become one of the most popular destinations in north west Wales. But a decline in fortunes at the turn of the century saw visitor numbers drop to 50,000 a year and the quarry…

Thousands of people flocking to the Pride Cymru Big Weekend are getting vital travel advice from Cardiff Bus. The operator is alerting attendees to road closures and route diversions ahead of the hugely successful event set to take place across Cardiff this weekend. From Friday until Sunday thousands of people are expected to fill the capital’s streets and celebrate LGBTQ+ communities across Wales. During the three days Cardiff Bus will have numerous road closures and diversions in place before, during, and after the event. On Friday roads around Cathays Park will be closed, with the Baycar diverting along Park Place,…

Due to a technical fault Newport City Council has had to suspend public access to the gondola crossings on the Transporter Bridge. Work on repairing the fault on the bridge, which is more than 112 years old, is estimated to take about three weeks. In the meantime visitors can still walk over the top of the iconic structure at a reduced rate of £1.50 for adults and £1 for children. [aoa id=”1″] Leader of Newport City Council Councillor Debbie Wilcox said the technical fault highlighted how necessary it was for the council to raise funds to keep the bridge running…

Cardiff Council in partnership with Vale of Glamorgan Council and Cadwyn Housing Association is appealing for donations of ladies shoes, sized ten and above. [aoa id=”1″] This unusual request comes in preparation for the ‘Walk a Mile in Her shoes’, an annual event which see’s men of all ages and backgrounds come together and walk a mile wearing women’s shoes in support of White Ribbon, the charity which campaigns to enddomestic abuse and sexual violence against women. Now in its fifth year, the event has grown from just 14 men walking to last year’s event attracting record numbers of almost…