Author: Rhys Gregory

A £90 million investment in Denbighshire’s schools has seen more than 3,500 pupils benefit from improved facilities. The first phase of the Denbighshire County Council and Welsh Government funded 21st Century Schools programme has seen new schools built as well as major re-developments of existing sites with a quarter of the county’s pupils having their educational experience transformed. The first phase of the programme has seen a new £24million replacement school of 1200 places for Rhyl High School and Ysgol Tir Morfa, a £16.5m extension and refurbishment for Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph and a new £10.5 million joint…

Before the snow-storms forced the cancellation of the final shows in early March, Thriller Live was wowing audiences. Now it’s returning to Cardiff’s New Theatre from 23 – 28 July to fulfil those lost dates, and bringing with it all the magic of the world’s greatest music entertainer, Michael Jackson. Thriller Live first opened in the West End at the Lyric Theatre in January 2009 to rave reviews and is now one of the top-10 longest running shows in West End history. It never fails to get the audience on its feet and has received more than 3,500 standing ovations…

The Pembrokeshire branch of the Farmers’ Union of Wales in conjunction with Pembrokeshire County Council and Dyfed Powys Police, held a successful information day to help farmers get up to speed on scam awareness. The event was held at Mountain Farm, Haverfordwest, and heard from Sandra McSparron and Rebecca Elliott, Trading Standards Consumer Safeguarding Team, Pembrokeshire County Council, as well as Paul Callard, Dyfed Powys Police Financial Crime Team. FUW Pembrokeshire CEO Rebecca Voyle said: “This was an excellent opportunity for farmers to find out about telephone, mail and online scams which affect rural communities. I would like to thank…

CPR Global Tech welcomed Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant, D. Byron Lewis, to its Swansea Headquarters on Monday (9th July) to officially receive the 2018 Queen’s Award For Enterprise. All staff members as well as key stakeholders from Swansea Council, Swansea University and Ofcom Wales were in attendance at the presentation, as CPR proudly celebrated its achievement. The Queen’s Award for Enterprise annually recognises UK businesses for outstanding performance in one of four categories and CPR was selected in the ‘International Trade’ category after achieving significant growth in overseas markets over the last three years. CPR was established in 2010 to…

Award-winning poet and playwright, Menna Elfyn has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Aberystwyth University. One of the foremost Welsh-language writers, Professor Menna Elfyn writes with passion of the Welsh language and identity. Her work, which has been published for four decades, includes fourteen volumes of poetry, many children’s books and anthologies, stage plays, adaptations and scripts for television, radio plays, libretti, and several television documentaries. She is the most translated of all modern Welsh-language poets, her work having been translated into over twenty languages. She was the Welsh-language Children’s Poet Laureate in 2002-03. Professor Elfyn is Director of the…

A WELSH rower’s oar-some progress at club level has sealed her spot in the national team for a high profile international tournament against some of the UK’s top competitors. Lucy Iball, 25, who works for Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management, based at the former Wrexham Lager building in Wrexham, has been chosen to represent Wales at the annual Home International Regatta for the second year running on July 21. The Bodelwyddan-born Chester Grosvenor Rowing Club athlete only took up the sport when she began university six years ago but has been training intensively for her club since 2016, with aspirations to…

Exhibits from the National Cycle Museum in Llandrindod Wells are being taken around the country to promote cycling and the Mid Wales visitor attraction. Last month, 30 cycles from the museum were displayed at the three-day World Cycling Revival Festival at Herne Hill, London followed by eight cycles being taken to Welshpool Transport Festival. The museum also displayed cycles at Abergavenny Steam Show over Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May. “We believe it is important to spread the word about the UK’s main cycle museum being located here in Mid Wales,” said Freda. The museum, located in the Automobile Palace,…

UWTSD’s Yr Athrofa: Institute of Education is looking forward to an exciting new chapter in its long and illustrious history as it relocates from the university’s Townhill campus into state-of-the-art facilities in the heart of Swansea’s waterfront. [aoa id=”1″][/aoa] The eye-catching phase one of the university’s £350 million SA1 Swansea Waterfront development includes purpose-built facilities for teaching, learning and research as well as social, leisure and recreation space. The new development will also be home to the faculty of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, the Construction Wales Innovation Centre and a new library. Each of the university’s Yr Athrofa’s four component…

Techniquest will be jetting visitors around the world this summer as it brings augmented reality to its centre in Cardiff Bay. Home to over 130 interactive exhibits, the science discovery centre has welcomed exciting new additions to its exhibition floor just in time for the summer holidays. Starting in July, visitors will be able to get up close and personal with dinosaurs, meet animals from Africa and the Antarctic, experience tropical storms and see astronauts in action, all thanks to augmented reality. In order to provide this sensory experience, Techniquest has installed multi-award winning technology which boasts a 4m x…

Drivers in South Wales are enjoying some respite from increasing car insurance costs, as premiums drop -£79 (-10%) year-on-year. Car insurance now costs drivers in the region £693, on average, and is -£19 (-3%) cheaper than it was three months ago. That’s according to the most comprehensive car insurance prices index in the UK based on more than six million quotes a quarter from Confused.com and powered by Willis Towers Watson. To give a view on how car insurance premiums have changed for drivers in the region, Confused.com has created a car insurance calculator, which allows drivers to search for…