Author: Rhys Gregory

The Rhug Estate will take part in a high profile event at London’s Borough Market to celebrate Lamb Day this Wednesday, 1 August. Celebrated on 1 August each year, ‘Lamb Day’ kick starts the Welsh Lamb season and marks the start of the availability of new-season Welsh Lamb. Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales and the Welsh Government have organised the event which will be offering tasters of Welsh products, in the Market Hall at London’s Borough Market from Wednesday until Friday, 1-3 August. On Lamb Day Imran Nathoo, MasterChef 2017 quarter-finalist and food blogger, will be cooking up…

Derrick Barry, Sonique and Gabrielle are amongst this year’s acts who will be performing at Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend on 24 – 26 August 2018. Drag performer, Derrick Barry, is widely known for impersonating Britney Spears, competing in the third season of America’s Got Talent, and the eighth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. [aoa id=”1″] BRIT Award-winning singer, producer and DJ, Sonique, is best known for her 1998 international hit single It Feels So Good. Gabrielle is an English singer songwriter Gabrielle is best known for her 1990s singles Dreams and Going Nowhere. Other performers include Flip & Fill, The…

Art exhibitions, street performances, and creative hubs will bring colour and fun to the town. And organisers of free arts weekend LLAWN06, have lifted the lid on what visitors and residents can expect with Museum of the Moon set to be a show-stopper. The installation features NASA imagery of the moon’s surface with music composed by award-winning composer Dan Jones who scooped an Ivor Novello award for best TV soundtrack for his score for the BBC’s The Miniaturist. Karine Décorne of Migrations, the organisation behind the moon, said: “LLAWN06 might be one small step for man but our arts activities are…

Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Dur, the £19m new Welsh medium secondary school in Sandfields, Port Talbot, has been handed over to Neath Port Talbot Council following completion of building work by contractors Bouygues UK. The development has been jointly funded by Neath Port Talbot Council and the Welsh Government, as part of its 21st Century Schools and Education Programme. Bouygues UK staff spent 68 weeks on-site and the building has now been handed over three weeks early. There were 26 weeks spent off-site at pre-construction stage so in 94 weeks the project went from a blank sheet of paper to the…

FOUR new faces at a rising recruitment company are trained on further success after a stellar start to the year.  [aoa id=”1″] And they will be joined by yet another key staff member in the coming weeks as award-winning Supertemps continues with its expansion plans. Having announced it will open a base in north east Wales, the Colwyn Bay and Bangor-based business is growing its own workforce at a rapid rate. The arrival of five new recruits since the Spring is testament to the vision of managing director Sarah Ellwood, who in the last year has also overseen the launch…

People attending the Council’s complex needs day services have joined the battle against plastic waste by setting up their own recycling group. The recent publicity around plastic waste and the problems it causes led to the decision to set up the group, with everyone keen to do their bit to reduce the amount of plastic waste. With support from staff at the service, the group has been learning about the importance of recycling and how to separate their waste into different bins. There are currently more than 20 members who meet on a weekly basis to gather all the waste…

Works are now underway to deliver a 21stCentury learning environment for pupils at Ferndale Community School, as part of wider £2m improvements being delivered at the school over the coming months. The Council is investing £85m into Rhondda and Tonyrefail schools in time for the 2018/19 academic year, with support from the Welsh Government’s 21st Century Schools and Education Programme. New ‘all through’ schools are being delivered in Porth, Tonyrefail and Tonypandy, while a number of local schools are benefitting from improvements being made over the summer. Ferndale Community School will benefit from two new ICT suites designed to 21st Century Schools…

A deal has been agreed for RNLI lifeguards to continue patrolling four Porthcawl beaches until the summer of 2021. Coney Beach, Rest Bay, Trecco Bay and Pink Bay will all be covered by the RNLI’s seasonal beach lifeguarding service. The patrols will be jointly funded by Bridgend County Borough Council, Porthcawl Town Council and Parkdean Resorts, with the RNLI covering additional costs through their national and local fund raising activity. The sight of RNLI beach lifeguards on duty is always reassuring for visitors. We’ve been teaming up with the RNLI since the summer of 2016 and are pleased for the…

A proposed new income tax to fund elderly social care would be “throwing good money after bad” unless there’s radical reform of the whole system, it’s been warned. The idea for the tax of between one per cent and three per cent was recommended in a report by top economist Professor Gerard Holtham which was commissioned by the Welsh Government. Mario Kreft MBE, the Chair of Care Forum Wales which represents nearly 500 social care providers, welcomed the report as an “important contribution” to the debate about funding. Whilst the prospect of extra funding would be welcome, Mr Kreft feared…

An event promoting jobs in the domiciliary care sector has been held in Swansea. Organisations running employment support and training programmes have linked-up with care providers to improve the recruitment process. They came together at the event which was organised by Swansea Working and Partner Beyond Bricks and Mortar, an employability service run by Swansea Council and its partners to help people looking for jobs access the support that is most relevant to them. Care providers gave a presentation outlining the work they do and the opportunities that exist so that those running employment programmes could pass on a better…