Author: Rhys Gregory

The Love Where You Live Campaign has now been rolled out city wide, targeting areas in wards across the Cardiff which are in need of a deep clean. The campaign was set up over two years ago to work in partnership with communities across the city to create a sense of pride in the communities that we all live in and to spread the message that littering and fly-tipping isn’t acceptable. As part of the campaign, a Cardiff Council team carries out blitz operations, digging out silt and debris from between the pavement and the roads, clearing gullies and drains,…

CEO of Swansea-based company CPR Global Tech, Andrew Sandbrook and CFO Chrissy Sandbrook have attended an official reception at Buckingham Palace as part of a select group of winners of the 2018 Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The company was chosen as one of just 12 winners of the prestigious award in Wales and was recognised in the International Trade category. The Queen’s Awards are conferred by Her Majesty The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister, to organisations with outstanding performance in one of four categories; International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity. The award is recognised as…

Manchester tech firm MirrorWeb has been awarded a three-year contract by the Welsh Government to digitally archive the Welsh nation’s online presence. This will open up full accessibility for the Welsh Government’s Information and Archive Services team. The cloud-native web and social media archiving company will preserve the Welsh Government’s web-published content in both English and Welsh, including llyw.cymru/gov.wales and all websites of historic and national significance. MirrorWeb will also preserve a selection of key Welsh Government Twitter accounts, including: @WelshGovernment, @LlywodraethCym and @FMWales. MirrorWeb has developed robust and highly scalable cloud-based archiving and monitoring tools to enable frequent archiving of web and social media assets for…

The picturesque coastline of Pembrokeshire has inspired luxury Welsh housebuilder Waterstone Homes to bring Wales its very own Sandbanks, drawing inspiration from the renowned millionaires’ playground in Dorset.

Advances by researchers at Aberystwyth University in the understanding of one of the world’s deadliest diseases have the potential to bring relief to thousands of sufferers around the world. Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, affects over 200 million people world-wide, and causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year. Caused by a parasitic flatworm found in snails in shallow freshwater, 85% of all cases are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. People are infected during routine agricultural, domestic, occupational and recreational activities, which expose them to infested water. Second only to malaria on the scale of devastating parasitic diseases, recent evidence…

The full line-up of chefs and producers who will be taking part in the BITE festival next month has been revealed, and the list looks incredible. The one-day food festival will take place in the gardens of Insole Court mansion in Llandaff on Saturday 14thJuly. There’ll be no fancy branding, no food trucks and no entrance fee on the day; just a whole bunch of great chefs each selling a single, specially-created dish, for just £3. This is the foodie line-up in full: Stephen Terry of The Hardwick restaurant Jamie O Leary of JOLS restaurant Tom Furlong of Milkwood restaurant…

With just one round to go ahead of this year’s Adrian Flux FIM British Speedway Grand Prix – which will take place in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Saturday July 21st-  Great Britain racer Tai Woffinden has pulled 10 points clear with a WD-40 Danish FIM Speedway Grand Prix win at this weekend’s World Championship summit in Horsens. And while admitting he wants his name on the FIM Speedway Grand Prix trophy for a third time, Tai also commented that it’s too early to be worrying about the championship after his second win of 2018. “It’s a 10-point lead. But it’s…

The Wales Airshow returns to Swansea Bay this weekend (Saturday June 30 – Sunday July 1 2018).

As the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society’s flagship accolade, the Sir Bryner Jones Memorial Award is hotly contested year after year.

Foodies in Belgium are reading all about what it takes to be a female Welsh livestock producer as leading young farmer Caryl Hughes from the Ceiriog valley features in a prestigious Belgian cooking magazine telling readers the story of Welsh Lamb and Welsh farming. Caryl Hughes farms in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog with her family, who have farmed for generations. Earlier in the Spring she represented not only the Welsh sheep  industry but also female farmers across the country when she helped Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) put PGI Welsh Lamb on the Belgian culinary scene in Culinaire…