Author: Rhys Gregory

Technology Connected is thrilled to announce that Wales Tech Week will return in 2025. Wales’ largest international technology summit, Wales Tech Week shines a global spotlight on the Welsh technology ecosystem and champions the industry on a worldwide stage. The event will take place at ICC Wales from 24th to 26th November 2025. The event’s three key themes will be Tech for People, Tech for Performance and Tech for the Planet. New for 2025 is the addition of the 10th Annual Wales Technology Awards which will take place on the final evening of the event. This milestone event is the…

A Grade II listed building at the heart of Swansea’s historic Maritime Quarter is set for a new lease of life, providing much needed affordable accommodation for people with the greatest housing need. Dating back to 1820, Cambrian Place is one of the city’s oldest remaining streets, one of just a handful in the city centre to survive the Luftwaffe bombing raids in World War Two. Now Pobl Group, with the help of over £5M from Welsh Government’s Transitional Accommodation Capital Programme, will commence work this month on a 74-week refurbishment programme to secure a long-term sustainable future for this…

A body has sadly been discovered in the area of the Menai Strait following extensive searches for a missing 17-year-old. Superintendent Simon Barrasford said: “My thoughts are with the family and our officers continue to provide support to them at this incredibly difficult time. “I would like to thank the community for their support during the searches.”

One of the key rail routes between Wales and England has seen 60,000 extra passenger journeys made and a 27% increase in trains arriving on time over the last year. Transport for Wales has revealed new figures for the Wrexham to Bidston rail route showing that between January and July this year, 197,047 journeys were made on the line. For the same period in 2023 the figure was 138,743. And in July 2023, just 48.4% of trains arrived within three minutes of schedule. This July that figure stood at 87.7%. Cabinet Secretary for Transport & North Wales, Ken Skates said:…

Newport Food Festival has announced that celebrity chef, Cyrus Todiwala OBE, DL, will be taking part in the chef demonstration programme on Saturday 13 October. Cyrus is an Indian chef proprietor of Café Spice Namasté, which has won Michelin awards for 23 consecutive years. In 2012 Cyrus was also honoured to cook the Diamond Jubilee Luncheon for the late Queen, Elizabeth II. He is also a TV chef and is a regular on the BBC programme Saturday Kitchen as well as ITV show James Martin’s Saturday Morning. With his friend and fellow chef, Tony Singh, Cyrus hosted the BBC show…

Welsh Government Ministers recently visited My Support Team (MyST) in Pontypool to reinforce the importance of specialist mental health support for young people in care. Sarah Murphy, Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Dawn Bowden, Minister for Social Care and Children, spoke with families and staff to learn about the range of mental health services provided by the team. The Gwent Regional My Support Team (MyST) programme is a dedicated mental health service for young people up to the age of 18. The programme, which uses a wide range of psychotherapeutic models, has supported 97 children and young people…

A new way of treating people with broken bones has now been rolled out in health boards across Wales, Health and Social Care Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Miles has announced. The All-Wales Fracture Liaison Service ensures that patients aged 50 and over with a broken bone after a fall have their bone health and falls risk checked and managed to lower their risk of any further fractures in the future. This safeguards people from recurring injuries in the long term and is a clinical and cost-effective early intervention method to keep people out of hospitals. More than £1m in funding from…

Organic micronutrient startup, BIOVIT, has secured £1.5 million in Innovate UK funding to shake up the fortified foods industry with pioneering research on the bioavailability of micronutrients and develop the world’s most precise AI-powered personalised nutrition system, scheduled for NHS trial in 2025. Spearheading the ‘Natural Nutrient Revolution’ in fortified foods, BIOVIT is the world’s first company to clinically develop and test natural vitamin and mineral blends, extracted from organic plants and fungi, for use in fortified foods, whilst guaranteeing stability of its micronutrient composition – meaning declared nutrient levels are present after processing and at the end of a product’s…

INNOVATIVE technology being developed in North Wales could be the ‘missing link’ that facilitates cost-effective carbon capture on a global scale. With the support of Bangor University, Robert Lim Inventions Ltd is preparing to unveil its patented enclosed engine system while raising necessary funding to take the concept to commercialisation. Led by director James Sheridan, the Deeside company is working with the University to analyse and evaluate its ground-breaking carbon capture process, having successfully received a £10,000 Skills Innovation Voucher (SIV). The SIV scheme offers companies in Gwynedd, Anglesey and Flintshire an opportunity to collaborate through the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund.…

Well known chef Bitabrata Chowdhury is expanding his Swansea city centre eatery into a hub for the community. Already established as one of the top restaurants in the area, Raj Kitchen is now also offering a space for people to come and learn Indian cookery skills working with chefs in hands- on-lessons in an authentic kitchen experience. The move has been supported by a five-figure Fast Track  Loan from Tata Steel subsidiary UKSE to Mr Chowdhury’s business, The Food Zone. The funds have been used to develop the substantial upper floor of Raj Kitchen for the cookery classes and other projects such as…