Author: Rhys Gregory

The 21st edition of the Principality Building Society Cardiff Half Marathon is taking place in the Welsh capital on Sunday 6 October. The event is set to be its biggest yet with more than 29,000 people registered to take part across Saturday’s junior races and main event – and its highest ever number of international runners. The theme for this year is ‘A Race For Everyone’ and will be celebrating everything that makes the city so great – the diversity of its people. When is the Principality Cardiff Half Marathon 2024? The Principality Cardiff Half Marathon returns to the Welsh…

KLM’s winter schedule for this season runs from October 27, 2024, to March 30, 2025. KLM’s network includes 155 destinations, 89 in Europe and 66 intercontinental via its hub in  Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. New to the network is the previously announced American destination, Portland. Additionally, KLM offers 15% more seats to destinations in India compared to last year. The first new A321neo aircraft are also operational on European destinations such as Copenhagen, Berlin, and Stockholm. Furthermore, Premium Comfort is available to book on all Boeing 787 and 777 aircraft. This winter, the Premium Comfort class can be booked on all…

Openreach has announced that eligible homes and businesses in the Bishopston area of Swansea could soon get better broadband with the support of the UK Government’s Gigabit Voucher scheme. It’s been identified that the community is in scope for full fibre broadband, helping to make poor internet connectivity a thing of the past. Eligible residents have already started to pledge Gigabit Vouchers to bring full fibre broadband to Bishopston by applying for and pooling together their free Government Gigabit Vouchers to help fund the build. The broadband upgrades are integral to kickstarting economic growth for local businesses, as well as…

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…