South East Wales News
Caerphilly Food Festival is set to once again delight visitors when it returns to the town on Saturday 12th May.
They say money doesn’t grow on trees – but it does for freelance gardener Jacob Hodge, who only went into business with his friend two weeks ago and can now give up work altogether thanks to a life-changing £1million win on a National Lottery Scratchcard.
This week, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has launched Wales’s first Specialist Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Pilot Clinic. The specialist service known as the ‘Women’s Wellbeing Clinic’ will be open to all females affected by FGM or who are at potential risk of FGM occurring.
Following the success of the 2018 ABP Newport Marathon, which had almost 10,000 runners sign up to take on the Marathon, 10K and Family Mile, the running event is set to return next year.
Caerphilly-based start-up Signum Health has won Best Application of Tech at the final of the ESTnet Wales Technology Awards in Cardiff last night (May 3rd).
A group of railway engineers staged a protest on Snowdon to object to the UK Government’s decision to cancel electrification between Cardiff and Swansea.
Family-run housing construction company, Llanmoor Homes, are celebrating further company triumphs this month having been recognised at the Local Authority Building Control’s Regional Building Excellence Awards.
Two Welsh universities are to receive £1.2m to support their involvement in the UK-wide Institute of Coding helping create the next generation of digital specialists, Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams announced earlier this week.
Tracy Bird, Cardiff and Vale College’s Career Ready Manager, has been chosen by Career Ready as the Santander Employability Champion 2018 for Wales, the West and Midlands.
Cwmbran-based telecommunications provider, RPS Technology Solutions, has been announced as a finalist for the ITSPA 2018 Best Business ITSP (up to £2m) award.