Skoda Fabia drive by Steve Rogers
A lot has happened to the Skoda Fabia since I drove the first model 22 years ago. For starters we stopped making jokes about the brand. Not that the Czech company was too bothered, in the early years it encouraged them with some brilliantly funny mickey taking TV...
Pitch perfect caravan and glamping site is best in North Wales
A family-run holiday park beat off stiff competition to win a top award. The Commonwood Caravan and Glamping site, in Holt, near Wrexham, was crowned North Wales’s Best Holiday Park at the prestigious Go North Wales Tourism Awards. The headline sponsor for the...
Banker Paul watched in horror as wife passed out during epic Kilimanjaro climb
A business leader watched in horror as his wife passed out at the top of one of the world’s highest mountains on a fund-raising challenge for a hospice. Barclays bank relationship director for North Wales and the Shires Paul Ffoulkes was powerless to help as his wife,...
Ex-Premier League sports guru Andy on the ball with top tourism award
A former Premier League sports science expert who swapped the glamour of professional football to open a holiday venture has picked up a top tourism award. Andy Franks worked with giants Chelsea and Everton as well as Crewe before he and his wife, Jen, bought an old...
Inspiring leader honoured at prestigious awards ceremony
A positive behavioural support manager who puts the needs of others at the “heart of everything she does” has seen her caring efforts pay off. Shelley Swain works for Fieldbay, which is part of the Envivo Group, in Swansea helping to care for people with complex...
Nurse shares top honour with team who look after patients with complex needs
A passionate nurse who struck gold at a prestigious awards ceremony said the accolade is a reflection of the first class team she plays a proud part of. Lynn Hamilton Shaw, general manager at Awel y Mor Care Home in Gorseinon, Swansea, which offers care and...
‘Perfect’ care home manager who puts staff and residents first earns award
A care home manager committed to making her team feel valued with pizzas and an “open door policy” has been recognised at a prestigious awards ceremony. Sujjata Singh whose nursing career spans over 25 years, was described as the “perfect definition of a leader” by...
‘Beating heart’ care home administrator who took over during Covid takes silver in top national award
A resourceful administrator who had to take over the running of a Caerphilly care home with 45 residents when her colleagues were hit by Covid-19 has struck silver in major national awards. Katherine Shorney– described by her boss as its “beating heart” - shouldered...
Administrator who stepped in to take over care home hit by Covid-19 strikes gold in top national awards
An administrator who unexpectedly took over the running of the care home where she works when over half its staff – including the manager – went down with Covid-19 has taken gold in major national awards. Despite the shock of learning one morning last year that the...
Cheery teenager Megan wins social care Oscar
A teenager who became a care worker in her local community during the pandemic has won one of the sector’s top awards. Megan Haskell, from Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, was honoured at the Wales Care Awards, dubbed the 'Oscars' of social care, after impressing...
