Audrey’s “grin and tonic” wins award at Gwynedd care home
A cheerful care home worker in Gwynedd has won an award for going the “extra smile” in everything she does. Colleagues and residents say that Audrey Phillips’s “smile lights up the room” at Pendine Park’s Bryn Seiont Newydd care home in Caernarfon Her dedication and...
Emotional concert to celebrate legacy of Welsh musical giant William Mathias
The work of one of Wales’s greatest composers will be celebrated at a concert to mark the 90th anniversary of his birth. Professor William Mathias, who died aged 57 in 1992, won global acclaim during his lifetime and tribute will be paid to his musical legacy at the...
Delightful Divya wins award after going the “extra smile”
A cheerful care home worker has won an award for going the “extra smile” in everything she does. Dedicated Divya Baskota, described by colleagues and residents as a “ray of sunshine”, says she treats the people she cares for at Pendine Park’s Highfield Nursing Home in...
Storage giant helps Keep Wales Tidy lead the way on litter picking
A small army of public-spirited litter pickers is keeping the streets of North East Wales tidy from their base on Wrexham’s Ruabon Road. Wrexham Litter Pickers, part of the national Keep Wales Tidy (KWT) organisation, has an impressive total of 2,300 members on its...
Viewers will be keeping up with the Joneses on Gogglebocs Cymru
A family from Aberystwyth are all set for a starring role on a reality TV show. Michael and Anwen Jones and their son, Gwion, are among the new cast members on the new series of the hit S4C programme, Gogglebocs Cymru, The first programme in the run, starting at 9pm...
Volunteers use flower power to make village blooming beautiful
A Denbighshire village is blooming beautiful thanks to the work of some green-fingered volunteers. During the past few weeks the Cynwyd in Bloom group have placed 14 smart new metal framed wooden planters in the village. The planters replace flower-box type planters...
Hard-hitting Welsh TV drama tackling children’s mental health issues sold to Czech Republic
A Welsh TV production company has sold a hard-hitting programme tackling mental health problems affecting children and their families to the Czech Republic. Two series of the ground-breaking drama, Bex and BEXtra, which were first shown on S4C have been snapped up by...
New disability champions will help companies in Wales tap into £274 bn “purple pound” bonanza
A search has been launched in Wales to recruit a team of young disability champions to improve access at tourism and hospitality venues. Leading the campaign is a community interest company called PIWS (which means purple) which is looking for disabled people to...
Livewire Luisa shares Gogglebocs Cymru sofa with daughter Ava just a year after heart attack
An award-winning ex-teacher jumped at the chance of a starring role on a reality TV show just a year after suffering a life-threatening heart attack. The illness forced Luisa Martin-Thomas, 46, from Tonyrefail, to re-evaluate her life and she decided to seize every...
Outspoken Brynaman teachers Berian and Jenna will be class act on TV show Gogglebocs Cymru
Two plain speaking senior teachers will be giving marks out of 10 for television programmes on a reality TV show. Friends Berian Wyn Jones and Jemma James, who both live in Brynaman, will be teaming up on the sofa on the new series of the hit S4C programme, Gogglebocs...
