New rules will quadruple recycling costs for Welsh care homes
Controversial new recycling rules will quadruple the cost of dealing with waste for cash-strapped care homes across Wales, it’s been revealed. Georgie Llewelyn, whose family have run the Penpergwm House Residential Care Home, near Abergavenny, for over 30 years, says...
Leading North Wales private school starts £1million redevelopment
An award-winning North Wales independent school is creating a new state-of-the-art sixth form centre as part of a major £1 million redevelopment programme. Myddelton College in Denbigh, which opened in 2016 and is one of the newest private schools in the country, is...
Care home stars Nicole and Sioned hailed as role models
Two young women from Gwynedd have been hailed as “role models” after rising through the ranks to top jobs at a care home. Nicole Davies, 27, and Sioned Jones, 26, signed up with the Step into Care programme which was run by the Pendine Park organisation in partnership...
MG4 EV drive by Steve Rogers
The Japanese did it in the seventies, now the Chinese are turning the car market upside down. Leading the charge is MG, once a British icon, now part of a pretty big state owned Chinese car company which has been the UK's fastest growing car maker for umpteen years....
North Wales care homes were caught up in nightmare Covid “experiment”
A social care champion said care homes in North Wales felt they were caught up in a nightmare “experiment” when Covid struck in 2020. According to Mary Wimbury, the Covid inquiry had flagged up once again that Wales and the rest of the UK was under prepared to deal...
Welsh food giant creates 15 jobs at new Carmarthen depot as part of £6m expansion
A fast-growing food wholesaler is opening a new depot in Carmarthen as part of a £6 million expansion plan. Overall Harlech Foodservice – which has other bases in Criccieth in Gwynedd, Chester and Merthyr Tydfil - will be creating 150 new jobs, with 15 of them in...
Top illustrator Jason draws on experience to brighten lives of care home residents
An award winning international illustrator has taken on a new role to brighten the lives of care home residents through the "magic of art”. Jason Bennion has moved in a completely new direction from corporate design, leading artistic workshops at Pendine Park in...
Gogglebocs Cymru star Molara is local celebrity in home village of Crymych
A hit reality TV programme has turned a Pembrokeshire mum-of-two into a local celebrity Molara Awen, 58, from Crymych, is one of the stars of the Welsh language version of Gogglebocs. She appears on Gogglebocs Cymru with her daughter, Maisie, 21, and son Finn, 23. The...
Enterprising Rhys gets gem of a chance with high flying firm
An 18-year-old sixth form student is getting a taste of the world of precision engineering after being inspired by the success of a high flying company. Rhys Butler, a pupil at Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph, is now on an eight-week work experience programme after...
Cupra Ateca drive by Steve Rogers
Come the day when the only new cars are electric there will still be plenty of used firecracker motors to satisfy the petrol heads. And here is one of them, the hotshot Cupra Ateca. It might look ordinary but under that modest exterior lies a mean machine with a more...