Royal harpist Alis will be centre stage at festival
Royal Harpist Alis Huws who performed at the King’s Coronation will be a star attraction at a music festival in North Wales. Alis, from the Banw Valley, near Welshpool, in Powys, will perform at the Wales Harp Festival that’s being staged at Galeri in Caernarfon on...
Book-loving schoolboy Harri, 5, melts millions of hearts on the One Show
A book loving five year schoolboy who reads his favourite stories to care home residents “melted the hearts” of millions of TV viewers watching The One Show. Local hero Harri Shone, a pupil of Ysgol Penrhyn, New Broughton, near Wrexham, had a starring role on the...
Top bakery flags up support for protesting Welsh farmers
A bakery has pledged its support to protesting Welsh farmers and is putting their logo on its pies and rolls to show solidarity with them. The Jones Village Bakery is also placing the No Farmers, No Food design on two of its vans as well as having flags flying...
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...
