The company produces a range of paper cups, lids and containers for fast food outlets, vending machines and the dairy sector.

Its Blackwood plant currently produces many millions of units a day and is a leading supplier of the UK specific market. An estimated five billion paper drinking cups and 4.5 billion lids are used in the UK a year.

Scientists at Aberystwyth University are once again leading the way in developing new varieties of one of the UK's most important crops. And they've even beaten the Tardis in the process!

The University's Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) has had two new winter oat varieties placed on the definitive crop list recommended by the Home Grown Cereals Authority, the body that promotes the production, wholesomeness and marketing of UK grain.

There is increasing awareness of the value of oats both for human consumption and as a high value animal feed. Both varieties build on decades of success at IBERS and provide farmers, millers and feed compounders with oats that are more productive, resilient and easier to grow.

Battling against the elements, Fishguard-based Prince's Trust Team 129 worked with Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority Rangers Carol Owen and Richard Vaughan on projects at a school, in National Park woodlands and on the Coast Path.

Carol said: "As part of their twelve-week team programme, the young people spent three days developing the new school garden at Ysgol Llanychllwydog in Cwm Gwaun, creating a fantastic area for the children to use when the weather warms up.

"The team constructed a log seating circle, planted a willow dome, filled planters, built seats and planted as part of the project developed in partnership with the school and National Park Authority Rangers.

"I spent three years of my life exploring the Welsh countryside while I was a student at Cardiff University and so this is a section of the journey I know well and have been looking forward to. Walking across the Severn Bridge felt very much like a homecoming."

‘Home', however is more than a thousand miles away in Portsmouth from which, on a snowy Sunday on 9 January he set off on foot to embark upon an epic 7,000 mile solo walk around the coast of mainland Britain to raise money for three charities - The Stroke Association, Southampton General Hospital Physiotherapy Department and the Mammal Society. Less than 60 days later he was crossing the Severn Bridge.

The Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme, or CEVAS, is taught over two days and allows learners to think through all the aspects of having a school visit, including health and safety, the learning opportunities a farm or countryside site can offer, and talking to young people and teachers.

In a debate in the National Assembly later today, the Minister will announce a new, ambitions tree planting programme as part of the targeted element of Glastir. Aimed at expanding the area of woodland in Wales by 100, 000 hectares over the next 20 years, farmers would receive a capital grant to establish permanent woodland on lower grade agricultural land, together with annual maintenance and income foregone payments for up to 15 years after planting.

Councillor Greth Roberts, who leads on the Environment on Gwynedd Council said: "While we certainly don't want to deny chocoholics their sweet treats, we do have to highlight the fact that the vast majority of packaging from Easter eggs will head straight to landfill.

"We only have about eight years of landfill space left in Wales, which is why we are asking shoppers in Gwynedd to be mindful of this when buying their Easter eggs. So this year, why not try and select eggs that are not excessively packaged such as those wrapped only in foil. They still taste as good, but you'll be doing your bit for the environment.

The results can be seen at the IMPACT! exhibition which offers a powerful insight into how today's research might transform our experience of the world. IMPACT! runs from Tuesday 16 March until Sunday 21 March at the Royal College of Art, London.

Chosen by designers at the Royal College of Art, the capabilities of Aberystwyth University's real-time dynamic passive profiling technique, which allows users to observe individual's feelings and emotions, beyond what is expressed visually, will be demonstrated at the exhibition.