At a special congregation of the University of Wales held at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff on Wednesday, 8 November, Mr Daniel Huws of Penrhyn-coch, Aberystwyth, former Keeper of Manuscripts and Records at The National Library of Wales, was awarded […]
With just over a month to go until the showground in Llanelwedd is full of visitors, exhibitors and superb livestock, preparations for the annual Royal Welsh Winter Fair are coming together well. This year’s Royal Welsh Winter Fair will be […]
A unique video project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales’s most famous Great War poet, Ellis Humphrey Evans, is set to be beamed onto the National Library of Wales building in the week of Armistice Day after […]
Cambrian Training the training provider, for champion young butcher and now Higher Apprentice winner Peter Rushforth, show there are many ways to the top of a profession. Champion butcher Peter Rushforth, who has not looked back since choosing an apprenticeship […]
A motivated, trained and ambitious team has been created as a result of an apprenticeship programme supported by Cambrian Training that has been running for nine years at Wales’ famous five star Celtic Manor Resort, near Newport. Over the past […]
A chef-de-rang from Carmarthenshire representing Coleg Sir Gâr, has won a medal of excellence for her world-class skills in restaurant services at WorldSkills, Abu Dhabi. Elizabeth Forkuoh, a hospitality, supervision and leadership student at Coleg Sir Gâr and former pupil […]
Royal Welsh says: Flying the flag for Welsh farming, two exceptional Welsh blade shearers, Gareth Pennant Owen and Clive Hamer, have become champions by setting the British record for the ‘Nine hour two stand blade shearing on lambs’. Starting at […]
War Poet Hedd Wyn to be remembered in unique video installation beamed on to the National Library of Wales. A unique video project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales’s most famous Great War poet, Ellis Humphrey Evans, […]
Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, is delighted that the Welsh Government is proposing an increase in public-access opportunities in Wales. The society has responded to the Welsh Government’s consultation, ‘Taking Forward Wales’s Sustainable Management of Natural Resources’. […]
In some respects, Wales feels as old as time itself. Dating back to Roman occupation and the tribes that occupied the British Isles before the Romans ever arrived, it’s a land that is steeped in history, mythology, and any other […]
At a special ceremony on Friday, 22 September, The National Library of Wales will be launching its Welsh Music Archive Programme in the presence of the folk music expert and Library benefactor, Phyllis Kinney. Rhodri Glyn Thomas, the National Library […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, has called for the rejection of plans for seven wind-turbines in the beautiful countryside around Llandegley, five miles east of Llandrindod Wells, Powys. The application, first submitted by Hendy Wind Farm […]
