A party of young choristers from Carmarthenshire are flying out to Eastern Europe today (Mon) on the trip of a lifetime. Next Saturday (July 22) 42 secondary school pupils from the county will be representing Wales and the UK at […]
Sunday 9th July saw the official unveiling by HRH Prince Charles of a six month project at Myddfai Community Hall & Visitor Centre. The community project, funded by Brecon Beacons Sustainable Development fund invited members of the community to learn […]
Eleven agricultural workers from across Wales, who together have notched up a remarkable 479 years of service, will receive a Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Long Service Medal in recognition of their length of service to the agricultural industry at this […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s leading pressure-group for open spaces, says that today’s launch of a new ‘comprehensive map of greenspaces’ fails to deliver the Government’s commitment to map ‘all open-access green space’. The Ordnance Survey has announced the publication […]
The 2017 all Wales clamp and big bale silage competitions run by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society and the Federation of Welsh Grassland Societies, has again seen some top quality silage produced by many of the best silage growers from […]
The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth is excited to present Places of Wales, a new online platform for people to search for places in its collections. The first collection to be made available is the Tithe Maps of Wales. Produced […]
With the theme of shepherding skills, the winner of this year’s Royal Welsh Agricultural Society’s Dr Emrys Evans Award is Mr Dewi Jenkins from Talybont, Ceredigion. This year there were seven candidates for the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society’s Dr Emrys […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s leading pressure-group for the protection of common land, is disappointed that Welsh ministers have approved an application from Western Power Distribution to site an overhead electricity line, with 16 poles, on a South Wales common. […]
The National Library of Wales and Aberystwyth University is preparing to host hundreds of sixth-formers in a series of Welsh Baccalaureate Experience Days this summer. The aim of the educational programme is to offer pupils expert guidance on tackling the […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s leading pressure-group for common land, is relieved that, following the refusal of £210 million in backing from the Welsh Government, the Circuit of Wales motor-race track will apparently not now be built on a square […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, has plunged into the debate on the future of the designated landscapes of Wales. The Open Spaces Society ’s general secretary, Kate Ashbrook, highlights the threat to Wales’s national parks and […]
In partnership with Wicipedia Cymraeg editors, Wikimedia UK, the Welsh Government and the National Library of Wales, Sain (Records) (www.sainwales.com) have opened up some of their content on a Creative Commons open licence, in order to share with a wider […]
