Watch out Julien MacDonald, there is a new Welsh designer, from Coleg Sir Gar, about to take the fashion world by storm. Lian Cara Poulson is the winner of the Beacon Bursary and will receive a cash prize of £3000, […]
Lecturer presented with Pearson Teaching Award Coleg Sir Gar lecturer Charlie Hammond, has won a silver award in the Pearson Teaching Awards’ category of outstanding use of technology. Selected from thousands of nominations across the UK and Ireland, Charlie, who […]
The National Library of Wales is pleased to announce that it has launched the fresh new Welsh Journals website, its largest research resource to date and which allows free digital access to over 1.2 million pages from over 450 Welsh […]
The National Library of Wales and BBC Wales can now develop ambitious plans to provide public access to the BBC Wales archive at four digital heritage hubs to be located at Aberystwyth, Wrexham, Carmarthen and Cardiff. In addition, a thousand […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s leading pressure-group for common land, is delighted at this development which will enable people to record and protect their ‘lost’ commons. Once common land is on the register, it potentially gives the public the right […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, is delighted that Powys’s Planning Committee has almost unanimously rejected plans for seven wind-turbines at Llandegley, five miles east of Llandrindod Wells, Powys. The society was among numerous objectors to the […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, has slated plans for seven wind-turbines in the quiet countryside five miles east of Llandrindod Wells, Powys. The application, first submitted by Hendy Wind Farm Ltd in 2014, comes before Powys […]
The Open Spaces Society has urged its members in Wales to contact their council candidates for the local-government elections on 4 May and ask for their support for public paths, open spaces, common land and village greens. The society refers […]
Open Spaces Society deplores further erosion of green-space protection The government has struck a further blow to open spaces. The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s leading pressure-group for town and village greens, is dismayed that the government has introduced further measures […]
Major National Lottery funding boost enables The National Library of Wales to partner with the British Library and a new national network on a ground-breaking audio preservation project. The British Library is today launching Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, a major […]
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, has objected to a planning application for 18 dwellings and associated works in the village of Glasbury on the River Wye in Powys. The Open Spaces Society is concerned that the […]
The volunteers of the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority were celebrated on Friday 7 April at a special awards ceremony. Held at the Authority Head Office in Brecon, the event was attended by National Park Authority members, volunteers, staff and […]
