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 […]
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 […]
