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Amazon bosses apparently either don’t know or don’t care about the appalling health and safety record in their Swansea warehouse. A total of 84 serious health and safety incidents at Amazon’s Swansea warehouses have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive since 2015/16, a GMB Union investigation has revealed. This was the second highest number of reported incidents for Amazon warehouses in the UK. According to RIDDOR reports, workers have been hit by moving objects, hit by fixed objects,…
Great Western Railway is marking 100 years since the end of the Great War with a special ceremony to commemorate the 2,545 railway workers who were lost in battle. The centrepiece of the ceremony at Paddington Station today unveils a special Intercity Express Train featuring the names of all 2,545 men who worked for the GWR and were killed during the war. Those being remembered worked in all areas of the company; engineers, labourers, solicitors, carriage cleaners and apprentices…
Community Health Councils (CHCs) in Wales are concerned about fines and additional costs issued by the NHS Business Services Authority to patients following dental treatment. In particular they are concerned that the complexity surrounding the entitlement to free treatment for people on certain benefits makes it too easy for people to make mistakes. Over recent months they have heard from a number of people who have found themselves with significant fines because they mistakenly believed that they were entitled to…
The Bootleg Beatles are delighted to announce their 2018-19 tour of the UK starting this December. The band along with their renowned string and brass ensemble will visit seventeen cities. Tickets are on sale now from www.bootlegbeatles.com and direct from venues. As ever, the band will perform favourites from the whole Beatles’ catalogue but will also bring a special focus onto some key tracks from the ‘White Album’ – playing many of them for the very first time! As…
Reef have announced a UK headline tour for November and December 2018.The revitalized West-Country rockers recently concluded the ‘Britrock Must Be Destroyed’ Tour with The Wildhearts and Terrorvision, which included a headline appearance at London’s legendary Hammersmith Apollo. They will follow a summer of prestigious Festival appearances with a tour of Australia and Japan before they embark on this extensive UK tour. Reef’s first studio album for 18 years, ‘Revelation’, charted at No.26 in the UK album chart last month…
1step2be, a new free-of-charge portal is changing the way of donating to charities by allowing individuals to have full control over where the money goes for their clothes, without spending a penny. 1step2be turns unwanted textiles into money and donates the money to a cause of their choice. Not only that, a courier comes to the donors, weighs the textiles and tells them instantly how much their unwanted clothes will make for their chosen cause. Around 75% of households admitted…
Original music inspired by the British & Irish Lions remembrance of war veterans was released on Monday 5 November 2018 in support of the ground-breaking There But Not There Campaign. The moving and original classical music single has been released for download to raise money for Remembered, the charity behind the There But Not There Campaign to commemorate the centenary of the World War One Armistice. As this centenary Armistice Day approaches the airwaves will be filled with…
The Kennel Club has welcomed the announcement by the Welsh Assembly Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths, of a consultation about a ban on the practice of selling puppies via third parties. The Kennel Club, whose own regulations explicitly ban the sale of puppies to third parties, has long called for an end to the sale of puppies in pet shops and by other third party retailers, as puppy farmers often use such outlets to sell…
It’s been announced that the Captain James Wadsworth Challenges 2018 raised a staggering £13,100 for Felix Fund, the charity which helps bomb disposal and search personnel and their families. Now, as three exciting endurance events are launched for 2019, you’re invited to join the challenges and ride, run and swim whilst raising much needed funds. Following the successful Tour de Troops 2018, which saw participants cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats, in just five days, you can be part of…
A collection of letters and photographs from the archive at the National Army Museum depict the conflicting emotions of Armistice. They describe the tragic death of 19 year-old Second Lieutenant Noel Evans on the morning peace was signed, and the impact it had on those close to him. For thousands of families who had suffered the loss of loved ones during the war, the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918 was a bittersweet occasion. Feelings of jubilation and…
