Caerphilly, Wales: South Wales video production company, CineMerse were invited to exhibit at 10 Downing Street on Thursday 30th November after achieving selection as part of the top 100 small businesses in the UK. This year, CineMerse were selected as one of the top 100 UK small businesses by Small Business Saturday as listed in the Guardian. As part of the accolade, the company achieved an official press day on November 4th alongside an invite to number 10 Downing Street…

Success continues at one of Cardiff’s top performing secondary schools. Mary Immaculate High School, located in Wenvoe on the Western side of Cardiff, has once again received the top accolade in the Welsh Government categorisation, making it one of only nine schools in Wales to achieve the top grading for the fourth year running. Mary Immaculate High School is one of the very few secondary schools in Wales to have achieved the top grading of Green 1A every year since…

Cardiff and Vale UHB is thrilled to announce that Ysgol y Ddraig in Llantwit Major will be the eighth school in the Vale of Glamorgan to achieve a National Quality Award. Years of hard work have paid off today as the staff and pupils of Ysgol y Ddraig were presented with the prestigious Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes’ National Quality Award (NQA). Rebecca Cadman, the school’s acting head teacher was delighted with the national recognition of her school’s hard…

George Clarke’s Old House, New Home for Channel 4 is back for a second series and he wants to feature homes in Cardiff. George wants to highlight the wealth and diversity of local housing stock, and celebrate architecture and craftsmanship in the area, so from the 22nd January his team will be in the area searching for people planning major interior makeovers. The series will help families uncover historic hidden gems, and create fabulous homes fit for the future. George says: “The problem is…

  Economy Secretary, Ken Skates has congratulated Cardiff based digital company Object Matrix on securing over £2 million in export orders from countries including Brazil, USA, Sweden and Colombia. Object Matrix is famous for its Digital Content Governance platform, MatrixStore, which stores digital content and provides protection and governance for its lifetime. The MatrixStore platform can service organisations in any market, but is currently being predominantly used by companies that create, curate and distribute digital video content. These include major…

  Two nurses from the University Hospital of Wales have been recognised as ‘Beacons of Hope’ by the Lymphoma Association because of their dedication to supporting people affected by lymphoma, the UK’s fifth most common cancer. Sara Busby, a senior staff nurse on the young adult cancer day unit, won her award for her commitment to supporting young adult Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Deputy sister of the Out Patients Department Vivienne Hayes was nominated by a colleague who wrote that Sister…

  People in Wales are being asked to unite with thousands of others across the UK and step closer to a cure for Parkinson’s. Today, Thursday 11 January, is Parkinson’s UK’s launch of Walk for Parkinson’s 2018, and the charity is inviting people of all ages and abilities to sign up to a walk near them. Walks in Wales include Snowdon on Saturday 12 May, Swansea on Saturday 19 May, which is a brand new walk for 2018, Cardiff Bay…

  With the departure of Abi Welsford as Captain announced last week, Head Coach Kevin Johnson and the playing group have opted to review their leadership structure as the group look forward to the Commonwealth Games and World League round 1 in 2018 and beyond. Speaking about the future Johnson has emphasised that as a squad, it’s vital they continue to be aspirational about their development and remain focused on open and honest reflections on their growth as a group….

  Welsh sustainable fashion company, Maykher is celebrating the New Year by funding a new school placement for a young Guatemalan girl’s. The Cardiff-based fashion brand has reached its first ‘purchase with purpose’ milestone and has this month helped fund for 14-year-old Irma’s full-time education for the next year. From January 2018, Irma is now enrolled in a school close to her home in a small village in rural Guatemala, not far from the city of Sololá where she’ll be studying her own local dialect, Kakchiquel, English, Spanish,…

  ABP’s network of five ports in South Wales handled 12.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2017  thanks to major investment in infrastructure and an ongoing commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service. 12.5 million tonnes of cargo were handled at Newport, Cardiff, Barry, Port Talbot and Swansea with strong growth seen in both traditional and emerging sectors, serving South Wales and the wider UK economy. Year-on-year growth was seen in several commodities including fertiliser to support the agriculture…