Following on from information AberdareOnline received from a local resident who has concerns regarding the proposed siting and planning application for the new school at Cwmaman. There are a number of serious questions that require answers, below are part of the text taken from a report “PRELIMINARY GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOTECHNICAL REPORT” Prepared by Earth…
19 January 2017 Dear Editor, Reading is such an important part of my life that I can’t imagine not being able to pick up a new book or read an old favourite. Thanks to RNIB’s (Royal National Institute of Blind People) Talking Books service, sight loss doesn’t have to mean losing access to…
Rarebit and Rioja – Recipes and wine tales from Wales by Dylan and Llinos Rowlands of Gwin Dylanwad Wine, Dolgellau, has been declared the national British winner in its category, Best Food and Wine at the 2017 Gourmand Awards. A Welsh cookbook by two local Welsh entrepreneurs has won a prestigious French cookbook award. Rarebit and Rioja – Recipes…
A study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, is the first to show that delirium can worsen cognitive decline in people with dementia. The new research was carried out by UCL and the University of Cambridge and was funded by the Wellcome Trust. When hospitalised, people can become very confused and disorientated. This condition is known as delirium…
Nominations are now open for the 2017 Youth Work Excellence Awards! The Youth Work Excellence Awards will take place in Cardiff on 23 June 2017. The evening is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate outstanding youth work projects and youth workers from across Wales. This year there have been some changes to the categories of…
The word 'Attesa' means hope or expectation, and the spatialist artist Lucio Fontana, wrote it on the back of his slashed canvases. It is with this optimism that these artists: Lee Williams, Jonathan Anderson and Mark Halliday have come together to work on this theme. The works in this exhibition are linked to industrial…
There’s never a good time to be given devastating news, but how much worse is it when there’s no-one around to comfort, support, advise and help when you’ve been told the worse. This was the scenario facing thousands of people with sight loss across Wales until recent years. Being given hope and support at…
