It isn’t the traditional recording studio with technicians behind a glass window. But Bywyd Studios in Cardiff Bay, the creation of two University of South Wales MSc students, offers a different approach to making music. Leone Vuetivavalagi and Thomas Westgard say they favour the… View More

A Welsh automotive company is expanding into Vietnam in a multimillion pound  move. Waldon, in the Rhondda Valley, is to open a wholly-owned subsidiary in Ho Chi Minh City with the long term plan of manufacturing parts for cars and selling them to car-makers and system suppliers worldwide.  Welsh solicitors Berry Smith have played a key… View More

Welsh firms are increasingly having to submit to cyber ransom demands to keep their businesses up and running, says a South Wales IT expert. The cost of this form of criminality is estimated as high as £27bn in the UK - and this type of crime is on the rise. Luke Hodge of B2B IT, the Cardiff-based specialist IT firm in dealing with cybercrime, is an expert at helping businesses cope with disaster recovery. Mr Hodge… View More

Two best friends have opened a new crèche in Cwmbran with the aim of helping isolated mothers and also those who want to visit the shops without the children in tow. Lauleigh’s in Cwmbran Parade, at the heart of the busy shopping complex, opened its doors in early January. Lindsey Leigh and Lauren Innes, who are both 32 and have six… View More

A Tredegar engineering firm has a new management team in place to launch its £600,000 expansion programme. M&J Europe’s new team is to oversee the ambitious plans for growth of the family-run firm, which, using its funding package, aims to break the £3 million turnover ceiling in three… View More

The future of journalism depends, of course, on the quality and diversity of its new entrants. For over 40 years Cardiff Journalism School has produced young journos of the highest calibre, and is still at the top of its game as it prepares to move to new premises in Cardiff city centre. As the industry adapts to the digital world, CJS has adapted too, equipping its students with the skills they will need for the new, and ever… View More

  Richard Kelly is putting the finishing touches to a Romany caravan –  in a workshop in the South Wales valleys. The 52-year-old former HGV driver from Abertillery has just launched a business making the traditional-style wagons in a unit at the Ebbw Vale Innovation Centre (EVIC) in Ebbw Vale. He has been aided in the… View More

Hundreds of journalists and some would-be ones had been invited there to celebrate 40 years of journalism teaching at City, University of London. The postgraduate diploma in journalism was launched in 1977, a rival to then only other similar course in the UK – at Cardiff. We were among the first to graduate with our diplomas after a year of exciting training which included talks by Michael Palin and the then legendary editor… View More

Getting on the course gave rise to feelings of joy, but also uncertainty. I'd worked hard to get on it; writing and designing a student newspaper, working at The Retail Newsagent, writing tons of applications letters, being told I was too easy-going for journalism. The joy was palpable, the uncertainty was financial. In those days (the final years of the Seventies) HIgher Education was massively over-funded. Grants for an… View More

Ex-steelman Gavin Horton is on a quest - for the perfect cup of coffee. The former quality control man for Tata Steel - and self-confessed perfectionist - has set up Horton’s Coffee House on Millennium Walk in Newport city centre with an investment of £200,000. And when it comes to coffee making equipment he has bought the best - an Italian La Marzocco espresso machine with “added extras”, of which there are just a few in the… View More