Author: Manon Rosser
A team of chefs from Mid Wales has put the region on the map by winning the prestigious Battle of the Dragon competition at the nation’s top culinary event. Led by experienced Welsh National Culinary Team member Nick Davies, chef patron of the Lion Hotel,Llandinam, the team held off a strong challenge from North and… Read more »
Workmates and friends of Cambrian Training Company’s marketing manager Katy Godsell dug deep into their pockets over the festive season to raise £553 for the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Katy, who works at the award-winning training company’s Welshpool headquarters, has recently completed treatment for breast cancer. Because the lives of… Read more »
One of Wales’ best known butchers is appealing to learners and employers to enter this year Vocational Qualification (VQ) Awards, which are being launched today (Wednesday, February 5). Tomi Jones, 24, owner of Jones’s Butchers, Llangollen, received a major boost to his career and business after winning the VQ Learner of the Year award for… Read more »
The success of any sports club is often dictated by the strength of its support network and supply chain that delivers talented young players capable of competing at the highest level. COBRA Rugby Club is a perfect example of a club that aims to be strong from the roots upwards. Formed as Caereinion Old Boys… Read more »
North Wales butcher Matthew Edwards proved himself a cut above the rest as he won a keenly contested Welsh Young Butcher Competition at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair on Tuesday. Edwards, 22, who works for S. A. Vaughan Family Butchers, Penyfford, near Chester, went one better than last year, when he was runner up, to… Read more »
An open evening with butchery and cookery demonstrations atWelshpool-based Welsh Beef and Lamb PGI cutting plant, WMO, has been hailed a great success. Thirty-five existing and new customers attended the event held at the company’s Welsh Centre of Excellence for Butchery Skills at Unit 13, Severn Farm Enterprise Park. Butcher Ramos Venys demonstrated how to… Read more »
Former champion Tomos Hopkin returns to action to try and win the Welsh Young Butcher Competition for the fourth time next month. Hopkins, 20, from Gwyrhyd Mountain Meat, Rhiwfawr, nearSwansea, is one of four young butchers selected for the showpiece final at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair in Builth Wells on Tuesday, December 3. He… Read more »
Welsh rally driver Tom Cave enjoyed a strong finish to the 2013 Wales Rally GB, having set a string of impressive stage times throughout the event. Despite a series of penalties for leaving service late following extensive and over-running mechanical work during the event, the young driver, who celebrated his 22nd birthday during the rally,… Read more »
Welsh rally driver Tom Cave’s dream of competing on this year’s Wales Rally Great Britain in a Ford Fiesta R5 took one step closer today, when he visited the MSL Motorsport workshop for a seat fitting on ‘his’ R5. He and co-driver Ieuan Thomas tailored the car to fit them, practiced wheel changes and began… Read more »
Tomi Jones, an award-winning Butcher from Llangollen, has been announced this week as the first food skills ambassador for the ‘Future Skills… food for thought’ campaign. As an ambassador for the campaign Tomi will be featured in the first of a series of short films highlighting the important role skills play in delivering quality long-term… Read more »
