Lewis talks to local boxer Ryan Mac about his upcoming fight his gym and his life.
PODCAST: How has the loss of Thomas Cook affected workers in our community
With the news of the collapse of Thomas Cook in September and the potential of 2,500 travel agents jobs being saved by Hays Travel, what about the thousands of other jobs in different areas of Thomas Cook have been affected. Sound Radio Wales and Community Voice presenter Paul Toal spoke to […]
Podcast: Crowds gather to greet the arrival on the new £2.5m Shannon Class Lifeboat at Rhyl
The crowds came out to see the arrival of the new Shannon Class Lifeboat arriving at Rhyl Lifeboat station on Sunday 13th October. Sound Radio Wales was on hand to help create a celebratory with music and a live broadcast. The new £2.5m Shannon also known as the “Anthony Kenneth Heard” […]
Bee Watch – October – Start of a New Year?
Honeybees are reducing colony size and consolidating honey stores for overwinter survival, feeding from buddleia and ivy the workers are also evicting male drone bees from the colonies, the drones will die but it is nature’s way of conserving stores, the drones consume honey and do not forage, new drones […]
Bee Watch September – The Start of the End
September, great Honey Fair in Conwy, reasonable weather and the seasons final major source of forage is starting to open – Ivy. Ivy attracts many pollinators, there is even an Ivy Bee, a solitary bee emerging currently, my photo of the Ivy bee happens to be on Tamarix, but that’s […]
Christ The Word Catholic School – Rhyl
Sound Radio were invited to view Christ the Word Catholic School in Rhyl, which is to be opened in September 2019. Andrea Faulkner spoke to Councillor Huw Hilditch-Roberts, Lead Member for Education, Children’s Services and Public Engagement, and Amanda Preston, about the school and its future. We were greated by […]
Bee Watch – August Swarms
Honey bees swarm in a natural propagation process, creating two or more colonies from one by colony division; usually this takes place early in the summer / late spring giving both parts of the divided colony time to recover and fill their honey reserves before winter. But I had an […]
Bee Watch – Honey and Wax – End of July
We have meandered through bee related events since Easter, tracking the seasonal forage and varied diet of honey bees and which forage is shared with bumble bees, other solitary bees, hover flies and other pollinators; all making the continuous presence of diverse seasonal food sources (forage) very important for bees, […]
Bee Watch – What’s Happening in July
So over the weeks of this season we have looked at forage for bees and pollinating insects, the development of the honey bee colony from around 10,000 bees that overwinter in a hive by consuming the stores of pollen and honey set up during the previous summer; to now as […]
Bee Watch – End of June – Dearth and Parasites
June is sometimes a month of some dearth for bees between the main forage times of fruit trees and summer flowers. This month so far bees have been foraging on early blackberry, more cotoneaster, and clover is just starting and various garden flowers, including my tomatoes. In St Mary’s Towyn […]