Financial planning firm unveils ‘game-changing’ platform to slash adviser admin time
AN award-winning financial planner is preparing to launch a new digital platform designed to save IFAs and advice firms thousands of hours in administration every year. Rob Lewis, founder of North Wales-based Celtic Financial Planning, has spent more than 18 months developing Fincate Pro, which aims to transform the way businesses prepare suitability reports and…
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Classroom comeback to caring career as mum sets sights on midwifery
A MUM who spent years dreaming of becoming a midwife has transformed her life after returning to education in her late twenties and forging a new career in healthcare. Kristi Edwards left a job in retail to enrol at Coleg Cambria, taking the first steps towards a future in nursing and her long-held ambition of…
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Birthday boy Matthew making Welsh college proud at Rugby League World Cup
A TEENAGE rugby player will celebrate his 17th birthday representing Wales at the World Cup in Australia – with his dad lining up alongside him. Matthew Turner, who studies Level 3 Esports at Coleg Cambria Deeside, was selected for the Wales Wheelchair Rugby League squad alongside his father, Martin. They are one of two father-and-son…
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From exam setbacks to award-winning success for determined Deeside accountant
A DEESIDE accountant who battled through exam setbacks and even changed jobs to continue her studies is looking ahead to the next stage of her career. Leanne Denny, who works for BA Commercial Ltd, has completed AAT Levels 2, 3 and 4 at Coleg Cambria and now plans to continue her studies with CIMA. Now…
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From Deeside Sixth to global law firm as Nathan makes his mark
A FORMER Coleg Cambria student has launched a promising legal career with one of the world’s leading international law firms after securing a prestigious solicitor degree apprenticeship. Nathan Hall, 23, from Holywell, studied Business, Law, French and the Welsh Baccalaureate at the college’s Deeside Sixth before joining global law firm Ashurst Perkins Coie, where he…
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From drought to booming business as 12,500-acre organic farm reflects on year of extremes
FROM drought-stricken hillsides and silent hydro turbines to booming retail sales and international interest, it has been a year of extremes for one of Wales’ best-known organic farm estates. The 12,500-acre Rhug Estate, near Corwen in Denbighshire, endured a prolonged dry summer which placed enormous pressure on livestock, water supplies and renewable energy production. While…
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From Westminster to Wales via India as young planner joins growing consultancy
FROM advising ministers at Westminster to practising yoga in India, a chartered planner has returned to North Wales with a new outlook on life and a passion for making a difference. Emma Lewis has joined expanding consultancy Cadnant Planning, bringing experience of the English planning system, government programmes, major city developments and national planning policy…
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Forestry partnership branches out to support future of UK’s sustainable timber industry
Tilhill Forestry, the UK’s leading integrated forestry business, and Foresight Group, a leading infrastructure and private capital investment manager, announce that the Foresight Sustainable Forestry Skills Training Programme successfully completed an intensive four-week programme for its fifth cohort at Coleg Cambria Llysfasi. Four participants undertook a packed timetable designed to give them practical, industry-relevant skills…
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Manufacturing leader goes back to the classroom to strengthen skills behind 300-strong workforce
A MANUFACTURING leader responsible for more than 300 employees at one of North Wales’s largest production sites completed a business degree with Coleg Cambria to strengthen the leadership skills behind his engineering career. Scott Clarke, from Connah’s Quay, achieved the BSc (Hons) Applied Business Management at Cambria’s Northop Business School, having previously finished the Foundation…
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Founding Wrexham university chief brings acclaimed Shakespeare trilogy to its final act
A LEADING Shakespeare scholar and former university vice chancellor has completed the final instalment of an acclaimed literary trilogy that reimagines the life, loves and final days of William Shakespeare through the eyes of a time-travelling psychotherapist. Professor Michael Kerr Scott has released Shakespeare, Sex and the Psychotherapist through Edward Everett Root Publishers. The novel completes…
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