The company behind the Wylfa Newydd nuclear-power plant will pay £1 million towards an engineering centre on Anglesey. Horizon Nuclear Power (www.horizonnuclearpower.com) said that it is happy to support the Grwp Llandrillo Menais Llangefni building (the Welsh Assembly Government pledged £5 million to the centre last year).

Grwp Llandrillo Menai chief executive Glyn Jones said he wants to “ensure that as many local people as possible gain the world-class skills required to work at Wylfa Newydd”.

Duncan Hawthorne, CEO at Horizon, said: “I am delighted to announce this landmark funding provision for Grwp Llandrillo Menai. The construction of this ‘state of the art’ facility in Llangefni will be central to our training provision for local people, giving them the world-class skills that we’ll need.”

Meanwhile, more than £4 million in funding has been provided by the Welsh Assembly Government for a technology centre at Coleg Cambria in Wrexham. The funding will be used to refurbish existing buildings, as well as constructing a new two-storey technology building on the college’s Bersham Road Campus.

The technology centre will provide “an improved industry-standard learning facility for construction, engineering and manufacturing”. It is due to be completed by September 2017 and will accommodate more than 500 students.

Welsh Assembly Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said: “The building will provide new facilities to enhance the college’s curriculum offer for meeting current student and employer needs.

“The demand for something new and different in post-16 provision is not just about raising levels of achievement and skills; it is about driving the wider Welsh economy.”