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Welsh sporting icons Jade Jones and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson are among twelve top UK athletes competing for public votes after reaching the finals of this year’s 25th Birthday National Lottery Awards – the annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded athlete and projects.   The Sporting Legend category in the Awards provides a golden opportunity to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the UK’s world class National Lottery funded athletes, whilst demonstrating the impact that National Lottery players have had…

CLUB TROPICANA – WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE – 13 AUGUST 2019 By Alan Coulthard Most people love a good juke box musical and ‘Club Tropicana’ definitely comes into that category.  In fact, it is quite brilliant! What I like most is that, rather than use the lyrics and titles of the songs to progress the plot in the style of ‘Mamma Mia’ (which some would say is ‘artificial’ and ‘contrived’), in Club Tropicana the songs are weaved more naturally into the…

Melissa Compton.   Ralph Oates recently published book: a round of boxing is a beautifully put together timeline of key events in the sport of boxing from 1891- 2017. The book which is conveniently split into 10 chapters or rounds as they are called each covering a specific time frame. A lot of the information in the first few is essential reading and a base point for the rest of the book with the Forward written by Gary ‘Dynamite’ De…

Souls Awakening is pleased to be back at this fantastic venue for the Family Mind, Body, Spirit event for Summer 2019. After the success of last year’s event we are back with a bigger and better offering including NEW ice cream van, Street Food Vendors & New outdoor craft market. A beautiful day of enlightenment, relaxation and inspiration for all the family.  Insole Court will welcome the Mind Body Spirit event. It will offer you selection of therapies, sessions and…

A MAGICAL NEW PRODUCTION FEATURING BALLET STARS OF THE FUTURE (3 PERFORMANCES ONLY) English Youth Ballet premiers a new production of Swan Lake at the New Theatre. It promises to be a traditional production but with particular emphasis on the rivalry between the seductive evil Black Swan Odile and the beautiful but vulnerable White Swan Odette, as they compete for the affections of the Prince. Set in Russia in at the time when the Marinsky Ballet was popular with the…

South Wales Fire Service giving a talk to countryside organisations at Ruabon Mountain Firefighters from South Wales Fire Service spoke at a fire awareness day, organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), at Ruabon Mountain on August 1st. The 7,000-acre heather moorland, which is rich in grouse and waders including curlew and golden plover, has a strong collaboration between the graziers, gamekeepers, landowner and shoot captain. Craig Hope, from South Wales Fire Service, believes that reducing the risk…

Nominations for the 22nd UK Coaching Awards are now open. Hosted by UK Coaching, the annual event will be held at The Tower Hotel London on the 5 December 2019 and will showcase the diverse work of coaches from all walks of life helping people improve their well-being and activity levels. UK Coaching’s research shows that the UK coaching community is diverse at grassroots levels, and through working alongside UK Sport and Sport England more is being done to attract…

Wales’ largest celebration of diversity and equality is set to create its biggest throwback yet, as artists from the 90s will join the stage for Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend. In honour of its first ever Pride which was held back in 1999, the Welsh LGBT+ charity is having a big 90’s birthday party on the evening of Sunday 25 August. The day will kick off with a trip to the musicals, which will include Welsh talent Peter Karrie, (who played…

This summer it is easier than ever to have a great family day out along the Wales Coast Path with the introduction of a new free augmented reality (AR) app. The app has been launched to encourage local families from across South Wales to get outdoors during the summer holidays and to ensure the region’s fantastic views, glorious wildlife diversity, fascinating history and wondrous legends are brought to life using augmented reality, games and other fun features. Locations and discoveries…

A nurse at Wales’ largest Emergency Unit is the first nurse in Wales to receive Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) accreditation from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM). Ponnie Jayakumar, who has worked at the Emergency Unit at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) since 2003, started her journey towards the new RCEM accreditation in 2015 after qualifying as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in 2013. Ponnie started her nursing career in India in 1992 and came to Wales to join…