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  Leading training provider, Qube Learning, hosted their annual award ceremony last night to applaud their passionate and hardworking Apprentices, Trainees, Employees and Employers. The inspiring occasion was held at the well-known venue Proud in Embankment and was hosted by the famous Silver Medalist and World Record Holder, Colin Jackson CBE. Colin said “In my youth, I was unsure of what I wanted to do but I found sport and I knew I had discovered something that would get me…

Cardiff’s university students have been taking a break from the books, and getting on their bikes, to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing.  Students living in CRM Student accommodation across Cardiff took part in a unique cycling, walking and rowing challenge on Tuesday (May 14). Organisers encouraged students to pedal, walk and row miles – with CRM Students’ five accommodation blocks clocking up an incredible 1,197 miles on Tuesday alone. Students pledged to cycle, row or walk miles, while…

Wales manager Ryan Giggs has named a 26-player squad for a training camp in Portugal ahead of next month’s Euro 2020 qualifying round matches against Croatia and Hungary.   Giggs has selected a strong squad for the camp including Gareth Bale, Joe Allen, David Brooks and Dan James. Ben Davies and Ben Woodburn will be unavailable due to Tottenham Hotspur’s and Liverpool’s involvement in this year’s UEFA Champions League final while Harry Wilson, Tom Lawrence and Neil Taylor will be…

Award-winning trumpet player, Chris Hodgkins, leads an outstanding Anglo/American quartet for this UK tour – New York based, South Korean Jinjoo Yoo on piano, guitarist Wayne Wilkinson and Alison Rayner on bass. “I had the opportunity to record and work with Wayne in the UK in 2017 and for the tour I added Alison Rayner – my favourite bass player,” explains Hodgkins.  “A year ago I heard Jinjoo Yoo’s work on a blog “Jazz Lives”. I was knocked out with her playing,…

★★★★★ Metro ★★★★★ Time Out ★★★★ The Sunday Times ★★★★ Mail On Sunday ★★★★ Daily Mail ★★★★ Daily Express ★★★★ TV Times ★★★★ Londonist A riotous splicing of live music and comedy The Observer Genuinely clever… they really are good at music… come back soon The Daily Telegraph It’s a band of professional musicians fronted by Taskmaster’s Alex Horne, who turns their abilities to pluck a tune into brilliant comedy magic Radio Times The six-headed comedy band The Horne Section…

Michael Ball is, indeed, having a ball – today celebrating his first No.1 solo album in almost three decades with ‘Coming Home To You’, released last week on Decca Records. Landing straight at the top spot of the Official UK Album Charts on release, the star of stage, screen, radio and record has outdone himself, even by his own prolific standards. Michael’s 21st studio album has placed him ahead of albums from Jack Savoretti, Tom Walker and George Ezra, and…

The VIA Arts Prize, the UK’s only Ibero-American themed arts award, has launched its 2019 Call for Entries, and is celebrating the fifth edition of the respected Prize. The VIA Art’s Prize’s mission is to deepen cultural awareness of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese arts and cultures in the UK. All UK-based artists of any nationality are invited to submit an original artwork specifically inspired by Ibero-American arts and culture. Through this specific brief, those behind the prize seek to…

Six in ten people with dementia say they experience loneliness and isolation. Alzheimer’s Society’s #AskUsAnything launches Dementia Action Week 20-26 May, calling on people to start talking and include people living with dementia Each year, 6,000 more people with dementia are predicted to be living by themselves, according to leading dementia charity Alzheimer’s Society. The figures were released to mark the launch of the charity’s #AskUsAnything campaign, which runs throughout Dementia Action Week (20-26 May). The campaign aims to end…

Staff at recruitment firm, Hoop Recruitment in Cardiff are taking on various fundraising activities this year to help raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities UK which provides free accommodation for families with poorly children. Their first activity was a tea party as part of the Charity’s “Let’s Get TEAgether” campaign which is encouraging individuals, communities and corporate groups to hold an afternoon tea or tea party to help raise awareness and funds. The campaign launched on 15 May which…

Vaughan Gething, Health Minister of Wales has paid a visit to pupils at a high school who’ve decided to cut down on the use of plastic bottles. Pupils from St Illtyds Catholic High School, in Cardiff, believe that plastic bottles are contributing to the growing plastic pollution of the oceans and are on a mission to reduce their own plastic waste. Vaughan Gething praised the ambitious group of Year 9 students for raising the issue and for their conscientious work…