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New artwork has been unveiled at Redrow Homes’ St David’s Meadow development in Colwinston after local artist, David Mackie, collaborated with children at the neighbouring St David’s Church in Wales Primary School to produce the masterpiece. The public art, which has taken two years to make, is made up of designs created by the pupils after David visited their school for a series of workshops and incorporated their artistic ideas into the finished article. The owls, hares…
Talent Ticker have recently made a high profile new hire. This week, market intelligence technology company Talent Ticker have announced that Andrew Cochlin, previously from Polecat, will be joining them as a CFO. Andrews experience has been on growing SaaS based technology businesses, which is perfect for ambitious technology start-up Talent Ticker. His background is in strategic formation and execution, financial and company operations, financial modelling and reporting, early stage corporate governance and preparation for equity funding. This makes…
Tom Abell, Managing Director and owner of Peccadillo Pictures, has been presented with the inaugural Iris Prize Fellowship. Honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the LGBT+ film industry, the fellowship recognises Tom’s services to LGBT+ film distribution in the UK. Directors, actors, producers, industry professionals and LGBT+ activists gathered at the Ministry in London to congratulate the much-loved LGBT+ champion Over the past 40 years, Tom’s commitment to sharing LGBT+ cinema has brought hundreds of films to…
Britain’s Got Talent’s Micky P Kerr had us all laughing with his performances last year. He talks to Carl Marsh ahead of his performance at The Glee Club on Sunday 5th May 2019 Carl Marsh: Would you say that of all the comedians, Bill Bailey has been a significant influence to you? Micky P Kerr: Yes, I think so because I’ve seen Bill Bailey a couple of times. I believe we are quite similar in the sense that we’re musical…
Starring in The Hustle alongside Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, which is in cinemas in May 2019, Carl Marsh speaks to actor Ingrid Oliver about her character Inspector Desjardins. Carl Marsh: You’re appearing in a remake of the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which I have seen about 50 times, and it’s called The Hustle. Ingrid Oliver: Really? Carl: – Yes, it is my ‘go-to-comedy’, you can’t beat a bit of Steve Martin’s character Freddy pretending to be…
Appearing at St Davids Hall on Sunday 26th May 2019,Howard Jones chats to Carl Marsh. Carl Marsh: Am I correct in saying that this new tour is going to be about the new album Transform and your first album, Human’s Lib? Howard Jones: Yes, I’m structuring it so it’ll be like one song from the heritage section and then one new one. We’ve gone back to all the songs I’ve chosen from the catalogue and revisited some of the sounds…
On Tuesday 7th May 2019, Katherine Jenkins performs at St David’s Hall in Cardiff, Carl Marsh chats to her in advance. Carl Marsh: Can I ask what your reasoning was behind the tracks you chose for this new album? Katherine Jenkins: It’s been four years since my last album came out and a lot has changed in that time. I was just married when the last album came out. Two children since. I just felt in a very different place….
A group of operators from the Craft Union Pub Company have raised £3,000 for two Down Syndrome charities by co-ordinating multiple climbs of Pen Y Fan – the largest peak in South Wales – over one day. In total, a group of six people successfully managed to scale and descend all 886m of Pen y Fan three times over one day. A second group of 12 people (and a dog) managed to navigate the challenging climb twice. The money…
A new £1 million fund has been launched by Co-op’s charity, The Co-op Foundation, today (Wednesday, 1 May) to enable groups in Wales with a community and environmental focus to safeguard spaces and become more sustainable. The funding boost has been generated by proceeds from the 5p single-use carrier bag charge in the Co-op’s Welsh food stores. Welsh groups can “bag” grants of up to £10,000 to explore enterprising ideas that could contribute to a more sustainable future for their…
AUDITIONING NOW EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY 15TH MAY 2019. Top comedian Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, A League of Their Own, Taskmaster…) will be hosting a new topical comedy entertainment series for BBC2, and we are looking for fantastic people to be a part of it! Romesh and his celebrity guests will get to the heart of the hot topics everyone’s talking about with the help of his Great British focus group – THE RANGANATION! We are looking…
