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  THE legendary Paul Carrack is back with his best album in years and he’s coming to St David’s Hall on Sunday 10 March. Paul remains one of the most revered voices in music and a figurehead of soulful pop for decades. These Days is his most accomplished collection of songs in his distinguished career featuring 11 new compositions – six self-penned tracks and five co-writes with his old Squeeze bandmate, Chris Difford. With an extensive back catalogue of hits…

  In the early hours of the 14th of February 1988 a young woman is murdered in an unlit, empty flat above a betting shop at number 7 James Street in Cardiff’s docklands. Any murder is shocking but this one… particularly unsettling. Twenty-year-old Lynette White had been subjected to a vicious and frenzied knife attack. A team of 50 detectives set about the hunt for her killer. That investigation led not only to one of the UK’s most notorious miscarriages…

  Fundraising travel company challenges adventurers with a new way to conquer Africa’s mightiest mountain. Fundraising tour operator, Charity Challenge has launched a thrilling new way for adventurers to conquer Africa’s highest peak, crossing its remote Northern Icefields. The new “Kilimanjaro North Face Climb” itinerary from Charity Challenge takes adventurers up the virtually untouched north flank of the mountain, allowing them to reach the summit in daylight, something that the traditional Kili climbs have not been able to do. The…

  Sarah Rowe is busy training for her first London Marathon and she’s never short of motivation – because it surrounds her every day she goes to work. Sarah is manager of the Bridgend Disability Support Service which helps children and young people up to the age of 25 develop the skills and confidence to get involved with local sports and leisure activities and she has seen the life changing impact it has on many of them. The service is…

We all remember picking up a dictionary as a child and surreptitiously looking up that rude word you heard in the playground, but now Oxford University Press (OUP) will publish the first collection of cheeky words that parents will love too: Roald Dahl’s Rotsome & Repulsant Words, on World Book Day, Thursday 7th March 2019. Naughty words have been making their way into dictionaries since the eighteenth century, and even Samuel Johnson (who omitted most of them) permitted bum to…

The Football Association of Wales has today (Wednesday, 6 March) announced the Wales squad for the ‘C International Challenge Match’ against England at Salford City’s Peninsula Stadium on Tuesday, 19 March. Manager Mark Jones has selected a squad of 21 players from the JD Welsh Premier League, which includes a blend of experience and youth. The squad was announced via a special video recorded by fans from around Wales revealing the players from their respective clubs. Each video clip was…

  *FOUR RUNNERS AIM TO BREAK THE FASTEST KNOWN TIME FOR THE OFFA’S DYKE PATH* *ULTRA-RUN WILL SEE THE RUNNERS AIM TO BEAT THE 64 HOURS 10 MINUTES KNOWN RECORD* *CHALLENGE AIMS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WALES AIR AMBULANCE* *TEAM TO BE SUPPORTED BY TYWYN & MONMOUTH BASED WELSH SNACK BRAND WILD TRAIL* Four runners from North Wales will aim to break the fastest known time for the Offa’s Dyke Path this March to help raise funds for Wales Air…

  Staff at the Ebbw Vale branch of McDonald’s put on a Psychic Medium night to raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities (UK), the independent charity which provides free ‘home away from home’ accommodation to families with sick children in hospitals across the UK. The event was led by Kim Parry, a shift supervisor from the restaurant who has also volunteered a number of times at her local Ronald McDonald House based at the University Hospital of Wales in…

Visitors to Cardiff’s Roath Park are being kept up to date with what’s going on at the popular amenity thanks to a £4,000 grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help Scheme. The Friends of Roath Park group, which has been supporting the park since 2011, has used funding from the supermarket scheme to put up community noticeboards around the park to help keep local residents and visitors informed about what’s on. The funding has enabled the friends to provide more promotional…

  Lufkin Coffee Roasters established themselves in King’s Road Yard, Pontcanna in 2015 and have since become the top place to stop and enjoy a speciality coffee in the area. The Cardiff-based company now plan to open two new sites in Canton and Grangetown this spring. Husband and wife team, Dan and Frances Lukins, are hoping that their new ventures will allow the people of Cardiff further opportunity to stop, relax and enjoy the meditative experience of their special approach…