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A CARDIFF recruitment consultant who climbed into the ring to trade punches in a charity boxing match has proven he’s no lightweight after raising almost £3,000 for Cancer Research UK. Dad of one Josh Williams, who had never boxed before, beat his opponent in front of a packed audience at Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday night. Josh, 34, from Marshfield, was inspired to take part in the Ultra White Collar Boxing event as his mother in law, Nikki Ramsey, is…

Young Welsh filmmakers have today beaten off stiff competition from across the UK to win two coveted awards at the 4th annual Into Film Awards in the BFI in London. Students from Coleg Sir Gâr in Llanelli, Camarthenshire, won CLUB OF THE YEAR (13 AND OVER), while Dyffryn Nantlle Film Club, in Gwynedd, won BEST LIVE ACTION (12 AND UNDER), with their frightening Welsh language horror short ‘Swyn’. The third nomination from Wales – Teacher Tim Dadds of Cwmrhydyceirw Primary…

A weekend festival for the World’s finest choirs, will take place in Cardiff during the Easter weekend. Featuring the KZN Midlands Youth Choir from South Africa, Ukrainian National Children Chorus, “Pearls of Odessa”, Ukrainian Children Chorus, “Seeds”; Chanteuse Chamber Choir from England and Côr Glanaethwy; Côr Iau Glanaethwy; Côr Heol y March; Côr y Cwm from Wales, the inaugural year promises to be a good one. On announcing the full programme of activities, the Festival’s Artistic Director, Eilir Owen Griffiths…

Six brave men have had their heads shaved to raise money for Ein Berllan – Our Orchard raising over £600 so far. Staff and Unison members from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Stuart Egan, Norman Mitchell, Jonathan Aver, Steve Taylor, Andrew Woodman and Steve Gauci all decided to shed their locks to raise further funds to go towards the development of the innovative new space at University Hospital Llandough (UHL). Local barber Yiannie Asprou from Asprou Bros in Barry…

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) is pleased to announce it will be working in partnership with Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) on a project that will not only help reduce waste but also save the NHS valuable money. For the past ten years, staff from the Physiotherapy Department at Cardiff and Vale UHB have been recycling and re-issuing walking aids in a bid to reduce waste and better invest NHS money. As the population ages and there are…

Artwork has been recently unveiled as part of celebrations to mark a century since the opening of the Rookwood Hospital in Cardiff and as part of the NHS at 70. Rookwood Hospital is a rehabilitation hospital in Llandaff, Cardiff. It is one of only twelve spinal rehab units in the UK. It is also a regional neuro-rehabilitation hospital as well as housing a geriatric day hospital, a geriatric intermediate care facility and a geriatric medicine rehabilitation ward. Rookwood was built…

Chapter in Cardiff is teaming up with writer, artist and comedian Shon Faye tonight to lead a discussion around transgender rights (Wednesday 21 March at 18:00). It will follow a screening of Oscar-winning film A Fantastic Woman – a groundbreaking story and an urgent call for compassion towards a community that faces bigotry and hostility on a daily basis. Directed by Chilean director Sebastián Lelio and anchored by a powerhouse central performance from rising star Daniela Vega, it is a…

Members of the student activist group Cardiff University People & Planet and other members of the student body went on a 1-day fast in solidarity with their hunger strikers yesterday. They sat outside the gates of their main building between 12pm and 2pm to highlight the urgency of full fossil fuel divestment. Two members of Cardiff University People & Planet have been on a hunger strike for eight days. Students from the University of Bristol organised a similar action on…

The annually anticipated floral spectacular, RHS Flower Show Cardiff – supported by wealth manager Brewin Dolphin – will return to the city this April embracing Visit Wales’ Year of the Sea and highlighting the sensational Welsh coastline with a host of themed gardens and related features and activities to spark the imagination. A fun day for all the family, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) – the UK’s leading gardening charity – has revealed an exciting line-up for 2018, bringing vibrant…

Homeowners blighted by destructive Japanese knotweed may be hoping that the plant has died when it fails to emerge from its winter hibernation as normal around mid to late-March. But in fact the recent cold weather, with more low temperatures forecast, is delaying the start of the plant’s growing season by 2 to 4 weeks, as it will not awaken until the ground temperature reaches around 4°C. The ‘Beast from the East’ brought the coldest February week in five years…