Blog

A group of volunteers from the Rotary Club of Llanishen have brought their community together to transform their local train station and plant hundreds of purple crocuses to help raise awareness of a worldwide initiative to end polio. Members from the Club enlisted the help of local schoolchildren from Christ the King R. C. Primary School to lay hundreds of crocus bulbs which will erupt into a stunning mauve floral display for commuters next spring at Llanishen train station. The…

Photographer: Thurstan Redding ST DAVID’S HALL is launching an exciting new series which mixes contemporary classical music with cocktails in the L3 Lounge! NightMusic brings together some of the most exciting and distinctive voices working today, and provides a more easy-going way to explore new directions in music. Get ready to revel in thrilling performances from electro-acoustic soloists and convention-flouting ensembles to the best new Welsh music courtesy of Tŷ Cerdd! Starting the season in style is The Hermes Experiment,…

Award-Winning ‘Totally Tina’ Show is Still Simply the Best and comes to Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall on Friday 2nd March 2018 It’s been the UK’s official number one Tina Turner tribute for the past five years (as voted by the Agents Association of Great Britain), with a Lifetime Achievement Award under its belt and a hectic, fast-growing gig schedule right across the UK and into Europe to boot. The cast of ‘Totally Tina’ it seems, is definitely ‘better than all…

Techniquest’s iconic planetarium has undergone a makeover thanks to £12,000 in inheritance funding from an “extremely generous” family. The Cardiff-based educational charity’s planetarium has been recovered thanks to a significant donation from the estate of the late Clifford Raymond Pike. Mr Pike had funds directed to the scientific discovery centre after his estate trustees selected it as a worthy cause, with money also filtered into his estate through his late wife Mary’s inheritance. As Mrs Pike’s brother Lawrence Granville Davies…

  Millions of pounds are being wasted on reassessing people with Parkinson’s for a benefit even though they will not get better. Based on analysis by Parkinson’s UK, the charity has estimated that to reassess everyone with Parkinson’s who received Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for the replacement benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will cost the taxpayer a shocking £3 million. In addition, £1.3 million of this will be spent on reassessing people who were previously identified as having the highest…

Industry accolade also boosted by prestigious Institute of Practitioners in Advertising    Orchard Media and Events Group are celebrating being named as one of the Top 100 independent marketing and communications agencies in the UK as ranked by industry magazine The Drum which scored from over 16,000 independent agencies.  In a double-win, the Cardiff-based agency also secured membership of the prestigious IPA (Institute for Practitioners in Advertising) in the same month. Orchard’s media planning and buying department deliver bold and…

Stage adaption of tense thriller Gallowglass set to enthral Cardiff audiences. A world stage premiere of Gallowglass, from the pen of one of the world’s greatest thriller writers, Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine), will play at Cardiff’s New Theatre next week, 30 January – 3 February. It’s a new adaptation written especially for the stage and follows the gritty TV version which aired 25 years ago starring Michael Sheen. In Gallowglass, when Sandor snatches Joe from the path of…

Cwmbran-based telecommunications provider, RPS Technology Solutions, has installed its advanced technology solutions free of charge in Prostate Cymru’s office in Cardiff. Prostate Cymru was established in 2003 and is the leading charity in Wales fighting against all prostate diseases. The charity works with medical professionals and aims to raise awareness, promote understanding and fund both the latest medical equipment and training of healthcare professionals. Prostate Cymru’s aim is to ensure that all men in Wales have equal access to tests,…

  Wales Captain, Abi Welsford has this week announced her decision to retire from International hockey; a decision she’s not taken lightly. “I’ve been contemplating retiring for a while now, and started to think more seriously about it leading up to the Home Europeans in Cardiff. But after that tournament I wasn’t 100% decided on what to do and I didn’t want to regret retiring too early, so I decided to stay part of the programme and literally take each…

The Commonwealth Games Council for Wales has announced Wales’ men’s and women’s hockey teams have both qualified for the Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast Australia next April 2018. The men’s squad secured their place at the games after a phenomenal rise in the recently released, FIH World Rankings; which saw them peak the climbers list by a staggering 8 places; sitting them comfortably at 24th in the world. After kicking 2017 off with a string of strong performances; and…