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CARDIFF’S own best-selling author and world renowned filmmaker Jon Ronson returns to the Welsh capital at St David’s Hall on Thursday 16 November – and only limited tickets are now remaining! Over the last 20 years, Jon has made his name for his ‘gonzo’ style journalism and investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. In 2011, he released the fascinating book The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, which delved into the topic of psychopathic behaviour via the…

Wales Millennium Centre is thrilled to announce the full cast of Tiger Bay the Musical, which includes a 39-strong cast with many notable names from right here in Wales. Tiger Bay the Musical – created by a multi-award-winning team composer, Daf James, writer Michael Williams and director, Melly Still – is set in the flamboyant multi-ethnic community of Cardiff’s Butetown in the early 1900s. Extreme poverty meets supreme wealth. Gangs of street children roam the docks. Coal is King, and…

Young people from across South Wales have been recognised at an awards ceremony celebrating the most highly skilled Welsh learners, students and apprentices. 24 young people were presented with medals recognising their talent and achievements as medal winners in this year’s Skills Competition Wales finals, where they were named the best in their skill. The competitors have spent the last few months battling it out against their peers in more than thirty different skills, from patisserie, aeronautical engineering and plastering,…

Lloyds Bank and BBC Children in Need announce the return of school fundraising campaign ‘The Big Spotacular’ Last year, local schools including Eastern High School, St Brides Major Church, Cwmlai Primary School, Cyfarthfa High School, Tonyrefail School, Victoria Primary School and Woodlands Montessori Nursery raised  a huge £136,590 for BBC Children in Need Since 2015, over 324 schools in Cardiff have raised money for the charity year on year   Lloyds Bank is calling on schools across Cardiff to join the…

WAIT UNTIL DARK is set amidst the social turbulence of 1960s London and follows the story of Susy, a blind woman (played by blind actor Karina Jones) who, left alone in her apartment, becomes the victim of an elaborate scam hatched by a group of conmen. Left to fend for herself, Suzy eventually finds a way to turn the tables on the conmen and give them a taste of life in the dark. Frederick Knott, best known for writing Dial…

Pupils and staff from St Teilo’s Church in Wales High School, located in Llanedeyrn in Cardiff, have joined forces to show their respect to the fallen Service men and women by decorating their entire school with poppies. Each year the school creates remembrance displays, and this year the whole school has been transformed. Students across the age range have individually prepared one poppy with each petal containing a prayer, thought or reflection. When making their poppies, children considered the examples…

On Monday 13th November, Rugby star and captain of the British & Irish Lions Sam Warburton will be at hmv Cardiff from 12pm to sign copies of the new documentary The British and Irish Lions: Uncovered. The documentary gives an in depth look into the England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales rugby teams on their tour of New Zealand to go head-to-head against the mighty All Blacks. Feel the tension in the coaches’ box on match day as the Lions bounce…

  Workers from the Taff Vale Railway who died in the First World War are now honoured at one of Wales’ busiest stations, and historians are seeking further information from descendants. The hand-written Roll of Honour on a wall at Cardiff Queen Street station lists all of the TVR company’s employees who served in the Great War. Those who died are denoted with a mark beside their names. Now Arriva Trains Wales, Network Rail and information project HistoryPoints have placed…

Dame Esther Rantzen, the well-known journalist, TV presenter and Childline founder has launched this year’s charity partnership between the NSPCC Cymru / Wales and Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland, the city’s principal festive attraction (cardiffswinterwonderland.com).  Dame Esther was visiting NSPCC projects in Wales and met with Winter Wonderland operator Norman George Sayers at their local HQ to discuss fundraising and NSPCC events at the rink. Dame Esther said: “Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland is going to be raising money for the NSPCC and Childline, which…

A grandmother who has fundraised more than £40,000 comes face to face with a former soldier whose life she has helped to transform in a video released today to celebrate the bond between Help for Heroes’ beneficiaries and its supporters. The film sees passionate fundraiser Dorothy Garrett, 72, meeting 30-year-old Mike Matthews, who tells of his struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a result of being seriously injured when the vehicle he was driving hit a roadside bomb in…