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For the very first time Bridgend based company Sharon McKinley Designs will be travelling to London to showcase their unique and stand-alone designs for buyers and businesses from all over the world from 3rd-4th September 2017 at LondonEdge. Held at the iconic Business Design Centre in Islington, LondonEdge is the planet’s only commercial platform for authentic, subculture fashion brands today. This February will be the 36th exhibition in the series of these iconic shows that track and record the changes…

Sunday August 20, 2017 Research* shows that almost 90% of Brits are concerned by the UK’s plastic usage and 70% of respondents in Wales are willing to see a similar 5p plastic bag ‘charge’ applied to other single-use plastics. A 10-metre whale – made from the same amount of plastic dumped in the ocean each second – visits Cardiff Bay for the Welsh public to see. The whale was met with great support from former British Olympic rower, James Cracknell,…

Welsh food and drink producers will be turning their sights to the important export market of the USA next month in search of new and competitive export trading opportunities. As part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to raising Wales’s business profile on the global stage, it is supporting fifteen Welsh food and drink companies on a visit to New York and New Jersey from 17-20 September. The Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths AM, said: “Our country’s…

The 29th July until the 13th August marked the annual Wildlife Trusts National Marine Week during which we have been celebrating all things marine. We’ve been throwing an array of exciting events, conducting marine mammal surveys from the shore and on boat trips run by Dolphin Survey Boat Trips and hundreds of people have had the opportunity to enjoy our 360 Virtual Reality experiences. We have also been asking people to take to social media to post their seaside photographs…

JOHN OTWAY, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Greatest Failure’, continues on the road for the rest of this year promoting his new album ‘Montserrat’. Renowned for his bizarre escapades and successful enduring career – despite self-confessed limited musical talent – John’s shows are always hugely entertaining whether with or without his remarkably good band of 20 years. His latest venture, a new album recorded on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, sees Otway in fine fettle delivering not only an excellent set of…

  We all know there’s nothing worse than thinking of inventive things to keep the kids occupied over the 6 weeks of the summer holidays. Escape Reality are offering a fantastic way to give the kids a fun and stimulating day out – for FREE! Escape Reality (2nd & 3rd Floor, 6-7 St. John Street, Cardiff) know that it can be expensive to keep the kids entertained and so they are running an amazing offer whereby kids under 16 go…

  Above:  Yacht Tacktic preparing to leave Cowes on 6th August. From left  to right: Callum Couper, Dan Rigden, David Melville, Patrick Geraets, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Loren Jenkins, Rick Delbridge Yacht Tacktic, sponsored by Associated British Ports (ABP), has successfully competed in the Rolex Fastnet Race  to raise money for the Jubilee Sailing Trust. The race started at Cowes on Sunday 6th August and finished at Plymouth in the early hours of Thursday 10th August. Yacht Tacktic was at sea for a…

Cardiff will host the annual Netball Europe Open Championships at the Sport Wales National Centre, from 5th to 8th of October 2017.  The prestigious annual European netball tournament will see 8th world ranked Wales take on 3rd ranked England, Scotland (12th) and Northern Ireland (10th) in front of a packed crowd of netball fans. Cardiff will also welcome Fiji’s national netball team the Fijian Pearls to Wales for the very first time.  Fiji are currently 7th in the world, and…

  Two dynamic, successful businessmen who have both been registered blind from a very young age, have developed a course to introduce the concept of self-employment to others.   Daniel Williams, from Cardiff, the director of Visualise Training and Consultancy, together with Manchester-born Ryan Compton, the director of Centre for Resolution, realised how the lack of support and information about self-employment could be holding many people back. They also identified how many could be using and developing existing skills whilst…

Building on the success of last year, St David’s Catholic College has delivered yet another rise in A level results for its students. There was a 4% increase in A* to A grades, a 4% increase at A* to B and 7% increase from A* to C. Three students have met their Oxbridge offers: Bethan James, Christy Nganjim, Anna Wright. In the college’s Honours Programme for gifted and talented students, an impressive 66% of students achieved an A* to A…