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#BigGleeGiveaway Multi-award-winning comedy club has 1,000 free tickets up for grabs Leading comedy club The Glee is ensuring a laughter-packed summer by handing out 1,000 tickets, absolutely free! The #BigGleeGiveaway kicks off on Monday 6 June and continues until Monday 11 July 2016. For six weeks, the club will slowly reveal a series of presently secret locations around the city where eager comedy fans can grab their freebies – these could be anywhere from local cafes and supermarkets, to…
Grateful Mari Butt took on the world’s biggest obstacle course to ‘give something back’ to the charity which has helped her daughter survive Leukaemia. Her brave daughter Annie, was diagnosed with potentially-deadly Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia when she was aged just THREE, in July 2014. Now, still only five, she is nearing the end of an intensive two-year treatment programme which includes daily chemotherapy sessions, weekly blood tests and monthly consultant appointments, due to finish in October this year. Mum Mari,…
PREPARE to be amazed as Britain’s best new magician Jamie Raven pulls off the most incredible tricks before your very eyes – and he’s coming to St David’s Hall! Fresh from headlining a record-breaking West End spectacular The Illusionists, Jamie kicks off his debut tour in style with a mesmerising show at the National Concert Hall of Wales on Thursday 16 June. It’s been a whirlwind 12 months for Jamie since finishing runner-up on last year’s Britain’s Got Talent. Yet…
The Cardiff cake-loving community hosted its sixth Roath Bake at St Andrew’s Church, Wellfield Road this April. The event hosted by Wayne Courtney and Nathan Wyburn and with 12 judges the competition saw over 100 cakes from 6 categories of amateurs to professionals. The Cardiff Times Magazine columnists, Wyburn and Wayne, are a duo at the heart of the community who fundraise and host events for charity in Cardiff. This year their competition was set to raise money for the…
Children around Wales are being offered free coaching as part of the legacy of Great Britain’s victory in the Davis Cup. A total of 38 courses under the Tennis for Kids programme are taking place in North, South, and Mid Wales during the summer. Details vary from club to club, but generally involve six free, fun sessions with an expert coach; a free racket to keep, if you attend regularly; the chance for parents or guardians to get involved; and…
Thousands of thrill-seekers from across Wales slipped, slid and stumbled across ten tricky obstacles as the world’s biggest inflatable obstacle course came to Cardiff for the first time. A total of 5,000 people took on obstacles including Europe’s tallest inflatable slide and the world’s biggest bouncy inflatable at Gung-Ho! 5k, held at Bute Park on Saturday (21st May). Despite the rain, there were smiles all round from runners young and old who conquered the course, brainchild of Cbeebies presenter Alex…
BIC launches national creative writing competition Imagine waking up one day to find that everything is a little bit different. You get dressed, clean your teeth, eat a banana and leave the house, but as you do you realise that Mum’s usual morning note isn’t there. There’s a familiar white scrap of paper, but it’s blank. Then the phone vibrates. It’s a message from your friend saying they’ve received a load of birthday cards but none have been written in….
Campaigners in Wales are celebrating as legislation to phase out brightly coloured and slickly designed tobacco packaging in the UK takes effect tomorrow (Friday). All tobacco products must now be produced in plain, standardised packs with large picture health warnings. Shops and retailers have 12 months to sell existing packets. Cancer Research UK began campaigning for plain, standardised packaging in April 2012 and more than 90,000 people from across the UK took action to support the campaign. The Welsh Assembly…
On Tuesday 24 May, Alzheimer’s Society are holding a Dementia Friendly Communities event in Cardiff, supported by former Wales international footballer, Robbie Savage. The event organised by the charity and sponsored by Western Power Distribution will bring together people living with dementia, returning and newly elected AMs, businesses and organisations from across Wales. The meeting aims to build on and showcase some of the work already underway in Wales to build Dementia Friendly Communities. It will feature best practice case studies and presentations by local communities working…
Lyme Awareness Month Ellie Britton (21) student, Backwell, North Somerset: I remember having several tick bites as a child, but never noticed a bullseye rash. When I was 10 I became too ill to go to school, and was misdiagnosed with ME/CFS. We never linked the illness and the tick bites. I’ve missed out on most of my teenage life. My worst symptoms are severe fatigue (I often need a wheelchair when leaving the house), constant nausea, stomach ache, headache,…
