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CALLING ALL CARDIFFIANS! The BBC are looking for couples (be it partners, friends or family members) from across the UK swap homes with one another over the course of three days. It’s a chance to have a new experience and discover local cuisine, sight-seeing that goes beyond the guide book, and an authentic place to stay. It might be that people are considering a home swap for the first time or have swapped many times before. It’s very much a…

Between Monday 6 April to Sunday 12 April almost £1.7 million (£1,660,458) in donations to four registered political parties in Great Britain were reported to the Electoral Commission as it releases the second of four weekly publications that will be published prior to the poll on 7 May. By law (The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000), political parties must submit weekly donation and loan reports to the Commission if they are standing candidates in the UK parliamentary election…

As this years election day approaches the debate surrounding who will be in power after 7th May is one which is impossible to avoid. An equally important question however, is how much will young voters affect the outcome? To answer this question we should consider whether our political system is achieving enough for young people. For political parties it is easy to guarantee safe votes by targeting traditional voters near an election by for example, protecting the winter fuel allowance…

The Welsh Business Show in Cardiff is due to appear on local TV programme, Made in Cardiff, which attracts over 100,000 viewers. Presenter, Mariclare Carey-Jones, will be interviewing exhibitors and guests at the show, resulting in a 30-minute programme being produced and aired the following day on Sky 134, Virgin 159 and Freeview 23 at 8pm. “We are really pleased that Made in Cardiff has agreed to cover the show,” commented Emma Wilkins, MD, The Welsh Business Shows. “We are always…

City Hall, Cardiff is set to be haunted by a trio of phantoms in a new musical celebration featuring two former Phantoms Nic Greenshields and Jeremy Secomb and Kieran Brown currently appearing in Phantom of The Opera. The 3 Phantoms will take to the stage at The City Hall in Cardiff, on Sunday 17th May at 7pm All of the artists have starred as The Phantom in the West End and are coming together for a great night of showstoppers…

STARS AT YOUR SERVICE SUMMER BALL Be treated like Royalty and be waited on for the night by Celebrities at a Black Tie Charity Summer Ball with a Twist! An evening of fun as our Stars are “At Your Service” in aid of a great Welsh cause! Support Welsh Hearts/Calonnau Cymru – The Heart Charity for Wales at The Hilton Hotel on Saturday 13th June 2015. Tickets £39.95 each and includes a Sparkling Reception, 3 course dinner with coffee and…

Airbnb boosts economy The benefits of growth to the local community are enormous. With 39,000 listings in the UK alone, our UK Economic Impact Study (Jan 2014) revealed that: Airbnb generated £502m ($824m) in economic activity in 1 year and supported 11,629 jobs. 80% of Airbnb hosts in the UK rent out only the home in which they live. 63% of hosts say that their Airbnb income helped them to pay bills they would otherwise struggle to pay. 53% use…

The roles will be based at the Firstsource Solutions centre in Cardiff Bay. The new jobs are as a result of the award-winning firm expanding the customer management services it currently provides to global telecommunications and media company, Sky. The roles include sales and customer experience advisors, dealing with inbound and outbound telephone calls.   Kathryn Chivers, Firstsource Solutions Vice President – Sales, said: “Firstsource Solutions is delighted to be able to continue to bring new employment to Cardiff.  We…

Washington Green, fine art publisher to Castle Galleries and Castle Fine Art, has launched IN:SIGHT 2015; their campaign to encourage unsigned, emerging visual artists to apply to join the ranks of its big names, with the chance to exhibit at their flagship Birmingham gallery in the summer. The prestigious art group, with a gallery in Cardiff’s St David’s Dewi Sant, boasts the likes of Ronnie Wood, Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and famous art forger John Myatt in their…

Following its hugely successful ‘Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign showing millions the cruel truth behind fur, PETA, the world’s largest animal rights organisation is today partnering with FightMe to launch its latest initiative on the war against fur. Well known for its bold campaigns, the charity has enlisted the help of the world’s first challenge-based app, FightMe, to launch a thought-provoking video challenge calling for people to make a stand and spread its anti-fur message. The first-of-its-kind online video protest…