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“Would the world not be a better place if we could make it acne-free?” I think everyone with naturally problematic skin would agree a resounding “YES” to this question. As I’m one of them, when I read this claim I knew I had to try it: “To banish those stubborn spots and heal your skin from the inside out, try the newly reformulated help: clear skin supplement from Works with Water Nutraceuticals, which contains only 100% natural complexion-clearing ingredients that…

There are some fantastic opportunities for young adults of 12-18 to join the Cadets at Ty Llewellyn Detachment in Cardiff. They parade at Ty Llewellyn Barracks, Morgan Street CF10 4FG between 1845hrs – 2100hrs every Monday and Wednesday night. The Army Cadets is a youth organisation, with military themed activities, encompassed within a Safe System of Training and CRB checks for all staff.  They are a youth community group inspiring for young adults to achieve and seek new opportunities and experiences. We…

  Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, will be delivering a record number of gifts to homeless people with dogs this Christmas as requests from homelessness projects across the UK have increased by more than 12%, up from 1050 parcels last year to 1180 this year.   As demand for the Christmas hampers has doubled since 2010, Dogs Trust is asking the public to spread a little Christmas joy and buy a present for a dog in need….

A major new training programme for professionals in the built environment sector has got underway, aiming to put Wales at the forefront of sustainability expertise. Built Environment Sustainability Training (BEST) is offering flexible, fully subsidised training to develop knowledge and skills in the latest sustainability practices – particularly in construction, energy, waste, and water. The programme is supported by the European Social Fund, through the Welsh Government and offers fully subsidised courses to people who live or work in one…

John Lewis’s Christmas advert, Monty’s Christmas, is helping one of its official charity partners WWF raise awareness and deliver much needed support to protect the Antarctic home of real life “Monty and Mabel” Adélie Penguins at the South Pole. All profits from the CD sales of John Lewis’s Christmas advert single, Real Love by Tom Odell, are going to WWF’s Adopt a Penguin Programme. The Antarctic is undergoing rapid change as the region is affected by climate change. However, this change is…

New studies are showing that a multilingual brain is nimbler, quicker, better able to deal with ambiguities, resolve conflicts and better resists Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Children have a natural aptitude for picking up new words and sounds because of the vast spectrum of words they are exposed to. They can easily break down a word into its component sounds and, therefore, categorising words comes naturally to them. It is easier for bilingual children to detect rhyming…

The cream of Welsh food and drink producers returned from France last week having promoted the best of what Wales has to offer at one of the world’s largest food fairs. The Salon International de l’Agroalimentaire (SIAL) 2014, which this year was celebrating its 50th birthday, hosted over 6000 exhibitors from 105 countries and is seen as a key platform for the food and drink sector to promote their produce to buyers from all over the globe. 17 Welsh food…

Inaugural award for exceptional academic and business potential goes to Tamara Beach Award part of efforts to develop the financial sector in Wales  Tamara Beach, a second year undergraduate student in Accounting and Finance at Cardiff Business School, is the proud recipient of the first ever Vauxhall Finance Award of Excellence, from automotive finance company GMAC UK plc. Tamara, a student from Truro, will receive an annual bursary of £1,000 for the two remaining years of her degree with Cardiff Business…

SCORES OF PRINCESSES AND PRINCES DESCEND ON CARDIFF’S CITY CENTRE TO MARK THE LAUNCH OF RAKUTEN TO THE UK     Local princes and princesses got dressed in glamorous get-up in Cardiff to celebrate the launch of Rakuten.co.uk, the new online marketplace. Congregating by Rakuten’s Superbag on Cardiff’s Churchill Way on Saturday, the revelers were joined by a video transmission of pop star ‘Princess’ Natasha Hamilton who geed up the crowd for a mass sing-a-long to Let It Go from…

I finally got to take my son to the Dr Who Experience in the half term week. Lucky for us we managed to get in but it is advisable during holiday periods especially, to book in advance as it was sold out. The excitement builds when you first arrive in the foyer. There are many a fan dressed as Matt Smith which suggests he’s a very popular doctor. I have to agree but the 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi has turned…