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Lemon drizzle cake with natural yogurt and natural yogurt icing A teatime favourite that’s low in calories, perfect served with a cup of tea. Preparation time: 10 minutes                                 Serves: 4-6 people Cooking time: 35-40minutes   Ingredients For the cake: 150g caster sugar Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon 160g Llaeth y Llan Low Fat Natural Yogurt 150ml Sunflower oil 2 large eggs 270g self-rising flour 1tbsp butter, for greasing For the syrup (optional): 100ml (about 4 lemons) lemon juice…

  Dorian and Babette Bowen of local Cardiff business Project One Wales have been nominated as a finalist in the KBB (Kitchen, Bedroom & Bathroom) Project category of this year’s SBID International Design Awards. Project One Wales are up against some of the best intentional designers from across the Globe as the only Welsh finalists. There are 15 categories in total. KBB being a main category of design excellence that will be “rigorously measured”. The Awards will be judged by…

Boulders is pleased to announce its 6th Birthday will be taking place on Saturday, 27th September, starting at 10AM. Since the centre launched in September of 2008, Boulders has gone on to inspire, educate, give back and push the art and sport of climbing forward significantly in Wales, with ambitions higher than ever to open multi-national sites in the UK. Host to a range of fun and diverse climbing activities in South Wales for anyone aged 7 and above, Boulders…

No7 is hosting an exciting event in Boots, 36 Queen St, Cardiff, this Saturday 6th September to celebrate the launch of their brand NEWMatch Made Lipstick Service What: A beauty first, No7 is launching the No7 Match Made Lipstick Service; an innovative and effective make-up service that is set to revolutionise the way women buy lipstick. To celebrate, the Match Made Lipstick photo booth will be travelling the country, starting in Cardiff, where customers can step into their own personalised  No7 TV advert. Instantly…

Joanne Wesley-Williams encourages those with an ambition to study a degree to enrol on a pathway at Cardiff University.    Joanne Wesley-Williams is a real success story. As a mother of three young children, leaving school at 16 with just her GCSEs, Jo decided to begin her journey of learning by enrolling on the Exploring the Past Pathway at Cardiff University. Three years later Jo is about to embark on her final year of her History degree. “At forty-one years old, part…

  Moving to Cardiff was a huge decision, being Bath born and living there for the whole of my life, the idea of moving was frankly terrifying, but I have to say, Cardiff feels like home now, and Bath is pretty much just down the road right?! I came to Cardiff to study music after being offered a place on a Bachelors of Art in the city centre, and it’s been a wonderful inspiration to me. I’ve written so many…

St David’s Hotel wins awards on the world stage Cardiff’s only 5* hotel, the St David’s Hotel and Spa, has recently been recognised among Europe’s best, winning two prestigious travel awards. The iconic hotel, located on Cardiff Bay’s waterfront, was among only 20 hotels in the United Kingdom to be honoured at the European Gala of the World Travel Awards, which were held in Athens, Greece last weekend. St David’s went head to head against some of Wales’ most renowned…

THE OPERA The award-winning producer Ellen Kent returns this Autumn following her recent critically acclaimed British and Irish national tours of Nabucco, Aida and La Boheme with stunning traditional productions of Puccini’s masterpiece, Madama Butterfly, (Opera of the Year Award – Liverpool Daily Post), Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto designed by the renowned Ukrainian designer Nadia Shvets from the National Ukrainian opera of Kharkiv. They feature a host of international soloists from the national operas of Odessa, Spain and Rostov…

TOWIE’s Samantha Faiers is coming to Cardiff! The Fragrance shop in St David’s Centre is giving us all a chance to meet the popular model, actress & business woman this Saturday, 26th July! Sam will be there from 2pm to greet us all. Sam’s coming to meet us in celebration of her new fragrance entitled ‘La Bella.’  Sam will be signing bottles of her fragrance and having her photo taken with fans. All fans have to do to meet Samantha is to buy a…

This month we would like to beautify you with some tips on beautiful products.  Not only will you benefit from them healthwise but they also smell good enough to eat. ‘Traditionally, rosemary’s primary use is to relieve pain, though its other uses are many and varied. Whilst it is used in aromatherapy as an aid for gout, alopecia, spinal injuries and as a nerve tonic, its main uses extend from headaches and fatigue to muscular aches, pains and sprains. In…