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  The KIDZ BOP World Tour comes to Cardiff St David’s Hall on Thursday, April 16 – and one lucky dance group will see their own performance premiered at the live show, as well as being in with a chance of performing at the world famous The London Palladium. KIDZ BOP – the #1 music brand for kids – is searching for new dance talent to join them as part of the UK leg of the KIDZ BOP World Tour in April 2020.   The KIDZ BOP…

Cure Leukaemia visited the Clinical Research Facility in December 2019, ahead of the three-year funding period getting underway. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Cardiff University has secured specialist research nurse funding to support the delivery of blood cancer trials at the Clinical Research Facility at the University Hospital of Wales.   The Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is one of 12 centres across the UK to receive the funding from Cure Leukaemia across a three-year period as part of…

The Tuckers is a brand new sit-com series (6×30) for BBC One Wales. Set in the Welsh valleys, it’s written and stars Steve Speirs. The series follows the fortunes of the Tucker family, a close-knit, extended family of ‘loveable rogues’ who earn their living in a number of ways – and sometimes on the wrong side of the law. The Tuckers was originally commissioned as a 30-minute pilot as part of BBC Cymru Wales’ first ever comedy season, the ‘Festival…

Photo credit: Phillip Roberts   A Cardiff-based organisation working to support people with cancer has received a £10,000 grant from a special Centenary voting round of Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme. The funding from Tesco has allowed Maggie’s Cardiff to provide extra practical and emotional support for people with cancer, as well as their family and friends. With backgrounds in the study and treatment of tumours and years of experience within the NHS, Maggie’s Cancer support specialists help people with…

By Sue Good   There’s only one New Year’s resolution that matters for 2020: to live a greener, more environmentally healthy life. We all know that major lifestyle and infrastructural changes need to progress, in order to stop the predicted increase of the earth’s temperature and prevent rising sea levels. So, alongside the usual ‘give up alcohol’ and ‘couch to 5K’ resolutions we usually set, try a green one too. How about cutting personal hygiene and beauty waste by 50%?…

Below, experts share their tips on what you can do every day to help keep in good mental health. 1. Reframe – think about the bad and good things “Did you know that we are hard-wired to register negative thoughts over positive ones? Although this is an in-built tool to help us for survival, it can have a powerful effect on our behaviour, our decisions and relationships. You may get a number of positive comments about your work or appearance for example…

The millennium may be 20 years ago, but you can still party like it’s 1999 as New Purple Celebration celebrates the legacy of Prince this Saturday (11 January)! This fabulously funky two-hour extravaganza from MRC Presents features the huge hits of one of the most beloved artists of all time including Kiss, Raspberry Beret, Diamonds & Pearls, When Doves Cry, Cream, Purple Rain  and many more. We had a quick chat with New Purple Celebration frontman Jimi Love about this terrific tribute show……

He’s walked an incredible 4,509 miles to date; beginning on 5th March 2018 at the Baltic in Gateshead, through Northumberland, the entire coastline of Scotland, Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and North Wales to Dublin. By September 2019, Brian Burnie, 75, completed walking the island of Ireland, meeting with doctors, oncologists, politicians, all the Lord Mayors and hundreds of well wishers. Despite his developing Parkinson’s Disease, founder of the charity ‘Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care’ is on a 7,000 mile…

A final-year medical student studying at Cardiff University, Aisling Sweeney, has won a national competition designed to help medical students prepare for their future careers as doctors. For the competition, jointly organised by the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Schools Council (MSC), Aisling created a teaching workshop for students on the issue of speaking up, which is an important part of the lives of medical students and working doctors. The workshop covers empowering activities to help medical students…

Still showing at the New Theatre until 12th  January 2020 is Cinderella, and I was very lucky to interview both Cinderella and Prince Charming backstage, after a matinee they did. Rob Wilshaw and Teleri Hughes were a joy to talk with. Carl Marsh   How can we get the audience to come and see the show in January as pantomime is not just about Christmas viewing, is it? Rob Wilshaw   Well, I’d say the show is full of energy. It’s magical…