Wales’ largest celebration of diversity and equality is bringing some extra love to its Big Weekend this summer, as Pride Cymru teams up with Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity.   Visitors to Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend have been invited to bring along their pooches on Saturday, August 24th, to enter the Welsh LGBT+ charity’s first-ever dog show hosted by Dogs Trust.   Categories range from Waggiest Tail to Golden Oldie to Cutest Pup, celebrating diversity among pet…

  Stroke patients at University Hospital Llandough received a surprise visit from Welsh actor Owen Teale who treated them to readings of his favourite poems, short stories and authors.   The actor, famed for his role’s in Game of Thrones and Stella attended the Stroke Rehabilitation Centre (SRC) at University Hospital Llandough as part of the work UK charity InterAct Stroke Support are doing at the SRC.   InterAct Stroke Support is a charity dedicated to supporting stroke recovery by…

Photo left to right:      Stuart Walker, Executive Medical Director, Cardiff and Vale UHB Bernie Day. Paul Morgan, Sepsis Lead and Consultant Intensivist, Cardiff and Vale UHB Steve Day, Terence Canning, Sepsis Trust Charity, Wales   The family of Rachel Day and the UK Sepsis Trust has teamed up to install Sepsis lifts wraps at University Hospital of Wales and University Hospital Llandough.   The eye catching wraps are on the main lifts at the two Cardiff and Vale University Health Board…

After five years of planning, work has now begun on the foundations for Dogs Trust’s new re-homing centre in Cardiff with the charity releasing exclusive drone footage which shows the scale of the eight acre site from above.   The Re-homing Centre, located on Nettlefold Road in Splott, just two miles from Cardiff Bay, is set to open in 2021 and will help 1,000 dogs a year in and around the city.   Over 5,000* stray dogs were collected by…

Welsh sporting icons Jade Jones and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson are among twelve top UK athletes competing for public votes after reaching the finals of this year’s 25th Birthday National Lottery Awards – the annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded athlete and projects.   The Sporting Legend category in the Awards provides a golden opportunity to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the UK’s world class National Lottery funded athletes, whilst demonstrating the impact that National Lottery players have had…

CLUB TROPICANA – WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE – 13 AUGUST 2019 By Alan Coulthard Most people love a good juke box musical and ‘Club Tropicana’ definitely comes into that category.  In fact, it is quite brilliant! What I like most is that, rather than use the lyrics and titles of the songs to progress the plot in the style of ‘Mamma Mia’ (which some would say is ‘artificial’ and ‘contrived’), in Club Tropicana the songs are weaved more naturally into the…

Melissa Compton.   Ralph Oates recently published book: a round of boxing is a beautifully put together timeline of key events in the sport of boxing from 1891- 2017. The book which is conveniently split into 10 chapters or rounds as they are called each covering a specific time frame. A lot of the information in the first few is essential reading and a base point for the rest of the book with the Forward written by Gary ‘Dynamite’ De…

Souls Awakening is pleased to be back at this fantastic venue for the Family Mind, Body, Spirit event for Summer 2019. After the success of last year’s event we are back with a bigger and better offering including NEW ice cream van, Street Food Vendors & New outdoor craft market. A beautiful day of enlightenment, relaxation and inspiration for all the family.  Insole Court will welcome the Mind Body Spirit event. It will offer you selection of therapies, sessions and…

A MAGICAL NEW PRODUCTION FEATURING BALLET STARS OF THE FUTURE (3 PERFORMANCES ONLY) English Youth Ballet premiers a new production of Swan Lake at the New Theatre. It promises to be a traditional production but with particular emphasis on the rivalry between the seductive evil Black Swan Odile and the beautiful but vulnerable White Swan Odette, as they compete for the affections of the Prince. Set in Russia in at the time when the Marinsky Ballet was popular with the…

South Wales Fire Service giving a talk to countryside organisations at Ruabon Mountain Firefighters from South Wales Fire Service spoke at a fire awareness day, organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), at Ruabon Mountain on August 1st. The 7,000-acre heather moorland, which is rich in grouse and waders including curlew and golden plover, has a strong collaboration between the graziers, gamekeepers, landowner and shoot captain. Craig Hope, from South Wales Fire Service, believes that reducing the risk…