Students from Mountain Ash Comprehensive School bring their literacy, freestyle football, beatbox and breakdance skills to Swindon to challenge the professionals  National Literacy Trust held an event in Swindon for students to celebrate its Skills Academy programme, to improve reading skills through freestyle football, beatbox and breakdance A Professional author, beatboxer, break-dancer and freestyle footballer ran workshops for the students   The National Literacy Trust hosted a special event at MECA in Swindon yesterday to celebrate its Skills Academy reading…

Limited number of early-bird passes go on sale at discounted rate.   “What will you see in Cardiff?” returns in bold 2019 marketing strategy as Cardiff is put centre stage for 6-day LGBT+ film festival. Ana Jaks’ popular illustrations evolve in a series of colorful and confident designs for Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival’s 2019 marketing campaign. With just over three months to go Cardiff’s LGBT+ film festival has released a limited number of full and weekend festival passes. The…

  ~ The British Heart Foundation launches The Big Stitch campaign 2019, challenging Wales to get creative and help raise funds for life-saving research ~   The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is calling on all style-savvy shoppers from Wales to support its life saving research by taking part in The Big Stitch. The month-long campaign, launching on 1st July will encourage shoppers to pop into their local BHF shop in Wales, buy an item and upcycle it using their creative…

Baritone Andrei Kymach, 31, from Ukraine, was tonight [Saturday 22 June 2019] announced as the winner of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019.   Following his win, Andrei Kymach said: “I’m overwhelmed to have won the BBC Cardiff Singer of The World 2019. It’s literally a dream come true. I can remember watching the competition when I was very young and it would never have occurred to me that I could one day even take part, let alone win. I wish to thank the…

Children who are struggling with the trauma of having a parent in prison are receiving extra help thanks to a project being run by Barnardo’s Cymru.   Teachers across South Wales are being trained to identify and support such children while their classmates are learning why they should be kind and understanding.   Children of prisoners can suffer bullying, stigma and mental health issues but a new training pack produced by Barnardo’s Cymru is aimed at making life easier for…

  Van Morrison, one of the finest singer-songwriters and hardest working live performers of his era – announces six UK dates in October/December 2019. Tickets go on sale 9.00 am Friday 29th June.   To date, Van Morrison has released 39 albums – his latest in 2018 ‘You’re Driving Me Crazy’ – to critical acclaim.  Morrison’s biggest hits include –: ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, ‘Have I Told You Lately’, ‘Moondance’ and ‘Into the Mystic’ – to name a few… He celebrated…

The tiniest patients on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales (NACHFW) have received some beautiful incubator covers to help them to have a more restful stay thanks to some generous members of the local community.   Incubator covers are designed to protect the baby from the bright hospital lights and sounds, encourage sleep and to create a homely atmosphere while the babies grow.   The parents or guardian of each tiny baby…

  From feasts to forages, tastings to talks and markets to mouth-watering demos – the full line up for the 2019 Abergavenny Food Festival is now live   The complete programme for the 2019 Abergavenny Food Festival (21st-22nd September) is now live, with what promises to be a weekend packed full of food for thought across the Monmouthshire market town. The festival will see an abundance of world-class chefs, cooks, food writers, producers and masters of their trade share their…

Primary school children from Cardiff have made it through to the national final of a competition which aims to find and encourage the most promising young business talent in Wales. Enterprise Troopers is an annual competition run by Big Ideas Wales, the Welsh Government’s Youth Entrepreneurship Service, and brings together 5 to 11 year olds from across the country to encourage entrepreneurship from a young age. The children participate in teams to create and run their own enterprises, selling products…

FOOD BANK COLLECTION You will remember that at the Glenn Tilbrook concert earlier in the year we assisted the Pontypridd food bank by collecting donations of food for the centre. We had a tremendous response from our audience members so we have decided to do it all over again. The Food bank are particularly interested in receiving the following: UHT milk UHT fruit juice Small multi-pack cereals Tins of fish Tins of Rice pudding Tins of Custard Chocolate Biscuits We…