UB40 star Brian Travers has revealed he has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, forcing him to miss the group’s 40th anniversary UK tour. The group’s saxophonist was taken to hospital last Tuesday after suffering a seizure at his home, with subsequent brain scans revealing two tumours. Travers will now undergo surgery the day before UB40’s tour starts and has been advised by doctors that his recovery will take six months. Travers said, “It is with great regret that I…

This Easter, the British Heart Foundation is coming to the rescue of parents nationwide, asking them to clear out all those pre-loved toys and help raise funds for vital heart research.  Simply request a free pick up and we’ll do the rest!   From cuddly toys to train sets – and everything in between – this Easter, the British Heart Foundation is appealing to parents across Britain to stop tripping over those pieces of Lego and call its dedicated team of toy collectors.   To coincide with the Easter break, from Monday 8th April until Friday 12th, the…

The Open University in Wales is calling on former students and staff from the past 50 years to get in touch and share their memories. This year marks half a century since the OU was founded by Harold Wilson’s government. It was the Labour Prime Minister’s vision to create ‘A University of the air’, where students could earn a degree from their own homes, in their own time. This flexible form of learning was seen as a way to open…

Children from Teddy Bear Nursery at the University Hospital of Wales have been busy making flowers to welcome in spring, supporting Cardiff & Vale Health Charity’s RHS Cardiff Blossoming Beds competition entry.  The children made beautiful coloured flowers from paper and glue, inspired the Health Charity’s RHS Cardiff Blossoming Beds title “We grow better tomorrows when we plant good seeds today” which is a mini snapshot of the six acre Ein Berllan – Our Orchard site at University Hospital Llandough….

The Girls, a children’s picture book written by Swansea-raised Lauren Ace and illustrated by Cardiff-based Jenny Løvlie , has been named the winner of the Illustrated Books Category at the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019. Announced last night (Thursday 21st March) at a ceremony at the bookseller’s flagship shop in London Piccadilly, Ace and Løvlie share the prize consisting of £2000 and the promise of ongoing commitment to their respective writing and illustrating careers. Inspired by the author’s own nurturing…

  UK pop icon Will Young releases brand new single ‘All The Songs’ today, the first track to be heard from his long awaited seventh album Lexicon, set for release on June 14. ‘All The Songs’ arrives with an incredible, agenda-setting video directed by the legendary fashion photographer & director Rankin. An upbeat, piano-led, dancefloor-tilted heartbreak anthem, ‘All The Songs’ serves as the perfect introduction to an album built around the joy of pop music, “I always say that there’s…

FIVE WELSH CHARITIES TO RECEIVE SHARE OF £1.25 MILLION DONATION The ScottishPower Foundation has announced this year’s recipients of its annual award fund. Five charities in Wales will share a part of the £1.25 million pot to help them make a positive difference to people’s lives in many diverse communities in the country. The five charities in Wales who have been chosen by the ScottishPower Foundation include a United-Nations style climate change awareness and action initiative for young people, a…

NATIONAL DOUGHNUT WEEK TO RETURN 11 – 18 MAY 2019                 The nation is set to go nuts for doughnuts once again as National Doughnut Week announces its return this May. The week, sponsored by CSM Bakery Solutions, raises funds for The Children’s Trust, the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury. National Doughnut Week has been running for 28 years, after being launched in 1991 by independent baker, Christopher Freeman. Last…

WYG to redevelop Suffolk House in Cardiff   21 March 2019: Professional services firm WYG has secured consent from Cardiff Council for the restoration and redevelopment of listed building Suffolk House in Canton, Cardiff. Working with developer Quin & Co Limited and local architect firm Connections Design, the project will include restoration of the original villa building and development of seven three-bed family townhouses and ten one- and two-bed apartments. Suffolk House is located within the Conway Road Conservation Area,…

Did you find it harder writing the songs for this new record than you did before with any of the others? Matt: I found this album quite tough. If I’m honest, this was the hardest record we’ve ever made, or I’ve ever made. It was quite a struggle. We’ve probably written 50 songs in this record, and we scrapped two albums worth before we decided which direction to take. While we had an album budget to make this from the…