AFTER stealing the show at the Royal Variety Performance last year, Cardiff comedian Rod Woodward returns to St David’s Hall on Saturday 2 March. Rod performed at the venue as part of The Journey Starts Here tour in April 2015 and brought the house down with his support slot for Welsh national treasure Max Boyce in February 2017. Now, he’s back with his hilarious new show I’m Not Being Funny, But… Named Best Variety Newcomer and winner of BBC’s Funny…

  The group is made up of representatives from Crimestoppers, as well as the Newport Serious Organised Crime Stakeholder Group who helped to launch the campaign today – including Gwent Police, Newport Council, Gwent Drug and Alcohol Service, Newport City Homes and Barnados.   The charity Crimestoppers today launched a new campaign in Newport to help target and prevent serious organised crime carried out by criminal gangs. Crimestoppers’ digital campaign will highlight the impact that these gangs have on our…

Appearing just outside Cardiff on the 9th February at Blackwood Miners Institute are The Searchers who celebrate their 60th year, Carl Marsh speaks with John McNally, and he chose to chat about the early days when he used to swap music with a fellow Merseybeat band called The Beatles, and Carl got to learn some unknown facts! When you were performing in the late 1950s, did you save anything such as posters, flyers, tickets of yourselves or even from the…

Plans to transform the neglected Bishop’s Park in Abergwili into a community jewel and put it firmly on the tourist map have taken another major step forward after the Tywi Gateway Trust received a £23,500 from a national grant-giving charity. The grant from Allchurches Trust will help towards funding a sensitive restoration of the under-used Bishop’s Park site, particularly the revitalisation of the walled kitchen garden and adjacent bothy, which is leased from the Church in Wales. The Walled Kitchen…

PEOPLE in Cardiff are being encouraged to get January off to a great start by making a date to join Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. As an added incentive, there’s 30% off entry fees* during January with the code RFL30. This year, for the first time, Cancer Research UK is inviting everyone in the area – women, men and children – to join the Race for Life. There are events for people of all ages and abilities taking place…

Keo Films are making a ground-breaking new documentary for a major UK broadcaster about family life in Britain today and are looking for a truly modern family to film with over the course of a few months. We are hoping to speak to families of all different shapes and sizes, from all different walks of life, and with interesting family dynamics but most importantly we need a family who are keen to share their unique story with us. The family…

  Kyriacos Asprou and John Kiki’s 2nd February – 2nd March 2019 VISITOR INFORMATION Sunflower & I Pop-Up Gallery, Sunflower & I, 1 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5EE Preview: Saturday 2nd February 2019, 4pm – 10pm, Meet the Photographer Opening Times: Tuesday – Sunday, 12pm till close Admission is free to all visitors ‘I have been, and now I go back to my beginning; open myself up to seeing the world as I once saw it. Life is…

  Fairwater’s leisure centre has had some exciting improvements take shape in the past few months. Better Cardiff (the customer brand of leading charitable leisure social enterprise provider GLL) has invested more than £450,000 to provide a modern and dynamic facility at Fairwater, one of the eight leisure centres it manages in Cardiff. The investment has included: • Combining the old gym and studio space to create a much larger gym, doubling in size • Providing the larger gym with…

  A Mum of three from Cardiff is taking on a charity run after she had a stroke at age 28; just three weeks after her first baby was born. Melissa Broad from Creigiau is continuing her journey to keep fit after her stroke in 2010, by signing up for the Stroke Association’s Resolution Run in Cardiff’s Bute Park on 10 March. Melissa said: “I am proud to be running in the Resolution Run as a stroke survivor, after experiencing…

Jay James chats to Carl Marsh about his new appointment as the new host of a brand-new music, entertainment and celebrity-packed show on Nation Broadcasting’s five regional networks across Wales, which are on Sunday’s between 4 pm and 7 pm. You’ve been quite busy these last few years haven’t you, and now you’re the new prime time Sunday afternoon host on Nation Radio’s networks across Wales? Well, obviously I am still involved with the music side of things by working…