If you’re itching to celebrate Halloween before the 31st or to spook it up outside of the traditional trick-or-treaters and themed club nights, X-Scream’s twisted fairy tale Halloween extravaganza ‘Once Upon a Time’ might be the thing for you. Sweeping through the outhouses and grounds of Rhondda Heritage Park and into the old coalmines themselves, X-Scream have set up a rat-run of textured mazes, smoke machines, strobe lights, and ancient elevators furnished with characters from your favourite childhood tales, Disney…

A woman from Cardiff is on a mission to run a marathon in a month to raise vital funds for Diabetes UK Cymru. Joanne Foley, 34, is taking part in the Diabetes UK Cymru Run26 challenge, which invites people to push themselves out of their comfort zone by running 26.2 miles throughout October in their own time and at their own pace. She  was diagnosed when she was 13. Joanne said: “I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when I…

Last Wednesday (10th October) was World Mental Health Day and this year the campaign theme was ‘Young People and Mental Health in a changing World.’ St David’s Catholic Sixth Form College has created a social media video campaign to mark the event, continuing to champion awareness and highlight the issues that young people face. Following on from its ‘Worry Less’ campaign earlier this year, St David’s is continuing to champion mental health awareness with staff members assembling to create an…

Rugby star and testicular cancer survivor Matthew Rees is backing this year’s Stand Up To Cancer campaign alongside his Cardiff Blues teammates to help speed up life-saving research. Stand Up To Cancer, a joint fundraising campaign from Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK, unites celebrities, scientists and communities from across the UK. Every hour, around two people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales*. Matthew, who was diagnosed with the disease when he was just 32, said: “Cancer is a word…

Cardiff-based communications agency, Station Rd, has marked its next phase of growth with a new senior appointment. The integrated communications agency has appointed, Mike Palmer, as head of creative to lead on brand strategy, creative and campaign activation across the business as well as overseeing its growing creative team. Palmer brings with him over ten years’ experience working with a range of national and international brands including Mr Tom, NHS Wales, GoCompare and Sport Wales. His appointment comes at a…

A group of young people are set to receive an award at The Prince’s Trust and TK Maxx & Homesense Awards, Wales. They will scoop the Dell EMC Community Impact Award at the ceremony, to be held today at the National Museum in Cardiff. Here we have the final instalment in a series of nine events across the UK, celebrating the inspirational achievements of young people in Wales. This year, we have seven fantastic winners who have overcome significant barriers…

Senior Medical Student announced as Wales Region heat winner of nationwide Surgical Skills Competition. Today, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (www.rcsed.ac.uk) together with sponsors Medtronic (www.medtronic.com), announce the second heat winner of nationwide Surgical Skills Competition celebrating future stars of the surgical field. Following a tension-fuelled contest hosted at Cardiff’s Medical Centre, RSCEd is delighted to announce Billy Down, a final year student from Swansea Medical School, as the competitions next heat winner following Joe Guppy’s win of…

The wind blew and the rain poured this weekend but the temperature soared at the St David’s Hotel in Cardiff Bay at the launch of Nathan Palmer’s long awaited RTW collection. With guests including Welsh Rugby stars Gareth Alfie Thomas and Josh Navidi, Olympic athlete Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Cardiff City F.C Captain Sean Morrison, this Fashion Show is fast becoming the hottest ticket this side of the Severn Bridge. For Nathan’s third collection – Traje De Luces (Suit of Lights)…

This weekend sees the much-anticipated return of Cardiff’s International Film Festival, with an impressive jury of local and global faces set to crown the winners from ten different categories. Judges include British actresses Kimberley Nixon and Maria Pride, Sci-fi author and screenwriter Marc Zicree, director, writer and producer Anurag Kashyap, script consultant and video conceptualist Keith Williams and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Florence Ayisi. The main event will again be hosted in the historical Pierhead Building in the heart of Cardiff…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Wales, BAFTA Cymru, has announced the winners of the 2018 British Academy Cymru Awards. The awards honour excellence in broadcasting and production within film, games and television in Wales and inspire the next generation of creative talent. The ceremony was hosted once again by BBC Radio 1 presenter, Huw Stephens, at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, where presenters included producers Barbara Broccoli OBE and Michael G. Wilson OBE; actress Elen Rhys…