Free cancer information and support, as well as help with financial worries, is coming to Cardiff next week. Macmillan Cancer Support’s information bus Bronwen will be visiting the area with cancer information specialists on hand to answer questions and provide information. The bus will start off the week on Monday 27 January at Tesco on Crickhowell Road in St Mellons from 9am to 3pm, and then at Waitrose in Pontprennau, 9am to 3pm, on Tuesday 28 January. On Wednesday…

Vodafone and famous mum, solo artist, radio presenter and Spice Girl Emma Bunton have joined forces to launch the Vodafone Digital Family Pledge – a fun online tool that helps families create tech ground rules together and then turns them into their very own family pledge. The free, personalised and interactive activity helps families to set their digital ‘house rules’ together in an easy, fun way with the pledge covering everything from rules about devices at the dinner table to…

  A dozen young heroes will shortly discover they will be recognised for their courage, fortitude and hard work at the National Children of Wales Awards this spring after a panel of judges including Carol Vorderman MBE met to deliberate and assess the entries last week.   The National Children of Wales Awards, which will become the Child of Wales Awards from the awards evening, will take place at the Celtic Manor on April 3, 2020. It will recognise the…

TEDxCardiff (@TEDxCardiff), the event focused on the mission of ‘ideas worth spreading’, is returning to Cardiff on Sunday 1st March and the first 200 tickets are up for grabs now from www.tedxcardiff.co.uk/tickets. But act fast if you want to be there – previous years have sold out in a matter of minutes! Taking place at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture, the event, partnered with The Waterloo Foundation, Cardiff University, creative partner Orchard Media, Propeller and Working Word, will see a number of…

  The KIDZ BOP World Tour comes to Cardiff St David’s Hall on Thursday, April 16 – and one lucky dance group will see their own performance premiered at the live show, as well as being in with a chance of performing at the world famous The London Palladium. KIDZ BOP – the #1 music brand for kids – is searching for new dance talent to join them as part of the UK leg of the KIDZ BOP World Tour in April 2020.   The KIDZ BOP…

Cure Leukaemia visited the Clinical Research Facility in December 2019, ahead of the three-year funding period getting underway. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Cardiff University has secured specialist research nurse funding to support the delivery of blood cancer trials at the Clinical Research Facility at the University Hospital of Wales.   The Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is one of 12 centres across the UK to receive the funding from Cure Leukaemia across a three-year period as part of…

The Tuckers is a brand new sit-com series (6×30) for BBC One Wales. Set in the Welsh valleys, it’s written and stars Steve Speirs. The series follows the fortunes of the Tucker family, a close-knit, extended family of ‘loveable rogues’ who earn their living in a number of ways – and sometimes on the wrong side of the law. The Tuckers was originally commissioned as a 30-minute pilot as part of BBC Cymru Wales’ first ever comedy season, the ‘Festival…

Photo credit: Phillip Roberts   A Cardiff-based organisation working to support people with cancer has received a £10,000 grant from a special Centenary voting round of Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme. The funding from Tesco has allowed Maggie’s Cardiff to provide extra practical and emotional support for people with cancer, as well as their family and friends. With backgrounds in the study and treatment of tumours and years of experience within the NHS, Maggie’s Cancer support specialists help people with…

By Sue Good   There’s only one New Year’s resolution that matters for 2020: to live a greener, more environmentally healthy life. We all know that major lifestyle and infrastructural changes need to progress, in order to stop the predicted increase of the earth’s temperature and prevent rising sea levels. So, alongside the usual ‘give up alcohol’ and ‘couch to 5K’ resolutions we usually set, try a green one too. How about cutting personal hygiene and beauty waste by 50%?…

Below, experts share their tips on what you can do every day to help keep in good mental health. 1. Reframe – think about the bad and good things “Did you know that we are hard-wired to register negative thoughts over positive ones? Although this is an in-built tool to help us for survival, it can have a powerful effect on our behaviour, our decisions and relationships. You may get a number of positive comments about your work or appearance for example…