Horatio’s Garden is a national charity that creates and nurtures beautiful gardens in the heart of NHS spinal injury centres. As part of the redevelopment project being undertaken by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board at University Hospital Llandough, the charity is building one of its award-winning gardens in the Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre to support everyone affected by spinal injury in Wales.   The garden is currently being designed by two-time Chelsea gold medal winner Sarah Price and is due to…

A Cardiff-based sports radio show has been shortlisted for a prestigious UK radio award for the third year in a row. The Terrace Radio Show, presented and produced by Chris O’Brien on Radio Cardiff 98.7FM, is in contention for the Sports Show of the Year accolade at the UK Community Radio Awards – to be presented on Saturday evening (October 26). O’Brien’s show hit the airwaves in July 2016 – then known as OB’s Saturday Sport Show. It has since…

REVIEW OF ‘ON YOUR FEET’ – BY ALAN COULTHARD I must confess that ‘juke box musicals’ are a guilty pleasure of mine, although I know they are not to everyone’s taste. Broadly they fall into two types, firstly where the original artist uses the opportunity of a film or stage musical to perform songs from its catalogue. These date back to the 1940s and include films such as the Beatles ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Spice World – The Movie’….

  Sara Pickard, a prominent campaigner who has Down’s syndrome, was nominated to attend the prestigious 2019 ‘Women of the Year’ Awards. Sara, who lives near Cardiff, has been recognised for her campaign work for people with a learning disability. She has worked for Mencap Cymru, a charity which supports people with a learning disability in Wales, for 13 years. Currently, Sara is project officer at Mencap Cymru where she works on the ‘Play Our Way’ project, which brings children…

How did you set about preparing to portray such an iconic figure that is Gloria Estefan? Yeah, yeah, well, we had the absolute luxury and blessing to have Gloria with us during rehearsals back in April. So I was able to, and as she was so open, to sit down with her and talk. We also talked about the role, spoke about the story and talked about how the songs come in and out of the journey. So that was,…

Award winning writer and producer Russell T Davies gave an exclusive interview during his recent visit to the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival confirming the importance of the film festival to Cardiff. He also gave a stark warning of the need to come together in a world which demands we fight for our rights. YOU CAN VIEW THE INTERVIEW HERE: HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/XVVTH1KOGVI Commenting on the significance of the festival to Cardiff he said: CARDIFF AND WHAT IRIS MEANS TO THE CITY “Film…

Shannon (L) Winner of the Transport for Wales Rising Star Award, pictured with Marie Daly, HR, People and Engagement Director at Transport for Wales   Shannon’s Story It was when Shannon’s coach at the Job Centre mentioned The Prince’s Trust that everything started to change for the better. After many months of fruitless job hunting, the 21-year old from Rumney, Cardiff, secured a job she loves with The Trust’s support. More importantly, she went from being someone who wanted to…

Lena (L) Winner of the Homesense Young Achiever Award, pictured with Donna Groves, Regional Manager for TK Maxx & Homesense   Lena’s Story Lena, 20, from St Mellons, Cardiff, grew up in foster care and was extremely shy. “I had very little confidence in myself when I was in school, and I soon fell into the wrong crowd. I found it easier and easier to skip classes, and I ended up leaving at 16 without any grades. I tried college…

CURRENTLY AT NEW THEATRE IN CARDIFF UNTIL SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER, JASON MANFORD IS APPEARING IN CURTAINS. CARL MARSH CHATTED TO HIM EARLIER THIS WEEK.   EVERYONE WILL PROBABLY KNOW YOU AS THE COMEDIAN SO IT MUST BE NICE BEING ASKED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE CURTAINS,  A MUSICAL SHOW; BUT ISN’T MUSIC IN YOUR FAMILIES BLOOD? It’s a massive privilege, but I think performing in general and being on stage, or the telly (sic) or radio is a privilege, but it…

Being hailed as “the female Ed Sheeran” aged just seventeen is not something your average A-Level student would be able to claim. But, then again, Katie Kittermaster is no ordinary teenager. Katie Kittermaster has barely finished with her A Levels, but is already performing in front of crowds of hundreds of thousands and her steep trajectory shows no signs of leveling out any time soon. Having written many of her songs at the tender age of just fifteen, Kittermaster went…