Julie James AM, Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, visited RNIB’s head office in Cardiff today to officially launch the Online Today service in Wales. Online Today is a Lottery funded UK-wide project that will support blind and partially sighted people to get online.   A team of digital inclusion officers and volunteers are working with people with sight loss, or who are deaf or hard of hearing, to help them gain confidence in using digital technology in everyday life….

Its true what they say, ‘it’s not all about winning’….however, it certainly does give you a boost (!) especially when the prize is as baa-rilliant as this one! I was lucky enough to win the new ‘Shaun the Sheep movie’ through Cardiff Times Facebook competitions! And it’s safe to say, it caused quite a few excited bleetings in our household! As did the accompanying ‘bag’ (which despite being nearly 30 myself, i did consider trying on, but decided better of…

  Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra St David’s Hall Saturday 4 July 7.30pm Last Remaining Top-Priced Seats in Stalls Now £10!* CARDIFF Philharmonic Orchestra will celebrate Independence Day in style with their spectacular American Night concert on Saturday 4 July. Plus, to mark the occasion the last remaining top-priced seats in Stalls are now just £10!* And kids’ tickets are just £5!* For one night only it’s all about the Star-Spangled Banner at the National Concert Hall of Wales with this stunning…

Newport families go on the run for the 2015 SUBWAY Helping Hearts™ Family 5K event On Sunday over 460 runners put on their trainers and came down to Tredegar Park for the SUBWAY Helping Hearts™ Family 5K, the first time the event has been held in Newport in the series’ three year history.   Local families made their way around the course in order to raise money for Heart Research UK, with many of them embracing the new ‘field of…

Getting children across the UK and Ireland writing, with over £14,000 worth of prizes   Recognising the importance of handwriting in children’s development, BIC has unveiled the very first Handwriting Olympiad. Launched in partnership with Start-Bee, which helps children to write effortlessly and enjoyably, the competition aims to get primary school children writing simply by asking them to complete the sentence, “I love being able to write because…”.   Hosted on the Teachers’ Corner section of the recently developed BIC®…

A new ethical food label – assured by the RSPCA – has been launched in a bid to help improve the lives of a further 100 million farm animals, plus many millions of farmed salmon and trout, in the next five years. As reported in The Grocer the RSPCA Assured label replaces the RSPCA’s Freedom Food mark on eggs, meat, dairy products and fish sold in supermarkets and shops throughout the UK.   The new label makes it easy to find products…

@ The Gate, Cardiff Saturday 17th October 7.30pm doors, 8pm start £20 adv.stbf || Unreserved Seating Online Tickets: The Globe For 40 years, Bruce Cockburn has been capturing in song the essence of human experience – while fiercely striving to make it better.   One of Canada’s finest artists, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while travelling to such…

  FACEBOOK AND ENTERPRISE NATION LAUNCH ‘BOOST YOUR BUSINESS’ SUMMER TOUR FOR SMALL BUSINESSES TO HIT CARDIFF   ·   AimsFree event aimed at small businesses at National Museum on July 6 Series of free SME focused workshop events in five cities across the UK ·       Sharing expert tips on latest techniques to boost business on Facebook ·       Aims to train over 3,500 e-commerce experts to deliver Facebook business prowess   Facebook and small business network Enterprise Nation have teamed up…

Five directors of restaurants in Yeovil, Cardiff and Newport are the latest to be banned from running companies for knowingly employing illegal workers, following investigations into three restaurant businesses by the Insolvency Service.   Abdul Boshor (43) and Samiur Rahman (24), who ran the Empire Restaurant (Cardiff) Ltd, signed undertakings banning them from acting as directors for seven and six years respectively. Abdul Kayum (46) and Rothna Begum (40), who ran the Akash Indian Restaurant in Yeovil, signed undertakings for…

  The England Men’s Cricket Team will be among the sports clubs holding workshops and learning Welsh at Tafwyl Festival in Cardiff Castle on July 4-5, 2015.   As part of the England Cricket Team’s preparations for the Investec Ashes Test Match held at the Swalec Stadium on July 8, 2015, some of the players will be among those celebrating the Welsh language and learning a few sentences between 1200 and 1300 on Sunday, July 5, 2015.   England captain, Alastair…