IS IT STALKING? That is the vital question being addressed in a new awareness film being released by the UK’s leading personal safety charity to launch National Stalking Awareness Week (20 -24 April 2015) With 1 in 6 women and 1 in 12 men being stalked at some point in their lives* the film, commissioned by charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust, helps to educate the public about what stalking is and to make clear it’s not romantic, trivial or funny, its…

Spring has arrived, bringing with it the promise of warm weather to come. Are you ready to bare it all on the beach? If not, no worries, there is still time. Follow these 12 steps to get your abs beach ready.   Step One: Do Some Burpees.  Here’s how to do a burpee: 1) Stand with feet shoulder width apart. 2) Drop to a squat with your hands on the ground. 3) Kick feet back while lowering into a push-up….

Celebration of welsh grassroots rugby returns on 3rd may SSE SWALEC Finals day will return to the Millennium Stadium on Sunday 3rd May in a triple match spectacular featuring the finals of the SSE SWALEC Cup, Plate and Bowl. The three finals will take place on a day that has become a true celebration of Welsh grassroots and semi-professional club rugby. Bowl Final KO 13:00 Plate Final KO 15:15 Cup Final KO 17:35 Competing teams TBC   Tickets are priced…

Welsh Proms  St David’s Hall 18 – 25 July Now On Sale   THE Welsh Proms is set to take St David’s Hall by storm again this summer, but this year’s series marks the 30th anniversary of the classical extravaganza! Throughout a week-long residency at the National Concert Hall of Wales from 18-25 July, the 2015 Proms will include breath taking performances from world class orchestras across a diverse and exciting programme. Opening this incredible season is the awe-inspiring Philharmonia…

800 students to be taught CPR in a mass one-day session by heart charity volunteer medics. On Thursday 23rd April Welsh Hearts charity team of medics will train up over 800 students at Lliswerry High School, Newport, Gwent in CPR and the safe use of defibrillators in just one day! Our doctors, nurses, paramedics and community first responders from all over Wales have been providing free CPR and defibrillator training as part of the “Saving Lives in Wales” campaign with…

Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning are running short and intensive language courses in June and July this year at all levels ranging from beginners to advanced.  Perfect for learning language skills for a summer holiday or consolidating existing languages skills.  Languages include: French, German, Italian and Spanish. We are running a competition from Monday 27th April to Friday 1st May, the prize of a free summer course running in 2015. We’ll be dropping clues on our Facebook, Google + and Twitter sites. To play, you’ll need to search around our summer language…

Gretchen Peters +Support   @ The Gate, Cardiff Tuesday 30th July 2015 || Doors: 7.30pm £20 adv.stbf || Reserved Seating Online Tickets: The Gate || gigantic Golden Globe and two-time Grammy nominee, country and folk songstress Gretchen Peters announces this Cambridge Folk Festival warm-up concert at The Gate in Cardiff. Since the release of her “career album” (NPR), 2012’s Hello Cruel World, she has been in near-constant motion, touring prolifically throughout the past two years. 2014 saw her both headline her…

Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular celebrates its first ever UK tour with homage to legendary Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover In advance of the forthcoming Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular which visits six cities across the UK during the May half term week* from May 23rd, artwork has been released today to capture the monsters and characters from Doctor Who, alongside the musicians taking part in the tour.   Paying homage to the classic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…

When you tell people you work in a nursery they just think you sit around and play all day, but it is so much more than that! Getting the chance to watch children develop and seeing their personalities shine through even at such an early age is the best part of the job. At Meithrinfa Y Pelican we are all about learning through play and letting the children achieve their own objectives while playing. If they want to draw a…

Miller and Carter Steakhouse in Bath teamed up with young local entrepreneur, Daniel Williams, to host a sensational ‘Dining in the Dark’ experience, where all diners were blindfolded for the duration of the event so they could understand the challenges of having a visual impairment. Daniel, who is visually impaired himself, also aimed to dispel preconceptions and assumptions that many have when meeting people for the first time. Inspirational Daniel Williams, 23, celebrated the 1-year anniversary of his business Visualise…