Friday 16 February, 7pm Doors TICKETS ON SALE NOW EIGHTIES synth-pop icons Erasure are back with a new album and tour including a date at St David’s Hall on Friday 16 February 2018! The New Wave duo released another collection of perfectly crafted tunes with World Be Gone earlier this month, and fans can expect a mix of new material and old classics at the National Concert Hall of Wales. Tickets go on sale this Friday (2 June) at 10am,…

  Saturday 31 March, 7.30pm – TICKETS ON SALE NOW BRUTALLY honest political correspondent Jonathan Pie attempts to smash the system from within at St David’s Hall on Saturday 31 March 2018 – and tickets are on sale now! Following a sell-out 2017 UK tour ending at the London Palladium, the world’s most frustrated fictitious news reporter returns with his sharply observed and hilarious satire of current affairs entitled Back to the Studio. Since first appearing in September 2015, Jonathan Pie (created…

  Independent charity Crimestoppers and the Electoral Commission are calling on the public to be aware of the threat of electoral fraud, as the UK prepares for a General Election on Thursday 8 June. The three-week campaign, which launched on the 1 June, highlights the tell-tale signs of electoral fraud. This includes intimidating or bribing voters, stealing postal or proxy votes, voting as someone else, tampering with ballot papers or postal ballot packs, or asking someone to reveal their marked…

  All-female Welsh choir, Angelicus Celtis have recently shown their support for people affected by dementia and become Dementia Friends. The schoolgirls from Llanelli, South West Wales who have made it to the Semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent were all made Dementia Friends as it was revealed that many members of the choral group have personal experience of the condition and their grandparents received direct support from Alzheimer’s Society Cymru. Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to…

Families across Wales are being encouraged to take part in Sustrans’ Bike to School Week 2017 (5-9 June) and discover the benefits of cycling, scooting and walking. Bike to School Week is an opportunity for children and parents to kick-start active travel habits and switch to cycling, scooting or walking for the school journey. It is also a time to celebrate the good work already being done in schools to inspire more children and their parents to cycle, scoot or…

Over the last bank holiday, three teams from Parkinson’s UK cycled to gardens open for charity in England and Wales to the celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the National Garden Scheme. The teams aimed to cycle 90 miles in recognition of the first garden opening in 1927, but with a team in Yorkshire biking 45 miles, another in Cheshire riding 30 miles, and a third in Wales pedalling 40 miles – they smashed their target with an impressive 115 mile…

  A visually impaired man has found himself the victim of discrimination when he asked his local authority if he could vote at the General Election on June 8th in the same way that everyone else can. When Daniel Williams, 25, enquired at Cardiff City Council, if he could have a large print ballot paper, he was informed that this was not possible due to ‘legislative reasons’. No alternative was suggested.  Mr Williams was then told by the Electoral Commission…

Pictured (left to right) at the Mobile Industry Awards are: Mark Fermor, Mobile Business Development Director at Future Publishing; Aaron Brown, COO of Onecom; Darren Ridge, CEO of Onecom, and former England rugby player Martin Bayfield, who hosted the ceremony. Business communications specialist Onecom is celebrating a major national industry award which confirms its position as the leading unified comms provider in the UK. The company took the title of Best Unified Comms Dealer at the Mobile Industry Awards (MIAs),…

An award-winning charity is putting more smiles on the faces of hundreds of older people as its plans to extend across West Wales are coming to fruition. Goldies Cymru, fondly known simply as ‘Goldies’, started in and around Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys over six years ago, with a small number of daytime singing and activity sessions for older people to attend. It has grown to the point where there are now over 50 sessions taken by 12 sessions…

250 cinemas are hosting dedicated autism friendly cinema screenings this month right across the UK in partnership with Dimensions, a national not-for-profit support provider for people with learning disabilities and autism. Cineworld cinemas show their autism friendly screening on the first Sunday of every month. Their next showing is Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul on Sunday 4th June at 11am. Showcase cinemas show their autism friendly screening on the second Sunday of every month. Their next showing…