THE Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir returns to St David’s Hall on Tuesday 21 March with a stunning interpretation of Handel’s Messiah. This captivating performance directed by Dominic Neville forms parting of the Spring/Summer Lunchtime Concerts at National Concert Hall of Wales, which makes high quality concerts accessible to all. Tickets are just £6 in advance, and £7 on the day with concessions also available. Classical music lovers need no introduction to the magnificence of Handel’s legendary Messiah with its…

  Let’s turn up the volume for Children’s Hospice Week 2017!     Join UK charity Together for Short Lives, families and services across the country for this year’s Children’s Hospice Week (22-28 May). The campaign will be turning up the volume on children’s palliative care to raise awareness about the needs of seriously ill children and to celebrate all the lifeline services that children and families rely on. There are 49,000 children in the UK living with a life-limiting…

An innovative Welsh business is proving that science is fun, not scary, with a series of weird and wonderful experiments as British Science Week gets underway. Caerphilly-based Letterbox Lab is setting out to challenge the way children view their environment and encourage them to carry out their own mini investigations with their clever all-in-one science boxes. And this year’s British Science Week theme of ‘Change’ is particularly fitting, as Letterbox Lab was founded last year by married couple Mia and…

Cycling in Cardiff is at a critical moment with a new cycling strategy being proposed for the city and the plans for the Active Travel Act walking and cycling networks out for consultation.  What happens with these plans and strategies will depend on who is elected to the city council in May. To find out which party will offer the best deal for the thousands of cyclists in Cardiff, Cardiff Cycle City, the organisation aiming to make Cardiff the best…

Three outstanding ideas for better dementia care developed by frontline medical staff and patient carers are being celebrated at BioWales 2017. Cardiff and Vale University Hospital Board and Cardiff University developed a ‘Dementia Challenge’ as part of their drive for clinical innovation in Wales. Carers and staff came up with ideas that have since been turned into real-life services: a 1950s sitting room to make a ward ‘dementia friendly’; a bedside poster and publicity campaign to keep patients hydrated; a…

Today, (16 February 2017) the Open Inheritance Art project, funded by the Open Data Institute (ODI) Showcase, invites the public to discover and visit private collections of Britain’s most important cultural heritage artworks in a bid to increase access to art. From paintings by Rembrandt to Henry Moore sculptures, these artworks reside anywhere from stately homes to suburban semis and “together represent one of the largest ‘secret’ collections in the country”, says historian and broadcaster, Dr Hannah Grieg. The artworks…

WWF-Cymru, the Welsh arm of the global conservation organisation, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Earth Hour (the annual event that sees millions worldwide switch off their lights) this March, by helping the people of Wales to send a giant, eight metre message in a bottle to Welsh politicians and the world, calling for urgent national and global action on climate change. Suspended from the Senedd building in the week running up to Earth Hour (March 25th, 8.30pm – 9.30pm)…

SPRING’S IN THE AIR THIS MOTHER’S DAY AT CARLUCCIO’S At Carluccio’s you’ll find a beautiful collection of gifts, perfect for Mother’s Day. From a vibrant posy of chocolate flowers to the finest olives from Liguria, there’s a show-­stopping present for every Mum at Carluccio’s. Gifts are available from 10th March 2017 in all Carluccio’s food shops and online at www.carluccios.com.

The Hawkshead Relish Company has launched their latest innovation in a flavour extravagance with the NEW Black Garlic Ketchup. The flavour of black garlic is created with baking whole, fresh garlic bulbs for 40 days at a very low temperature creating an extraordinary flavour; rich, smooth & bursting with a balsamic sweetness. Combining the pureed garlic cloves by hand with fresh tomatoes, olive oil & Anglesey Sea Salt this ketchup sauce is the ultimate edition to cooked meats, tartlets, potato…

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is proud to announce its fifth consecutive year of The Pretty Powerful Campaign for Women & Girls, launching on International Women’s Day, March 8th 2017 with the introduction of a new Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge. Available in a NEW shade, “Pretty Powerful III,” the Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge is a universally flattering shade of pink with the full RRP (less VAT) of all sales made in the UK being donated to charity. Launched in March 2013, the…