A healthcare team from Cardiff has scooped a top prize at The BMJ Awards 2016 in London tonight.   The BMJ Awards are the UK’s premier medical awards programme, recognising and celebrating the inspirational work done by doctors and their teams.   This year’s awards attracted more than 300 entries across 15 categories, including anaesthesia, cancer care, dermatology, and palliative care.   The team at University Hospital of Wales won Cardiology Team of the Year for improving detection of heart…

St David’s Hall Tuesday 10 May 1pm   THE Artesian Quartet will deliver an exciting programme of Haydn and Beethoven in a compelling Lunchtime Concert next Tuesday (10 May) at 1pm. Since forming at the Royal Academy of Music in 2009 (where they finished their time as 2014/15 CAVATINA Chamber Music Fellows), the Artesian Quartet have established a growing reputation touring the UK and internationally. They were also the 2013/14 St Peter’s Prize Winner Quartet, 2014 Park Lane Group artists and one…

Welsh Folk group Calan bring their World Premiere tour of a musical adaptation of children’s story “The King, The Cat & The Fiddle” to schools across Wales this April-June. Following the performance’s success at St David’s Hall, Cardiff on April 22nd and 23rd, Calan will continue to tour their interactive musical show this week starting at Riverbank special school, Cardiff on Monday 25th April and ending the week in Heronsbridge Special School, Bridgend on the Friday. The tour continues into…

Manchester United FC legend Andrew Cole was recently in the Vale of Glamorgan starring in a Sports Dinner held at the Vale Sports Arena in Penarth supporting PG10 Coaching to raise funds for their junior players tours to Barcelona FC and Ajax FC   Hundreds of guests where given opportunities to learn about Cole career, achievements and stories from a successful professional football career for club and country.   Guests learnt about the treble winning season with Manchester United FC, his time at…

The ‘Oscars’ of the fish and chip industry have launched today (Tuesday 3 May), marking the start of a nine month hunt to find the UK’s best fish and chip businesses.   Casting the net further than ever before, The 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards are calling on major city centre fish and chip businesses to get their entries in – hoping to hoping to ‘hook’ some from Cardiff.   Now in their 29th year, The National Fish &…

Millions of elderly Brits are not getting the care they need from their own relatives, according to a new study.   Researchers questioned 2,000 adults with elderly relatives, both living alone and in care homes, revealing 52 per cent in Cardiff admit they are NOT giving them the care they need.   57 per cent said they feel guilty about their elderly relatives – with 49 per cent claiming “living far away” was an obstacle and 19 per cent claiming…

The Lord Mayor of Cardiff and The Honorary Consul of France in Wales hosted a fundraising reception in support of The Alliance Française de Cardiff and Velindre Cancer Centre. 80 guests recently attended a French evening at Mansion House and enjoyed a Franco-Welsh buffet, wine and French classical music including singing, harp and flute performed by students of Cardiff University School of Music. A wine sampling of the French Centre “Carte des Vins” (Wine Menu) took place and Saturday’s guests…

Community groups in Wales  are being invited to enter an award scheme which last year gave out £5,000 to the country’s good causes. Ten Welsh based community groups were amongst those celebrating at the end of last year after local supporters helped them secure £5,000 of funding from Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving Scheme. The winners were chosen by public vote after being shortlisted from over 1,000 community organisations across the country. Now in its fourth year, Grassroots Giving was…

Ombudsman Services received 619 energy complaints from residents of Cardiff last year 385 complaints about telecoms also received   Residents in Cardiff made 335,000 complaints about products and services last year1, but more than 515,000 issues were ignored.   According to data compiled by Ombudsman Services, the sole provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for the energy industry, residents made over 619 complaints about their energy suppliers alone, up 7 per cent from 2014. The company also recorded a further…

With the January detox now a distant memory, kick start your carb habit and indulge on a custom made burger at Cardiff’s hottest new burger bar, Time and Beef. The 3rd March, you may recall, was dark, Arctic-like night, where if a snowstorm had engulfed Cardiff, no one would have batted an eyelid. Like a mirage, a glowing sanctuary on the streets of Canton, Time and Beef called upon the hungry, cold and fine-burger deprived for the launch of the…