A leading consumer expert has joined Slater and Gordon as it continues to expand its dispute resolution team. Stephen Southwood-Evans is launching a new team that resolves issues between landlords and tenants at the firm’s office in Cardiff. With more than 18 years’ experience, he began his career in consumer finance with First National Bank and progressed to specialist litigation with a background in consumer credit. Stephen said: “I didn’t study law traditionally and that is quite unusual at this…

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Young Onset Dementia Service is looking for help and support to create bespoke centre to support patients and their families. The service based at Barry Hospital is in the process of being refurbished to create a centre appropriate for patients with young onset dementia. The team is seeking help and support from local businesses and the community to help with the project. Often it’s thought that dementia only affects people over 65. But there…

  The podiatry team at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have recently been shortlisted for the national Advancing Healthcare Awards for their revolutionary STANCE project. On Friday the 12th April will see Angela Jones and Helen White, two of the project’s leaders travel to London to represent our health board on the national stage. STANCE is an innovative and ground-breaking project designed to empower patients at risk of diabetic foot disease to take ownership of their foot care and,…

APRIL offers another feast of entertainment at St David’s Hall with household names in the music world, internationally renowned orchestras and superb stand-up comedy. If you’re into your rock, there’s no better way to start the month in style than with Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Masters (Weds 3 Apr) as we celebrate 50 years since the release of the debut album of one of the greatest bands to ever walk the planet. Perhaps even more iconic though are The…

Principality Building Society is to invest £60,000 to help provide more than 1,500 Cardiff secondary school children with financial education. The project will see £5,000 allocated to each participating school, with lessons to include household budgeting workshops, financial planning, insurance, pensions, as well as preparing students for adulthood and the world of work. Principality has already helped more than 10,000 secondary students in Wales as part of the Business in the Community Business Class program since 2016. The qualifications children…

The big On Your Bike for Barnardo’s charity cycle ride returns this spring and this time there will be an extra event just for families. In addition to the usual 35 mile route through the Vale of Glamorgan there will be a six mile family ride around Cardiff Bay for the first time so that everyone can join in the fun. Both rides take place on Sunday May 12 and money raised will go towards helping some of the most…

Photo left to right: Dr John Thompson, Dr Richard Penketh, Dr Graham Shortland Doctors from the University Hospital of Wales are taking on an epic challenge to raise money for causes close their hearts. Dr Graham Shortland, (Executive Medical Director and Consultant Paediatrician), Dr Richard Penketh (Obstetrician Gynaecologist) and Dr John Thompson (Director of the National Poisons Information Service and Honorary Consultant), will be taking part in the Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit in Plymouth on Saturday 15 June 2019. The…

Every year 18,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales. Maggie’s is a charity that provides free practical and emotional support for people living with cancer and their family and friends. During the week commencing 8th April, they will be opening their second Welsh centre in the grounds of the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff. Maggie’s Cardiff has been designed by award winning Welsh architects Dow Jones. It was developed by Maggie’s, working in partnership with the Velindre Cancer Centre,…

Choirs and judges from as far afield as India and New Zealand will be heading to Cardiff to compete at an international competition where the judges will include a royal composer. This is the second year of the International Choral Festival which will be held at Hoddinott Hall and the Millennium Centre over the Easter weekend. The festival is the brainchild of one of Wales’ leading choirmasters, Eilir Owen Griffiths, the former musical director of the Llangollen International Music Festival….

I had the pleasure of being invited to the Millennium Centre to see The National Theatre Performance of Macbeth on Tuesday 19th March. Directed by Rufus Norris, with the main parts Macbeth and Lady Macbeth played by Rory McKinnear and Anne-Marie Duff – it definitely wasn’t for the faint hearted. Depicted as a chilling, cautionary tale about how power corrupts all – this production was unlike any interpretation I had seen before. As it is such a well-known play, the…