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…

We spend hours at the gym or running and hiking to train our body and endurance.  But what about our brain? If you feel like your attention span is shortening, you can stretch and strengthen it with simple everyday changes.  Get more sleep Not sleeping properly can not only affect our energy levels and looks but also our brain functions. Getting enough Zzz’s can help support learning, memory as well as regulate our mood or even appetite and libido. When…

The Woman in Black, which has recently celebrated its 28th anniversary in the West End, is touring to Cardiff’s New Theatre for eight haunting performances – plenty of opportunity to see if you’ll survive the tale… Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel has terrified over 7 million theatre-goers since it first opened. Robin Herford’s gripping production is a brilliantly successfully study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror. The production’s huge popularity has reached a global level, having toured…