Australia’s most successful family entertainment group, The Wiggles, are coming to the UK and Ireland for the first time in 5 years! Emma, Lachy, Simon and Anthony are so excited to be touring England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales this July and August. They will be bringing some familiar wiggly friends with them too, including Dorothy the Dinosaur, Captain Feathersword, Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus! Emma will be delighting fans with her Irish and ballet dancing and there’ll…

  The Swansea Triathlon took place on Sunday 28th May, in Swansea with almost 1000 athletes starting the race. This is a sprint triathlon where athletes swam 750m in the SA1 dock, cycled 20k on closed roads around the city centre and ended their race with a 5k run crossing the finish line in Castle Square to great crowds of supporters. The top 3 male winners of the Swansea Triathlon were Alex Matchett with a time of 55 minutes and…

A new film released on 31 May called The Firefighters’ Dilemma is calling for the government to set national standards to improve emergency response times.  The film shows a pensioner trapped inside a burning flat. The first fire engine arrives, but the second is some way behind. The firefighters are desperate to go in and save ‘Alice’ but they are not supposed to enter the building until the back up crew arrives, for their own safety (see notes to editors…

Monday 20 November 8pm – TICKETS ON SALE NOW! LEGENDARY singer-songwriter Van Morrison returns to St David’s Hall on Monday 20 November 2017 with what promises to be an incredible career-spanning set. Plus, tickets for the eagerly anticipated show are already on sale! Van Morrison started his career as a teenager in the late 1950s covering the top tunes of the day in various groups around Belfast. He then rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the…

  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,…

Award-winning actor Bill Ward, who left ITV’s Emmerdale in a murderous exit this October, is to star in the next thrilling stage adaptation of multi-million selling author Peter James’ Not Dead Enough. Appearing alongside Laura Whitmore and Stephen Billington, Bill Ward will play Peter James’ famous literary Detective Superintendent Roy Grace from Tuesday 18 April 2017. The show is coming to Cardiff on Tuesday 13 June 2017. As well as his 3 year run and a recent explosive exit from his role…

  22:30 – 09:00 | Saturday 28th May 2017 | Y Plas (Student Union), Cardiff, with: SANTÉ * SIDNEY CHARLES WAZE & ODYSSEY DE LA SWING * EDDY M After the madness in the cricket ground, the party continues into the early hours, with the elrow Music afterparty taking over the Y Plas (Student Union). We’ll be joined by Avorte boys Sidney Charles and Santé, immerse yourselves in the sounds of elrow music, as we welcome our elrow residents De La Swingand Eddy M and special guests Waze & Odyssey will be joining us. Tickets are…

Cardiff Business Improvement District (BID) and the Cardiff Street Pastors have joined forces to keep the capital city’s revellers safe at night with a new year long partnership. As part of its commitment to improving the city centre, Cardiff BID has promised funding of £20,000 for the next year to ensure they can continue to provide valuable safety support to night time revellers. Established in November 2016, Cardiff BID covers 130 streets across the capital city stretching from Principality Stadium…

Retirement development Llys Pegasus, managed by FirstPort Retirement Property Services, has won a silver award, for the consecutive year running, at the National Housing for Older People Awards. The residents of the development, located in Llanishen, Cardiff, celebrated their win at an awards ceremony at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham. More than 10,000 residents from across the UK voted in the awards which are managed by the national housing charity for older people, the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC). In total, three…

  St David’s Hall Saturday 15 July, 7.30pm   CARDIFF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA celebrates its 35th birthday with a performance of Strauss’ mighty and magnificent An Alpine Symphony at St David’s Hall on Saturday 15 July. Since its inaugural concert at St David’s Cathedral on Saturday 19 June 1982, CPO has entertained thousands of concert-goers and established itself as one of Wales’ foremost non-professional orchestras with a loyal and talented membership. Now well into its fourth decade, the orchestra continues to go…