Goodgym combines getting fit with doing good in Cardiff Launch run will see runners lay a disabled access path for Canton Community Hall Gardens and run 4k First group outside of England launches at Cardiff’s Old Library, The Hayes, and will take place every Tuesday 18:15 CARDIFF, MAY 23rd 2017 – GOODGYM – the community of runners who combine getting fit with doing good – is launching in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan this month (May 23). Members of…

  ~Backed by Cardiff Met University and BHF Cymru, May Measurement Month highlights significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease~ The Cardiff City Football Team have been the very first to undertake blood pressure checks for the May Measurement Month campaign, a month-long global initiative supported in Wales by academics at Cardiff Metropolitan University and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cymru to encourage people in Wales to check their blood pressure (BP) levels. High blood pressure is the single biggest treatable…

Business communications specialist Onecom is aiming for a hat-trick of awards after being shortlisted for three major industry accolades. The company, which has headquarters in Hampshire and offices around the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland, has been recognised for its outstanding customer service, the significance of a major acquisition and the industry influence of Onecom CEO Darren Ridge (pictured) Onecom is shortlisted in the Best Unified Comms Dealer category of the Mobile Industry Awards (MIAs). The awards, run by Mobile…

  GUARANTEED to be exciting and innovative, Grand Band New York perform classics from Reich, Lang and Glass at St David’s Hall on Tuesday 23 May at 8pm. Featuring six grand pianos and six virtuoso pianists, Grand Band champion new music from today’s composers, ranging through classical and pop-crossover to post-minimal. In addition to the World Premiere of Philip Glass’ Closing, David Lang’s Face So Pale and Steve Reich’s frenetic Six Pianos, there’s also a Chopin World Premiere from Ben…

A 22-year-old from Cardiff is reaping the benefits of undertaking an apprenticeship after securing a promotion at Asda’s largest store in Wales. Oliver Lock joined the Cardiff Coryton Supercentre in 2012 and was encouraged to apply for an apprenticeship by a member of his team. He said: “I first heard about Asda’s apprenticeship scheme through one of my colleagues in the administration department; she approached me about applying for the apprenticeship because she thought I had the right skills, but…

The 10th anniversary of Earth Hour takes place on Saturday 25 March between 8.30pm and 9.30pm, and over half a million people in Wales will take part in the annual event that sees millions worldwide switch off their lights to shine a light on climate change. Iconic landmarks taking part include Caernarfon Castle, National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, and the Senedd and Principality Stadium in Cardiff. To mark the occasion, WWF Cymru is to…

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)…

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has welcomed the news that fire and rescue services in Wales are to be given a statutory duty to respond to flooding emergencies. It now means England is the only nation in the UK where firefighters do not have a duty to respond to flooding. The new duty will come into effect in Wales on 1 April 2017. The Welsh Assembly has committed £1.8m in funding to replace ageing flooding and water rescue equipment as…

The world-wide Refugee crisis is a very complex phenomenon which has affected most of our lives in the past year. Whether it has been due to sadness, anger, politics, images on television, or documentaries and so on. For me personally, my life was massively affected this year as the Idomeni refugee camp in Greece was my everyday life for five months as a volunteer. In October 2015, I decided I could no longer watch people suffer on the news, and…

I was recently engaged in a meeting with a mate in North Wales and travelled back down through Mid Wales.  As we were driving through Newtown we passed the train station and I happened to glance at the train and the bored commuters.  When lo and behold, I spotted the almost extinct Newtown Panda.  I kid you not.  There was a life-sized Panda sat in a seat on the train (and no, I hadn’t been drinking).  It must be a…