We’re over the ‘Bay’ for Tenovus Cancer Care The St. David’s Hotel & Spa challenged daredevils of Cardiff to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime zip wire challenge today in Cardiff Bay in aid of the hotel’s charity of the year, Tenovus Cancer Care, Wales’ leading cancer charity. More than 70 people from the ages of 12 up to 92, took part in today’s zip wire challenge and, tomorrow a second round of adrenalin junkies will take to the skies with over…

CARDIFF SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS from Cancer Research UK’s Cardiff Centre put on their pink ‘war paint’ and are calling on women from across South Wales to join the fight against the disease by signing up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. They want thousands of mums, daughters, grans, friends and colleagues to unite and form a ‘pink army’ at the Race for Life 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy events at Bute Park on the weekend of 18 & 19…

    Thu 7 May – 10 Feet Tall – 7.30pm – Free Cardiff Animation Nights – Oh Willy, The Obvious Child & Two Films About Loneliness Cardiff’s only animation night returns to 10 Feet Tall! Come and see a selection of great short animated films, including… OH WILLY Weird and wonderful knitted stop-motion short from Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels, winner of 82 awards from film festivals worldwide. “Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles…

Thu 7 May – Undertone – 8pm – £4 Beevents Presents: Punk n’ Disorderly It’s a school night, so be a rebel. Come and get punked up with us at Undertone. Live music from Tenplusone, Last Vendetta and more just for you, you lucky punk. 8pm £4 May 7th. Remember to vote first! F@*k yeah! EVENT PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/events/430181677144341/ BEEVENTS – https://www.facebook.com/beeventspresents Fri 8 May – Undertone – 10pm-4am – £3 JILTED (unofficial Prodigy Afterparty) We invite you to join…

St David’s Hall Tuesday 15 September 7.30pm Tickets on Sale on Friday 1 May at 9am LEGENDARY British songwriter Richard Thompson OBE is coming to St David’s Hall on Tuesday 15 September. Thompson is renowned as being one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, and tickets for his spectacular live show go on sale tomorrow (Friday 1 May) from 9am. Having co-founded the groundbreaking group Fairport Convention as a teenager in the 60s, Thompson and his bandmates virtually…

A third of Cardiff residents check their phone 50 times per day and are glued to their mobile for 17 hours a week -Cardiff residents spend an average of 2 hours 32 minutes per day on their phone -Almost a fifth even check their phone while on the loo -Over one in ten would sacrifice time with their loved ones rather than lose their phone The mobile report commissioned by comparethemarket.com to mark the launch of its new mobile tariff…

CALLING ALL CARDIFFIANS! The BBC are looking for couples (be it partners, friends or family members) from across the UK swap homes with one another over the course of three days. It’s a chance to have a new experience and discover local cuisine, sight-seeing that goes beyond the guide book, and an authentic place to stay. It might be that people are considering a home swap for the first time or have swapped many times before. It’s very much a…

Between Monday 6 April to Sunday 12 April almost £1.7 million (£1,660,458) in donations to four registered political parties in Great Britain were reported to the Electoral Commission as it releases the second of four weekly publications that will be published prior to the poll on 7 May. By law (The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000), political parties must submit weekly donation and loan reports to the Commission if they are standing candidates in the UK parliamentary election…

As this years election day approaches the debate surrounding who will be in power after 7th May is one which is impossible to avoid. An equally important question however, is how much will young voters affect the outcome? To answer this question we should consider whether our political system is achieving enough for young people. For political parties it is easy to guarantee safe votes by targeting traditional voters near an election by for example, protecting the winter fuel allowance…

The Welsh Business Show in Cardiff is due to appear on local TV programme, Made in Cardiff, which attracts over 100,000 viewers. Presenter, Mariclare Carey-Jones, will be interviewing exhibitors and guests at the show, resulting in a 30-minute programme being produced and aired the following day on Sky 134, Virgin 159 and Freeview 23 at 8pm. “We are really pleased that Made in Cardiff has agreed to cover the show,” commented Emma Wilkins, MD, The Welsh Business Shows. “We are always…