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    MoRunning have announced they will host MoRuns at 22 different locations across the UK and Ireland throughout the month of ‘Movember’ including in Cardiff, to help raise awareness of men’s health issues and to raise vital funds for the Movember Foundation. The Cardiff MoRun will take place on 10th November and will see runners go through Bute Park. MoRunning events are suited to runners of all abilities and of all ages, with a 5k option for the fun…

      A campaign to raise awareness of Hepatitis C testing and treatment is being run by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board in the run up to World Hepatitis Day (28th July). The Road to Elimination is a virtual challenge that has been devised to get people involved and help ‘take a step to eliminate Hep C in Wales’. The virtual challenge has mapped out the distance across Hep C treatment hospitals across Wales, which is 325 miles,…

      Trowbridge’s Willow Jones-Cadette has scooped a top regional prize in a national safety competition beating off more than a thousand entrants from across the UK. Willow, 7 who attends St John Lloyd Roman Catholic Primary School, won the Key Stage 1 Welsh entry of the ‘Get Creative, Be Safe’ competition which invited school-age children to produce something creative to warn of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. She picked up her prize of £150 cash for…

Cardiff nurse Liam Dando has had his fair share of being on the other side of a hospital bed. As a child he was a regular patient at the Children’s Hospital for Wales in Cardiff but these days he works alongside some of the nurses who took care of him. And as the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday this year, he is grateful for the care he’s received throughout his life. At the age of five, Liam (now 26), was…

      A doctor described by his colleagues as passionate, dedicated and a champion for stroke services in Wales has received the inaugural Welsh Stroke Excellence Award. Dr Hamsaraj Shetty, a consultant in Stroke medicine at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board picked up the first ever award at this year’s Welsh Stroke Conference. The new awards were launched for the 2018 annual conference and aims to recognise those practitioners in Wales who are providing high quality care to…

  The charity Crimestoppers has launched a national campaign to highlight the devastating effect of urban drug gangs across communities, and is asking for your help to try and tackle the issue by reporting any information on ‘county lines’ anonymously. County lines commonly involves dealers expanding their business by supplying drugs from urban to suburban and rural areas across the country. This can include market and coastal towns, using dedicated mobile phone lines or “deal lines.” A new UK campaign…

      Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, has announced £1.2m to improve the renal dialysis unit at University Hospital for Wales (UHW), Cardiff. During a visit to the unit today (Thursday, 19 July), Mr Gething saw how the money will be used to upgrade the unit to deal with patients in a more clinically appropriate environment and improving their overall experience. He said: “Chronic kidney disease is estimated to affect 6‐8% of the general population. With many of the contributing…

  Stand-up comedian and motivational speaker Shonette Bason-Wood is dedicating her summer to helping families in need in South Wales – by giving out free food hampers. Across the six-week school break, the families of children who would normally receive free school meals can struggle with the extra cost of feeding their children during the summer holidays – leading to the reality dubbed ‘holiday hunger’. To help address the issue, Shonette, from Teesside, who runs an educational training company, Spread…

The Capital FM Cardiff Bay Beach Festival is  back and it’s bigger and better than ever – in a new waterfront location near Cardiff Bay Barrage – and packing even more attractions into the summer holidays. The new Beach Festival takes over the newly developed event site on Barrage Walkway that was used so effectively for the Volvo Ocean Race Village and will be home to the Beach from July 6 (4pm) for an expanded nine weeks of family entertainment…

On the 1st September at St Catherine’s Church Pontcanna 1pm-4pm we shall be having a fun day for all ages! We shall be raising money for Fighting Ependymoma (registered charity number 1160497). Their aim is to support world class research into childhood ependymoma brain cancer. During the day we shall be having workshops from Aim sports academy, Nova cheerleading, Sparkle’s Hoop Troupe, Key Creates and some very special guests. Throughout the day there shall be a bouncy castle, local stalls, food…