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The World’s Most Successful Rock & Roll Musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story Returns to Cardiff’s New Theatre Not seen in Cardiff since 2014, demand for Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story which plays the New Theatre from Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 July has been phenomenal. Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the enduring tale of the musical icon’s meteoric rise to fame and his final legendary performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, before…
The sun will continue to shine at Cardiff’s New Theatre over the summer. Audiences will be transported to Greece from Tuesday 27 June – Saturday 1 July for the heart-warming and delightful comedy play Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, starring Jodie Prenger. Then we head to the States for “the world’s most successful rock and roll musical” – Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story. The multi award winning West End show charts Buddy’s meteoric rise to fame to his…
The Bunch of Grapes pub, Pontypridd, was triumphant in the Best British Roast Dinner competition 2016. But will a Welsh pub lift the title again in 2017? Nick Otley, owner of Bunch of Grapes, said: “We’ve always been busy, but since winning the Best British Roast Dinner competition we’re taking bookings for Sunday service weeks in advance. It’s inspired us to become even better.” All pubs have to do to enter the national competition is fill in a…
Family days out don’t get better than Tredegar House and there is a whole host of activities to get involved with over the summer months. With striking colours, perfumed scents and relaxing spaces, the walled gardens are the ideal backdrop for making memories. Families can get closer to nature and spend quality time together in these beautiful surroundings which offer something for everyone. Families can try their hand at traditional games such as skittles and quoits or follow trails through…
How to spot a scam Lucy Harmer, Director of Services at Independent Age, the older people’s charity, gives her expert tips on how to spot a scam. The charity has just launched a new, free advice guide, called Scamwise: Spotting, avoiding and reporting scams, which can be ordered for free via independentage.org/scamwise or by calling 0800 319 6789 Is it unexpected? – It could be a scam if you’re contacted out of the blue – for example, an unexpected…
You can visit Wales’ most Family Friendly Museum for FREE! Explore this award winning museum to find amazing objects, uncover fascinating stories, and take part in lots of hands-on activities such as creating prehistoric clay pots or ‘enjoying’ the smells of a WW2 air raid shelter! It is the Museum of Valleys Life – you will discover the Valleys of the past and explore how we have lived and worked from the Romans to the Miners and everyone in…
By Sarah-Jane Outten Regular readers will know that the heart of my column is the local community. With this in mind this month column is centered around a family that despite their own heart breaking loss have found a way to involve the community in some worthy fundraising. On the 28th of December 2014 Jodie and Rhys Foran welcomed their 6th child into the world. Cooper Thomas Jack Foran was born in UHW at 5.10am weighing 6lbs 9oz. Cooper was…
Man in Red, Ferrari’s latest fragrance, is a bold and intense scent that celebrates all that is thrilling about Ferrari. It captures the very essence of masculinity and embodies a new type of man, one who lives intensely: A new scent for a new breed of man. A man living intensely The new Ferrari man is a sensual, thrill-seeking and charismatic individual, who thrives on the rush of adrenaline. He is also a man of contrasts, underneath his athletic exterior…
St David’s Hall Sunday 29 October, 7.30pm ON SALE FRIDAY 16 JUNE AT 10AM! A STAR-STUDDED line-up will join forces for a spectacular one-off show as A Night at the Musicals comes to St David’s Hall on Sunday 29 October. The stellar cast features West End sensation Kerry Ellis (Wicked & Les Misérables), 2010 X Factor winner Matt Cardle, and Welsh stars Noel Sullivan (Hear’Say singer & Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Lucie Jones (Eurovision Song Contest 2017 & X Factor)…
St Davids Hall Sunday 15 October, 7.30pm ON SALE FRIDAY 16 JUNE AT 10AM! BRITISH soul sensation Joss Stone makes her first visit to St David’s Hall accompanied by a breathtaking live orchestra on Sunday 15 October 2017. Joss possesses one of the greatest voices of her generation, which leaves an inimitable mark wherever she performs. Tickets for her highly anticipated Cardiff date go on sale Friday 16 June at 10AM! The internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter burst onto the scene in…
