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800 students to be taught CPR in a mass one-day session by heart charity volunteer medics. On Thursday 23rd April Welsh Hearts charity team of medics will train up over 800 students at Lliswerry High School, Newport, Gwent in CPR and the safe use of defibrillators in just one day! Our doctors, nurses, paramedics and community first responders from all over Wales have been providing free CPR and defibrillator training as part of the “Saving Lives in Wales” campaign with…

Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning are running short and intensive language courses in June and July this year at all levels ranging from beginners to advanced.  Perfect for learning language skills for a summer holiday or consolidating existing languages skills.  Languages include: French, German, Italian and Spanish. We are running a competition from Monday 27th April to Friday 1st May, the prize of a free summer course running in 2015. We’ll be dropping clues on our Facebook, Google + and Twitter sites. To play, you’ll need to search around our summer language…

Gretchen Peters +Support   @ The Gate, Cardiff Tuesday 30th July 2015 || Doors: 7.30pm £20 adv.stbf || Reserved Seating Online Tickets: The Gate || gigantic Golden Globe and two-time Grammy nominee, country and folk songstress Gretchen Peters announces this Cambridge Folk Festival warm-up concert at The Gate in Cardiff. Since the release of her “career album” (NPR), 2012’s Hello Cruel World, she has been in near-constant motion, touring prolifically throughout the past two years. 2014 saw her both headline her…

Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular celebrates its first ever UK tour with homage to legendary Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover In advance of the forthcoming Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular which visits six cities across the UK during the May half term week* from May 23rd, artwork has been released today to capture the monsters and characters from Doctor Who, alongside the musicians taking part in the tour.   Paying homage to the classic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…

When you tell people you work in a nursery they just think you sit around and play all day, but it is so much more than that! Getting the chance to watch children develop and seeing their personalities shine through even at such an early age is the best part of the job. At Meithrinfa Y Pelican we are all about learning through play and letting the children achieve their own objectives while playing. If they want to draw a…

Asda stores in South Wales have raised an incredible £7,350 for Velindre Cancer Centre. Welsh International rugby union player, Sam Warburton, made an appearance at Asda’s Cardiff Coryton store to congratulate Asda colleagues on their fantastic fundraising achievements, and present the cheque to Velindre representative, Kylie McKee. Colleagues at Asda’s 20 stores in South Wales raised money through a range of fundraising activities over St. David’s Day, including fancy dress, community raffles and sponsored events. Asda’s Blackwood store raised the…

Miller and Carter Steakhouse in Bath teamed up with young local entrepreneur, Daniel Williams, to host a sensational ‘Dining in the Dark’ experience, where all diners were blindfolded for the duration of the event so they could understand the challenges of having a visual impairment. Daniel, who is visually impaired himself, also aimed to dispel preconceptions and assumptions that many have when meeting people for the first time. Inspirational Daniel Williams, 23, celebrated the 1-year anniversary of his business Visualise…

Lend me a tenor – in fact, make it ten!’ Wales’s contribution to testosterone- fuelled operatic singing, the Ten Welsh Tenors are back by popular demand with an amazing concert featuring 10 of the finest tenors from all over Wales with a feast of sumptuous popular operatic delights. The 10 Tenors revealed are Rhys Meirion, Aled Hall, Aled Wyn Davies, Richard Allen, Trystan Llyr Griffiths, Ben Thapa, Shaun Dixon, Rhodri Prys Jones, Osian Bowen and Conal Bembridge-Sayers. ‘When all ten join…

Cardiff based law firm, Martyn Prowel Solicitors, is to hold a charity evening to raise money for the Welsh Children’s Cancer Charity, LATCH. The fundraiser, which includes a three course dinner and charity raffle, will be held at Miss Jones bar and restaurant in Whitchurch Village, Cardiff on Monday, 27th April at 7pm. The law firm is aiming to exceed the total raised for LATCH at last year’s event at the venue, which was attended by 60 guests and generated…

SPRING is here and the days are finally getting brighter. And although it’s still a bit cold outside, you’ll always be afforded a warm welcome at St David’s Hall. April promises yet another action-packed month at the National Concert Hall of Wales with a schedule crammed full of diverse entertainment from cracking kids’ shows to dazzling dancing. Plus, there’s top music from a few household names and a healthy dose of nostalgia added to the mix. Say “Yes” to mischief…