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A luxury home interiors store that will excite all of your senses! Cardiff is set to be the home of the most exciting home interiors store that the city has ever seen. Featuring exclusive products never before been available to the retail market alongside handcrafted pieces from Wales, Pad Deco will fascinate all those that enter. Pad Deco is the vision of International Award Winning Interior Design Penelope Allen and highly successful entrepreneur Joseph Lloyd. Set to open on Wednesday…
A new franchise has been launched in the Cardiff area to help small to medium sized businesses develop a professional online presence and drive trade. Katie Bullon, owner of Bull Digital Marketing, which is part of the UK and US-‐ wide Active Net Marketing Franchise, says, “It’s vital for smaller businesses to be online in this digital age that we live in. If they are not, they will simply be overtaken by competition and ultimately will struggle to succeed. We…
This Easter bank holiday marks the much anticipated return to the Welsh capital of reggae legend and lauded dub pioneer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry at the former Banking Hall of Portland House. The show will be a salute to the equally long awaited return of established live gigs in the former music hub of Cardiff Bay following the closure of both the Coal Exchange and The Point. Known primarily for his innovative studio techniques and eccentric character, the ground breaking work…
“While it’s encouraging to see an increase in uptake levels of bowel cancer screening in Wales, these latest figures are still lower than elsewhere in the UK.” “Screening is vitally important and has been proven to save lives. There are still 16,000 people in the UK dying from bowel cancer, yet it is both treatable and curable if diagnosed early. For people of screening age, taking part in bowel cancer screening is the best way to get diagnosed…
– Department store is the first high street retailer outside of the Post Office to offer an International Payments service – Transfer rates offer competitive alternative to high-street banks and building societies – The only international payments service to offer refunds on charges levied by the receiving banks John Lewis has today launched an international payment service aimed at offering a competitive alternative to the leading high-street banks and building societies. The department store will become the first high street…
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer lookbook is now live and available here: www.fashiontargetsbreastcancer.org.uk/lookbook We have designs in from Marks & Spencer, River Island, Laura Ashley, Debenhams, Superga and exciting new partners Baukjen and Olivia Rubin. More stylish pieces will be arriving soon from Warehouse and Topshop. The charity fashion campaign – raising over £13.5 million in the UK since 1996 for pioneering research charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer – will launch on 14th April with products on sale for six weeks. Example…
HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY MEDIA RELEASE 24 February 2015 Nearly one-third of Welsh adults struggling to live with everyday burdens of chronic illnesses Thousands of Welsh adults have not learnt to live with the symptoms of persistent health conditions, with sufferers of mental or neurological disorders the most affected, according to a new study just published. The study, published in the International Journal of Cardiology, analysed data from a recent Welsh national health survey covering 15,687 adults to assess how many…
An Electoral Commission analysis of local authority electoral registers, published on 1 December 2014, has found that at that point, there were 82,043 fewer entries than in February / March that year across Wales, a reduction of around 4%. The popularity of the new online registration system continues to remain high with user satisfaction of over 90% across England and Wales. However, the report identifies problems with the electoral management systems used by electoral administrators to share information about their…
Half of UK adults claim to have a great credit history – but have never checked their credit report so may be overestimating their creditworthiness Many misunderstand the factors that do and don’t affect credit ratings London, UK. 27 February 2015: One in two UK adults (47%) is an “IOU Ostrich” – believing themselves to have a strong credit history, but burying their head in the sand when it comes to understanding the reality, running a real risk of…
THE NATIONAL DIVERSITY AWARDS NOMINATIONS Nominate your own diversity role models, community organisation and entrepreneur at the UK’s BIGGEST and BEST diversity awards celebration The National Diversity Awards in association with Microsoft is a celebration of the outstanding achievements of positive role models and community organisations across the UK. A collection of some of the nation’s most inspirational and selfless people gather annually to recognise the country’s rich tapestry of talent. The prestigious black tie event showcases the extraordinary work of those who…
