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The cream of Welsh food and drink producers returned from France last week having promoted the best of what Wales has to offer at one of the world’s largest food fairs. The Salon International de l’Agroalimentaire (SIAL) 2014, which this year was celebrating its 50th birthday, hosted over 6000 exhibitors from 105 countries and is seen as a key platform for the food and drink sector to promote their produce to buyers from all over the globe. 17 Welsh food…

Inaugural award for exceptional academic and business potential goes to Tamara Beach Award part of efforts to develop the financial sector in Wales  Tamara Beach, a second year undergraduate student in Accounting and Finance at Cardiff Business School, is the proud recipient of the first ever Vauxhall Finance Award of Excellence, from automotive finance company GMAC UK plc. Tamara, a student from Truro, will receive an annual bursary of £1,000 for the two remaining years of her degree with Cardiff Business…

SCORES OF PRINCESSES AND PRINCES DESCEND ON CARDIFF’S CITY CENTRE TO MARK THE LAUNCH OF RAKUTEN TO THE UK     Local princes and princesses got dressed in glamorous get-up in Cardiff to celebrate the launch of Rakuten.co.uk, the new online marketplace. Congregating by Rakuten’s Superbag on Cardiff’s Churchill Way on Saturday, the revelers were joined by a video transmission of pop star ‘Princess’ Natasha Hamilton who geed up the crowd for a mass sing-a-long to Let It Go from…

I finally got to take my son to the Dr Who Experience in the half term week. Lucky for us we managed to get in but it is advisable during holiday periods especially, to book in advance as it was sold out. The excitement builds when you first arrive in the foyer. There are many a fan dressed as Matt Smith which suggests he’s a very popular doctor. I have to agree but the 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi has turned…

Celebrating the launch of Rakuten a brand new online market place the Rakuten family – Kobo, new online shopping site Rakuten.co.uk, Wuaki tv & Viber are giving away a Kobo Arc 10HD to one lucky reader. For your chance to win simply like our facebook page, share the post and answer the following question correctly: WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SNOWMAN IN DISNEY’S BLOCKBUSTER FROZEN? A) SVEN B) PRINCE HANS C) OLAF So get your kids charged for a morning that promises…

In the West we mainly see massage as a luxury treatment. Instead we should be looking to incorporate the benefits of massage as well as the amazing feeling after a treatment as part of our weekly lives. We are all so busy today, with work or family, we build up stress in our bodies and have little time to focus on ourselves and relaxation. Over time, this stress and tension builds up and we are unable to relax even when…

London, 22nd September: A new transatlantic online study commissioned by Netflix has shown that social conventions rule the roost in the UK with less than 4%* of Brits believing that it’s okay to spoil programmes for others, while for gung-ho Americans 76% say spoilers are a fact of life. With the growing popularity of online streaming, ‘spoilers’ are fast becoming a way of life, but it is a trend we’re trying our best to buck in Britain, where we have…

Action for Children has found that two fifths of children in Wales have been separated from their brothers and sisters when placed in foster care. I am joining the charity in asking people in Wales not only to consider fostering, but to consider fostering siblings, so that children who have had a difficult start in life can heal and grow together. I was fostered on my own from the age of three and I grew up without my 10 brothers…

Peter Karrie visited Ninian Park Primary School last week to help students prepare for a special musical production which will be performed in front of family and friends in the school hall on 26th November. Bridgend-born Peter is a renowned musical theatre star and first played the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s record-breaking musical at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London, before going on to play the role in Toronto, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vancouver and the Millennium tour of Great Britain. His performances…

One year on from competing in the Cardiff Singer of the World finals, the stage of world opera is opening its doors to local opera singer Gary Griffiths.  Last week, Gary Griffiths gave his European opera debut at Germany’s Wiesbaden State Opera – one of Europe’s leading opera companies – performing the role of Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Les Nozze di Figaro. His debut was so well received that Gary has already been offered further exciting roles with the opera…