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‘Top Quality Table Tennis Facility Welcomes All Abilities with Sessions Aimed at Casual Players and Newcomers ’ Cardiff City Table Tennis Club is now open seven days a week for the city to come and try out a sport on the rise. As the only full-time table tennis centre in Wales, the club boasts seven world-class tables and a team of qualified coaches who have competed at the very highest levels of the game. The club is not just for…
Women’s entrepreneurial spirit is alive and kicking, something the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE) is keen to celebrate. We found out what happened when the nationwide tour of the IOEE’s ‘Meet A Mentor’ events, designed especially to support women entrepreneurs, hit Cardiff City Hall. Right now, women mean business in a big way. More and more successful companies have women at the helm and ever more women are transforming their passions into profit. When the national Meet A Mentor…
CANCER CHARITY BENEFITS FROM M&S FITNESS FUNDRAISING Staff from Marks & Spencer stores in Cardiff and across the region have raised over £21,000 for Velindre Cancer Care following a weekend of fitness themed events. 10 members of the M&S Wales & West team, including nine store managers, took part in the 10k St David’s Day Run in Cardiff. Meanwhile, colleagues in 16 stores across the region also joined in the sponsored fitness fun, taking to treadmills, static bikes and cross…
Big plans for return of Cardiff’s most exciting pop-up venue on Dumballs Road After staging three months of successful foodie events at the end of last year, Nicholas Saunders, the twenty-three year old Cardiff Metropolitan University graduate behind Cardiff’s most exciting pop-up venue, DEPOT, has just signed a new lease for the premises. The new contract means that the warehouse will play host to a variety of pop-up food and drink events, installations, guest residencies, music and festivals; and…
Spring recipes from Seasonal Berries. Full of fresh, colourful and delicious spring ingredients. Fraisier strawberry cake Extra special valentine/Mother’s day special Wow the special person in your life with this impressive looking cake, this classic French recipe has a few short cuts, so you don’t need to be a master baker to make this version! Cuts into 10 slices Prep: 45 minutes Cook: 35-40 minutes 225g (8oz) soft margarine 225g (8oz) caster sugar 225g (8oz) self-raising flour 1 teaspoon…
London, UK, 4th March, 2015 – 123-reg, the UK’s largest domain registrar, is today announcing the general availability of the .wales and .cymru domain name extensions. The launch of the domains will support Welsh businesses in digitally identifying their nationality and increasing relevancy for local customers. Purchasing a geographic domain is a way to cement your business in a local target market. These domains, such as .wales and .cymru, can provide businesses and entrepreneurs with the chance to diversify by…
Martyn Thackwell and Emrys Matthews, directors of Trimstar Limited, an industrial paint spraying company, have each been banned from acting as directors for a further 10 years for acting as directors when they were already disqualified. Dorothy Ann Matthews has also been disqualified for 4 years for allowing them to do so. The disqualifications, which started on 2 January 2015, 7 January 2015 and 2 February 2015 respectively, also prevent Mr Thackwell (61), Mr Matthews (66) and Mrs Matthews…
A Welsh entrepreneur has been appointed as Wales’s newest Honorary Consul in a ceremony hosted by the Mexican President, who is in the UK as part of a state visit. Glynn Pegler, from Rudry, Caerphilly, who founded the Culture Group of companies when he was just 15, is among the UK’s youngest Honorary Consuls, and the first for Mexico to be based in Wales. He was selected for the appointment because of his strong track record in overseas trade…
“Through the valley of the shadow of death.” “Between August 1939 and September 1941, over 70,000 mentally and physically disabled inmates of sanatoria and asylums in Germany and Austria were murdered after doctors certified them as ‘life unworthy of life’. The victims were transported to one of six clinics equipped with gas chambers where they were poisoned with carbon monoxide gas piped through false shower heads in mock bathrooms.1” The programme was suspended once relatives and others protested and…
Billions and Billions of photos are taken every day and uploaded to Social Media Website capturing an incredible variety of events, emotions, accessories, journeys, general updates and many more everyday occurrences. But when does it start becoming a mental disorder to constantly update the world about your life? It’s time for a confession. Everybody who’s “anybody” is on one form of social media. It’s a fantastic method of staying in touch with people and it’s made the planet revolve that…
