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Joanne Wesley-Williams encourages those with an ambition to study a degree to enrol on a pathway at Cardiff University. Joanne Wesley-Williams is a real success story. As a mother of three young children, leaving school at 16 with just her GCSEs, Jo decided to begin her journey of learning by enrolling on the Exploring the Past Pathway at Cardiff University. Three years later Jo is about to embark on her final year of her History degree. “At forty-one years old, part…
Moving to Cardiff was a huge decision, being Bath born and living there for the whole of my life, the idea of moving was frankly terrifying, but I have to say, Cardiff feels like home now, and Bath is pretty much just down the road right?! I came to Cardiff to study music after being offered a place on a Bachelors of Art in the city centre, and it’s been a wonderful inspiration to me. I’ve written so many…
St David’s Hotel wins awards on the world stage Cardiff’s only 5* hotel, the St David’s Hotel and Spa, has recently been recognised among Europe’s best, winning two prestigious travel awards. The iconic hotel, located on Cardiff Bay’s waterfront, was among only 20 hotels in the United Kingdom to be honoured at the European Gala of the World Travel Awards, which were held in Athens, Greece last weekend. St David’s went head to head against some of Wales’ most renowned…
THE OPERA The award-winning producer Ellen Kent returns this Autumn following her recent critically acclaimed British and Irish national tours of Nabucco, Aida and La Boheme with stunning traditional productions of Puccini’s masterpiece, Madama Butterfly, (Opera of the Year Award – Liverpool Daily Post), Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto designed by the renowned Ukrainian designer Nadia Shvets from the National Ukrainian opera of Kharkiv. They feature a host of international soloists from the national operas of Odessa, Spain and Rostov…
TOWIE’s Samantha Faiers is coming to Cardiff! The Fragrance shop in St David’s Centre is giving us all a chance to meet the popular model, actress & business woman this Saturday, 26th July! Sam will be there from 2pm to greet us all. Sam’s coming to meet us in celebration of her new fragrance entitled ‘La Bella.’ Sam will be signing bottles of her fragrance and having her photo taken with fans. All fans have to do to meet Samantha is to buy a…
This month we would like to beautify you with some tips on beautiful products. Not only will you benefit from them healthwise but they also smell good enough to eat. ‘Traditionally, rosemary’s primary use is to relieve pain, though its other uses are many and varied. Whilst it is used in aromatherapy as an aid for gout, alopecia, spinal injuries and as a nerve tonic, its main uses extend from headaches and fatigue to muscular aches, pains and sprains. In…
Principality staff help stop people going hungry in Cardiff Staff from Principality Building Society took time out of work to volunteer at Cardiff Foodbank and help stop people going hungry. Seven employees from Wales’ largest building society spent a day sorting and packing food at Cardiff Foodbank, which supports thousands of families that are in need of emergency food parcels. Over 7,500 adults and children in Cardiff received emergency food parcels from Cardiff Foodbank in 2013 and this year that…
Our world is constantly changing, whether it is to do with fashion trends or the design of houses, I put this transformation purely down to one thing- technology. Children then: Children now: My parent’s lives at the age of 10 are non-existent to 10 year olds today. Lemonade stands, building tree houses and playing out on the streets seem to be blasts from the past because in contemporary society, children are become less sociable by the day. Statistics show…
A Cardiff mum whose employer’s ‘practise what you preach’ attitude to workplace training helped her get back into full-time employment is calling on Welsh businesses to make every week Adult Learners Week at their own place of work. Anita Page was a full-time mum for 13 years before returning to study for a NVQ in IT at the age of 35 and hasn’t stopped learning since, after the organisation that delivered the course offered her a full-time position as a…
This weekend Cardiff Times were lucky enough to be invited to Cardiff’s brand new trendy bar Ten Mill Lane for a cocktail fuelled evening. The bar is located on the busy Mill Lane (number 10 funnily enough). It is squeezed in between clubs such as Retros and Soda, but Ten Mill Lane offers a completely different vibe to the normal Cardiff nightlife. Their slogan is ‘You are welcome’ and that is exactly how the staff, venue and other cocktail lovers…
