BJÖRN AGAIN PERFORMING THE GREATEST HITS OF ABBA 30TH ANNIVERSARY UK TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR 2018 AND THEY’RE COMING TO CARDIFF! To celebrate the huge 30th Anniversary of BJÖRN AGAIN, Australian Director and Musician Rod Stephen will be taking the internationally acclaimed show on tour throughout the UK and Ireland in November/December 2018. Due to phenomenal demand seven new dates have been added to the UK tour. Tickets for these shows go on sale 10am Friday 23rd March and will be…

No excuse not to use Welsh in your business thanks to new, free Welsh Government support service   Research has shown that 82 per cent of Welsh speakers say that they are more inclined to choose a company that provides a good Welsh language service. Small businesses across Wales will be able to access free of charge Welsh language support thanks to a new Welsh for Business initiative launched in Pembrokeshire today. Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning, Eluned…

10th Anniversary Concert: A choral celebration of 10 years of City Voices Cardiff     Since debuting at St David’s Hall in 2013 City Voices Cardiff have delighted audiences with concerts offering a wide range of music. They celebrated their 5th Birthday in 2013 and explored the music of Disney in WHEN YOU WISH in 2015. In 2016 they sang the musicals in their ENCORE concert and last year they went back to cinematic songs with LET’S GO TO THE…

St David’s Hall Star Wars Concert cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.     DUE to unforeseen circumstances, Cardiff Sinfonietta’s Ultimate Star Wars Concert on Sunday 6 May 2018 at 3pm at St David’s Hall has been cancelled, but it is hoped that it will be rearranged in the future.   Patrons who booked using a debit or credit card will be automatically refunded. If you paid by any other means, please call the Box Office on 029 2087 8444 to…

New era of tennis in Wales with appointment of independent Chair   Barry Cawte has been appointed as the first ever independent Chair of Tennis Wales as part of their ambitious new Vision Plan and a new era for Welsh tennis. Cawte, a Newport resident, already has strong links with Welsh tennis having taken over as General Manager of the Swansea Tennis Centre in 2011 when Swansea City Council closed it due to a lack of tennis users, and then…

          VR Star set to open five new VR experience centres across the UK     Tuesday 24 April 2018: VR Star, provider of the UK’s largest virtual reality (VR) experience centres, is set to launch five new outlets in Cardiff, Middlesbrough, Manchester Swindon and Wakefield over the coming months. The centres offer people the opportunity to experience a truly immersive VR experience, far beyond what is currently available in the home. VR Star is the…

Prize winning artist presents large-scale solo exhibition in Cardiff      The Sustainable Studio will host ‘Labyrinth’ a solo exhibition of paintings by Cardiff based artist, Aidan Myers. Myers is a contemporary fine artist specialising in figurative and abstract oil painting and has been based in Cardiff since 2011 and works from a studio in Adamsdown. In 2017 he was selected as overall winner of the OrielCRiC Open Art Prize 2017 in Crickhowell, Wales for his painting ‘Pinion’. Myers graduated from Cardiff…

RECORD NUMBER OF TALENTED YOUNG ATHLETES IN CARDIFF TO RECEIVE AWARDS TO HELP ACHIEVE SPORTING SUCCESS CHARITABLE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE THAT RUNS CARDIFF LEISURE CENTRES WILL ANNOUNCE RECIPIENTS NEXT WEEK   67  talented young athletes from Cardiff will benefit from a £42,000 fund – thanks to charitable social enterprise GLL, which manages Cardiff’s Better Leisure Centres on behalf of Cardiff Council.  The local athletes will be supported through the GLL Sport Foundation, the  largest independent athlete support programme in the UK,…

Sepsis Star system launched in Wales’ largest Emergency unit   A new electronic flagging system for sepsis has been launched at Wales’ largest Emergency Unit to improve patient care. The ‘Sepsis Star’ complements the existing sepsis screening tool which is already in place at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, and is applied when a patient screens positive for red flag sepsis. The star will alert clinical staff when a patient has screened positive for sepsis and requires Sepsis Six…

People in Cardiff and the Vale requiring neurological rehabilitation will now be able to access free exercise and activity groups within the local community   Following significant investment by Welsh Government into the development of a community neurological rehabilitation service, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has set up a partnership venture with Greenwich Leisure LTD (GLL) who manage Better leisure centres in Cardiff to enable people with neurological conditions to use local leisure facilities. The project has been set…