Photo: CRC logo Groups of offenders are paying back for the crimes they have committed have contributed almost 175,000 hours of service to their local communities in South Wales this year. People completing Community Payback activity through the Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) as part of their sentencing have collectively done 363,418 hours of service to their local area in 2017. Locally in South Wales, that figure stands at 174,534. Wales CRC works with local organisations to complete often…

Obstetric Bleeding Strategy for Wales (OBS) Cymru recently won the Efficiency through Technology Programme – High Impact Award at the MediWales awards. Founded in 1992, MediWales is the life science network and representative body for Wales. MediWales provides advice, support and business opportunities for members, whilst promoting collaboration within the life science and health technology community in Wales. OBS Cymru is an all-Wales collaborative quality improvement project to reduce harm from postpartum haemorrhage. The project is was originally funded by…

Leading organisations from across the Welsh food industry have made public pledges to radically change the way that they produce, manufacture, supply and serve their meals to include more vegetables, with the aim to make it quicker and easier for hundreds of thousands of adults and children to consume a healthier diet. Research shows that eating too little veg contributes to 20,000 premature deaths in the UK every year and that we should all be eating at least an extra…

    Photo: Cardiff University Logo A leading Welsh scientist whose work has helped cut the use of mercury in China’s chemical industries has been made an honorary professor of Tianjin University. Professor Graham Hutchings has been feted worldwide for his work on the acceleration of chemical reactions using catalysts. Research by the Director of Cardiff Catalysis Institute has led to a cleaner method for producing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) using gold as a catalyst, rather than harmful mercury. Thanks to…

Students from Cardiff High School got the chance to see what life in the construction industry is really like when a team from the building consultancy responsible for the Olympic Stadium, Pinewood film studios and Daytona Speedway joined them in the classroom. Property and construction consultancy Gleeds, teamed up with educational charity The Transformation Trust, to organise a curriculum-aligned challenge which saw 35 students aged 11 to 14 take part in a specially devised workshop. The participants were split into…

  Local Cardiff residents have been involved in developing a vital research programme that aims to identify what factors might lead to a person developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The study could pave the way for much needed new treatments in the condition, and has been offered a £40,000 grant from the MS Society. Led by Professor Neil Robertson, Professor of Neurology at Cardiff University and Consultant Neurologist at University Hospital of Wales, the research will look at how a person’s…

A group of volunteers from the Rotary Club of Llanishen have brought their community together to transform their local train station and plant hundreds of purple crocuses to help raise awareness of a worldwide initiative to end polio. Members from the Club enlisted the help of local schoolchildren from Christ the King R. C. Primary School to lay hundreds of crocus bulbs which will erupt into a stunning mauve floral display for commuters next spring at Llanishen train station. The…

Photographer: Thurstan Redding ST DAVID’S HALL is launching an exciting new series which mixes contemporary classical music with cocktails in the L3 Lounge! NightMusic brings together some of the most exciting and distinctive voices working today, and provides a more easy-going way to explore new directions in music. Get ready to revel in thrilling performances from electro-acoustic soloists and convention-flouting ensembles to the best new Welsh music courtesy of Tŷ Cerdd! Starting the season in style is The Hermes Experiment,…

Award-Winning ‘Totally Tina’ Show is Still Simply the Best and comes to Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall on Friday 2nd March 2018 It’s been the UK’s official number one Tina Turner tribute for the past five years (as voted by the Agents Association of Great Britain), with a Lifetime Achievement Award under its belt and a hectic, fast-growing gig schedule right across the UK and into Europe to boot. The cast of ‘Totally Tina’ it seems, is definitely ‘better than all…

Techniquest’s iconic planetarium has undergone a makeover thanks to £12,000 in inheritance funding from an “extremely generous” family. The Cardiff-based educational charity’s planetarium has been recovered thanks to a significant donation from the estate of the late Clifford Raymond Pike. Mr Pike had funds directed to the scientific discovery centre after his estate trustees selected it as a worthy cause, with money also filtered into his estate through his late wife Mary’s inheritance. As Mrs Pike’s brother Lawrence Granville Davies…