Love Your Liver Roadshow to visit liver disease hot spots in Wales One in five adults in Wales may be walking around with liver disease and be completely unaware because there are usually no symptoms in the early stages, warns the British Liver Trust. The Love Your Liver mobile screening and scanning unit will be visiting 5 liver disease hot spots across Wales between 19th to 23rd November. More than 600,000 people in the UK have a significant degree of…

As the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has been accredited as ‘Veteran Aware’. This mark of distinction means that patients who have served in the UK armed forces will be cared for by frontline staff who have received training and education on their specific needs, such as around mental health, and who can signpost them to local support services. The Health Board is one of 24…

Community Health Councils (CHCs) in Wales are concerned about fines and additional costs issued by the NHS Business Services Authority to patients following dental treatment. In particular they are concerned that the complexity surrounding the entitlement to free treatment for people on certain benefits makes it too easy for people to make mistakes. Over recent months they have heard from a number of people who have found themselves with significant fines because they mistakenly believed that they were entitled to…

Are you a good parent? Are you proud of your parenting? Would you like to take part in a TV social experiment for a major UK broadcaster? TV company Monkey Kingdom are currently casting parents for a brand new TV social experiment for a major UK broadcaster. They are currently casting for the show and are touring WALES this month to meet with applicants. If you are confident in your parenting technique,  proud of the way you raise your children…

***We’re sharing the news but we certainly don’t hate the English at Cardiff Times.  We only want to beat them at Rugby!*** Why Does Everyone Hate The English? HISTORY® joins Al Murray to find out in new series. New research conducted in time for the second episode of the new HISTORY® TV series, Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate The English? (premieres on 15th October at 9pm), has revealed that football is one of the main reasons why Welsh people…

Cardiff’s Willows High School has received more than 30 laptops from Circle IT, which has introduced a scheme to regenerate a range of IT consumables and donate them to local schools across South Wales. Cardiff Gate-headquartered, Circle IT, made the donation as part of its commitment to benefiting those in the local community and it’s now hoped that many of Willows 600-plus pupils will benefit from the opportunities the technology offers. The laptops will replace the aging IT desktop equipment…

BAFTA-nominee and Oscar winner, costume designer Lindy Hemming and acclaimed presenter and broadcaster Mavis Nicholson revealed as Special Award recipients       The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Wales, BAFTA Cymru, has revealed the Special Award recipients for this year’s British Academy Cymru Awards, taking place on 14 October 2018, as announced at last night’s BAFTA Cymru Nominees Party.   BAFTA-nominee and Oscar winner, costume designer Lindy Hemming (whose most recent credits include Wonder Woman…

Claire Gaffey, from Swansea, is the face of this year’s Memory Walk TV ad. Claire, 44, was delighted to be picked to front the charity’s biggest annual fundraising event and is excited for Memory Walk to return to her home city on Saturday 13 October. Claire said “I was over the moon – filming the ad was great fun. It really made me feel that I could do my little bit.” She was skiing in the Alps when she heard…

At 1.00pm on Tuesday people from across Wales will “cycle on the Senedd” to lobby Welsh Government for an increase in investment in walking and cycling to £20 per head, as recommended in a recent report by the Assembly’s Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee.  Welsh Government is currently spending just £10 per head, half of the level in Scotland. They will hear from representatives of each of the major parties as well as speakers from health and environmental organisations. The…

A talented young footballer who received a traumatic brain injury from an unprovoked assault is running the Cardiff Half Marathon for Cardiff & Vale Health Charity to say thank you to the staff at the University Hospital of Wales for saving his life. Kristian Speake was taken to the University Hospital of Wales following an assault in Haverfordwest in February 2018. Kristian tells us his story: “For 24 days I was in a coma on the Critical Care Unit at the Heath…