Cardiff’s students are invited to the Cardiff Student Social Media Cafe this morning and we’ll be live blogging from the event. The cafe aims to be a space for innovation and ideas for students with a view to working in online media to explore. The students will also have the chance to pick the brains [...]
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Cardiff students get creative at the social media cafe
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Dance the afternoon away at the Unemployed Daytime Disco
Bored of searching the internet for jobs and filling out endless application forms? A group of unemployed musicians, writers and activists in South Wales have set up a monthly event that might just take your mind off your situation – the Unemployed Daytime Disco. With unemployment in Wales on the rise for the third month [...]
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Cardiff’s unclaimed roads
Hundreds of Cardiff residents are living on streets that the council are not obliged to maintain – despite paying the same rates of council tax. Jim Mason, 76, of Radyr, was seriously injured last September when he tripped on the damaged pavement outside his home on De Clare Drive. He suffered a broken shoulder blade, [...]
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Hundreds volunteer to tidy up the Taff
Last weekend saw around 700 people wading, rowing and diving in an effort to clean up the River Taff. Volunteers lined the banks from the river’s source in the Brecon Beacons to its mouth in Cardiff – over 50 miles away. The Taff is one of Wales’ most iconic natural landmarks and is one of [...]
Love your Cardiff park
This week is Love Your Parks Week - but which is Cardiff’s most beloved park? Upload your favourite photos to the Cardiff Parks flickr group and join the debate! Cardiff abounds with green spaces. These treasured parks date back as far as medieval times and are havens for wildlife and people alike. They are an essential part [...]
The Prince’s Tornado heads back to Wales
Tornado, the new £3 million steam locomotive returned to Wales yesterday to celebrate St David’s Day. It was travelling with ‘The Cathedrals Express’ excursion from London Victoria to Cardiff and Swansea. The new £3m Peppercorn class A1 pacific steam locomotive moved under it own power for the first time in 2008 after almost 20 years [...]
An hour on a pedestal
Sue Wallace, of Itton, became a living sculpture last Friday as part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other project in Trafalgar Square. Antony Gormley, sculptor of the Angel of the North, has invited the public to take part in his latest project. This artistic experiment sees a different person every hour, 24 hours a day, [...]
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