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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RSPB aims to find out how the coldest December on record has affected our garden birds
The RSPB is asking the public to help them investigate garden bird numbers as part of the Big Garden Birdwatch – the world’s biggest wildlife survey. RSPB Cymru believes that the early start to winter and the extremely low temperatures mean that an unusually high number of birds will be occupying our gardens. Dr Sean [...]
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Obesity: A growing problem in Wales
Published: Exposure Radio website, 3 February 2011
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Funding cuts to affect domestic abuse victims
Funding cuts are hitting the services that domestic abuse victims rely on. A huge rise in reported cases and reductions in funding threaten to leave many vulnerable people without the help they need. Speaking at the Communities and Culture Committee meeting on Thursday 17 February, Carl Sargeant Assembly Minister for Social Justice said: “Huge challenges [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Cardiff scientist makes groundbreaking global warming discovery
Research led by a Cardiff scientist has confirmed that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is directly related to climate change. “We have now established that human activity is causing global warming,” Says Prof. Pearson of Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. The team of experts from Cardiff, Bristol and Texas [...]