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Family business makes a significant contribution to Wales with almost one in 20 of all UK family firms based in the region UK family businesses celebrate another successful year with employment and turnover up Half of the UK’s family businesses plan to grow their organisations over the next few years and will invest in the skills of their staff to do so Family firms across the UK are setting their sights on expansion following another hugely successful year for the…

Remploy Cymru, the biggest provider of specialist employment services to disabled and disadvantaged people in Wales, has appointed a new business development director for Wales. Helen Northmore, who joins Remploy from the Chartered Institute of Housing, says that building partnerships “is absolutely critical to providing the right support to get disabled people into work.  There are lots of organisations doing great work and I hope that we work with them to deliver more positive outcomes for people in Wales.” Remploy…

·         People become worried about their health 11 years earlier in life than they expected they would ·         Nine per cent of people in Cardiff wish they had taken their health more seriously than they did when they were younger People in Cardiff should take their health more seriously at a much younger age than they think, according to research by leading health care cash plan provider Sovereign Health Care. The survey* revealed that 37 per cent of respondents in…

With the January detox now a distant memory, kick start your carb habit and indulge on a custom made burger at Cardiff’s hottest new burger bar, Time and Beef. The 3rd March, you may recall, was dark, Arctic-like night, where if a snowstorm had engulfed Cardiff, no one would have batted an eyelid. Like a mirage, a glowing sanctuary on the streets of Canton, Time and Beef called upon the hungry, cold and fine-burger deprived for the launch of the…

Love Food Hate Waste joined forces with award-winning pop-up restaurant Hang Fire Smokehouse to show the people of Cardiff how to use their leftover beef, as its new campaign reveals that every year people in the UK throw away 34,000 tonnes of beef – the equivalent to 300 million beef burgers. On 14 March, Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn, the duo behind Hang Fire Smokehouse, joined Love Food Hate Waste for a pop-up demonstration on Cardiff’s busy Queen Street, giving…

Live Nation is proud to announce that Justin Hayward, of the legendary British act The Moody Blues, will undertake an intimate twelve date solo UK tour in September 2016.  Tickets for the tour are on sale now from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk. VIP Packages are available which include an autographed poster, t-shirt, tote bag, pick tin set and a lapel pin. Justin Hayward said, “’Stage Door’ was the title of a song on my first album ‘Songwriter’ and although far from…

Cardiff Marrow Society are raising awareness in a fundraiser. The occurrence that sparked this event was that one of the students at Cardiff university was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer and she urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. This is her story,  “Up till just a few months ago, everything was falling right into place for Vithiya Alphons (24), a final year optometry student at Cardiff University. Having just returned from a summer spent travelling in Moldova and…

  Local home care provider Carewatch Cardiff, which looks after vulnerable adults and children in the Cardiff area, has organised a charity concert to raise funds for Velindre Cancer Centre at 7.30pm on Friday 11 March. Attendees to St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitchurch Village, Cardiff  will be treated to stunning popular classical soundscapes from the Tredegar Town band – brass ensemble, Ffion Perrett-Soprano, Andrew Matthews-Baritone and Amanda Whiting-Harp. Velindre Cancer Centre is the largest non-surgical cancer Hospital in Wales and…

UK’s average hotel room rate increased 4% in 2015 compared to 2014  London is the main attraction, although its hotel room average saw a slight decrease in 2015 (-1%) 32 of the top 40 most popular destinations recorded more affordable averages of £100 or less a night with Blackpool being the best value for money in the UK with an average price of £64 The UK’s average hotel room rate paid increased by 4% in 2015, boosted by major international…

Celebrating 70 Years of WNO – Welsh National Opera’s Summer Season is a Time to Reflect and to Look to the Future • World Première of In Parenthesis by Iain Bell • Revival of the Company’s first operas Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci • New site- specific production of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine as part of Wales Millennium Centre’s Festival of Voice. • New WNO Youth Opera production Kommilitonen! by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Welsh National Opera will celebrate 70 years…