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TV favorite Gabby Logan has launched ‘Britain Has Spirit’, a new campaign searching for the best individual and group volunteers from Wales, Scotland and England. Gabby is calling on the Welsh public to nominate their local shining stars, who selflessly give up time volunteering for nothing in return. By nominating, local champions will be in with the chance of winning regional prizes including £1,000 towards a street party and ultimately national prizes of £25,000.   Recent research of 2,000 people1…

Firstsource Solutions, the UK’s customer experience expert, has once again shown its commitment to investment in Cardiff by announcing today that it will create more than 300 new jobs as it opens its 2nd contact centre in the city. The new, state of the art, centre at Oakleigh House comes 4 years after the opening of Firstsource’s flagship facility in the city which currently employs over 1,000 people. Open for business since the end of February the new centre will…

Edwards Coaches has taken its relationship with one of the biggest names in transport up a gear after joining forces with the UK’s largest coach operator to sell its package holidays.   In a major coup for Pontypridd-based Edwards, its package holidays both home and abroad will now be accessible via National Express’ website – opening up a major new market for the family-run coach company.   The move means Edwards’ breaks will now be readily accessible to the millions…

Retirement development Llys Pegasus, managed by FirstPort Retirement Property Services, has won a silver award at the National Housing for Older People Awards. The residents of the development, located in Cardiff, along with their Development Manager, celebrated their win in the ‘Retirement Housing Schemes 50 units and over’ category at an awards ceremony in February. More than 4,000 residents from across the UK voted in the awards which are managed by the national housing charity for older people, the Elderly…

The Great Roath Bake Off 2016 Cardiff cake Roath Bake The Great Roath Bake Off returns on April 23rd at St Andrews Church Wellfield Road, Roath. The Bake Off is in its sixth year and promises to be a fun packed day for all cake lovers. Each year the event has got more popular and we anticipate a great turn out again in April. Over the years The Great Roath Bake Off has raised thousands of pounds for local cardiff charities…

Cardiff Business Men’ are getting together to brew up for the Wales Biggest  Tea Party month this March along with Celebrities including former Welsh Rugby International  Ian Gough and Weather lass Sue Charles. All money raised will support the charity’s Every second Counts Defibrillator Appeal to get 1,000’s of Defibrillators placed throughout Wales www.welshhearts.org/events The special month kicks off with a Nigel John of 73 Cathedral Road fame and Spiro Borg of Spiros Fine Dining Caterers hosting a Champagne Afternoon Tea…

A Cardiff school is celebrating after achieving a top award for health and wellbeing.   Ysgol Gymraeg Pwll Coch, has achieved its National Quality Award, the highest award a school can obtain through the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes.   In order to achieve the National Quality Award the school had to demonstrate the highest standard in all of the indicators across seven health topics.   Managed by Public Health Wales, the scheme embeds health improvement around food and…

St David’s Hall Saturday 12 March 7.30pm BOTH ARTISTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PHONE INTERVIEWS! BRITPOP hero Chris Helme is coming to St David’s Hall armed with an arsenal of solo songs and his most powerful weapon – his voice! Plus, he’s bringing Aberdare singer-songwriter Ragsy with him as support for this special show in the L3 Lounge on Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm. Chris first shot to prominence as the frontman of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band The Seahorses after…

The Royal Mint is looking for young designers across South Wales to enter a competition to design both sides of a very special medal – lucky winners will have their design struck in bronze for presentation to Her Majesty The Queen to wish her a very happy 90th birthday.   The Royal Mint Museum’s Education Manager, Lucy-Ann Pickering said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for the primary schoolchildren of South Wales to show off their talent for design. We are…

Kate Ball knew she had the nugget of a great business plan when she had the idea for ‘Mini First Aid’ in the middle of the night; but she certainly didn’t expect her business to so quickly attract other enterprising Mums itching to take on a piece of the action.   Having developed a successful business since launching Mini First Aid in 2014 (winning a Top 100 New Business Award from Mumpreneur UK in 2015), Kate is keen to go…