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Who After working for over 20 years in the Memory Teams of Bath and Cardiff, managing a nursing home and caring for people with dementia in hospitals, Jane Mullins, a dementia nurse specialist has created DUETcare, which focuses on helping professionals and families connect with the person with dementia through creative, sensory and innovative ways TV and radio presenter Beti George’s partner of almost 40 years has dementia and she is championing DUETcare. What All training encompasses the values base…
A new agreement between the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, South Wales Police, and Public Health Wales will commit the three agencies to working more closely together to tackle ill-health and crime. A Memorandum of Understanding signed on 21 October 2015 at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay will ensure the agencies work in partnership to identify and overcome common challenges, and to do more to share analysis and evaluation. The agreement will ensure an evidence-based approach to the…
An animated character who achieved a cult following on national TV is set to star in his own film, thanks to his South Wales-based creator. And anyone who invests in the project could appear in it too, as a cartoon version of themselves. Benjamin Howell, an animator who is based in Roath in Cardiff, is making a new animated film called Saucy Horsey using traditional pencil-on-paper animation, combined with 3D clay and puppet animation. The lead character Saucy Horsey, a…
In August, Cardiff’s iconic 1980s gay bar ‘The Tunnel Club’ reopened for one night only. As a younger member of the LGBT* community in Cardiff, it was a valuable opportunity to take a glimpse at the way things were back then and to engage with our collective history. However, what was particularly striking was the scarcity of women; a state of affairs, which I am reliably informed, was much the same back in the day. And not much has changed….
October is Rett Syndrome awareness month. You may not know that. Baffling when you realise it’s the second most common cause of profound disabilities in girls after Down Syndrome in the Uk. Its also the anniversary of my sisters death. Kathryn was born, like most Rett girls, apparently normal. Some of these details will be sketchy as it’s not something I have ever found easy to talk to my Mother about…… All Rett girls are born and develop for a…
October is Rett Syndrome awareness month. You may not know that. Baffling when you realise it’s the second most common cause of profound disabilities in girls after Down Syndrome in the Uk. Its also the anniversary of my sisters death. Kathryn was born, like most Rett girls, apparently normal. Some of these details will be sketchy as it’s not something I have ever found easy to talk to my Mother about…… All Rett girls are born and develop for a…
In September, footfall numbers in Wales were 0.5% lower than a year ago, up on the 2.4% fall in August 2015. This is the best result since December This is below the UK average rate -0.2%. David Lonsdale, Interim Head of the Welsh Retail Consortium, said: “Shopper footfall in Wales wilted slightly once again in September, albeit at a much less pronounced rate than the month before and also when contrasted to the average of the past three months. This…
Christmas is the perfect time for seeing family and friends, celebrating with loved ones and enjoying the festive spirit. But as well as being the most wonderful time of the year, it can also be one of the most expensive – with the cost of Christmas spending stretching the nation’s purse strings year after year. Whether it’s visiting friends and relatives, wintry weekends away, or just food and present shopping, the price of the festive season can easily snowball. With…
Llanelli’s young singers are set for fun and magical times with their schedules busy with performances, television recordings and a prestige performance at 10 Downing Street. MAGICAL JOURNEY OF MUSIC A full house audience awaits Llanelli’s famous Hywel Girls’ Choir & Hywel Boy Singers on Saturday 24th October when they present “The Magical Journey of Music” in the beautiful candlelit St Elli Parish Church, Llanelli. Saturday’s magical performance will see legendary conductor John Hywel Williams and his choir take the audience…
New research released today indicates that nearly a third of UK adults would have aesthetic treatment for a change in job or career, underlining that youthfulness still equates to success in work for many people.1 Survey results also highlighted that 1 in 5 women in the UK have dermal fillers to turn the clock back and retain their beauty while surprisingly, almost 40% of respondents, aged 25-44, said they would have aesthetic treatment if their partner wanted them to.1 This…
