Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating awareness event about school meals in Britain. National School Meals Week has been running since 1993 and is organised by the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA). The week encourages schoolchildren to enjoy a healthy school meal ...
The winner of the inaugural Cardiff Harbour Festival Fish Dish competition has been unveiled. Kate Carlyle from Newport won over the judges with her sea bream with chilli, garlic and tomato. In the run-up to this weekend’s Cardiff Harbour Festival (August 27 – 29), the competition to find a prize catch fish dish was launched ...
Time is running out to get your ‘Fish Dish’ entries in for the inaugural Cardiff Harbour Festival Fish Dish competition. Entries need to be received by August 21 and entries should be sent to events@cardiff.gov.uk with further information on www.cardiff-festival.com and www.jamiesitalian.com The Cardiff Harbour Festival takes place over August Bank Holiday weekend an (August ...
The Food and Fitness for Families initiative has celebrated the end of another three successful programmes. A celebration day was held at the Star Centre in Splott for the 30 families that have completed the latest courses that have been running since May. To mark their achievements each family member was awarded a certificate for ...
Do you want to know how the place you are eating in rates? The government’s Food Standards Agency has set up a website where you can check out the ratings (0-5) of food establishments including cafés, restaurants, hotels, pubs, clubs, schools and other places involved in the handling of food. You can find Cardiff’s ratings ...
It’s a disgusting mess that attracts vermin and creates a health hazard, but a few Cardiff citizens are still putting food in black bags. This was never more graphically illustrated than when a the Cardiff Council Waste Management team came across this scene this week somewhere in Cathays or Plasnewydd. The picture above shows the ...
Health Minister Edwina Hart has approved the latest plans for the development of a new inpatient adult mental health unit in Cardiff. The new unit at the University Hospital, Llandough, will bring together existing adult and specialist services currently provided at Whitchurch Hospital and the Llanfair Unit, Llandough. The plans follow a review of mental ...
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Today, the MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health launch the report of their investigation into the implementation of the recent NICE Guideline on treatment of schizophrenia. The Group took up this issue following responses to parliamentary questions, which revealed that implementation was the responsibility of individual NHS organisations and progress was ...
A shocking number of children are being rushed to hospital suffering from a potentially fatal diabetic condition, says the National Director of Diabetes UK Cymru, Dai Williams. More than 120 children in Wales were admitted to accident and emergency departments in a year with a potentially fatal diabetic complication, leading health charity Diabetes UK Cymru warns ...
A joint Cardiff University and NHS study designed to establish whether encouraging obese pregnant women to eat more healthily and take more exercise has a positive impact on both mother and child has received a £1M funding boost. The Healthy Eating and Lifestyle in Pregnancy (HELP) project, funded by the National Prevention Research Initiative, will ...
Cardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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