The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the Department for Work and Pensions today. Despite a formal public consultation the offices in major cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Cardiff are to close, including award-winning jobcentres such as Camberwell where 2,000 local people signed ...
A special plaque is unveiled in the city centre today, (Friday 2, September) to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Cardiff born, Welsh champion boxer, Jack Petersen. The late Jack Petersen was the first Welshman to win the British and Empire Light heavyweight and heavyweight boxing championships among a number of titles he ...
The latest smoking litter enforcement operation has ended with 10 people being caught littering in the city centre. All ten received fixed penalty notices of £75 and 8 of these were paid. The remaining two cases were successfully prosecuted in court. Jacqueline Kinsella was issued a fixed penalty notice (FPN) for dropping a cigarette end. ...
Cardiff Council’s Licensing Section has undertaken an exercise to ensure drivers of wheelchair accessible vehicles, are treating passengers in wheelchairs fairly and transporting them safely. The exercise saw a Council employee in a wheelchair mystery shop a number of taxis to establish whether they had vehicle ramps and that they were used properly, how they ...
Former Dundee United winger Craig Conway has chosen Cardiff City as his preferred club. The out-of-contract Scotland winger says he has agreed terms with Cardiff City and will have a medical in the next few days with the Championship side. “I was really impressed by Malky Mackay when I met him when he was manager ...
Take That’s sell-out Progress Live 2011 Tour at the Millennium Stadium will feature special guests Pet Shop Boys for the shows on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th June in Cardiff. With only weeks to go until Take That tour together as a five-piece for the first time since 1995, the band announced that the successful ...
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Wales boss Brian Flynn has called up Adam Matthews to the Wales squad ahead of the Euro 2012 qualifiers. Adam has joined fellow Cardiff City Academy product and team-mate Darcy Blake in the Wales squad to face Bulgaria at Cardiff City Stadium this Saturday and is also available to play against Switzerland in Basel next ...
The new Park and Ride in the east of Cardiff is proving to be extremely popular, with the numbers of people using it rising each week. Since its launch on October 19, the weekly number of cars using the Park and Ride has more than doubled, with the latest count showing 1548 drivers taking advantage ...
This Christmas will be busier than ever for the Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Music Service ensembles, with no less than 14 festive concerts and events taking place, involving over 1,000 children. The season begins with the Transitional Wind Band Concert at St Andrew’s & St Teilo’s Church in Woodville Road on Friday, December ...
Bute Park in Cardiff has been awarded the prestigious accolade of the best park in Wales, in Britain’s Best Park competition. The park scooped the regional award back in 2008 and has beat off tough competition from other parks across Wales to take the 2009 title. Parks were judged on various criteria including environment, design, ...
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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