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 ...
Sport.Cardiff has launched an exciting new web page on the social networking site Facebook. The new tool will mean that people in and around Cardiff can keep up-to-date and informed with Sport.Cardiff news and events which will be regularly updated by the team. It also provides the opportunity for Facebook users to interact with each ...
Cardiff has been confirmed as one of the cities to host the Paralympic Torch Relay which will lead the UK into the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The relay will begin on Friday 24 August, 2012 with the first flame lighting event to be held in London. A flame will also be lit ...
Cardiff Council leader Rodney Berman (pictured) has today welcomed press reports that a £500m rail scheme linking Wales with Heathrow Airport is being drawn up by the UK Government Under the proposals a new railway station would be built at Heathrow Airport which would link directly to Cardiff, cutting journey times and avoiding the need ...
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 ...
Cardiff Council is supporting the ‘Moment to Shine’ campaign which gives people the opportunity to be an Olympic Torchbearer for London 2012. Over the last few months local people have been encouraged to nominate outstanding and inspirational individuals from the community to be one of 8,000 bearers of the Olympic flame in the lead up ...
Cardiff has hosted a spectacular sporting event to mark the official one year countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games. More than 3500 visitors attended the free event at Roald Dahl Plas, Cardiff Bay and helped celebrate what will be an exciting lead up to the greatest sporting event on earth. The event was attended ...
On Friday, Llanishen High School hosted a UK flag ship event as part of National School Sport Week and saw former Olympic gold medallist Jason Gardener talk about his career as a British Sprint Athlete and gave children an exclusive glimpse of the Olympic torch. He was joined by The Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Cllr ...
One of the worst kept secrets in rugby was confirmed today when London Wasps announced the appointment of Dai Young as the club’s Director of Rugby. Young joins on a four-year deal from the Cardiff Blues where he has been at the helm since 2002, first as head coach and then as Director of Rugby. ...
More tickets for London 2012 Olympic football matches at the Millennium Stadium will be available from tomorrow for fans who missed out on the first draft. The second round of tickets sales will start tomorrow at 6.00am and finish at 6.00pm on 17 July and London 2012 organisers have announced that availability is highest for ...
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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