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The new exhibit is open for visitors and aims to help people remember the role horses played in World War I A NEW exhibit at...

Grange darts: Nicknames, nerves and mental health

An evening with the Baa Baas shows the best of grassroots teams IT’S 8pm on Monday night and the big game awaits. Chelsea are hosting...

BBC Wales site to become police firearms training facility

The Llandaff site will be used temporarily by the Joint Firearms Unit when it closes PART of the BBC Wales site in Llandaff is being...

Six Nations: Wales host France in must-win clash

Megan Binns

‘We have to win every game now, that is the challenge’ – Wayne Pivac DEFENDING champions Wales aim to keep their Six Nations title hopes...

Jeremy Corbyn adds support to Cardiff University strike

Staff and students at UCU rally ‘boosted’ by Labour leader at rally JEREMY Corbyn spoke at a Cardiff University strike rally yesterday, as industrial action...

Roll-out speeds up for rapid car charging points in city

Chloe Jade Clarke

12 new charging points aim to meet Cardiff Council’s commitment to cleaner air TWELVE new rapid Electric Vehicle (EV) charging points have been placed across six areas of Cardiff – but users argue...

Storm Dennis: Pet food bank offers meals, toys and beds

Imogen McGuckin

Taff’s Well village hall appeals for more pet supplies for flood victims DEBI Emmett, of the Pet Food Bank Service, has donated dog and cat...

Children enjoy half-term sports sessions in Hub scheme

Cardiff City and Caerau Ely RFC help to organise football and rugby events ELY and Caerau Hub is partnering with Cardiff City FC Foundation and...

Bronze in Europe for team who find it hard to practise indoors

Cardiff and Met Hockey surprised to finish third, representing Wales in Bulgaria CARDIFF and Met Hockey surprised themselves by finishing third in a European competition...

Cardiff City: Stats show Harris has not abandoned the Warnock Way

Bluebirds boss played down comparisons to predecessor, but the figures tell a different story CARDIFF City manager Neil Harris has continued the direct playing style...

Protest to end animal testing staged at Cardiff University

In this video by LUCY LEWIN, protesters outside Cardiff University speak out against animal testing by researchers in the city

McDonald’s appeals against refusal of 24-hour licence

Marie-Claire Alfonso

Fast food giant wants Llanishen restaurant to stay open through night despite ruling MCDONALD’s has lodged an appeal against Cardiff council after it was refused...

‘We found a World War Two bomb on Penarth Beach’

Megan Stanley

Homes evacuated and roads closed after family unwittingly bring home live device A FAMILY unwittingly brought home a World War Two bomb from Penarth beach...

Barry shoppers spending £5 a week would bring in £10m

Businesses put on special offers as part of national campaign to shop locally BARRY businesses are showing the importance of shopping locally by taking part in a national campaign called Fiver Fest. The...

22% of voters in South Wales Central would axe Assembly

Niall Evans

Levels of support for abolishing the Welsh Government vary across regions A RECENT YouGov poll revealed that 22% of people in the South Wales Central...

Cardiff University staff strike again after ‘laughable’ pay offer

The walk-outs at 75 UK universities will mean thousands of students miss out on teaching UNIVERSITY staff in Cardiff will strike for a second time...

Storm Dennis: Transport improving but alerts remain

Megan Davies

Read our updates on how to get in and out of the city ROADS and public transport are improving as the clear-up from Storm Dennis continues. A yellow...

Storm Dennis: Taff’s Well victims ‘humbled’ by support

Village hall is full of donations of blankets, clothes, cleaning equipment and toiletries THE community in Taff’s Well has rallied around neighbours affected by severe...

Work begins on latest phase of North Road Cycleway

Beth Thomas

Cardiff Council’s transport white paper proposes £10m to be invested in the city’s cycle superhighways WORK has begun on the latest Cycleway on North Road,...

Storm Dennis: Hibernating hedgehogs under threat after floods

Mike Thomson

Otters, herons and swans could also be affected, say Cardiff wildlife experts STORM Dennis and the floods it brought has disrupted habitats of Cardiff’s wildlife,...

James Dean Bradfield selects favourite poems for festival

Joe Richards

Manic Street Preachers singer entertains audience in interview with Huw Stephens James Dean Bradfield closed the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival with a talk at the...

Fly-tipping and funding: meet Pentwyn’s clean-up crew

Who knew litter-picking could be so addictive for volunteers? A SUITCASE, diabetic needles, and a giant teddy bear named Woody are just some of the...

Storm Dennis: Race to clean up as more rain is on way

Megan Binns

Your latest updates on travel, weather and the mopping-up operation A HUGE clean-up operation is taking place following the record-breaking river levels and severe flooding...

Six Nations Slam Podcast 3: Should Wales fans be worried?

16 Feb 2020

Even though there has been no Six Nations action this weekend, John and Ben have plenty to say. Topics this week include a look into...

Cardiff pupils reach UK final of codebreaking contest

16 Feb 2020

Llandaff Cathedral School represents Wales in event encouraging girls into cyber careers A TEAM of girls from Llandaff Cathedral School has made the final of...

Tongwynlais resident hopes to bring village history to life

Showcasing heritage would offer more for visitors to Castell Coch, says councillor A TONGWYNLAIS resident is trying to set up a historical society for the...

Esports Wales to host charity gaming tournament

The ‘Challenger Chicken’ tournament is part of a nationwide weekend of events to raise money for disability charity SpecialEffect GAMING organisation Esports Wales is hosting a charity tournament...

Storm Dennis to bring heavy rain and winds to Cardiff

40mph winds are set to hit the city this weekend WEATHER warnings for Cardiff have been increased to “Yellow” by the Met Office this afternoon,...

Love story that inspired ‘brutal’ Arctic marathon for Velindre

Rhiannon Moore

Simon Ford, 50, has been supporting the centre since his fiancée died in 2013 A GROUP of 15 fundraisers are putting on their snowshoes for...

Cardiff host Wigan looking for third league win on bounce

Bluebirds unbeaten in six, but boss Neil Harris warns ‘form is temporary’ CARDIFF City will be hoping to give their Championship play-off hopes an added...

Hundreds protest at Senedd to save Royal Glamorgan A&E

Lily Smith

Campaigners share their personal stories to explain why they are fighting to keep the unit, in this video by Lily Smith

Coronavirus: Students ship £4,000 of medical supplies to China

Students organised donations, paperwork and transport from Cardiff to the area where the outbreak began FOUR Cardiff students have collected and shipped £4,000 worth of...

Campaigners say Cyncoed bus cuts leave elderly housebound

Reduced services are unfair, unreliable and unrealistic, say residents BUS service cuts around Roath Park Lake are isolating elderly residents in Cyncoed, a meeting at...

Young climate protesters chanting through streets of Cardiff

‘We have a 12-year ultimatum, nothing has changed so we continue to strike’ A WELSH youth organisation held a climate change protest marching from Cardiff City Hall to the Senedd on Valentine’s Day. ...

Storm Dennis cancels weekend sport across Cardiff

Council calls off all games on public parks because of expected heavy rain and winds AFTER Storm Ciara hit Cardiff last Sunday, the city is...

Escape room aims to explain cancer research in a fun way

Megan Davies

Cardiff scientists help develop puzzles for fund-raising game in city centre THE work of a team of cancer researchers is the focus of a new escape room...

Welsh language speakers in decline for first time in decade

The Government ‘can’t rest on their laurels’ say The Welsh Language Society AFTER an uninterrupted rise since September 2010, the number of people who say...

Green, affordable public transport plans praised in Parliament

Niall Evans

180,000 commute into Cardiff by car every day, council estimates, and it wants that to change PLANS to make Cardiff’s public transport greener and more affordable...

Radyr pupils win award for promoting children’s rights

Catriona Aitken

Bryn Deri school recognised in Unicef scheme to spread the word on child welfare A RADYR school has been awarded a Unicef Rights Respecting School...

Alexandra’s Enchanted Garden is perfect for half-term

Megan Stanley

Penarth Park to come alive with magical creatures next week ALEXANDRA Park will come to life with magical creatures over the next week. Penarth residents, Lizzie...

Cardiff Science Festival is back with a bang in city

Chloe Jade Clarke

We want to get more women and children excited about the subject, say organisers CARDIFF Science Festival is back for the second year running –...

Open reaches business end – without Welsh players

Joe Richards

Home snooker stars all knocked out as tournament heads into quarter-finals SEVEN of world’s top 10 players are into the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open...

Six Nations: Wales hopeful that Dan Biggar will return

Injured Josh Adams is also likely to start against France WAYNE Pivac will decide whether to call up extra fly-half cover as Dan Biggar looks...

Gleider Field: AM is reassured over possible sale of land

12 Feb 2020

Marie-Claire Alfonso

Llanishen councillors would oppose losing green space in city-wide plan to dispose of surplus IN a review of Cardiff Council’s surplus land, the council earmarked part of...

Welsh Open: Ebbw teen unlucky to lose to world No 8

Jackson Page threatened incredible upset but was knocked out 4-3 by Kyren Wilson WELSH teenager Jackson Page came close to causing a major upset as...

Hammer-wielding man jailed for 14 months after fight over cigarette

Rhiannon Moore

Jason Kain, who has 43 previous convictions, admits affray in Cardiff city centre A MAN has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for affray...

Campaigners oppose animal testing at Cardiff University

Animal rights activists will demonstrate against experiments on rodents next Monday CAMPAIGNERS are planning a demonstration outside Cardiff University on Monday to oppose testing on...

Pentwyn residents petition to improve safety at junction

Three accidents in a week caused by unclear markings, say campaigners A PETITION to make the junction at Pentwyn Drive and Glyn Coed Road safer...

Residents face 58p average tax increase for Barry services

Town council needs more money to pay for upkeep of cemeteries,events and ‘special projects’ PEOPLE in Barry will be asked to pay an average of 58p more per...

Number of Cardiff smokers on rise for first time in years

Support is excellent but ‘inflexible’, say tobacco control campaigners THE number of smokers in the Cardiff and Vale Health Board area has increased for the...

‘Act now over junction before someone gets hurt’

Megan Davies

Petition raised over Penylan accident hotspot famous for crashes caught on CCTV A JUNCTION that sees regular accidents and near misses needs to be made safer quickly, say Penylan councillors and...

Sports club launches petition after U-turn on Heath Park

Megan Binns

Club says it’s ‘unacceptable’ for council to sell off sports facilities for short-term gain CARDIFF City Korfball Club have started a petition to stop the...

Are electric bikes the future for city’s commuters?

Mike Thomson

They could be the answer to Cardiff’s congestion charge, says shop owner FOLLOWING Cardiff council’s announcement in January of plans to introduce a congestion charge,...

Rhymetime week encourages children to be bilingual

Chloe Jade Clarke

‘What happens in the early years really matters,’ says BookTrust Cymru CARDIFF libraries are taking part in the Big Welsh Rhymetime – helping babies, toddlers...

Director of roller derby film is nominated for award

Imogen McGuckin

Women of Tiger Bay Brawlers to star in documentary for BBC Wales A FILM director, who lives in Cardiff, has been nominated for a Royal...

Counting the cost of Ciara while the menace of Dennis awaits

More strong winds and rain for Cardiff this week as the clean-up after the weekend’s bad weather ends WHILE the chaos caused by Storm Ciara...

Photos given extra time to help Homeless World Cup

Megan Stanley

Fundraiser extended to benefit this summer’s tournament in Finland AN online fundraiser for the Homeless World Cup Foundation has been extended by a month to...

Inside Cardiff’s first Mexican-themed bar and cantina

La Pantera opens for business tomorrow, hoping tequila is the new gin CARDIFF’S first Mexican-themed bar and cantina is opening its doors to the public...

Buoyant Bluebirds look to keep up play-off chase