Rock royalty Thin Lizzy do their bit for Sport Relief 2012
World famous rock band Thin Lizzy rocked St David’s Hall last night with their new show-stopping performance of ‘The Boys are Back’ tour whilst also doing their bit for Sport Relief 2012. Lead singer Ricky Warwick, bassist Marco Mendoza, guitarist Damon Johnson and Darren Wharton on keyboards donned their Sport Relief t-shirts to show their support of the campaign and to encourage the people of Cardiff to enter the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile on Sunday 25th March.
The legendary rockers who exploded ‘Live and Dangerous’ onto the scene over 20 years ago, are back with an all-new, star-studded line up, as well as original members Brian Downey and Scott Gorham, and are taking their music to a whole new generation of music fans in South Wales. Despite the hard rock legends’ busy schedule, the band couldn’t wait to get involved with this year’s Sport Relief campaign.
Ricky Warwick, lead singer of Thin Lizzy is encouraging the public to get involved too: “Come on Cardiff! Why don’t you show your support for Sport Relief and enter the Cardiff Mile on March 25th and help transform thousands of lives here in Cardiff, across the UK and in the world’s poorest countries. You can ‘do anything you want to’ – run, dance, walk or rock out along the route! Visit www.sportrelief.com to sign up and get sponsored.”
This year, over one million people are expected to pull up their socks and take part in the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile in order to raise some serious cash for vulnerable people right here in Cardiff, across the UK and in the world’s poorest countries.
Join thousands of people in beautiful Cardiff Bay, with a route that takes in the Roald Dahl Plass, the Wales Millennium Centre and the Pierhead building as well as being packed full of entertainment and friendly faces (some famous) to cheer you on. Last time, more than 4000 people took part in the Cardiff Mile, and the people of Wales have raised and donated over £1 million. Since then, more than £1.9 million has been spent on local projects in Wales. Enter the Cardiff Mile by visiting www.sportreleif.com.
Cardiff council has created its bin collection service in order to be able to recycle more, something brought forward by residents of the city. The weekly recycling collections will also help Cardiff stay on track with Welsh Government recycling targets, whilst reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.
It’s important to note that your garden waste and general waste will be collected fortnightly on alternate weeks.
The weekly schedule for recycling collection days are as follows:
International Students in Cardiff - A blog for students living in Cardiff, UK is
a wordpress blog set up by, you guessed it, an international Cardiff student.
The aim of the blog is obviously to target issues faced by international
students in Cardiff from a first hand perspective and show what the city has to
offer for foreign students.
The blog itself features guest posts from other writers as well as the authors
own work and covers topics ranging from job hunting as an international student
to finding student accommodation, international student experiences in Cardiff,
specific event summaries all the way to fair trade.
The opening post on the blog sums up the premise for its existence quite well;
“I love Internet. Until my most recent experience, and still after that, I´m
still convinced that you can find ALMOST anything there, but when it comes to
solving really big /urgent /unknown/first time matters, you just really want to
talk to someone, to hear a nice friendly voice explaining you what´s all about.
Specially regarding the hows to study in the UK as an international student.”
You can visit the site at:
http://internationalstudentsincardiff.wordpress.com
FUNDRAISING TEAM FROM HUGH JAMES RAISE OVER £3,000 SO FAR
- Million Makers Challenge, raising money for The Prince’s Trust
The Prince’s Bounty team from Hugh James Solicitors are continuing with
their fundraising efforts having raised over £1250 in a recent event.
They will add to this by hosting several more events in November in aid of The
Prince’s Trust.
The team of 14 from Hugh James and Involegal are rising to the Million Makers
challenge, competing against other teams across the UK to turn a small seed
funding investment into a profit of at least £10,000 for The Prince’s
Trust.
The Hugh James and Involegal runners successfully completed the recent Cardiff
Half Marathon and raised over £1250, a fantastic achievement! This brings
the total raised so far to over £3,000 with plenty of events still to
come.
For the classic film lovers in Cardiff, make Tuesday nights your girly nights
throughout November with special screenings of some of the most popular films
at Cineworld, Cardiff.
These include:
01 November - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
22 November – Dirty Dancing
29 November – Sex and the City
Showings will start at 6.15pm and tickets cost just £8 per film or a
special price of £20 to see all three (bookings to see all three will
include a special gift). Each person will receive a goody bag on the evening
and an entry into the raffle. For more information and to book your tickets,
please contact Sally Baker on
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Be the first to see The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn for
FREE on Thursday 20th October at your local cinema!
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (cert PG) is at cinemas
everywhere on October 26 - but you can see it for free and before anyone else
this Thursday at one of 12 cinemas around the country!
Paramount Pictures present a 3D Motion Capture Film, The Adventures of Tintin:
The Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by
Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot,
Defiance) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of
a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure and Daniel Craig (Quantum
of Solace, Defiance) as the nefarious Red Rackham.
Based on the series of books The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, the film is
produced by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy.
The participating cities are Coventry, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Glasgow,
Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Leicester, Reading, Teeside and Liverpool.
The First Casino in Wales to Secure a Wedding License
Grosvenor G Casino Cardiff is pleased to announce that it is the first casino in Wales to be granted a wedding license. The recently refurbished 20,000 sq ft venue can now offer ‘loved up locals’ the opportunity to tie the knot in Cardiff’s leading casino and entertainment venue.
As the new must-view venue for couples in search of a wedding location with a difference, Grosvenor G Casino Cardiff has a range of wedding packages available, plus a great value food and drink offering with which to delight wedding parties.
Vince Dale, general manager comments:
“We are very excited to be one of the UK’s only casinos to hold a wedding license. Weddings are such a happy and momentous occasion and we are thrilled to be able to offer this service to connect with our local community. We look forward to celebrating with couples who tie the knot here.”
For more information about the packages on offer or to arrange a venue viewing please contact the reception team at Grosvenor G Casino Cardiff on 02920 468 350 or visit the casino at Grosvenor G Casino Cardiff, Red Dragon Centre, Atlantic Wharf , Hemingway Rd, Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF10 4JY.
Over 18s only and photographic ID will be required for all new customers.
www.gambleaware.co.uk
The official site for Dave's Gym is here: daves-gym.co.uk, but well worth checking out is Dave's Gym's blog at davesgymblog.blogspot.com. This honestly makes for some hilarious reading as well as being factual and informative giving you info on workouts and training going on in the gym. Dave also posts about nutritional information, breaks down what to eat and what not to, sets out structured training routines and even posts videos of others doing it for you so you can see just how its done.
For anyone who's ever been daunted by the thought of going to the gym, the sheer manner in which this blog is written really gives you a joyous outlook on training and makes it seem a lot more fun... although Dave does go into quite some detail at how much it can hurt at the time too!
Check out the comedy advert they made for the gym here:
An infograph of the most popular job sectors in Cardiff.
In the past decade Cardiff has been transformed, with employment in manufacturing decreasing and roles in IT and insurance soaring.
Despite the bad situation with dozen of jobs axed in every industry, professionals involved with Technology and Health care are demanded. Moreover city Council, NHS and University are keeping many people at work.
Below a current picture of Cardiff Employment:
We are Cardiff is a storytelling website featuring short tales from residents in Cardiff about how they came to be here, the things that attracted them to the city, likes as well as dislikes and peoples aspirations for the future.
Now celebrating over a year of publishing stories, the we are Cardiff site provides a very interesting read including “the most read story” on the site, a story of Bethan Elfyn, whom many will know from BBC Radio.
A great summary not only of the website but also highlighting many of the features which often go unnoticed in Cardiff can be found on their about us page, it reads:
“Cardiff is a little city, but at the same time, it’s a great one. You encounter any number of different nationalities on a daily basis – you see the interaction between traditional Welsh culture and its English counterpart. You see roadsigns in Welsh first, English second. We have a resident circus. We have sandy beaches and waterfalls and castles and caves within driving distances. We have abandoned nuclear bunkers, hidden tunnels underneath the city centre, an enormous stadium, a beautiful museum, gorgeous parks and old Roman forts. We have the world’s oldest record shop, coastline rich in fossils and a colourful gay pride festival. Most of all, we have a lot of interesting people that inhabit the city. This website is about them.”
We are Cardiff has regular updates and for those interested in reading about stories from the city it’s well worth signing up to their e-mail subscription, which only sends out notifications of new stories and isn’t too frequent to fill your inbox.
The site also features some very beautiful pictures of residents in the stories, often posing in places of the city poignant to their tales.
Cardiff events listings at what's on in Cardiff. We list nightclubs events in Cardiff, live music, concerts, theatre and comedy. We also have details of venues in the Cardiff Event Guide which has details of pubs and bars, nightclubs, concert halls, live music venues and theatres. We hope you enjoy this guide and what's on in Cardiff.
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