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    A popular country music night in Cardiff brings fans together to make new friends

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    Local Welsh art projected on station as part of a huge Light of Winter trail

    Author and storyteller launches typewriter-for-hire service in Cardiff market

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    Two chefs to open a restaurant after the decline in Wales’ hospitality industry

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    How Welsh musicians are using social media to keep the spirit of bilingual music alive

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    Training project that aims to make screen sector more accessible gets funding boost

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    Local yoga instructor sees a rise in men embracing yoga classes to improve wellbeing

    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

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    Netball participation among adults is growing as women seek a sense of community

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    Fibroid advocate takes the stage at Everywoman Festival to raise awareness of this common condition

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    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

    AI Generated image of an empty theatre

    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

    A cluttered wardrobe that could use the help of rental fashion

    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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Diverse voices speaking up to empower young generation of marginalised writers in Wales
Long Reads

A new generation of Welsh writers are raising their voices to increase representation in literature

Young people are taking action to increase literary opportunities and make structural change by platforming diverse voices in the literature scene
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Social Life

The death of the nightclub

In 2024, three nightclubs shut across the UK every week. Could we be facing a clubbing extinction by 2029?
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Long Reads

Drinking alcohol isn’t the only way to have fun at Christmas

Sober Gals Wales is creating a safe space for non-drinking women to celebrate and socialise without booze this festive season
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Long Reads

Hidden homelessness rises in Wales as the pandemic leaves people with no place to go

Homelessness is not simply sleeping on the streets. But recent restrictions have surfaced more people who need help finding a home
Long Reads

‘Security is not for fun’: Wales’ smallest religion receives fifth of religious hate crime

Despite only making up 0.02% of the population, the Jewish community in Wales is the target of nearly 2000 hate crimes per 100,000 of its population. Why?
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The urgency of the climate crisis is engaging people into politics in Wales

A massive amount of young people are disengaged with politics. How are climate groups addressing this during a climate crisis?
Long Reads

‘Drinking culture has changed’: How the pandemic affects people’s relationship with alcohol

In the height of a pandemic, more people in Wales are gravitating towards alcohol consumption to deal with their personal matters
Long Reads

Silent inequality: The critical lack of mental health support for deaf people in Wales

Wales is the only country in the UK without a specialised deaf mental health service. A new report calls for the government to make a change
Long Reads

Is the government over-relying on us to keep our rivers clean?

A leading community group says collaboration has turned into over-reliance as Welsh government set to tackle litter pollution in rivers.
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How Cardiff businesses are taking on the fast fashion industry one stitch at a time

Promoting slow fashion or repairing clothes we already own are the aims of various businesses in the Welsh capital, especially during the festive period
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