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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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    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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Threat of landslide: How living beside a high-risk coal tip creates fear in the community

Over 300 coal tips are considered high-risk in Wales and the possibility of collapse is a haunting reminder of the Aberfan disaster 55 years ago
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Wales is one step closer to eradicating HIV

Wales is one step closer to eradicating HIV with Cardiff becoming a Fast Track City
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‘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?
Service, Please zine
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How can a zine help Cardiff’s hospitality workers get unionised?

Local organisation Burum collective uses a creative approach to try and increase union representation in one of the most precarious industries for workers
Could Welsh choirs be the antidote for gen Z's loneliness epidemic?
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Could Welsh choirs be the antidote to gen Z’s loneliness epidemic?

Young people increasingly seek connection online, but a choir's Welsh Wellbeing Award suggests the answer to combating loneliness could lie in Welsh history books
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Joy to all men? Why Christmas is such a dangerous time to be homeless in Cardiff

Christmas is a time of generosity, with shoppers and people celebrating flocking to the city centre, but what about the locals that usually make the area their place of residence?
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Why people are angry at Cardiff’s first wellbeing village

A new housing village is set for development in Ely on the old Michaelston college site, despite traffic fears from residents
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‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

A Cardiff based personal trainer and weightlifting business have highlighted the need for better sport gear that’s specifically made for...
Tower block at Channel View Estate
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The council’s gamble: will its attempts to hook up a ‘left behind’ estate to the city work?

The multimillion pound scheme could bring great benefits to the residents, but the authorities will need to have learned lessons from Cardiff’s history
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How the state of the path network is gatekeeping the Welsh countryside

Access to the countryside should be universal, but walking groups are having to step up to the challenge of protecting it
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