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

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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

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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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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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Will hunger pangs worsen this winter?

Food insecurity is at an all-time high, Alt Cardiff investigates as organisations in Wales brace themselves for their busiest frosty season
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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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Ten years on from the death of Gary Speed, how is Welsh football tackling men’s mental health?

The death of the Welsh legend and national team coach rocked the football world and sparked conversations about mental health across the sport
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Time to heat things up and ask why Wales’ unpaid carers are left out in the cold

As energy prices continue to soar and many struggle financially, Wales’s unpaid carers are finding it difficult to heat their homes
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How the pandemic created a push to tackle homelessness in South Wales

Giving rough sleepers a place to live could be the obvious solution to ending homelessness in Wales - Housing First plan inspired by Finland's approach
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The politics of art: Welsh-language theatre finds itself at a crossroads

Welsh-language theatre is grappling with funding cuts and demands of the Cymraeg 2050 initiative while trying to remain an art form first
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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How Cardiff libraries are providing more than just books this winter

As libraries in the capital transform into warm banks to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, council budget cuts threaten their survival 
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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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