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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

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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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Cardiff family launches Christmas fundraising drive for local foodbank

Father and daughter duo Johnathan and Sophie Williams are raising money for Cardiff Foodbank with takeaway curries and Christmas dinners
Building site with dirt tracks and forklift backed by new build homes. Construction trades in Wales suffer skills shortage.
Public Life

Construction trades must recruit 244,000 apprentices to plug skills shortage, says new report 

Research shows young people are avoiding manual trades as the Welsh construction industry struggles with a housing crisis
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How one advocacy group is championing migrant women’s rights in Cardiff

Ahead of International Migrant’s Day, a local advocacy group discusses refugee rights at a panel event hosted by Women’s Equality Network
Public Life

Cardiff libraries to prioritise age-friendly initiatives in 2024 

New plans to improve age-inclusiveness in the city are on the way to keep our older generation active, healthy and happy
Long Reads

Companionship beyond convention: Can communal living fix loneliness?

In Wales, single women are at greater risk of loneliness compared to their coupled-up counterparts, but a turn towards communal living could change the narrative 
Public Life

As fresh food prices rise, nutritious food is becoming inaccessible

Now that winter is here, it is more important than ever to eat healthily, but lots of people in Cardiff can’t afford to, with one local business being forced to raise prices by 10%
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Café introduces ‘pay it forward’ meals as food poverty worsens

‘Pay it forward’ started as a goodwill gesture, yet with food banks at breaking point, Atma Lounge uses this trend...
Public Life

Dickens’s ‘darker side’ revealed in poignant production about his life

What The Dickens? gives a voice to the forgotten women of his past, amid the #MeToo movement and rise of cancel culture 
Public Life

Living Wage City status benefits women and people of colour

Minority workers have been impacted the most and for the better, 10 years after the foundation of a Living Wage campaign in Wales
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Musician uses rap to tackle Pillgwenlly’s reputation as ‘dangerous small town’

Local grime artist Isaac George aka Truth uses spoken work activism to inspire a generation to rise above Pillgwenlly’s reputation.
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