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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

    AI Generated image of an empty theatre

    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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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
Long Reads

Is Cardiff really a child-friendly city?

Unicef recently crowned the Welsh capital the UK’s first child-friendly city. But as child poverty rates are on the up, some argue that this label is unwarranted
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Public Life

Free food given away by group in fight for ‘socialist Welsh republic’

Marxist organisation in Cardiff is holding free food events open to everyone based around its belief that nobody deserves to go hungry
Long Reads

A third of children live in poverty in Wales and offering free school meals won’t go far enough

The Welsh Government has announced free school meals for all primary school children by 2023 but will this really end the UK’s highest child poverty rate?
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Long Reads

Food festivities: The traditions that aren’t possible for the children facing food poverty

Food is central to holiday traditions, but food insecurity is becoming more difficult this winter for many families in South Wales
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In Poverty

#InPoverty: Almost half of prisoners in Cardiff are homeless once released

A look at why released prisoners are going into homelessness and entering a cycle of reoffending after serving their sentence
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In Poverty

#InPoverty: A harrowing look at the struggles LGBT+ refugees face

LGBT+ refugees face persecution over sexuality in their home nations; with no benefits or opportunity to work, how do they survive?
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In Poverty

#InPoverty: Does Wales’ asylum plan tie in with the reality of life as a refugee?

A Syrian refugee discusses the struggles faced by the displaced in light of Wales’ plan to care for asylum seekers
In Poverty

#InPoverty: Overweight and trying for a baby? The NHS’s lack of fertility support

Although 60% of adults are overweight, women are being denied access to fertility treatment with no assistance because of their size
In Poverty

#InPoverty: Millennials are the ones left to pick up the mess of generation X

A competitive job market and rising day-to-day costs concludes Cardiff millennials will continue to struggle thanks to generation X’s greed
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