All Things Welsh

A Somali youth worker is calling for the UK government to ban the legal high, khat. Mohammed Dualeh of the Somali Youth Association in Butetown, Cardiff told BBC Radio Wales that the stimulant is killing his community. There are also concerns ...  

Matt Smith starts the day by carrying the Olympic flame from the historic Norwegian Church, in Cardiff Bay. The TV star is among 132 separate torchbearers who will take part in the relay as it journeys 115 miles across south Wales. Setting out in Cardiff ...  

Cardiff, Wales, is used to planned major disruption for major events. Whenever the millennium stadium hosts an international, for example, buses have to divert from a traffic free city centre. One such event is the arrival on Monday of the famous olympic torch. Cardiff city centre will be closed between 1700 and 2000. The result will be some disruption to quite a few routes that mean buses  

Sherman Cymru, Cardiff: A former National Poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis has also made a name for herself as a librettist and writer of factual prose. Clytemnestra is her first theatre play. As with her recent novel The Meat Tree, a retelling of the story of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion, Lewis has once again re-imagined an old text in the near future; reflecting her interest in the contemporary parallels of myths and legends. Read the full...  

CARDIFF, Wales, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones AM will today, Monday 14th May, launch the University of Glamorgan's Centre for Financial and Professional Services at an event for the business community in Cardiff Castle. The new Centre will deliver...  

Cardiff is the capital city of Wales. It lies on the southeast coast of Wales on the Bristol Channel. Although Cardiff is not a metropolis (its current population is only about 300,000), it is an important administrative, commercial, cultural and industrial centre and port.Cardiff has been the official capital of Wales since 1955. There has been a community here for hundreds of years, but it began to grow quickly and to become prosperous...  

Names (left to right):Debbie and Keith Francis, Bud and Marlene Baumhover Hometowns (left to right): Morrison, Colorado / Cedar Falls, IA Where photo taken: Cardiff Castle, Wales, UK Best meal: Welsh banquet served at Cardiff Castle with Glamorgan sausage with Caefkli cheese, and Welsh singers accompanied by concert harp. Best deal: Tour of Cardiff Castle tour Best time to go: Late spring to avoid the crowds. Best travel...  

Time Team discovers 3,000 years of history at Cardiff site. Caerau Hillfort is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in the western suburbs of Caerau and Ely, Cardiff, Wales. The old parish church, St Mary’s, and a small ringwork, almost certainly a medieval castle site probably contemporary with the church, stand within the hillfort on the north-eastern side.  

increased provision for Welsh medium education, introducing “litter police” and boosting sustainable transport are among their pledges. The party, which says it is “a new alternative for Cardiff”, also wants to make St David’s Day a paid public ...  

A taxi driver whose firm has contracts with several schools has appeared in court charged following a counter-terrorism investigation into a network suspected of smuggling a banned stimulant drug from Britain to America.  

Cardiff City midfielder Filip Kiss is hoping his loan move from Slovan Bratislava will be made permanent. The 21-year-old joined from Slovan on a season-long loan for just under £500,000 and is hoping to stay with the Welsh outfit. Cardiff made ...  

Rodney Berman was defeated in the Plasnewydd ward following ... The other leaders to lose at the polls are Allan Pritchard from Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly, Independents Keith Evans in Ceredigion and Jeff Edwards in Merthyr, Conservative Gordon ...  

Labour made a comeback in Cardiff to take control from the Lib Dem-Plaid Cymru coalition. The Lib Dems lost in key city areas, and those losing seats included senior councillor John Dixon in Adamsdown. Mr Dixon said it was a voter reaction to ...  

Researching a city for a short trip, The Rapid Traveler typically separates the city into a three-layer concentric circle: city core, city surrounds (30-60 minutes by public transport or car) and day trip (1-3 hours). In two days he spends roughly half a ...  

Welsh environment minister John Griffiths has unveiled proposals to introduce a Sustainable Development Bill for public services in Wales.