The city’s quirkiest and most beloved festival, The Swansea Fringe, is back, with sponsorship from Swansea BID (Business Improvement District) securing the event, which will line up three days of music, poetry, comedy and off-the-wall happenings in the City Centre from Friday, 5 October to Sunday, 7 October.
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Qatar Airways is pleased to announce that the inaugural flight for its soon-to-launch Doha to Cardiff route will be flown using the ultra-modern Airbus A350-900 on the day of inauguration, in recognition of the aircraft’s links to Wales.
Cardiff University medical student Lewis Oliva has won silver for Team Wales in the men’s keirin at the Commonwealth Games in Australia.
It’s easy for the week to pass you by, so if you haven’t had a chance to catch the biggest stories of the week, here is a quick round-up of what you need to know and read on Wales247.
A MAJOR company with a worldwide portfolio of entertainment venues from London to Manhattan will run Swansea’s planned digital indoor arena.
April marks Bowel Cancer Awareness month, a time of year when we are reminded to be vigilant of the signs and symptoms of this common cancer. Along with other organisations, Cancer Research Wales is helping to address some of the challenges and opportunities as they relate to bowel cancer in Wales.
A new study by Swansea University has suggested that children with intellectual difficulty or autism are more likely to be given antipsychotic medication from a younger age than those without intellectual disability and have higher rates of hospitalisation for depression and for injury and also are at risk of other medical side effects.
Organic meat, including Welsh lamb, bison, chicken and turkey, produced on the Rhug Estate in Corwen, Denbighshire, north Wales, is the first in Wales to be granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment to HRH The Prince of Wales. As well as supplying organic meat to HRH, the farm can also put the Three Feathers Badge on the meat it produces for customers.
AN award-winning college contributes more than £400m a year to the economy and has supported hundreds of businesses through a series of major development projects.
From April 1st, City Hospice will be providing its community-based palliative care across the whole of Cardiff, following a competitive tender process.