South East Wales News
Cardiff Metropolitan University has agreed to buy University Hall in Cyncoed, currently home to more than 650 Cardiff University students, with the purchase due to complete in July 2027.
The Plough in Whitchurch, Cardiff, is closing for a £250,000 refurbishment and will reopen on 28 October as a Marston’s Grandstand sports pub.
Mermaid Quay in Cardiff Bay will run free Halloween activities for families every day from Monday 26 to Saturday 31 October, including pumpkin decorating, face painting and a Halloween Haunt Trail.
The converted former chapel on High Street, Porth, is listed with Paul Fosh Auctions in an online sale that starts at 12 noon on Tuesday 6 October.
The extended two-bedroom house at 1a Rock Terrace, Ynysybwl, near Pontypridd, is in the next Paul Fosh Auctions online sale, which starts at 12 noon on Tuesday 6 October.
Escape room operator Escape Hunt has opened bookings for its new venue at St David’s Cardiff, which is due to open in early November.
Dilys Llewellyn has volunteered at the Cancer Research Wales shop in Whitchurch, Cardiff, since 2001 and is encouraging others to volunteer as the charity looks for more help.
Mermaid Quay and Roath Lake were illuminated in purple on 1 October to mark the start of City Hospice’s Light up a Life appeal, which runs until 31 December.
Autechre, The Streets, Avatar, Midge Ure and The Hunna are among the acts booked at DEPOT on Curran Road in Cardiff between October and December.
Blaenau Gwent Council is inviting expressions of interest for Town Centre Visual Enhancement Grants to help business owners and landlords…