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Let me begin by admitting that I’m not a football fan. The last time I played football I nearly broke my nose. It was an inconsequential schoolboy match and I had elected to be goalkeeper for my team so that I could avoid all that running about after the ball. In an heroic bid to prevent my team going 3-0 …

Cases of measles in one of the biggest epidemics seen in the UK for more than two decades is likely to top 1,000 today as the latest figures are released. The latest numbers will be released later by Public Health Wales and are expected to show another jump from last week’s figure of 942. In the past few weeks, health …

Wales will play two of their group stage matches at the 2015 Rugby World Cup at the Millennium Stadium, it is reported today. Wales’ fixtures against the two yet-to-be-decided qualifiers in their group are expected to be scheduled for Cardiff when the fixtures are announced later this week. There has been controversy over the WRU’s efforts to have Wales matches …

Selling lollypops as a teenager started Alexander Mills on the business ladder and now he is hoping to make it right to the top by appearing on the latest series of The Apprentice. The 22-year-old, who is the director of Cardiff legal services company Dynamo Legal, has been unveiled as one of the latest candidates to face Lord Alan Sugar …

In the programme foreword for The Woman In Black, Gary Futcher writes that modern audiences need more than white sheets and gore to be scared by theatre in 2013. But Stephen Mallatratt’s hugely successful adaptation of Susan Hill’s 1983 novel promises just that, with a billing as one of the “most chilling theatre events ever staged”. And from the very …

Fve of the most promising new  musical talents from Wales will  be given a showcase in Cardiff this weekend. New Sounds Wales was  launched in 2008 to promote the best in emerging music acts. To mark its landmark fifth  birthday, the organisation has put together a special event at  Chapter Arts Centre. Five acts will be taking to the  stage …

There are some lovely places to live in Cardiff, and even the unlovelier places have their more salubrious corners. The suburbs of Cyncoed and Lisvane, though, are remarkable in that it’s hard to think of anywhere here in this beautiful corner of South Wales that your average lottery millionaire wouldn’t love to live. Replete with the trappings of sweet suburbia …

A couple, who left a doctor with permanent brain damage after he was beaten with a hammer, have been sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison. Edward Donovan and Rhiannon Gibbons broke into the £1.6m home of Dr Prana Das and his wife Nishebita, before tying them up, beating them and stealing cash, jewellery and gold. In a …

With so many strings to his  bow – comedian, musician,  actor and naturalist – it’s  difficult to know where to begin a conversation with Bill Bailey. Take this weekend, for example; as he  launches his massive UK tour, which pretty  much takes him up to the end of the year,  he will also be seen presenting the second part  of …

Celebrations broke out across the city this weekend as Cardiff City were presented with the Championship trophy, while behind the scenes talks were held over the Bluebirds’ Langston debt. Fans paid a roaring tribute to their heroes on Saturday as Cardiff City lifted the Championship trophy for the first time. They sang, “Stand up for the Champions” – and just …