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There are lots of boring old cliches in football when a little ‘un, looking to defy the odds, comes up against a good big ’un Anything can happen on the day. Football is played on grass, not paper. There’s no point turning up if we don’t think we can win. You know the drill. Same old, same old. There was …

  A couple say they are considering legal action against Cardiff and Vale University Health Board following an investigation into their son’s care. Ceri and Angharad Rees, from Taff’s Well, made a formal complaint to the Health Board in April and an investigation report has now been completed. Their son Sam, now 17, was diagnosed with a rare type of …

In February, residents were told there would be a new multi-million pound leisure centre, incorporating a pool facility as well as the facilities from the nearby Star Centre on Splott Road – Cardiff council has said that a number of options are still being looked at for the hub. But Cardiff Against the Cuts placed a Freedom of Information request …

An award celebrating unsung heroes in Cardiff has been scrapped after just two years as a result of council spending cuts. Thalidomide campaigner Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmons, the inaugural winner of the Seren Owain Glyndwr Award, last night said the decision was a “travesty”. The award was launched in 2011 by the council’s previous Liberal Democrat/Plaid Cymru administration to recognise Cardiff citizens …

Cardiff Devils owner Paul Ragan has expressed frustration at a delay to the start of the construction of the capital’s £16m ice arena. Building works were due to begin at the Cardiff Bay site this month, but have been put back until December or January as a result of a protracted planning permission process, according to developer Greenbank Partnerships. With …

On the day fitness instructor Cathie Quinlan, 41, of Llanedeyrn, Cardiff,  was told she had breast cancer, her boyfriend of 18-months proposed. The couple got married and she became pregnant on their honeymoon. The fitness instructor was first diagnosed 11 years ago at the age of 29 and had a lumpectomy, but following a recurrence five years later, she had …

JANE Williams of Penarth (Echo You Say, August 14) is quite right in pointing out the need for a better bus stop and shelter at Cardiff Airport. The present arrangement is totally inadequate. Ideally, buses should be able to drop passengers off at ‘Departures’ before they go to ‘Arrivals’ which would be another bus stop, with suitable protection from the …

Teachers’ leaders in Wales have spoken of their ‘trepidation’ ahead of this year’s GCSE results after last summer’s grading fiasco led to thousands of pupils being awarded lower marks. The Welsh Government’s decision to re-grade tainted English language papers last September ultimately spared pupils in Wales the ‘injustice’ of having a lower grade than would normally be expected. A change …

Ten years ago I was involved in a debate in this newspaper over the merits of closing Cardiff and Bristol Airports and replacing them both with a new airport on the banks of the River Severn. On that occasion the proposed new airport was located outside of Wales and I was arguing for the retention of Cardiff Airport being then, …

Howard Gadd is hosting his first official engagement as the chairman of the Forum for the Built Environment (fbe). The venue is a well-known Cardiff pub, the invitation is to an afternoon curry and the intention is to create an ambience in which members of the fbe’s Cambria branch can meet and network together. This air of informality, in a …