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A bike enthusiast is banding together with his work colleagues to tackle this year’s South Wales Echo On Your Bike for Barnardo’s cycle ride. And he is calling on other participants to give it their all for this Sunday’s 38 mile cycling event. Kyle Darlington, 30, a business development manager at Stills branding agency, will be taking on the challenge …

Cardiff council finance boss Russell Goodway is under pressure to produce evidence of a Welsh Government letter he used to help justify an attempted multi-million pound land deal. The Labour councillor has told fellow members that his only copy of the letter has been shredded but the leader of the opposition on the city council has called on him to …

A primary school headteacher has been named the best in Wales – two months after a glowing inspection report hailed her “excellent” leadership. Catherine Power has enjoyed unprecedented success at St Philip Evans RC Primary School in Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, which recently won high praise from education watchdog Estyn. In their report, published in March, inspectors adjudged both current performance and …

Staging a rarely-performed opera by Wagner to mark his bicentenary wasn’t enough for the artistic  director of Welsh National Opera. So alongside the fairytale  piece Lohengrin – the opening of which will be attended  by the Prince of Wales – David  Pountney is also premiering a new work imagining the German composer as he penned  his final opera. And while …

Two independent filmmakers from South Wales are hoping to make cinematic history by producing the first feature film to be released through social media. Producer Simon Stratton and director Matt Mullins have created a script, which will be turned into a Facebook game and released online as a feature film, before being shown in cinemas. Simon, 35, who founded Cardiff …

Doctor Sameh Otri will return to the Syrian border next week to take aid and education to children affected by the ongoing conflict. The university chaplain will be part of a small group of professionals flying out to the Turkish border on Monday. Two years on from when the conflict started, hundreds of thousands of Syrian people are now thought …

It’s the ultimate riddle of the sphinx that has vexed scholars for centuries: just why did the Ancient Egyptians stop building the pyramids? And now, some 4,500 years after they were made, an intrepid Welsh structural engineer may just have stumbled upon the answer. Newport-based businessman Peter James has spent months in Egypt examining how the famed structures began to …

Cardiff City have been boosted as they battle to hold on to manager Malky Mackay, with Roberto Martinez refusing to rule himself out of the running for the Everton job. Wigan boss Martinez and Mackay are the two front-runners to succeed David Moyes at Goodison Park at the end of the current Premier League season. Moyes will take over at …

A Newport student whose granddad ignited his interest in repairing damaged cars is now set to turn this into a career after scooping the top prize in a quest to find Wales’ best aspiring autobody repair technician. Lewis Lloyd, 17, an autobody repair student at Coleg Gwent’s City of Newport Campus battled out against competitors from across the country to …

When it comes to giving people a style makeover, a Carmarthenshire teenager has  proved that she’s a class apart. Morgan Rennie, 19, from Llansteffan, has struck gold in the prestigious EU-backed Skills Competition Wales finals for both hairdressing and nail technology – the first student ever to win in two separate categories. Both finals were held at Coleg Sir Gar, …