Media

How do you want your local news?
28/1/2010 - Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain has welcomed the chance for people in Wales to to have their say on the future of local news broadcasting in Wales. The Independently Funded News Consortia (IFNC) Pilots Selecti...

Theatr Colwyn on television
9/12/2009 - Theatr Colwyn is to feature in the Nodyn programme, S4C on Friday (December 11) from 9.30pm. See extracts from Cerys Matthews amazing sell-out show at the Colwyn Bay venue plus an interview with the Welsh singer/songwr...

Bankrupt Bride wedding dresses in online auction
27/11/2009 - Last weekend Theatr na nog's, The Bankrupt Bride, drew to a close with three sell out nights at Theatr Clwyd. The final night saw the launch of a ten-day online auction of donated Wedding Dresses. The tour has been gre...

Chuck Berry gig postponed
23/11/2009 - Chuck Berry fans will have to wait until the spring to see the rock and roll legend live in Swansea. A gig that had been arranged for the Brangwyn Hall on Wednesday December 2 has now been postponed until March 2010. ...

Peter Hain urges strong bids to replace ITV news
16/11/2009 - Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain today urged Welsh media organisations to join forces and submit the strongest possible bids to create a new pilot to replace ITV regional news in Wales. Mr Hain said: “It is ...

Cardiff conference on the future of journalism
3/9/2009 - In years to come will we still be buying our newspapers over the newsagent's counter or accessing news on our computers? The crucial issue of the future of journalism in the modern world will be discussed at an internatio...

Anger at ITV cuts in Wales
25/9/2008 - A plan to slash ITV broadcasting in Wales is a dramatic loss and a blow for Welsh audiences, said Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones today, ITV is to be allowed to cut its Welsh programming by more than half because o...

Last Choir Standing final could be all Welsh
22/8/2008 - Fans of Cardiff choir Only Men Aloud are hoping the public won't rain on their favourites' parade in the semi-final of BBC's Last Choir Standing this weekend. Cardiff Council is backing the all male group to succeed on...

Madonna concert travel advice
21/8/2008 - Madonna opens her latest world tour at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday 23 August. People travelling to Cardiff for the concert are advised to plan their journey in advance. The best way to travel to Cardiff is by c...

Welsh choir still standing
18/8/2008 - Proud to be Welsh and still standing in the BBC's last band standing competition is the Bangor choir of Ysgol Glanaethwy. The choir is a part of the performing arts school Glanaethwy which was started 18 years ag...

Tom Jones would like to sing with Duffy
8/8/2008 - Tom Jones has said he would love to sing with Duffy. The 68-year-old star says fellow Welsh singer Duffy is top of his list for his new duets album. When asked who he'd like to work with he immediately named Duffy, sa...

Duffy wows Boston crowd
6/8/2008 - With significant poise and an even more impressive set of pipes, Welsh soul singer Duffy delighted a sold-out crowd in her first Boston gig at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston last night. Already a hot commodity at home,...

World stage for Welsh arts
1/8/2008 - The culture and traditions of Wales will be celebrated at the at the Lorient Interceltic Festival 2008 in Brittany, France. Welsh art, music and dance will step onto the world stage which celebrates the "Year of Wale...

Katherine Jenkins is the new face
22/7/2008 - Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins, who is already one of Montblanc's arts and culture brand ambassadors, has been chosen to be the face for their fragrance Femme de Montblanc, reports the website Glam Boulevard. Kat...

Million surf the Swansea net
2/7/2008 - Almost two million users are surfing in the virtual world of Swansea, new figures have shown. Swansea Council's award-winning website http://www.swansea.gov.uk and its user-friendly pages have encouraged more than 1.8...

BBC boss faces the music for ignoring Wales
15/6/2008 - A Welsh inquiry into broadcasting has heard a disastrous report about the BBC from a leading academic, and BBC Director General Mark Thompson is to face the music at a meeting in Cardiff tomorrow (Monday). The report...

Should Wales sack ITV?
10/6/2008 - ITV should not retain its licence to broadcast in Wales unless it provides more pubic service output such as arts, drama, religious and children's programmes, suggests a leading academic. In evidence to the National As...

Daily news service in Welsh
30/5/2008 - A daily online news service in Welsh is to go ahead with a six hundred thousand pounds grant over three years from the Assembly Government. It will replace a proposed Welsh language daily newspaper which has been scrapped...

Torfaen's new radio station
21/2/2008 - Local radio for local people in Torfaen goes online on the first weekend in March. Internet based radio station, Flame Radio, will be live on Saturday March 1 from 9am to 12pm and also Sunday March 2 between 2pm and 4p...

New broadband service for Wales
19/2/2008 - Severn Digital, a rapidly growing IT Services company based in Chepstow, will be launching a new ADSL Broadband service called reddragon broadband on St David's Day. While there are many other ADSL Broadband servic...

Welsh language newspaper to go ahead
6/2/2008 - Wales is to spend more than half a million pounds on a new Welsh language news service, including a Welsh language newspaper. This is despite an expert report saying the viability of a Welsh-language daily newspaper ha...

Swansea exhibition
19/1/2008 - The Neath based artist, Neale Howells currently has an intriguingly titled exhibition at the mission gallery in Swansea. It is called "Bad company may need positive advertising." A recent received award from the Arts ...

Welsh artist in Quebec residency
18/1/2008 - Betws-y-coed based artist, Sue Corr, has been selected for the 2008 Meduse residency in Quebec City from mid January to mid April 2008 as part of the Quebec/Cymru programme by Wales Arts International and Cooperative Medu...

Paul Potts world tour
18/1/2008 - It's an exciting time for singer, Paul Potts, who embarked on his world tour this week. The six month tour kicked off yesterday at Rhyl Pavilions in Wales, and Paul will continue performing across the UK until his gran...

10,000 pound gift for Glamorgan festival
18/1/2008 - An internationally renowned music festival has been boosted to the tune of 10,000 pounds thanks to the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Each September, the Vale of Glamorgan Festival brings together world class performer...

Flintshire Artfest relaunched
15/1/2008 - Details of the exciting new event will be unveiled at the Flintshire ArtsFest launch on Monday, 21 January at 12.30pm in the Haydn Rees Room, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold. The programme has now been finalised and the Art...

Wales at heart of Liverpool's celebrations
14/1/2008 - As part of Liverpool's European Capital of Culture activities, Wales will be playing a prominent part in the artistic activities planned in the city throughout 2008. The Arts Council of Wales and its clients have bee...

Opera singer honoured by Rhondda
14/1/2008 - World-famous opera giant Stuart Burrows will receive the Honorary Freedom of the Borough from Rhondda Cynon Taf County Council next week. The Cilfynydd-born lyric tenor was overjoyed when he was informed that he will...

Funny business at Cardiff University
14/1/2008 - Psychologist, Dean Burnett ,first discovered a gift for making people laugh when acting in student comedy shows as he studied for a neuroscience degree at the School of Biosciences. Now researching a PhD on memory at t...

Di's butler angry over memorial service
21/8/2007 - Diana, former Princess of Wales, would not want Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall at her memorial service, says Paul Burrell, Di's former butler. He criticises the royal family's advisers for inviting her in the latest e...

Welsh language daily newspaper plan
10/8/2007 - Wales is committed to supporting the Welsh language press, including a Welsh language daily newspaper. Rhodri Glyn Thomas, Minister for Heritage, has asked the Welsh Language Board to carry out a review of the Welsh me...

Reporter who kept his cool in battle
15/7/2007 - Tom Walker, a Newport born journalist who maintained his equanimity even when reporting from some of the world's bloodiest hotspots, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 44. Tom Walker's good humour rarely failed him...

Swansea helps Indian villagers tell stories
4/6/2007 - Computer scientists at Swansea University are working on a collaborative project that is using new mobile phone technologies to help villagers in India record and share their stories and experiences. And it is believed...

Sorry folks, no UFOs landed in Wales
17/2/2007 - Did aliens from outer space land in Wales in 1974, as many people claim? The answer seems to be a disappointing no, according to the respected web encyclopedia Wikipedia. The Berwyn Mountain Incident, widely known as t...