5 h. ago Cardiff Council fears bus franchising plans could hit school transport

The Bus Service (Wales) Bill is aimed at improving public transport across the country, but Cardiff Council is worried about potential unintended consequences

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14 h. ago Bravo quietly scraps plans to bring back beloved Real Housewives franchise

Report comes just days after Bravo announced new slate of shows

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19 h. ago Marisa Abela on consent, cancelled shows and playing Industry’s troubled heroine: ‘Thank God I’m not as cold

As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor on a whirlwind few years, why intimacy coordinators matter, and watching her not-so-guilty pleasure Real HousewivesWhen Marisa Abela landed the role of Yasmin, Industry’s traumatised heiress, she was still at drama school. Now, she’s a breakout star of the hit BBC/HBO series about the cut-throat world of finance. While the past couple of years have been stratospheric for the 28-year-old – she played Amy Winehouse in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 2024 biopic Back to Black scoring a Bafta rising star nomination, and was hand-picked by Steven Soderbergh for his recent star-studded thriller Black Bag – she’s excited to be back for the next instalment of the show that made her name. In fact, when we speak she’s sitting in a Pret, all smiles and warmth despite waiting for a severely delayed train from London to Cardiff, where she is filming the fourth series.What was your reaction when you found out you’d been nominated for a TV Bafta? Continue re...

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27 h. ago London borough hit by two more primary school closures as cost of living drives families out of capital

Southwark’s Charlotte Sharman and St Mary Magdalene schools are set to close on August 31

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4 d. ago A $15m jockeys racing league would relegate real stars to supporting role

The concept may help revolutionise global horseracing but downplaying the thoroughbreds misses the pointIt was a case of eyes down for marketing buzzword bingo on Monday morning, as news emerged that a dozen leading riders, including Frankie Dettori, Ryan Moore, William Buick and Yutaka Take, have signed up to compete in a new international jockeys’ league from 2026, with up to 10 six-race fixtures annually staged at some of the sport’s most famous tracks around the world.According to various reports, the “revolutionary” new competition will, its organisers claim, have “a franchise-based league structure” designed to turn riders into “global icons” and engage a “fresh audience” for racing. The jockeys involved will own equity in their team, act as the “team principal” for their franchise and, if all goes to plan, will be competing for a share of a $15m prize fund within two years. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Girl, six, dies after being hit by Range Rover on busy road after school

The car had been travelling westbound along Ashfield Road, Rochdale, at around 5.35pm on Monday, April 28, when it struck the girl who had entered the road.

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1 week ago Charity set to cancel its May Day carnival blaming Cardiff council's fees

Calon Hearts hit out at what it called the "eye-wateringly high", "exorbitant" cost for a road closure

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1 week ago Four children killed after car crashes through Illinois building, say police

Several injured after vehicle hit three people during after-school program and one more before exiting other sideFour children were killed and several more were injured when a car smashed through a building during an after-school program on Monday afternoon in a town outside of Springfield, Illinois, police said.Officers responded at about 3.20pm to calls about a vehicle hitting three people outside, ramming through the building and then hitting one more person before exiting the other side, Chatham police department deputy chief Scott Tarter said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Eleven killed in Gaza school shelter as Israel continues bombing campaign

Wave of airstrikes claim at least 25 lives while Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposalAt least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza

Israel launches wave of airstrikes as Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposalAt least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago French PM’s daughter says she was brutally beaten at scandal

François Bayrou faces questions over what he knew about school at centre of allegations of decades of abuseThe daughter of the French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said she was brutally beaten at a private Catholic school at the centre of a growing sexual abuse scandal that has shocked France.Hélène Perlant, 53, told Paris Match that a senior priest at Notre-Dame de Bétharram beat her in front of her peers during a summer camp in the 1980s, when she was 14, but said she had never told Bayrou. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago This piece of land is still a building site years after 'vision' to transform it caused uproar

Cardiff Council said the developers breached planning rules when they demolished the building's old enclosure, but there are plans in place to rebuild it.

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3 w. ago Cardiff Council defend 'Trust in Jesus' banners on display across the city

The banners include the Cardiff Council logo which has attracted criticism from humanists

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3 w. ago The row over huge Stevie Wonder and Alanis Morissette gigs in Cardiff

Cardiff Council said having live music events at Blackweir Fields will help the city fill a gap in its events offering, but park users and sports teams are concerned

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3 w. ago Caroline Flack's mother's hunt for answers has left friends fearing being 'thrown under bus', sources tell KATIE HIND

'Some of the people who have been approached believe this is an attempt to rewrite history and find someone new to blame for this total tragedy,' a source told Kate Hind.

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3 w. ago How Caroline Flack's mum's hunt for answers about night she died is exposing old wounds. TV show leaves friends fearing being 'thrown under bus', sources tell KATIE HIND

'Some of the people who have been approached believe this is an attempt to rewrite history and find someone new to blame for this total tragedy,' a source told Kate Hind.

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4 w. ago The science behind the perfect cup of coffee: everything you need to know, from grind size to roast

New research on the optimal pour height this week adds another layer to the quest for caffeinated perfection There is an episode of the hit TV series Breaking Bad in which Walter White, high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, meets a new colleague in front of a tangle of clamps, pipes and slowly dripping flasks. When the other character lets him taste what he has been brewing, White is stunned. “My God, that is the best coffee I’ve ever tasted,” he says. “Why the hell are we making meth?”Coffee may not be – quite – as addictive as methamphetamines, but to some of its aficionados, the hunt for the perfect hit of bean, roast, grind and brew is as seductive as any drug. That search took another step forward this week with new research into the optimal height and speed from which to pour water on to coffee grounds. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The hundreds of thousands Cardiff Council makes from parking permits and what it goes towards

Cardiff Council made hundreds of thousands pounds more from parking permits in 2024 compared to 2023. The council said the money helps it improve parking in the city

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last month Growing anger over Stevie Wonder and Kings of Leon gigs in Cardiff park

In response Cardiff council accused the Friends of Bute Park of wanting to live in an 'undisrupted utopia' which was 'not going to happen in a capital city'

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