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12/05/25 - Cardiff foster carer urges others to consider fostering this Foster Care Fortnight

Foster carers are encouraging others to consider fostering a child and create lasting connections in Cardiff.

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12/05/25 - Promoting safe learning environments for pupils and staff

Cardiff is committed to ensuring schools are safe places where children, young people and staff are treated with respect and dignity, in a nurturing and positive learning environment.

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09/05/25 - Cardiff and Vale Catholic Schools Unite for Inspiring Pilgrimage to Mark Jubilee Year 2025

Twenty Catholic schools from Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan will take part in an ambitious and uplifting project in celebration of the Jubilee Year 2025 and its global theme, ‘Pilgrims of Hope'.

 

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08/05/25 - Cardiff Music City Festival 2025 dates announced

Boundary-pushing music and performance will fill venues, clubs and pop-up locations in Cardiff for two weeks this autumn as Cardiff Music City Festival soundtracks the city for a second year.

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08/05/25 - Thousands of children celebrate VE Day with special school picnic

More than 10,000 school children are commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a special picnic provided by Cardiff's Education Catering Service.

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08/05/25 - Windsor Clive Primary School Shortlisted for Prestigious Tes Awards 2025

Windsor Clive Primary School in Ely is proud to announce it has been shortlisted for the Tes Schools Awards 2025 - a national celebration known as the ‘Oscars of education'.

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08/05/25 - Holocaust survivor receives Peace Award from Cardiff on historic VE Day anniversary

In a poignant and symbolic gesture, the Rt Hon Lord Mayor of Cardiff Cllr Helen Lloyd Jones has awarded a Personal Peace Award to Eva Clarke, a Holocaust survivor whose birth coincided with the final days of World War II.

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08/05/25 - Vape Shop Fined Over £10,000 for Selling Illegal Tobacco Products and Breaching Health & Safety Offences

The owner and director of Best One Vape on Clifton Street in Cardiff has been ordered to pay over £10,000 for breaching a number of health and safety offences as well as selling counterfeit tobacco and illegal vapes.

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07/05/25 - Opportunities for sport and community groups in Hailey Park and Lisvane Recreation Ground

Sport and community groups are to be offered the opportunity to lease the site of a former bowling green pavilion in Hailey Park and the changing rooms at Lisvane Recreation Ground, both of which are owned by Cardiff Council.

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07/05/25 - New Local Flood Risk Strategy Set to be Adopted by Cardiff Council

Cardiff Council is set to adopt a new Flood Risk Strategy aimed at mitigating and managing the increased risk of flooding due to climate change.

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07/05/25 - Pensioner Receives Criminal Behaviour Order for Causing Unnecessary Suffering on his Neighbours

A self-confessed hoarder has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for failing to comply with a notice to prevent the damage of pests on his land and refusing access to contractors to clean up his garden.

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07/05/25 - Cardiff's urban forest grows by another 36,000 trees

An urban forest project developed by Cardiff Council as part of its ‘One Planet Cardiff' response to climate change has planted 36,526 new trees in the last 7 months.

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06/05/25 - New Nursery provision for Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd

Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd in Whitchurch will soon host a new purpose-built childcare facility, providing a 32-place provision delivered by Cylch Meithrin Eglwys Newydd.

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