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02/09/22 - Cardiff Council Update: 2 September 2022
Here’s your Friday update, covering: WWE event road closures; Welsh language sports in the Summer of Fun; Brewery Park play area opens; Lord Mayor’s charity latest; help for parents with school essentials; new flower displays
19/08/22 - Lord Mayor’s charity is going to the dogs!
Having spent the past 10 years playing a vital part in helping Guide Dogs Cymru train its team of canine saviours, Cardiff Lord Mayor Graham Hinchey and his wife Anne knew exactly which charity should be at the centre of their fundraising year.
Thanks to an army of willing volunteers, 20,000 new trees have been planted in Cardiff since last autumn as part of a mass tree-planting programme aimed at supporting biodiversity and increasing tree canopy coverage in the city from 18.9% to 25%.
16 prestigious Green Flags have been awarded to parks and green spaces manged by Cardiff Council, Keep Wales Tidy have announced.
More than 20 cherry trees, forming part of a newly planted avenue in Heath Park were vandalised this weekend.
Huw Thomas, the leader of Cardiff Council, has presented his administration’s new Programme for Government to a gathering of more than 100 business, civic and public sector leaders
Cardiff Council has invested over £1.3 million in energy saving upgrades across 11 of its primary, secondary and Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools, as part of its work to be carbon neutral by 2030.
A group of allotment holders in a Cardiff suburb have turned a wasteland into a potential oasis thanks to months of hard work… and the generosity of a building supplies company.
RSPCA Cymru is appealing for information after a stray chow chow dog was found in Cardiff with a significant skin condition.
Cardiff is the first Welsh city to be named a Tree City of the World in recognition of Cardiff Council's Coed Caerdydd tree-planting programme which aims to increase tree canopy cover in the city to 25% by 2030.
15/06/22 - Summer Open Day at Forest Farm
Pond-dipping, bug-hunting and bird-spotting are just some of the nature-based activities on offer at Forest Farm this weekend as its annual Summer Open Day returns to introduce families to some of the wildlife at the 150-acre local nature reserve.
They might begin their lives in the dark as lonely seeds, but if you give them plenty of nurturing and encouragement and put them in the right environment, sunflowers can grow strong and tall – the pride of anyone’s garden
One hundred trees are to be planted in Bute Park, creating a new orchard and replacing 50 trees damaged by vandals in September last year. The planting follows a community-led campaign set up in the wake of the vandalism, which caused...
There was a time when we all hoped to be in a job for life but how many can claim today to have worked for the same employer – doing more or less the same tasks – for the past 50 years?
24/03/22 - Public consultation – Roath Park, Roath Pleasure Gardens and Parc Cefn Onn locking arrangements
A consultation which invites residents to have their say on park locking arrangements at three parks and gardens in Cardiff, is now open.
23/03/22 - Bird flu kills 30 birds at Roath Park Lake
An outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 30 birds at Roath Park Lake since it was first identified.
