Here is your Tuesday update, covering:
- Travel advice for Summer Concerts at Principality Stadium
- Cardiff Food and Drink Festival 2025
- All aboard: Cardiff Crossrail aims to deliver first tram link by 2028
- Pentyrch Primary School celebrates national success at 2025 Urdd Eisteddfod
Travel advice for Summer Concerts at Principality Stadium
A series of concerts will be held at Principality Stadium this summer, from June 19th through to August 1st. To ensure that all those attending the concerts can get into and out of the stadium safely, there will be a full road closure around the stadium from 3pm until midnight for each event.
June 19th - Chris Brown
June 23rd - Lana Del Ray
July 4th & July 5th - Oasis
July 11th & 12th - Stereophonics
July 19th - Kedrick Lamar
August 1st - Catfish and the Bottlemen.
Apart from the Oasis concerts, when the gates will open at 4pm, the gates to the stadium will open at 5pm for these concerts.
The M4 motorway is expected to be very busy for these concerts - so please plan ahead - and avoid the congestion in Cardiff by using the park & ride at the car park by the Vindico Arena on International Drive in the Sports Village - CF11 0JS.
For up to date traffic information on the motorway and trunk roads go to the Traffic Wales website, or @TrafficWalesS on Twitter and Facebook.
Anyone attending these concerts are strongly advised to plan their journey in advance and get into Cardiff early. Please pay attention to the prohibited items listed at principalitystadium.wales, in particular the bag policy (no large bags permitted) before travelling into the city.
Cardiff Food and Drink Festival 2025
Take one Farmer's Market, mix with an array of succulent street food, add a dash of live music from the bandstand and a waterside location in Cardiff Bay in early summer and you've got a recipe for Cardiff Food and Drink Festival 2025.
Wales's biggest free food festival will take place in the Oval Basin from Friday 27th June to Sunday 29th June and promises to serve up a real treat for the tastebuds.
New to the festival this year, ‘Packed' will be cooking up authentic Chicago-style Italian beef sandwiches, dripping with gravy and spicy giardiniera pickle. You'll also find new flavours to savour at ‘The Yorkshire Kitchen' who will be bringing their handmade sweet and savoury infused butters to Cardiff Bay all the way from Yorkshire. ‘Devil's Bridge Rum,' are another newcomer to the festival. They will be showcasing their unusual, spiced rum, distilled in Wales and infused with Bara Brith spices.
More familiar to regular festival goers, but equally tasty will be the fluffy steamed buns loaded with fillings and toppings being served up by ‘Bao Selecta.' Lilo's will once again bring their authentic, artisan pasta which is handcrafted in Pencoed using premium flour to the festival table. For those with a sweet tooth, classic Portuguese custard tarts baked in Cardiff will be available from ‘The Artisan.'
All aboard: Cardiff Crossrail aims to deliver first tram link by 2028
Cardiff's ambition to transform public transport is gathering pace, with the first phase of the Cardiff Crossrail targeted for completion by 2028 - just in time for the city to welcome visitors as a host for the UEFA European Football Championships.
This milestone marks a major step forward for Cardiff Crossrail, which aims to deliver a modern tram system connecting Plasdwr in the north west of the city with the proposed new Parkway rail station in the east.
Backed by £100 million in joint funding from the Welsh Government and the UK Government's Levelling Up Fund, the first phase of the project will begin with a new tram link between Cardiff Central and Cardiff Bay. When completed this tram link will help transport visitors to and from Cardiff's planned 15,000 -seater indoor arena, as well as take workers, local residents and visitors between the Bay and city centre.
Pentyrch Primary School celebrates national success at 2025 Urdd Eisteddfod
Pentyrch Primary School is celebrating remarkable success at the 2025 Urdd Eisteddfod, during the school's participation in the prestigious Welsh cultural festival.
A total of 20 pupils entered the initial rounds of the individual recitation competitions across various age groups, as well as the "Performance of a Scene" category. The school's young performers showcased exceptional talent and dedication, achieving outstanding results at every stage of the competition.
Among the standout individual performances was that of Heather, a Year 4 pupil, who triumphed in the local round of the Individual Recitation category for Years 3 & 4. Heather's eloquent delivery earned her a place in the regional round, where she secured an impressive third place.
The school's most notable success came from a Year 6 trio - Lily-Mae, Martha, and Sophie, who competed in the "Performance of a Scene" category. Their piece, Craig Y Nos, written by Brianna Moore and Dylan James, captivated audiences with its dramatic portrayal of a group of friends exploring the mysterious and historic Craig Y Nos Castle, famously linked to 19th-century opera singer Adelina Patti.