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A CARDIFF-BORN professor will walk over 1,000 miles around the Welsh border as a guinea pig in a technological experiment.

A CARDIFF man is making an appeal to find his long-lost girlfriend who he was forced to break up with more than 50 years ago.

Russ Williams, 78, of Gabalfa Avenue, Gabalfa, last saw Gloria Parley in 1958 when he was forced to break off their two-year relationship due to work commitments.

Russ first met Gloria in 1956 while he was travelling from Brighton to Cardiff on a train, after visiting relatives. The couple got chatting during the journey which sparked a two-year relationship.

COMIC Relief’s biennial Red Nose Day returns today with a daunting target to beat – 2011’s £104m haul was the charity’s biggest night ever.

Across Cardiff, schools and workplaces are taking part in sponsored silliness to raise money for good causes in the UK and abroad.

HOMEOWNERS and traders on a busy Cardiff street want a saturation zone restriction on licensed premises due to fears of being overrun with late-night takeaways.

Residents fear Whitchurch Road will “become a kebab street like City Road” as takeaway businesses shut out by the area’s saturation zone spread north. Concerns have heightened due to a new late-night takeaway, ROJ BBQ Restaurant, opening soon.

EMPLOYEES from John Lewis and Waitrose in Cardiff have reason to celebrate after being awarded a bonus equivalent to almost nine weeks pay.
From 2012 until now, Cardiff has seen the closure of Peacocks and BHS, Thomas Cook and Barratts going into administration and hundreds of job losses. But the John Lewis Partnership has appeared to ignore the struggles of the high street and gathered profit increases across all outlets. As a result of this fourth consecutive gain, 84,700 partners will receive a bonus of 17 per cent.

Fairtrade fortnight kicks off this week around the UK with Wales celebrating its five year anniversary as a Fair trade nation.  Fairtrade is a word which is thrown around but do we actually know what Fairtrade entails and do we care?

THE UK might have lost its AAA credit rating last week, but a different type of moneyless economy is growing in one of Cardiff’s worst-hit communities.

TimeplACE is an organisation which provides a currency to the community, based on a system where volunteers can buy experiences with rewarded credit. The organisation works with more than 35 voluntary and community organisations in Ely and Caerau, and sees in excess of 200 participants on a regular basis.

STEVE GARRETT knows a thing or two about making businesses work for the community.

Twenty years after he set up Riverside Farmers’s Market, it has become one of the busiest and most popular in Wales. Last year, he was nominated for a Green Dragons Den Award and is involved in community food projects across Wales.

Now Steve, who lives in Riverside, is using his business know-how to help Ugandan widows out of poverty.

IT IS 55 years since the world watched athletes march onto the field at Cardiff Arms Park for the opening ceremony of an event which Cardiff Council is hoping to recreate.

The sixth Empire Games, now the Commonwealth Games, were hosted in Cardiff in 1958. Over 1,000 athletes competed from 35 nations, in 94 events. Today, more than 5,000 competitors take part from 72 different countries and Cardiff Council is planning a bid for the 2026 Games.

The bid has raised questions over the potentially damaging costs of holding the world's third largest sporting event.

The row over the development of a building on Llandaff Fields has intensified after documents revealed Cardiff council have expressed an interest in planning proposals.

Nerys Lloyd-Pierce, Chair of Cardiff Civic Society put in an Freedom of Information (FOI) request to receive all correspondence between Cardiff council, Clwb Rygbi and all key stakeholders relating to the proposed sports development.

The FOI revealed 246 pages of correspondence, most of which were emails sent between 2011 and 2012.

Police in Cardiff are continuing their search for missing man Ben Thompson.

            Volunteer search teams, made up of friends and family of the rugby fan from Haverfordwest, gathered at the Sand Martin pub on Leckwith Road in Canton this morning to launch what could be the last desperate search. Mr Thompson disappeared in Cardiff after attending the Wales v Ireland Six Nations match on Saturday.