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THE BORDERS between cities and the countryside are becoming blurred, and one photographer has attempted to capture the beauty of areas where urban and rural meet.
Malaysian-born photographer Hin Chua’s debut exhibition, After the Fall, is currently being held at the Third Floor Gallery in Butetown.
The exhibition looks at the unusual sights which occur when the urban sprawl ventures into the wilderness, using photos taken in 15 different countries around the world.

A FOOTBALL coach in Cardiff has described the “continual fight” against used needles which are discarded around their pitch every week.

Christian Wagstaff, 40, said he has to arrive early every week to clear the area around the pitch in parkland behind Loudoun Square, where AFC Butetown play their matches.

The team recently had to have gates fitted on the dugouts because users would shelter underneath them when it was raining.

WITH the recent announcement of a new wakeboarding facility in Cardiff, water sports have been causing quite a splash of late.

The Cardiff International White Water (CIWW) at the International Sports Village in Cardiff Bay offers a wide range of activities, from thrilling white water rafting to calmer runs for flat-water paddlers.

The centre is not just for experts and offers a wide variety of courses which promote wider local participation.

Residents in Butetown have slammed Cardiff Council’s decision to accept the proposal for a wakeboard and water-ski-park in Atlantic Wharf.

The proposal to install the water sports park at East Bute Dock, off Atlantic Wharf in Cardiff Bay, was given the green light by councillors on Wednesday afternoon.

There had been hundreds of complaints from residents in the apartments around the dock in the lead up to Wednesday’s planning meeting. But local opposition did nothing to dissuade the committee.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a wakeboarding facility in a dock in Cardiff Bay have sailed into choppy waters.

Councillors are set to decide the project’s future tomorrow.

The plan for Bute East Dock, Hemingway Road, was initially approved by planning officers but the proposal got stuck at the committee stage.

If approved, the wakeboarding facility would consist of a single board pulled across the bay by a motorised cable system suspended from pylons.

Surfers would ride the waves created by the board.

Parking tickets are being issued more than once every five minutes in Cardiff, The Cardiffian can reveal.

Cardiff council issued more than 66,000 parking tickets in the city during the past year, making the authority an income of almost £2 million.

But drivers are twice as likely to get a parking ticket in Cathays than in any other part of the city, it has emerged. Tickets are handed out once every 13 minutes in Cathays, but only once every three weeks in Radyr.

The Butetown History and Arts Centre has launched a digital arts exhibition which contains numerous references to womanhood.

In 2010, the Women’s Arts Association created a competition asking for innovative proposals from artists wanting to learn about digital technology in relation to their art. 

From this competition four female artists were chosen. Their works are now being shown at the Butetown History and Arts Centre alongside established digital artists, Mandy Nash and Catherine Lewis.

John Peel's Shed is the endearing story of John Osbourne, who won a Radio 1 competiton to earn a box of Peel's records. He uses the tracks Peel loved to tell an entertaining yet down to earth story documenting real life. Tickets range from £19-£21.