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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.

THE EQUAL marriage bill, which passed its second vote at Westminster this week, not only caused divisions in the political parties but between religious groups as well. 

PROTESTERS gathered outside Cardiff county hall today to protest against a £15,000 budget cut to the disabled charity Touch Trust.

Cardiff Council’s draft budget proposal set out a one hundred per cent cut to the group’s yearly funding. The money is used to rent a purpose-built suite at Wales Millennium Centre, where they offer activities and help to disabled people and their families.

CARDIFF Council have had their budget cut by £25million this year causing a cut in council-funded services.

Although the final budget is yet to be published in full, announcements to services in the city that will be reduced or axed have already been released.

Cuts have had to take place across the board, but Sports, Lesiure and Culture have been most hard hit. These cuts include the closure of Splott pool, the selling of Flat Holm Island and the closure of the Big Weekend event.

We Are Cardiff documentary

A unique art project is once more taking to the streets to share original artworks around Cardiff.

Papergirl Cardiff is a free event which looks to combine art and cycling. The organisers are collecting works by artists from across South Wales, which will then be distributed across Cardiff by volunteers on bicycles, who will give away the pieces to members of the public.

The event originated in Berlin and similar Papergirl events have since taken place in cities around the world, including San Francisco, Brisbane and Manchester.

Teachers' unions in Wales are united in their support of the Welsh Government’s announcement of a continuation of the uniform grant scheme.

The scheme was introduced in 2007-8 and low-income families were entitled to £97.50 for school uniforms for the school year. As of 2012/13 these families can claim up to £105 for uniforms.

Murder mystery play in Canton

A drama group for young teenagers is performing An Act of Murdertonight at the Llanover Hall Arts Centre on Romilly Road. It's an interactive whodunit where the audience influences the outcome by deciding where the investigation should go. It starts at 7.30pm and is £5 for adults and £3 for concessions.

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The first official Doctor Who convention in 29 years is set to take place in Cardiff this weekend and traders are expected to see a boost to the local economy.

Writers, actors and the Doctor himself, Matt Smith, will be on hand to meet up to 1,500 fans and sign autographs. There will also be interactive demonstrations of pyrotechnics and prosthetics from technicians and a host of exclusives for Whovians.

The Cardiff Blues welcome two Grand Slam stars back to the starting line-up to face the Llanelli Scarlets tomorrow evening.

Alex Cuthbert, winning try-scorer against France, is back on the wing while Lloyd Williams starts at scrum-half. Unfortunately, the four other Blues representatives in Wales’s Grand Slam winning side will not be running out against the Scarlets with Leigh Halfpenny out with a dead leg, Gethin Jenkins out with a shoulder injury and Jamie Roberts, who has not been picked for the match.

Cardiff University’s School of Engineering has secured funding of £1.2 million for a project to simulate real-life surgery and reduce patient risk.

“RealTCut” is the 100th Cardiff University project to win an award under the European Union’s prime research funding scheme. The project has been awarded the grant by the European Research Council Starting Independent Grants scheme to develop it’s work on reproducing the effects of surgical cutting in real time.  

A Cardiff community garden will be viewed by 20,000 people after it was selected for next month’s Royal Horticultural Society show.

April 20 will see the debut of the garden, named “A growing community”, in Bute Park, as part of the first RHS show of the season.

The show will stay open throughout the weekend, and then the garden will be dismantled and rebuilt on Station Road in Llandaff North in an alcove by the main road.