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BRENDA is a Scottish-born children’s author based here in South Wales, and is one of the many authors involved in the Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival.

Her latest book The Shop of Magical Things, is about a fairy who lives in a little magical shop and brings toys like Amy the dolly to life.

THE LIGHTS were low and everyone was sat around tables with drinks in hand as the conductor of the Capital City Jazz Orchestra counted the big band in. He walked off the stage clicking his fingers, and the power of full brass sound hit the audience.

The St David’s Hall Lounge is hardly a jazz dive but the open space and comfy seating lends itself to a big band sound. 

This evening was for fans of Buddy Rich or Count Basie's big orchestra sound of the '50s and '60s.

A 67-year-old Cardiff man has died in a fatal crash on the M4 eastbound at the Brynglas Tunnels in the early hours of this morning.

Gwent Police have confirmed that the crash involved one vehicle, a Peugeot 308 saloon, which collided with a wall and an electrical sub-station at the entrance to the Brynglas tunnels at around 03:05 on Friday March 15.

The driver was recovered from the car but was pronounced dead at the scene.

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.

THERE have been countless adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays across the spectrum of theatre and beyond, so it is hard to make any one particular version stand out.

It is certainly true that this play came up against the same dilemma. Not only did the Everyman Theatre Company attempt a Shakespeare play, but they went for Hamlet, perhaps one of the most-loved of all.

They handled this monumental task not with modern special effects, with dramatic staging or with contemporary dance theatrics, instead the innovation came in the novelty of going back to basics.

Bomb Patrol, Channel 5, 10pm

If you loved The Hurt Locker you will love this. As Channel 5’s latest US export, the first episode of Bomb Patrol got off to an explosive start last night.

Bomb Patrol follows eight members of the US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Platoon 3-4-2 on their five month tour of Afghanistan.

The first episode shows the hostile environment surrounding the troops as they attempt to diffuse the many IED’s planted by the Taliban.

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AN AUDIENCE with the Duke of Windsor came to Cardiff for one night only on Wednesday at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

The show features Cardiff-born actor Bob Kingdom as an aging Edward VIII, who became known as the Duke of Windsor after he abdicated in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

EARLY on Sunday morning a couple of teenagers are lying in their own vomit on St Mary’s Street in Cardiff, almost unconscious.

If you think history is dull, then you’ve never been to Llancaiach Fawr Manor in Treharris, just a half hour’s drive from Cardiff. Actors at the house make its past come to life, taking visitors back to the Civil War in 1645.

The manor was then home to Colonel Edward Prichard, Commissioner of Array for the Royalist cause in Glamorganshire, and his family. Visitors can see how the wealthy Prichards lived during this period by walking through an interactive museum before entering the house itself.