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IT HAS been more than a decade since the last series of Birds of a Feather ended in 1999.
Now the original stars Pauline Quirke, Lesley Joseph and Linda Robson have reunited for a stage show. Characters Sharon, Tracey and Dorien have aged along with the audience, but have swapped cameras for the stage and are now at the New Theatre in Cardiff until Saturday.

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.

Stephen Daldry’s revival of JB Priestly’s crusading post-war drama has been thrilling critics and audiences alike since it first opened at the National Theatre in 1992.

A monster hit from the start, the production received three Olivier Awards – for Best Revival, Best Director and Best Designer – and transferred to the West End where it enjoyed a two-year season before opening on Broadway and winning an unprecedented number of accolades including four Tony Awards.

The BBC1 Wales series The Story of Wales has been a great success among Welsh audiences, having been rated the top programme of 2012 so far. As the series draws to a close, Cardiff played host to John Geraint, one of the producers of Story of Wales who explained how the series was made.

John Carter

Directed by: Andrew Stanton

Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Dominic West

John Carter is really rather good at jumping. He enjoys it too. So much so, a huge proportion of this 132-minute action spectacular is devoted to John Carter jumping.

When it comes to choosing a school production, a drama teacher can’t go far wrong with Oliver! Lionel Bart’s Dickens-inspired musical. But one Cardiff school put a different spin on this classic, translating the script and songs for a Welsh performance.

Cardiff hockey fans will be reminded of things beyond sport when the Devils meet Coventry Blaze in the Bay tomorrow evening.

A minute’s silence is scheduled before the match for Todd Dutiaume, player-coach of the Fife Flyers, whose wife Kelly, 38, died suddenly at the end of last month while pregnant with twins.
The Devils will also stage a bucket collection for funds to support the family with help from Kate Lyle, wife of goalie Steve Lyle, and others among the players’ wives and girlfriends.

It is a dreary Monday morning in Cathays but inside Café Junior, where Maria McGuigan runs sing and sign session, the mood is bright. Just under a dozen toddlers sit on the carpeted floor, with their parents, excitedly waiting for the music to start.

Signing is popular with parents who want to communicate with their children before they begin to speak. The signs are based on British Sign Language and adapted for small hands. They allow children to connect a word they hear to something visual, speeding language development. 

AS a newly elected Margaret Thatcher sweeping into the Commons chamber for the first time in recent Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, Alexandra Roach was surrounded by male actors.

“I felt very female there, as all the extras were men and they were all in brown with me in my bright blue dress,” she said.

The 24-year-old Welsh actress had to put up with chauvinist jibes just as Margaret Thatcher did though she didn’t deal with it quite like the Prime Minister.

A dreary Sunday morning in Riverside was broken with the rapid and loud noises of a banging drum and cymbals yesterday.

Chinese and locals alike were at Tudor Street for a Lion Dance show in celebration of Chinese New Year.

The lion dance is commonly seen during Chinese New Year to ward away the evil spirit “Nian”, which brings bad luck to businesses.

THE fourth film Woody Allen has set in London, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger tells the story of Helena Shepridge (Gemma Jones), an elderly woman who turns to a fortune teller after her husband Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) goes into denial about his age and leaves her.

This impacts her daughter Sally's (Naomi Watts) marriage to Roy (Josh Brolin) and both of their careers in a vicarious way.

A 77-year-old man who was forced to live in a garden shed has today been found a new home.

Frank Soloman, a proud former steelworker from Splott, was reduced to an undignified existence in a shed in his daughter’s back garden in Carlisle Street while his family desperately attempted to secure him a council house.

Daughter Debbie Olney said: “Cardiff Council Housing Association didn’t care one bit. I hassled them for months and no one offered any help at all. It was heartbreaking."