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Wales is home to some of the most notorious pirates in history and Captain Morgan, Black Bart and Howell Davies are infamous for the havoc they wreaked on the high seas.

But in recent years a new golden age of piracy has begun with modern-day pirates attacking commercial shipping routes and taking hostages for ransom. Last year 30 ships and up to 700 hostages were held by pirates, and this is costing the world economy between $7-10 billion a year.

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.

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.

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Grand Slam day?

Today is a big day for Welsh rugby fans as Wales take on France at the Millennium Stadium at 14.45pm. Here at the Cardiffian we wish the Welsh team luck at their chance to win the Grand Slam.

The Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales has said Welsh science is missing out on as much as £65m per year.

 Although the Welsh Government has promised funds of £50m for Welsh science over the next five years under the Ser Cymru (Star Wales) scheme, Professor John Harries says much more is within reach.

On Saturday, Wales’s rugby players will try to prove they are the dominant force in European rugby.

But, according to one Millennium Stadium stalwart, the Principality already leads the world in one aspect of the game – crowd singing.

Haydn James has conducted the massed choirs on the pitch before kick-off at every home international since Wales played their home games at Wembley in the late 1990s.

Wales must fight its corner to avoid being sidelined by the UK government, said Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt today.

It’s great to be welcomed when you visit anywhere but this was something else. As two Cardiff primary school teachers got off their plane in Lusaka, Zambia, thousands of cheering locals lined the runway.

Unfortunately they weren’t there to greet Eoghan Walsh and Angie Carne, teachers at Radnor Road Primary School in Canton, but were expecting the Zambian national football team who had just won the African Nations Cup for the first time.   

In order to prevent their star players from moving abroad, the Welsh Rugby Union should issue players central contracts. That is the view of former Wales international scrum-half Andy Moore.

Wales needs aspiration, not greed, the Archbishop of Canterbury told an audience in Cardiff last night.

Speaking to Cardiff Business Club at St David's Hotel, Havannah Street, Dr Rowan Williams addressed the concept of a "Big Society", and how it offered the possibility of a renewed civic sensibility and cooperative society. He refuted the statement made by Wales' first billionaire Sir Terry Matthews, who said Wales needed more greed.

The Government Census questionnaire sent out this month could potentially neglect Welsh speakers who live in England.

One question was left blank on the 2011 Census distributed in England this March, as this enquired whether residents could read, write and understand Welsh.

Only questionnaires sent out in Wales included a question on the Welsh language.

With about 150,000 Welsh speakers currently living in England, this choice by the Office of National Statistics has been questioned.

Following the recent closure of Le Gallois, the title of Cardiff's best restaurant is up for grabs, and Patagonia is certainly a worthy contender.

Located just five minutes' walk from the old site of Le Gallois, Patagonia is a cosy, stylishly decorated restaurant on King's Road, off Cowbridge Road in Canton.

Named after the only place in the world other than Wales where Welsh is spoken, Patagonia is a classy but unpretentious and friendly Argentinian restaurant.