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INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day has celebrated the achievements of women since 1911 and the build-up in Cardiff this year is more popular than ever.
The Welsh Government fund events in celebration of the day through the Women’s Equality Network Wales (WENWales) who have created a theme for 2013: Visible Women: Empowering girls and women in Wales.
So we spoke to some of Wales’s high-profile succesfuly women to see what significance International Women’s Day held for them.

Pompeii, Bastille
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London indie-rock band Bastille have not been on the scene for long but they are causing a stir and new single Pompeii proves why. Pompeii is their third official single from their forthcoming debut album Bad Blood released this March.
A blend of staccato keyboard synths, slick drum rolls and harmonised backing chants gather energy and there’s no denying the catchiness of the track.

WITH the buzz of London Fashion Week all but a distant memory, highstreet stores in Cardiff are clamouring to stock imitations of the key catwalk pieces, ready for S/S ‘13.

Manufactured and mass produced items, with identical cuts, colours and styles are now everywhere, but where does one seeking a more individual take on fashion go? The answer: Cardiff Fashion Quarter. 

CARDIFF council has announced it plans to pursue its bid to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games which they hope will continue the city’s Olympic legacy.

The council’s pledge comes in the latest draft corporate plans for Cardiff, with the report promising to “develop a bid to host the Commonwealth Games that in itself delivers immediate and lasting benefits".

In order to host the world’s third largest multi-sport event, Cardiff would need to accommodate more than 6,000 athletes from 71 Nations in 17 different sports.

PEMBROKESHIRE based artist, David Tress, has featured the West Wales landscape in his latest work, currently in exhibiton at Albany Gallery.

The London-born artist moved to Wales in his early twenties and was inspired to reject modernism but influence his landscapes with his early abstract art.

In the early days, Tress painted highly-detailed and realistic landscapes. Light was always central. One of his famous earlier works, Winter Sun, places a darkening sky behind brightly illuminated stone walls of a cottage. It could be a photograph.

Richard Weston’s room is not a typical architect’s office.

It’s missing the obligatory shots of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe. But then Richard is not a typical architect.

Take a train up to London, Regent Street, and you’ll find his designs selling in top fashion store Liberty. He is not only an award-winning author in the architecture world but also the man behind the Richard Weston brand, whose scarves sell for over £165.

Cardiff’s Tiger Bay Brawlers take on the London Rockin’ Rollers’ Rising Stars in their first roller derby match of the year tomorrow.

The Brawlers are keen to win at home at Talybont Sports Centre in the rematch of a game lost at the Rollers’ York Hall last year. The game will be the Brawlers’ 11th match since their first ever bout in January last year.
Veteran Brawler Jenny Moseley, known as “Jen Clawed Van Slamme” is hopeful about the match.

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.

The new Olympics kit for Team GB 2012 was revealed last night – with a distinct lack of Welsh colours.

The kit, designed by Stella McCartney, was launched yesterday at the Tower of London at an exclusive reveal to the media.

The new sports gear has been met with mixed emotions from the public due to its heavy use of blue and dark indigo. Critics have commented the kit looks overly Scottish as the colour red has even been omitted from the Union Jack motifs.

Churches in Cardiff fear extended trading Sunday hours during the Olympics will further erode Christian identity.

Sunday trading laws will be suspended during the London 2012 Olympics in an effort to make more money from the Games, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce in tomorrow’s budget.

Emergency legislation will be rushed through to lift the six-hour limit on opening hours for larger stores across England and Wales on the eight weekends coverings the Olympics and Paralympics.