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March 5, 2013
Cardiff Devils risk play-offs after double defeat

The Cardiff ice hockey team must beat the Blaze to secure their place in the top four

 

TWO DAMAGING defeats against the Belfast Giant and the Coventry Blaze have jeopardised the Cardiff Devils' play-off hopes.

For most of the season the Welsh side have looked on course to finish in the Elite League top four, but they now face a battle with the Blaze to secure fourth spot. The Devils were hammered 5-0 away at Belfast on Saturday, before losing Sunday’s crunch match against the Coventry Blaze 3-2.

Belfast Giants

March 1, 2013
Devils aim to slay the Giants and smother the Blaze

Devils face three matches in three days 

CARDIFF DEVILS will take on both Belfast Giants and Coventry Blaze this weekend in what will be deciding games if the Devils have any hope to make it to the Elite League play offs.


February 26, 2013
Dragon directs fire on Scotland before England

Neil Jenkins is refusing to think of the England game until Scotland have been beaten 

 

February 26, 2013
Mysterious hero alerts residents to house blaze

A mystery man in a Red BMW woke residents to save them from a house fire 

RESIDENTS in Cardiff have thanked a mystery hero who saved them from a house fire this morning.

February 8, 2013
Restaurant review: Fire Island

Tucked away on Womanby street the new venture by the people behind Buffalo Bar, 10 Feet Tall and Undertone offers premium beer and lots of meat.

CARDIFF’S Fire Island opened just two months ago but is already drawing the customers in. Located on Womanby Street, the American-style bar offers slow cooked and BBQ meat dishes with speciality beers, in an informal atmosphere.


The décor is industrial yet surprisingly comfortable and the venue has many rooms to offer depending on the occasion. After work drinks or casual dinner can be taken downstairs, where there are bare brick walls and exposed metal beams, with padded diner style booths to sit in.

February 1, 2013
Welsh RAW theatre at The Sherman

RHIAN Staples’ first venture into writing, Cynnau Tân, captivated Cardiff audiences last week, and it’s the latest success story at the Sherman Theatre.

RHIAN Staples’ first venture into writing, Cynnau Tân, captivated Cardiff audiences last week, and it’s the latest success story of Sherman Cymru’s RAW/AMRWD programme.

March 16, 2012
Cardiff Devils win comfortably in Edinburgh Capitals clash

A round-up of the action from last night's Cardiff Devils match.

Cardiff Devils swept aside the Edinburgh Capitals 10-4 at the Cardiff Ice Arena last night to secure fourth spot in the Elite League.

Gerard Adams, Scott Dobben and Jamie Vanderveeken got things underway for Cardiff with scores in the first period, but it was in the second 20 when Cardiff really cut loose with seven goals in a devastating spell.

March 11, 2012
Cardiff Devils dampen the Blaze

An overtime goal by captain Stuart MacRae earned Cardiff Devils a hard-fought victory over Coventry Blaze

Cardiff Devils sealed a fine overtime win over Coventry Blaze last night with a captain’s goal from leading scorer Stuart MacRae.

The Canadian rifled Phil Hill’s layoff into the top corner for 3-2 to send Devils fans wild after an engrossing contest in which they were behind for a long spell.

Kenton Smith had put the Devils 1-0 up at 6.15 in the first period with an assist from Scott Matzka, but Blaze hit back through Kralj Matic before going 2-1 ahead at 7.34 in the second period.

March 9, 2012
Cardiff Devils vs. Coventry Blaze

Tim MacFarlan is The Cardiffian's man at Cardiff Arena where the Devils are taking on the Coventry Blaze in the British Elite Ice Hockey League.

 

March 9, 2012
Devils confident of carrying form

After back-to-back wins, the Cardiff Devils are hoping to stick to their winning ways in Saturday's match versus Coventry Blaze.

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.

February 10, 2012
The Queen takes centre stage in Cardiff exhibition

National Museum of Wales exhibition follows the monarch through her 60-year reign in pictures

SITTING side-by-side in Thomas Struth’s portrait, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip appear as an ordinary elderly couple.

She wears a pastel blue dress and sensible black shoes. He wears a carefully ironed suit, with a white handkerchief tucked smartly in the left pocket. Zoom out and this impression is lost. In the background the décor of the drawing room at Windsor Castle is a reminder of their royal status.

January 26, 2012
The architecture of New York city

Lecture. Chapter Arts Centre. £5.

New York City fires the imagination through its imprint on literature, drama and film.  In this lecture, Mike Higginbottom surveys the comparatively ancient buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the great skyscrapers of the first half of the twentieth century and more recent additions to the famous skyline. Chapter Arts Centre. £5.

March 6, 2011
Firefighters tackle scrap metal blaze

Cardiff firefighters have been working throughout the day to put out a fire fuelled by 150 tonnes of scrap metal.

Cardiff firefighters have been working throughout the day put out a fire fuelled by 150 tonnes of scrap metal.

The South Wales Fire Service received a call reporting the blaze at 10:45 am on Sunday morning.

Copious amounts of smoke could be seen coming from the site of European Metal Recycling in Downais Wharf, Cardiff.

Five fire engines from stations at Cardiff Central, Ely, Whitchurch and Roath attended the incident.

Firefighters have been attempting to extinguish the blaze using four ground monitors and one jet.

March 3, 2011
Cardiff city centre street closed after fire breaks out

A Cardiff street was cordoned off after a fire started in a city centre building at midday today.

A Cardiff street was cordoned off after a fire started in a city centre building at midday today.

It is thought around 500 employees were evacuated from Dominion House, Principality, and surrounding buildings on Queen Street.

The fire is thought to have started after an electrical transformer overheated. 

A fireman at the scene said: "We think it started in the Dominion's Arcade, but we can't be sure yet."

February 18, 2011
Time to clean up Cardiff's dirty streets

Plasnewydd residents are angry that rubbish and fly-tipping are causing problems in the area and one local likened it to ‘living in a slum’.

Plasnewydd residents are angry that rubbish and fly-tipping are causing problems in the area and one local likened it to ‘living in a slum’.

February 15, 2011
Can we clean up Cardiff?

Cardiff's rubbish strewn streets are a constant source of frustration. In repsonse to complaints throughout the city Cardiffian is asking Can we clean up Cardiff? 


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February 1, 2011
Block of flats evacuated after Cardiff Bay fire

40 people evacuated due to a fire in the early hours.

A block of flats in Cardiff Bay was evacuated today after a fire broke out in the early hours of the morning.

Firefighters were called out to the Bute Crescent building at 1.31 am to deal with the first floor fire, which lasted for around two hours.

Forty people were evacuated from the 30 flats and nobody was seriously injured, with all residents accounted for.

The flames were extinguished and South Wales Fire Service are investigating the cause of the incident.