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THERE was a touch of royalty in the city today as the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall celebrated St David’s Day in Cardiff.

The royal couple attended the National St David’s Day Service at St John The Baptist City Parish Church in the city centre.

As the royals arrived, they shook hands with school children, members of the armed forces and local and national leaders of government.

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.

THE EQUAL marriage bill, which passed its second vote at Westminster this week, not only caused divisions in the political parties but between religious groups as well. 

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, highlighted inequality as contrary to community in a speech in Cardiff yesterday.

The wide-ranging address on the nature of community at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay also touched on the dangers of top-down management as well as public passivity and dependence on welfareism.

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.

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“I don't think I have owned a pair of dungarees since the 80s. The problem with those things was the braces would always end-up in the toilet.”

The room erupted with laughter. Just a regular meeting for the Cardiff Feminist Network (CFN), as they made final preparations for this Sunday’s International Women’s Day event they are holding at Chapter Arts Centre, Canton.

A talented young ballerina is looking for sponsorship after winning a place at the prestigious Tring Park School of Performing Arts in London.

Latysha Antonio, 14, from Ely, discovered only a few days ago that she had earned a place at the school, after completing an audition at the end of January.

But due to cuts in funding, the school is unable to offer any financial help to students, who are required to pay annual tuition fees of £30,000 throughout the four year dance course.

Keeping in line with Liam Neeson’s recent “tough guy” roles in Taken and Unknown, the Academy Award nominated actor teams up with his director from the A-Team reboot, Joe Carnahan, to take on the role of wolf hunter John Ottway in this emotional thriller.

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.

A Cardiff street is to undergo a huge revamp as local councillors have unveilied a new plan to return it to its former glory.

Councillors Gareth Aubrey and Kirsty Davies announced the plans to carry out work on the Llandaff High Street at a recent meeting but said fundraising for the re-vamp was proving difficult.

The Heritage Capital Budget for 2011 - 2012 hopes to fund the fill project but is concerned its budget will not stretch to cover total cost of  changes, estimated between £125,000 and £180,000.

AN EXHIBITION of sculptures and paintings on religious themes has opened at St Michael's College, Llandaff.

The artist, Reverend Toddy Hoare, uses a mixture of mediums to explore spirituality and sexuality in the Bible.

Rev Hoare said: "Much of my work draws on the Scriptures to tease out feeling rather than be mere illustration, so we resonate better with our book.

"I like to draw on the Old Masters and use their work as my own figurative sketches or follow a theme of variations in their work," he added.