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TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of Red Nose Day, a campaign which has raised more than £600m to help alleviate poverty in the UK and Africa.

The idea behind Comic Relief and Red Nose Day is simply to make the public laugh while they raise money to help people in desperate need.

WALES team manager Alan Phillips, has dismissed talk the decision to close the roof at the Millennium Stadium will affect tomorrow’s RBS 6 Nations clash against England.

RED Nose Day, the biennial fundraising event organised by Comic Relief, has been supporting charities and organisations in Cardiff for 25 years.

Featured here are some of the numerous groups in Cardiff which have received financial assistance and encouragement from the prominent British charity.

Cardiff Foodbank

Cardiff Foodbank has been selected as the Welsh charity of choice by Comic Relief and Netmums to receive funding of up to £80,000 on Red Nose Day.

Welsh language music is in a precarious position. The clashes between Welsh musicians and the BBC, along with last week’s announcement on Clwb Ifor Bach’s uncertain future, have left the industry stuck between a rock and a hard place.

On January 1, BBC Radio Cymru lost the right to play more than 30,000 Welsh language songs because of a dispute over royalty payments to musicians. Earlier this month, EOS, the group representing the musicians, came to an interim agreement with the radio station allowing them to resume business as normal.

TODAY is Wales’s national day of celebration, an annual festival which commemorates Saint David, the patron Saint of Wales.
It’s a day for the Welsh to show their passion, to proudly wear their daffodil and wave their Welsh flag with pride. Nowhere are these celebrations as great as in Cardiff and there are a host of activities which take place across the city, as well as a formal visit from either the British Monarch or the Prince of Wales.
But where do these celebrations stem from? And why do they mean so much to the people of Wales?
HISTORY

ASSEMBLY Member Andrew R T Davies has called for a tax cut for Wales's wealthiest if the government gets more devolved financial powers.

He claimed in his speech to the Assembly last night cutting the 40p tax rate for the highest earners in Wales would encourage business and entrepreneurialism. He argued the move, which would affect about 120,000 people, would create a more active Welsh economy.

THESE days we are all aware of the health benefits of quitting smoking – so why do people still hold on to the habit?

Almost every excuse offered by die-hard smokers has been tackled in some way by the NHS. The well-worn reasons given at every opportunity, such as 'it helps with my stress' or 'I don't have time to go to the doctors', have all been countered with new and innovative nicotine replacement products and advice kits.

ALMOST 41,000 people in Cardiff have never been in paid employment, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Welsh Assembly-watchers have a healthy selection of bloggers to choose from. Here are three that stand out:

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More than 200 women staged a flash mob outside Cardiff Central Library yesterday afternoon. They were part of a global effort to attract one billion people to rise on behalf of the billion women on earth who will be raped or beaten in their lifetime. The concept is simple: go out and dance.

People all across the world came together to reclaim Valentines day in an attempt to bring an end to violence against women and Cardiff was no exception.
One Billion Rising is part of the V-Day campaign, the creation of Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues.