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Radyr Comprehensive School is a leading secondary school and sixth form college in Cardiff. Located in the leafy suburb of Radyr, the school provides an ideal environment for successes both in the classroom and outside.

New Head teacher Andrew Williams, 45, took over in the New Year, after ten years as Deputy Head. The father of three from Pembrokeshire will lead the comprehensive into its 40^th year in 2013.

A group of young people from Cardiff have taken the lead in a creative arts competition set up by the National Theatre Wales.

The youths, from Adamsdown and Splott, hold a narrow lead in the South Wales based Assembly competition which would see the theatre company visit the community and put on a performance based on the proposals put forward by the winners.

The public vote for the competition, which also involves bids from Barry and Bryncynon and Abercynon, closes at the end of the week.

Bute Park has been open for longer since cycling campaigners lobbied to keep it open until 7pm. After a three-month trial, Cardiff Council has agreed to continue the later locking until the clocks go forward in March.

Riverside Councillor Iona Gordon, also a keen cyclist, welcomed the trial’s extension and said it was not just cyclists who were benefiting from the park’s later opening hours. She said: “A lot of pedestrians have said they’ve been using the path often.

Wales may reflect on this year’s Six Nations with regrets, but Cardiff Blues centre Dafydd Hewitt is only looking forward when it comes to his own international hopes.

Hewitt has excelled for the Blues this season, impressing both with his powerful running and stoic defence.

And having shone in the absence of Welsh international Jamie Roberts, Hewitt has made a convincing case for a first Wales call-up.

Ambitious yet humble, however, Hewitt is under no illusions about the competition he faces for the prized red jersey.

A Cardiff student will become a human zoo exhibit for a day in a bid to raise money for charity, by living as a gorilla.

Lewis Rowden, 21, is a third year zoologist at Cardiff University, but is currently doing a research placement in animal nutrition at Paignton Zoo, Devon.

He will be moving onto the gorilla's island at the zoo for 24 hours in May, though not while the real gorillas are resident.

Cardiff athlete Joe Thomas is the only Welshman in the Great Britain squad competing at the European Indoor Athletics Championships this weekend.

And Thomas, one of the two 800m runners selected for the British squad, is feeling confident ahead of tonight’s heats at the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy.

He said: “I'm excited and really looking forward to getting out there. I’m feeling confident. I won the UK Championships, setting a new indoor personal best.

Cardiff County Council's budget for the next year was approved at last night's meeting despite widespread opposition, including protests outside City Hall.

The budget, which was approved by a majority of 15 with no abstentions, included savings of nearly £22million on last year's spending, an increase in council tax of 1.94 per cent, which would raise £2.4million, and a range of increased service charges.

A community group have made the next step in developing their own currency with an ethical twist. The Cardiff Taffs scheme was set up two years ago to "cut out the middle man" and bring the community spirit back to Cardiff. With over 100 members in south Wales, there is more expansion planned, it seems the trade-for-trade is the way forward for an increasing number of small businesses.

We were amazed by the large number of people who attended our public meeting in Rhiwbina on Tuesday February 8 to discuss the Rhiwbina Candidate Sites which have been put forward by developers for inclusion in the Local Development Plan. The approximate headcount was 250.

With people strolling to work along sparsely populated pavements and flags gently fluttering overhead, St Mary Street hardly seemed like the eye of a storm this morning.

Fast forward a few hours, however, and Cardiff’s city centre will be transformed into an atmospheric cauldron when the Six Nations kicks off tonight.

Wales take on England in this year’s tournament curtain-raiser, and the first Friday night clash between the old rivals has Cardiff buzzing.