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mirror • 29th April 2023

Chicken and eagle battle it out at scaring seagulls away from Blackpool Zoo

The Mirror Chicken flew up to Blackpool to face their arch nemesis and battle it out for the crown of chief seagull deterrent.

I spread my wings and flew to Blackpool, home of the Pleasure Beach, ballroom dancing, beaches and now... An eagle that’s trying to muscle in on my game.

I’d heard clucks through the grapevine that Blackpool Zoo has been battling flocks of pesky gulls and in an attempt to rid themselves of these creatures had advertised for a seagull deterrent in the form of an eagle.

WalesOnline • 29th April 2023

Teen making hundreds of pounds a week selling sweets from a shed

A young businessman who started selling homemade cookies aged 15 before setting up his own sweet shop is now turning over hundreds of pounds a week and has just hired his first employee. Callum Baker, 17, started his online sweet shop The Sweet Shack a week before his 16th birthday after seeing the TikTok account of sweet seller Greedy Gwin.

“I was really bored and I watched a lot of TikTok and I was watching these sweet business videos. I bought some sweets online with £50 of my own money and

mirror • 22nd April 2023

Abandoned nuclear bunker once found by one of UK's busiest roundabouts

A busy roundabout hides a forgotten underground bunker which would have been used to defend the UK had the Russians attacked with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cold War.

Coryton, in Cardiff, was chosen to host one of the 13 war rooms across the country in 1952.

They were built in case a nuclear attack destroyed Parliament and left the government in disarray.

The bunker remained operational until 1958 when it became a training centre for Regional Seats of Government staff - the system w

WalesOnline • 18th April 2023

Cardiff corner shop closes after more than 20 years

A Cardiff corner shop has announced its closure after 20 years. Shopkeepers Neil and Rachel Robjohn have closed their corner shop after 23 years serving the local community of Penylan. The married couple started the business in Waterloo Gardens in November 2000 after Neil was encouraged to become his own boss by a friend.

“I was always born to be a shopkeeper, I have the right attitude; being fair and having good customer service,” he said. But after more than two decades the couple are looking

The Cardiffian • 17th March 2023

Inside Cardiff's only furry club: 'Furries come out of their shell when they put a fur-suit on'

The Cardiffian visits Fur The Moment and asks its members – who call themselves furries – how they got into one of today’s most fascinating subcultures

ON the first weekend of March, Martin boarded a train from The Valleys into Cardiff armed with just the essentials; his phone, wallet, keys, and a black bin bag containing a fluffy wolf costume.

The civil servant made his way across the city to Morgan Arcade, where he descended into the basement of gaming shop Geek Retreat.

After ordering a ch

The Cardiffian • 10th March 2023

Rugby fans dump 8.5 tonnes of rubbish on Cardiff streets after one Six Nations match

Council workers spent five hours cleaning up Chippy Lane and The Cardiffian went out with them to see what it was like

AT 5am the day after the Wales v England match Cardiff city centre was full of stragglers stumbling home from pubs and clubs, discarded kebabs and chip shop rubbish.

My guide on this night-time tour was cleaning supervisor Samantha Thomas who was leading a council team ridding the streets of more than 8.5 tonnes of rubbish left behind by rugby fans.

I watched the crews as the

The Cardiffian • 21st February 2023

Pensioner covers his house in signs to protest against next-door's wall

The Grangetown man has even drilled holes to draw attention to the neighbour dispute

RETIRED bricklayer Ewen Taylor has put signs outside his home to publicise a building row with his neighbours that started in February 2020.

Mr Taylor, who bought 161 Clare Road, Grangetown, in 1956, is in a dispute with his next-door neighbours over the building of a wall that he claims encroaches on his land by two inches.

The 87-year-old said he began his protest after going out one morning to find a build

The Cardiffian • 17th February 2023

LGBTQ+ community unites in memory of Brianna Ghey

Hundreds gather outside the National Museum to pay their respects to the schoolgirl stabbed to death in a park

A CROWD of between 200 and 400 met near Cardiff’s National Museum for a candlelit vigil to remember Brianna Ghey.

The 16-year-old trans schoolgirl was stabbed to death in a park in Cheshire on Saturday, February 11. Two 15-year-olds have been charged with her murder.

The crowd gathered round The Tree of Life in the Gorsedd Gardens holding candles and signs and wearing trans flags to

The Cardiffian • 31st January 2023

Meet the baker selling real bread to the community from his family kitchen

The Tongwynlais man switched careers and now serves more than 100 customers a week

MICRO-BAKER Liam Nash quit his job of 20 years in procurement to open a bakery from his Tongwynlais home and now serves more than 100 regular customers a week.

Mr Nash said he had money coming in when he worked for the rail industry but no free time.

So he started The Grumpy Baker a year ago from his family kitchen with a mission to “bring real bread to local community”.

“Baking frees up time to spend with the

The Cardiffian • 26th January 2023

Woman sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for murdering her mother’s best friend

A WOMAN who murdered her mother’s best friend and neighbour has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison after she changed her plea to guilty on the fifth day of her trial.

Rebecca Press, 32, from Caerphilly, stabbed Marc Ash on July 17, 2021, following a row in her mother’s home. She had gone there to stay following a split from her boyfriend Ashley Allen who she believed had been unfaithful, Prosecutor Jonathan Rees KC told the court.

The Recorder of Cardiff, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clar