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Ninian Park is one of only a handful of top-flight grounds in country to still have fans standing on terraces. As Cardiff City prepares to move to its new stadium, CHRIS COUSENS investigates whether fans are ready to sit down.

Ninian Park, home of Cardiff City Football Club for nearly 100 years… Continue

You know that feeling when you’re in the pub, your confidence is high, and you think you’ll tell that hilarious story about what happened to you the other day. It is such a good story. Your friends are bound to be enthused by what you have to say.

As the story unfolds one of your mates gets up to go to the bar, the new couple start kissing on the far side of the table and others stare blankly into the mid-distance.

You ask yourself: Who really cares what I have to say?



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Pete Clifton told us how 80% of adults access some form of BBC news output each week.

The BEEB has become synonymous, more than any of its competitors, with the traditional values of British news production. Educating, informing and entertaining.

But consumers of news now want more than this. People want immediate news and they want the news they care about, or as Clifton… Continue

Richard Burton, former editor of the Telegraph online and current editor of the Jewsih Chronicle set up a number of juxtupositions during his lecture.

He told us, at the outset that "print was not dead", then went on to explain how he landed up in an online role after the magazine he was working on went under.

He told us that convergence of media outputs was inevitable, yet the fields of print and onli

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Following a decision made at the recent Cardiff County Council meeting, work will begin on the demolishing of the Leckwith Athletics stadium. This will be the site for the new sporting and retail park, due to open in early 2010. The focal point of the development will be the 30,000 all-seater stadium which will b

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