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3 days ago | 
bbc.com | Ben Price
Teens test virtual technology aimed at helping anxietyBBCLili, one of the young people from Cardiff Youth Service who tested the augmented reality app, said it had a "calming effect"Therapy which uses virtual technology is being tested as a means of supporting teenagers with anxiety and those who struggle to attend school.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Ben Price
Staff at Cardiff University have voted in favour of all-out strike action and a marking and assessment boycott during the summer term. The University and College Union (UCU) said its members had responded to the university's "cruel and unnecessary" jobs cuts proposal. In January, the university announced proposals to cut 400 staff and scrap some departments, including nursing, but has now revised this figure to 286 roles.
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Ben Price
How opera singing is helping people to manage chronic painWNOLearning to sing opera has helped June Evans, who has long-term persistent pain, to "have an enthusiasm for life again"People living with a variety of health conditions are being taught techniques used by opera singers in an effort to manage their persistent pain. June Evans, 67, was referred to the Welsh National Opera (WNO) wellness programme due to pain and mobility issues caused by a heart attack, stroke and other illnesses.
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Ben Price
Ffynhonnell y llun, Opera Cenedlaethol CymruDisgrifiad o’r llun, Mae'r sesiynau canu opera wedi helpu i leddfu poen corfforol June Evans yn ogystal â chodi ei hwyliauMae technegau canu ac anadlu perfformwyr opera yn cael eu defnyddio i helpu pobl â chyflyrau sy'n achosi poen parhaol. Cafodd June Evans, 67, ei chyfeirio at gynllun lles Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru ar ôl dioddef poen corfforol ac iselder o ganlyniad i effeithiau trawiad ar y galon, strôc a sawl salwch arall.
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3 weeks ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Ben Price
More than £3m has been set aside to help workers at Tata for mental health support.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Ben Price
Hundreds to clean river in world record attemptBBCEx-triathlon champion, Kate Strong, came up with the idea of a river clean world recordHundreds of volunteers will attempt to set a new world record on Friday when they gather to clean the River Taff. Organisers said 1,330 people have signed up to attend the event along the river between its source in the Bannau Brycheiniog national park, also known as the Brecon Beacons, and Cardiff Bay.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Ben Price
Flat owners 'angry' at £3.4k service charge billsBBCMaths teacher Ben Murphy says he is "angry" at the amount he is being charged by FirstPort to manage the block of flats where he livesHomeowners say they are "angry" and "frustrated" after receiving bills of more than £3,000 for the upkeep and management of their block of flats in Newport. Ben Murphy, 29, said the service charge for his one-bedroom apartment, set by property management company FirstPort, had risen by 262% since 2020.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Ben Price
'My hand twin made my new fingers when I lost them to sepsis'BBCLouise Marshallsay lost all eight fingers to sepsis after going into hospital with a kidney stone A woman who lost all eight of her fingers to sepsis has received prosthetics based on the hands of the trainee tasked with making them. Louise Marshallsay, 46, from Swansea, needed life-saving treatment after being admitted to Morriston hospital with a kidney stone in 2022, but lost her fingers as well as five toes.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ben Price
Residents who saw a coal tip landslide narrowly miss their homes have said they do not want to live there if the risk of another one remains. Dianne Morgan, who lives directly below the tip in Cwmtillery, Blaenau Gwent, said she would prefer the council to "compulsory buy [her] home", while others said they wished to move. Torrential rain during Storm Bert last month forced some people in the former mining village to evacuate after a river of slurry and debris washed down the road.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
aol.com | Ben Price
October 8, 2024 at 1:14 AMKjell-Åke Andersson returned to the former mining village of Oakdale almost 40 years after making his documentary there [BBC]What do one of the best-selling groups of all time - Abba - and Welsh miners have in common? Both have been captured on film by Swedish director Kjell-Åke Andersson. Three years after directing one of Abba’s final music videos, The Day Before You Came, he travelled to south Wales to make a documentary about the miners' strike.
