Articles on Cardiff

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mik-sca ... 00770.html

An article praising Cardiff's accessibility for wheelchair users. I've never really thought about Cardiff in that light before as it is something I really take for granted. The city is rather compact and the pedestrianisation of the main shopping areas and Bay does help and hopefully the new transfer interchange on the site of Marland House will further the cause. It's always good to hear complimentary things about the City

Always nice to receive positive press, but especially so on a subject like this.

Let's hope the new 'world class' transport interchange (i.e. bus station) will also be up to scratch on that front.

More a reference than an article - but a nice one. From the Birmingham Mail;

New Street Station’s shopping centre gets a new look and a new name, Grand Central, perhaps to get a little glamour by association with the famous New York terminal.

John Lewis is its flagship but the rest of the space formerly known as The Pallasades will be packed with other big name stores – some of them new to the city and moving further afield than London and the South-east for the first time.

The £150 million state-of-the-art precinct is due to open in September and will contain 60 shops, restaurants and cafes.

The half a million square feet of shopping and dining space is intended to be an equivalent to shopping destinations such as Buchanan Street Glasgow, the Victoria Quarter Leeds, George Street Edinburgh and The Hayes in Cardiff.

That's good company to be in.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/shopping-stores-coming-birmingham-2015-8454335

Here is an article from the Guardian's City Walks series -

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/ ... ardiff-bay

It's complimentary and superficial as you would expect.

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/ ... -fish-city

Cardiff hailed as the world's first 'sustainable fish city'
With five million sustainably-sourced fish meals served annually in universities, schools and hospitals across Cardiff, the Welsh capital is setting the standard for other cities across the UK and Europe

Surely a very early April Fool's from the South Wales Evening Post -

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk ... story.html

And another -

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk ... story.html

Saw the sea plane one on walesonline as well yesterday but this is the first I've heard of the cable car. I can half see the logic behind the sea plane but a cable car between Cardiff and the Bay ? Its bloody flat, what would be the point ?

Now a tram, that is what is required between the two.

Anyone noticed that WalesOnline seems to be taking more and more placements directly from companies' PR outfits? Most striking example recently is every single new restaurant or shop opening seems to get a flurry of glowing articles. In the last week or so we've had:
- Additional articles on Five Guys
- Two on Barburrito
- One on Chiquitos in Swansea
- The second on Minigolf at St Davids

Do they pick up these ready made advert-articles because it saves their staff having to write something more interesting or meaningful? (e.g. about the growth of dining and leisure in the city centre, and the retail struggle) Or do they actually get given money to publish some of this stuff? (i.e. are they breaking the rules on clearly demarking adverts and news and editorial content?).

It's called being severely understaffed with mostly junior staff or apprentices, or whatever passes for them these days in journalism. Anyone who can write a half-decent approximation of a news piece about anything vaguely relevant can get it in verbatim because of the extreme cost-cutting in local papers. It's PR heaven but you can kiss goodbye to any decent investigative journalism questioning what goes on at the Council or in local businesses.