ENVIRONMENTALISTS big and small gathered in Cardiff yesterday to watch a film which was funded by donations from more than 300 people. Film director Franny Armstrong, famous for her film McLibel about a couple who were sued by McDonalds, “crowd-funded” campaign movie The Age of Stupid by raising more than £700,000 from investors. Yesterday environment experts and members of the public gathered at the Channel View Centre in Jim Driscoll Way, Grangetown for the free screening.

On the hunt for a recipe to reflect Cardiff’s rich multicultural diversity, I headed to one of the capital’s most vibrant areas, Grangetown. The spiralling whiffs of ginger, garlic and myriad spices streaming out of the door of Lahore Kebabish in Penarth Road brought me straight back to the seething streets of south India, where supper was viewed as more of a challenge than a foodstuff.
Owner and chef Khalid Hussian, 51, moved to Grangetown from Pakistan 22 years ago, and his sons and cousins all help out in the eatery.
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CARDIFF Devils’ netminder Stevie Lyle has been praised for his solid and outstanding performance by coach Gerad Adams. The praise came as the Devils put their Challenge Cup nightmare behind them to score a victory in their match against Nottingham Panthers on Sunday.
The team can now approach their two Elite League matches against Hull Stingrays and Edinburgh Capitals this weekend with confidence.
The Devils kept their cool playing the Panthers to secure a 3-0 win. Netminder Stevie Lyle won man of the match as his unyielding defence kept the Panthers shut …

Hidden between the close-knit terraced roofs of inner-city Cardiff are the white domes of a cultural gem.

Prayers at the Shree Swaminarayan temple in Merches Place, Grangetown, begin at sunrise just after 7am. Step into the long prayer room, a former nightclub floor, and you hear the jangling of bells and musical chanting.

The temple is the third biggest for the Swaminarayan (corr) Hindu denomination in Britain, after two in London, and the only one of its kind in Wales.

Children from schools across Cardiff visited their local libraries this week to celebrate World Book Day.

And these year five pupils from St Paul’s Church in Wales Primary School, Grangetown, were one of 19 groups set loose in Grangetown Library, Havelock Place.

It is Cardiff as you have never seen it before – transformed into a toy town by a keen photographer.

Mark Rosoman snapped alternative landmarks like the IKEA store and the Royal Mail sorting office in Penarth Road, Grangetown, using a special technique called “tilt shift” to make them look as if they had been shrunk.

It could be described as an own goal by Cardiff Council. Their flagship alley gating scheme, which this year had a £110,000 budget, has been widely praised by residents for its role in cutting crime. But the gates have another use, too – as playthings for youngsters.

VULNERABLE residents of a Cardiff sheltered housing complex have spoken out following Cardiff Council’s decision to close their former day centre.

The decision to close the day centre at the Worcester Court complex in Holmesdale Street, Grangetown, was taken as part of a plan to centralise council services in 2006.

It was classified as a “luncheon club”, which are designed to be open to anybody who wants to attend.

But resident Chris Lomax, 66, said while the status had changed, the way it was run had not.

A CARDIFF cafe to help deprived young people get back into employment is to reopen.

The Cardiff Council-owned Buzz Cafe in Penarth Road, Grangetown was once a colourful meeting place for young people, who could use the next-door information centre to learn new skills and get careers advice.

Now the managers have been given £9,000 in funding to revamp the venue after a leaky roof destroyed another room in the building.

Some lighter goings-on in Cardiff this week.

A FRUSTRATED single mum is having to watch her garden disappear into a huge ditch she has been lobbying Cardiff Council to fill for nearly 10 years.

39-year-old dental nurse Jacky Pemberton first noticed the vast former railway cutting when she moved into her house in Powderham Drive, Grangetown, in 1995. Next week she will have been campaigning to have it filled for 10 years.

A CHURCH which found fame in an episode of Doctor Who and has been forced to close celebrated its 120th anniversary with a service by the Archbishop of Wales last night.

Around 100 people attended the special service at St Paul’s Church in Paget Street, Grangetown at 7pm.