Good morning Cardiff!
If you're visiting Llandaff today make sure you take part in Mass Observation Online – a UK initiative in which you submit a photo diary of your day. Llandaff society are encouraging residents to take part but you could submit six photos documenting your day from anywhere in Cardiff. The result is an archive of personal accounts of one day from a national perspective. Living Magazines has written all about it on their blog.
The Cardiff campaigners against the Splott incinerator will protest outside the Environment Agency head offices today at noon. You can read our posts following the campaign here and sign their online petition against the draft permit for the Viridor incinerator plant here.
What's making Cardiff tick today
In the news, as A-level students nationwide wait nervously for their results, Cardiff University and UWIC have said competition for places at their institutions this year is incredibly tough. Read the report on WalesOnline.
Despite vowing to take a break during the summer months, Cardiff Rivers Group have decided to meet up this weekend to clean up the feeder canal in Bute Park. Read more on their blog here.
Much debate is continuing online regarding the licensing application for a Hooters in Cardiff. Read the piece on The Sprout here, Brew Wales here, and see this Youtube response.
Cardiff Girl Blog picks out some of the shopping gems in the city centre arcades – looking at the vintage boutiques, best stops for lunch, and other quirky finds across the winding arcades. Read it all here.
In more university news Llandaff News looks at UWIC's new School of Management campus.
On Fix My Street Cardiff getting a shopping trolley back to the St Mellons Tesco store is proving more problematic than shopping there in your pyjamas, and swollen cobbles have become a problem in Butetown.
Cardiff Trasition Project have put up some audio from the Show and Tell sessions on their blog here.
South Wales Police have said the force is preparing for Climate Camp Cymru 2010. No specific details have been released from the organisers as the whereabouts of the demonstration, due to take place later this week, but the police has said it is looking to facilitate a peaceful assembly.
Assistant Chief Constable Nick Croft said:
"Following the positive feedback we received from protesters and the local community throughout Climate Camp Cymru 2009, who congratulated us on our policing style and methods, we would look to adopt a similar approach this year, which would be proportionate and led by neighbourhood policing."
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