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Premier League protecting its own investments again.

Pubs in Cardiff and Swansea suspected of showing Premier League football matches illegally using foreign satellites face prosecution, BBC Wales has learned.

In the last four months the Premier League's private investigation firm has visited nearly 200 pubs in south Wales.

The League is planning to bring up to 100 prosecutions across Wales and England this season.

The first will be against The Rhyddings Hotel in Brynmill, Swansea, shortly.
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Look how fucking tedious it is:
By showing the foreign channels, the Premier League believes pubs are probably breaking copyright law.

In 2011 Karen Murphy, a Portsmouth pub landlady, won a court case against the Premier League.

The ruling effectively proved it is legal to buy a TV subscription from anywhere in the EU.

However, when a pub or club uses such a subscription to show Premier League football matches, it is breaking copyright law if the League's logo is shown in on-screen graphics, or if the League's anthem is heard before kick-off or at half time.

Tom Richards, a barrister specialising in copyright law, said it was unlikely a pub could screen the games without breaching Premier League copyright.

"The Premier League owns the copyright in its logo, in its anthem and in other bits of sound recording and artwork which are superimposed on any feed of a Premier League match," he said.

"If you play those in a pub without the Premier League's consent that's copyright infringement in the law of copyright.
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"If you could separate out the copyrighted content, such as the Premier League logo, from the match footage, then in theory you wouldn't be infringing copyright.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25849670
 
houses in adamsdown being guarded by police armed with guns and tasers!
after man in 20's beaten and stabbed
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-20s-beaten-pole-stabbed-6551965
A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital after reportedly being attacked with a metal pole and stabbed.

There is a heavy police presence in Tin Street in Adamsdown, Cardiff and nearby Iron Street, where a house is being guarded by armed police.

Witnesses say the alleged attack happened at around 3pm and named the victim as a young father from Splott.Police armed with assault rifles and tasers stood guard at a number of addresses in the streets surrounding the crime scene into the late evening.

They also closed off an alleyway running between Zinc and Metal Street. And forensics officers were also seen working in the area.
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Bloody hell - what a bill!

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Gig review:
The gig was sold out, with up to 4,000 rock fans crammed into the venue. Among the crowd were young ladies who got a little more than they paid for. Renowned journalist Nick Kent, in his biography Apathy For The Devil, says, "The best bill I've ever witnessed. Four mind-boggling performances... There was a sexual bravado about Hendrix live that night that was so palpable it made my jaw drop."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/history/pages/jimi-hendrix-cardiff.shtml
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/nice-pie-mum-becomes-internet-6640118
Young Mum offered a meal a week to a struggling family in Splott and story has gone viral
The Gumtree advert read: “Free home cooked meal every Monday (or other arranged day) for family with children living on benefits or struggling to keep the fridge stocked due to unforeseen personal circumstances.

“I will be cooking for my own family and make extra, which can be picked up or I can drop off if local.

“If this seems like a good idea to you please let me know and we will arrange things. I’m a stay at home mum and lucky enough to be in a position to offer a little help to those who may need it.”
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Ed, you genius. Im in that video somewhere. Will scan through later :)

Just glad it wasn't filmed at the Hippo ;)
 
always wondered how they got away with doing it at city hall, no trouble, of course, fair play :)
 
Dutty perv deputy head teacher caught filming girls in toilet.

The deputy head teacher of a Cardiff secondary school has admitted hiding a camera to film five children using a toilet.

Gareth Williams, 47, from the Welsh medium school Ysgol Glantaf, pleaded guilty to three charges of voyeurism, which did not take place at the school.

Cardiff Magistrates' Court heard police recovered the camera, memory sticks containing video files and found images had been stored.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25976700
 
Well done Hayes cafe. And fuck Cardiff council for their penny pinching.
Councillor Ashley Govier, cabinet member for environment, said: “In implementing the council’s decision to close the facilities, the cabinet recognised the historical value of the Grade II-listed structure and undertook to investigate the feasibility of re-opening the public conveniences at no or minimum cost to the council.”

He confirmed that the Hayes café will operate and maintain the toilets.

After opening in 1898, the toilets underwent a £148,000 restoration about four years ago and scooped a five-star rating at the 2010 National Loo Awards.

But Hayes Island Snack Bar owner Gavin Jones, who took over the business in October, said three weeks’ worth of work will now be needed to bring the toilets back up to scratch.

“We want to restore them to their former glory,” he said. “There is graffiti on the walls and they’re looking a bit grotty, and the original 120-year-old tiles have been painted over.

“We want to use a high-pressure steamer to remove this and take advantage of the original features of this beautiful building.”

He said he is looking into the possibility of other business ventures on the site to generate income to help pay for the toilets.

Mr Jones said: “It’s a win-win situation: the customer gets more services, facilities and availability; we make money; and the council doesn’t have to pay for the toilets - it doesn’t cost the environment or anyone anything.”
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editor said:
Well done Hayes cafe. And fuck Cardiff council for their penny pinching.
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that is not the half of it

Cardiff council cuts: Doubts raised over city entertainment venues

Doubts have been raised over the future running of St David's Hall and the New Theatre as Cardiff council seeks to cut £50m from its budget in 2014/15.

A document released by the authority includes proposals to find outside operators for the venues.

Other options include closing children's play centres and cutting street cleaning and library services.

Council leader Heather Joyce said it needed to suggest "some very difficult things" to balance the budget.

St David's Hall receives an annual subsidy from the council of £1.2m, with the New Theatre getting about £800,000.

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...everyone has been working hard to try and identify savings that can be made which protect our key priorities ”

Heather Joyce
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The council is exploring the possibility of the Wales Millennium Centre taking on shows currently seen at St David's Hall and talking to Live Nation, the company that operates the Motorpoint Arena, to see if it is interested in running the New Theatre.

A consultation has begun, with the equivalent of 700 full-time jobs across the council expected to go as part of the cutbacks.
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With regard to the library, they are proposing at Central, closing ground floor reception and leasing the space to a business such as a cafe, closing the top floor reference section and leasing it as a conference space, making redundant the ethnic languages library assistant and shutting the central library on Wednesdays - this in the Capital city of Wales! Nowhere in the proposed cuts does it seem to be suggested that the executive might take a pay cut or redundancies.
 
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