It appears Cardiff Council are going forward with a plan to rip the heart out of the Coal Exchange! Well, it is at least a matter of debate. They are proposing replacing the middle bit with a glass atrium and an "international banqueting hall",... for who i am not sure. check it out .

here is the article from this week's Private Eye …

I just learned that Kim Fielding has died. It really shocked me. He helped so many artists in this city, myself included. I ended up at Tactile Bosch on one of the first ever nights I came to Cardiff, sometime around year 2000. I was just visiting. I picked up 2 hitchhikers on Cathedral Road, who then asked me if I had room to fit a yurt in the boot, which they had stashed in the garden of Transport House. I took them to Tactile Bosch to an opening, and was totally delighted by the world I…