Wales Cardiff Bay

Thousands of visitors are expected in Cardiff Bay over the weekend to see the warships which arrived for the Nato Summit. Meet the Forces Day will take place on Sunday between 11am and 6pm. The public will get the chance to go onboard some of the six naval ships from the UK, France, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Norway. There will also be tanks and replica RAF planes like the Red Arrow which arrived on Saturday.

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Visitors and locals in Cardiff this weekend will get a taste of the seaside as the Cardiff Bay urban beach returns for a second year.

It follows the huge success of last summer's event when a quarter of a million people visited the attraction at Roald Dahl Plas.

The event will run until August 31st.

Today is the final day of this year's Cardiff Bay International Food and Drink Festival. Thousands of visitors have flocked to the event since it opened on Friday.

Local, national and international producers have set up stalls at the festival to showcase their products.

Nearly 1,000 fundraisers dressed in festive costume ran 5km around Cardiff Bay to raise money for the charity Welsh Hearts.

Hundreds of Santas and elves are running around Cardiff Bay. It's all to raise money for Welsh Hearts. Participants are running, walking or jogging the 5km course.

Ambitious new plans have been put forward to further regenerate parts of Cardiff Bay.

If they get the go-ahead, Wales could see a Blue Flag beach in the heart of our capital city, a 'floating theatre' and new areas for housing.

Artists' impressions showing how Cardiff Bay could look in future have been revealed.

A masterplan for the further regeneration of the area has been drawn up by the group Imagine Cardiff, with proposals including a new bus and train station and a 'floating stage' in the water.

The main proposals put forward for Cardiff Bay are:

A new 2km 'Blue Flag' beach in Cardiff Bay

A residential area called Baltimore Village in the Bay, with affordable housing

A Cardiff tram network - an idea widely discussed previously

Two wetland reserves on the Rivers Taff & Ely

A Bay water theatre - or 'floating stage'

The Imagine Cardiff group is made up of Cardiff residents and a group of professionals with various skills and expertise.

Click here to see full details of their proposals.

An 870-mile charity walk around Wales in aid of our soldiers has set off from the Senedd this afternoon.

The fundraiser has been organised by Walk on Wales - a charity set up by Falklands veterans Captain Jan Koops and LSgt Dai Graham.

The walk aims to raise £1 million for the charities Combat Stress and the Welsh Guards Afghanistan Appeal.

Eleven relay teams will walk the entire length of the Wales Coastal Path carrying a specially commissioned silver baton.

The baton is inscribed with the names of the 50 Welsh Guardsmen who have died serving their country since the end of the Second World War.

A small minority of those taking part will walk the entire 870-mile stretch.