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Vandalism is not cool - but try telling that to your gang.
A drama targeted at teenagers, young people, highlighting the effects of vandalism in Cardiff - including issues such as littering, broken lifts, and risk of injury depicted by a toddler suffering an injury on broken park equipment. Tensions are high, with the main female character, Misha, facing a choice between pressures from her boyfriend and a local gang and resolving to do the right thing, i.e. reject vandalism and call it out. On-screen statistics underline the cost of vandalism to the local authority - with Cardiff City Council, for example, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds per annum on repairs to damaged housing stock and estates, fixing bus shelters and street name signs etc.
Produced in association with Fitzalan High School and Cardiff Bus, with input from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf and Coleg Glan Hafren.
Old Cardiff was thriving docklands, Tiger Bay, trolley buses and trams. New Cardiff is docks regeneration and gentrification. Cardiffians must somehow hold fast and muddle through….