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Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Media Wales Ltd. publishes Western Mail, a community newspaper that focuses on news and events. The editor of this publication is Alan Edmunds.
Articles from June 7, 2008
7 DAY TVGUIDE; RHAGOLWG Y Gorau O Raglenni Teledu Cymraeg TELEDU
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Byline: EMILY LAMBERT FFLUR DAFYDD AR Y BOCS FEL rhan o flwyddyn werdd ein sianel, fe lansiwyd nifer o raglenni yn ddiweddar sy'n ein hannog i fod yn fwy ymwybodol o faterion amgylcheddol, gyda'r camerau'n raddol droi oddi wrth setiau llwyd ein...
Anderson Takes Centre Stage in Day to Remember
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JAMES ANDERSON produced his most outstanding day in Test cricket to put England firmly in control in the npower series finale against New Zealand at Trent Bridge. Lancashire fast bowler Anderson exploited the conditions perfectly to claim all six...
ANTIQUES: The Glaze of the Irish; You Can Be Lucky and Pick Up a Piece of Belleek for a Bargain Price, However the Famous Tea Sets Are a Different Proposition
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Byline: bargain hunter don Rodgers THE ivory white colour, pearly glaze and shamrocks instantly identify the porcelain pictured here as Belleek from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The history of the pottery goes back 150 years. It was...
A Picture of Simplicity
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Byline: Jeffery Muse I mages, like smells, often recall old memories thought forgotten as we go about our everyday lives. An artist, however, stores pictures in the mind for years or longer, often transforming them by exclusion or shaping them in...
A Picture of Simplicity
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Byline: Jeffery Muse I mages, like smells, often recall old memories thought forgotten as we go about our everyday lives. An artist, however, stores pictures in the mind for years or longer, often transforming them by exclusion or shaping them in...
A Question of Design
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Byline: NICOLA WILKES Q I've seen some cushions in a magazine recently that had old text printed on them rather than anything floral or graphic but I didn't take a note of who made them. Any ideas? A Although this is rather a specific question...
A Question of Design
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Byline: NICOLA WILKES Q I've seen some cushions in amagazine recently that had old text printed on them rather than anything floral or graphic but I didn't take a note of who made them. Any ideas? A Although this is rather a specific question...
Battle of the Flying Machines
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Byline: andy howell SHANE WILLIAMS has put his cards firmly on the table. No fudging, no spin, only typical honesty as he outlined his plans for Wales' tour of South Africa. Beating the Springboks for the first time in the republic is the obvious...
Books: Author's Notes
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Byline: JACKIE WILLIAMSON Fed up with being rejected, writer Jackie Williamson and friends set up their own publishing firm. She writes about the passion that drives them forward THERE are few more satisfying things for a writer than typing those...
Books: The Insider
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Byline: PETER FINCH IT might well have been Jules Verne who invented science fiction. But ask people in the street where it all started and they'll probably tell you War of the Worlds. That's the one where the Martians arrive in flying cylinders...
British Divers Missing off Bali Coast
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THREE British divers are missing after failing to return froma diving trip off Bali, the Foreign Office said yesterday. Kathleen Mitchinson, Charlotte Allin and James Manning, along with two other divers believed to be from France and Sweden, went...
"Brown's Biggest Battle Is Driving His Message to 'Picasso Mum' Real Politik
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone IN 1992, the Tories pulled off a surprise election win by concentrating their appeal on the emblematic Mondeo Man. Mondeo Man is probably a bit too old-fashioned an icon for the 21st century Cameron Conservatives, so...
Buyout Is Best Hope for Best Bakeries
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THREATENED bakery firm Best Bakeries could be saved by a management buyout, it was revealed yesterday. The bakery is a supplier to 50 Ferrari's retail outlets across South Wales. Approximately 50 members of staff were made redundant by Best Bakeries...
By Royal Appointment; He's Been the Royal Family's Right-Hand Man in the Capital for 18 Years as Lord Lieutenant for South Glamorgan. Matt Thomas Talks Shop with Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards as He Steps Down from Service
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Byline: Matt Thomas CAPTAIN Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards KCVO OstJ RD JP RNR is leafing through his personal visitors' book. He is looking for a specific pair of signatures, just to double check the date of a trip to Cardiff made by Princes William...
City Market Report
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THE London market plunged into the red yesterday as investors were spooked by surging oil prices and fresh fears over the US economy. Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 300 points in early trading after the US jobless rate saw...
Clinton's Future Remains Unclear
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THE presidential hopes of Hillary Clinton will be officially over today, but her future still remains unclear. The wife of the former president will formally endorse Democratic rival Barack Obama in a speech delivered to supporters in Washington....
Cocaine Gang Ringleader Jailed for 17 Years after Valleys Operation Is Busted; Drugs Brought to Wales Were Exchanged in B&Q Car Park
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Byline: Liz Keen A DRUGS gang bringing cocaine to the streets of South Wales was yesterday jailed for a total of more than 80 years. There were gasps from a packed public gallery at Cardiff Crown Court when ringleader Matthew Roberts, who arranged...
Confident Welsh Hit Right Note
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Byline: carolyn hitt LET'S get physical. There was a time when the only image conjured by these words was Olivia Newton John in a leotard. But this declaration of intent from the Welsh camp ahead of today's South Africa clas sends an excited...
Cricket: Croft Will Be Back in the Mix for Glam's Twenty20 Assault
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Byline: Gareth Griffiths GLAMORGAN cricket manager Matthew Maynard has revealed Robert Croft will figure in the Twenty20 campaign which starts in Cardiff next Wednesday. Croft was controversially omitted from the whole of the doomed Friends Provident...
Czechs Have the Talent to Make a Big Impact, Insists Skipper Ujfalusi; Euro 2008 Switzerland V Czech Republic Basle, 5pm
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CZECH REPUBLIC captain Tomas Ujfalusi is confident his team's class of 2008 have enough quality to make a serious impact at this year's European Championships. The Czechs have a decent record in recent tournaments, having reached the final in 1996...
'Devastating' Blow as Insurer Aviva Announces 1,800 Job Cuts
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INSURANCE group Aviva has warned it expects to make between 1,500 and 1,800 redundancies by the end of 2010. The job cuts will be made as the company looks to consolidate its general insurance operations into seven centres at Norwich, Perth, Bishopbriggs,...
Developer's Challenge on High-Spec Site
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Byline: Emily Lambert THROWING down the gauntlet, a leading developer has challenged its rivals to beat them on price and quality following the launch of its latest Cardiff development. The Shires is a development of 25 two and three-bedroom...
Developer's Challenge on High-Spec Site
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Byline: Emily Lambert THROWING down the gauntlet, a leading developer has challenged its rivals to beat them on price and quality following the launch of its latest Cardiff development. The Shires is a development of 25 two and three-bedroom...
Digibox; Fivetosee
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what? Denise Richards: It's Complicated when? E!, Tomorrow, 10.30pm THE 37-year-old actress has lived a life most people can only dreamabout. The brunette beauty got her first big break by starring in Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers in 1997,...
Donor Is Only Hope to Save University Student's Life
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A university student is desperately searching for a bone marrow donor to save his life. A transplant is 22-year-old Matt Carver's only hope of survival after he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia earlier this year. His family hope that...
Don't Be Seduced by Enticing Ideas on Drugs; COMMENT
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THERE are no easy answers to tackling the drugs menace in society, and while politicians' attempts to get tough on the issue have led to only limited success, it's unlikely that any radical departure from current policy would deliver better results....
DON'T MIND YOUR PS & Qs; TAKE ONE Retail Guru Mary Portas Reveals Why She Hates Shopping, despite Telling Others How to Do It Properly
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Q What can we expect from the new series of Mary Queen of Shops? A The new show starts with Amanda, a size 10 fitness instructor, who happens to run a clothes shop for fuller-figured ladies in Ascot. She classes her customers as "bouncy castles",...
Facebook Chooses to Speak Welsh, with a Little Help from Its Bi-Lingual Pals; Users Urged to Help Translate 'Core' Terms
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Byline: Steffan Rhys FACEBOOK - one of the world's most popular websites - could soon be fully launched in Welsh after a group of users began translating it. The social networking site is already partially available in Welsh after hundreds of...
Families in Cardiff Love Their Luxuries and Aber Splashes out on Fashion. but Swansea Likes a Thrifty Night Out
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Byline: Darren Devine CARDIFF is among the biggest spending cities in the UK on luxuries while families in Aberystwyth lead the way for fashion, according to the new research. Despite being one of the UK's smaller cities, the Welsh capital more...
Families in Cardiff Love Their Luxuries and Aber Splashes out on Fashion.But Swansea Likes a Thrifty Night Out
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Byline: Darren Devine CARDIFF is among the biggest spending cities in the UK on luxuries while families in Aberystwyth lead the way for fashion, according to the new research. Despite being one of the UK's smaller cities, the Welsh capital more...
Favourite Object
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SOMETIMES the mark of a treasured item is how hard you had to work to find it, or for it to find you. "I've never felt this way about an object before because I'm not into... things," says Le Bon. "But she is the most beautiful guitar I have...
FOOD: Share and Share Alike
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HAVING friends over for dinner doesn't have to mean slaving away in the kitchen for hours to produce a three-course meal. A much more fun and relaxed approach to eating and entertaining is to shop smart at the local deli counter. Take inspiration...
Food: Straight off the Vine
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Byline: NEIL CAMMIES It was woken up at 4am last Wednesday to the racket of tumultuous rain pounding my poor garden, transforming it into the Brecon and Monmouth canal. It had been barely a week when the sun had got his hat on and we all thought,...
Football: Scolari's Men Aim to Go One Better
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PORTUGAL get their Euro 2008 campaign under way against Turkey in Group A tonight. Luiz Felipe Scolari men are among the favourites to win the tournament in Austria and Switzerland and they will be hoping to goone better than Euro 2004 after losing...
From Wales
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Byline: JOHN JONES GWYNFOR EVANS: A PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT Rhys Evans (Y Lolfa, pounds 24.95) In this masterly biography, Evans examines the life and career of one of the greatest political figures of 20th century Wales. Plaid Cymru president...
Gardening: Green Goddess
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Byline: LYNNE ALLBUTT Top talk Ever heard of an "infopreneur"? George Watts, left, is one. But what is it? "Infopreneuring is about developing and marketing information products," he says. "We are in an age where information is at our...
GARDENING: Taste of Heaven
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Byline: JOHN HUMPHRIES IT might not be entirely coincidental that there is a link between Wales' national emblem the leek, and its reputation as a nation of singers. The Emperor Nero believed that leeks were good for his singing voice but while...
Give Street Addicts Special Rooms to Inject Safely, Says Drugs Charity
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Byline: Catherine Evans A DRUGS charity is calling for heroin addicts in Wales to have access to injection rooms where they can score the drug in safety. But parents of recovering addicts say this won't protect our children from street dealers...
Golf-Mad Rhodri Aiming to Raise Interest in a Home on the Range; TV and Radio Star Hosting Evening to Attract Welsh Investment to New Five-Star Spanish Development
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SPORTS radio star Rhodri Williams is lending his name to a new development in Spain. Golf-mad Rhodri, who has worked for Sky sports and vet documentary series Animal Hospital as well as current employers Setanta, is the face of a golf resort in the...
Go out and Earn Respect
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Byline: simon thomas IF you were looking for the perfect illustration of the mood within the Welsh camp this week, it came at the end of Thursday's final training session in Cape Town. It was quite a lengthy session by the short, sharp standards...
Hole: Kidnapped in Georgia; Morning Serial
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Byline: by Peter Shaw Those who organised the crime may have wanted me out of the way to allow them to have their wicked way regarding the future operation of the ABG. They wanted to hijack the bank and manage the lending book in a way that would...
Horologists Will Have the Time of Their Life at Fair
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Byline: Emily Lambert A NEW antiques event from veteran organisers Derwen Fairs is being organised near Pontypridd. The Lifelong Learning Centre at Church Village is the venue for their latest show. Organiser Brita Rogers said: "We hope the...
Hotel Style for a Home Setting; Interiors
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Byline: YVONNE JONES LAST week I went to Cyprus on a work project for a customer who is building a home near Limassol. Her brief was to make it like the Hotel Londa, a fantastic new boutique hotel on the island. I decided that I needed to do...
Hotel Style for a Home Setting; Interiors
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Byline: YVONNE JONES LAST week I went to Cyprus on a work project for a customer who is building a home near Limassol. Her brief was to make it like the Hotel Londa, a fantastic new boutique hotel on the island. I decided that I needed to do...
Howley Recalling Just What It Takes
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ROB HOWLEY believes his polarised memories from past encounters against South Africa can teach Wales crucial lessons during their two-Test series. Howley - now head coach Warren Gatland's assistant - was captain of the only Wales side to topple...
Inspiration and the DIY Touch Can Be the Key to a Perfect Green Wedding
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Byline: Sally Williams WHILE brides once wished for a traditional white wedding, modern Welsh women are now going as green as they can when they tie the knot. In these days of the credit crunch and climate change concerns, it is not just a dent...
Late Deals
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SHORT BREAKS MALTA: Malta Direct (0845 604 0035) offers four nights' B&B at a five-star hotel in Valletta from pounds 355, ex-Gatwick June 20, incl private transfers. VENICE: Thomas Cook Signature (0870 443 4447) offers two nights' B&B...
Lefigruffudd
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Byline: Iaith y bwrdd coffi FEL yfwr ffyddlon yng nghaffis Aberystwyth, gofynwyd i mi yr wythnos hon i edrych dros gyfieithiad o fwydlen Gymraeg un o gaffis ardderchog MGs yn y dre. A finne wedi cael noson braidd yn hwyr y noson cynt, ma' raid...
Let's Get It Together
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Byline: Emily Lambert WHILE the buy-to-let boom of the early Naughties never quite delivered on its early promise, property experts are cautiously predicting a resurgence in the lettings market. The gap between salary increases and house prices...
Letter: Politicians Must Act
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Byline: JEFF LLOYD SIR - Despite the predictably vacuous assurances by government ministers to the contrary, violent crime continues to soar. With serious assaults and even murders now becoming virtually a daily occurrence, we are in danger of...
Licensing Deal Lights the Way for Shaker Scope Worldwide
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Byline: Aled Blake Business Correspondent A MEDICAL device designed to revolutionise healthcare in the developing world is about to go into mass production. Swansea University spin-out Shaker- Scope, trialled by the British Army fighting in Afghanistan,...
Lockett Vows to Followin Joe's Footsteps to Glory
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JOE CALZAGHE will be the inspiration for GaryLockett tonight as he attempts to pull off a victory against Kelly Pavlik in Atlantic City that would quite simply shock the world of boxing. The 31-year-old from Cwmbran, nicknamed "The Rocket", takes...
LS Lowry's Bleak Sea View Influenced by Holidays in Wales Makes Pounds 313,000
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Byline: Darren Devine DESPITE there not being a matchstick in sight, a painting by artist LSLowry, thought to have been inspired by his childhood holidays in Wales, sold for pounds 313,250 at auction yesterday. Seascape sold for pounds 313,250...
'Meeting Harry Gave Me a Real Lift. I'm Hoping He Will Be the Face of New Campaign' Lexi's Mum Looks to Start Support Group
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Byline: Abby Alford A CAMPAIGN highlighting the plight of a baby who charmed Prince Harry could be fronted by the royal. That is the hope of little Lexi Hailstone's mother Natasha Martin. Pictures of her daughter - affectionately dubbed Princess...
Meleriwynjames
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Byline: Golwg ar y newyddion Dryswch sy'n dilyn y newyddion cyffrous bod Golwg am dderbyn pres y wasg yn ty ni. Bu'r Barf a finnau'n gweithio i gwmni Golwg am nifer o flynyddoedd ac rydym, ar lefel bersonol, yn falch dros Dylan Iorwerth a'r fyddin...
Mind Matters
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Byline: TRYST WILLIAMS "The car passenger will forever miss out on the poignant gravestones to be found through a cemetery short-cut LET me take you on a meander, away from the cares of the world. For a good walk can offer a balm to the soul...
Mum and Baby Shootings 'Sordid, Graphic, Gruesome' Briton Planned to Sell Story of US Killings - Court
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Byline: Wesley Johnson NEIL ENTWISTLE'S trial over the murders of his wife and daughter will be "sordid, graphic and gruesome", his defence lawyer said yesterday. Elliot Weinstein urged jurors at the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn,...
My Telly
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HE may be an old fogey whose hair stylist should have been shot, but Neil Diamond is still a great singer. His Audience With Neil Diamond (ITV1, last Saturday) showcased his stellar back catalogue and plugged his newalbum in front of a cast of the...
New Survey Reveals Fresh Worries about Prices for Welsh Homeowners
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THE LATEST housing survey from a building society has revealed further drops in house prices for the month of May. An analysis from Nationwide claims the average home price plunged from pounds 178,555 in April to pounds 173,585 in May. This 2.5%...
Not Just for the Super-Fit, Wiimbledon - That's with a Wii - Is on Its Way to Wales
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ORGANISERS say it could become as big as Wimbledon but at this tennis tournament there's no need for a change of balls. A new type of tennis competition will take place in Wales at the end of the month and this one's not just for the super-fit....
Now's Your Chance to Invest in an Emerging Hirst or Emin; Fancy Investing in a Piece of Original Art without Breaking the Bank? Then Get along to One of the Graduate Shows. Julie Richards Finds out What's on Offer in Wales
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Byline: Julie Richards THE end-of-year degree shows have been attracting interest from the movers and shakers in the art world - and beyond - for many years. Art collector Charles Saatchi, who has purchased items by some of Britain's best-known...
Open Your Ears to the World of Sound by Taking Part in Sonic Walk
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CONCERTS with a difference are taking place in Cardiff today to give people an insight into the sounds that occur in a city's everyday life. In a new commission from Artes Mundi, artists Sans faon and composer John Metcalf have collaborated to create...
'Outrageous' Bonuses for Top Rail Trio Are Attacked; Network Rail Accused of Contempt
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Byline: Peter Woodman COMMUTERS, politicians and unions reacted angrily last night to news that Network Rail bosses are to receive six-figure bonuses. The company has been fined a record pounds 14m this year for the new year engineering work...
Police Force Faces Porn 'Failure' Claims
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Byline: Steffan Rhys A WELSH police force may be re-examined over claims it failed to properly investigate allegations of child pornography and mortgage fraud against an acquaintance of former chief constable Terry Grange, it emerged yesterday....
Pounds 250,000 Investment Boost for TinyLab
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Byline: Aled Blake Business Correspondent A COMPANY pioneering a new approach to chemical analysis of fluids has won a round of investment which it says will help it break into the global market. Riochem, based at Caerphilly Business Park, has...
Private Clinic in Screening Offer to NHS; Bowel Cancer Tests Would Be Done as Part of Programme
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Byline: Madeleine Brindley Health Editor A PRIVATE health clinic has offered to help the NHS provide bowel cancer screening after it emerged that the programme will not be completely rolled out in Wales until 2015. It is understood that there...
Ready with a Rescue, but It's All Uphill; This Year Marks the 75th Anniversary of the First Mountain Rescue Team Being Set Up. Reporter Gavin O'Connor Met Up with One Organisation Which Helps Cover the Largest of Any Geographical Area in the UK
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Byline: Gavin O'Connor THE casualty is lying with back injuries at the base of a rock face jutting over a 150-metre drop. He has veeredoff the beaten track and fallen, landing in this precarious position, three quarters of the way up a gully. ...
Retail Giant John Lewis Sees Sales Fall for Fourth Week
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DEPARTMENT store chain John Lewis yesterday said sales fell 4.7% last week, extending its run of negative trading figures into a fourth week. A 280,000sq ft John Lewis store is planned as the "anchor" of the high profile St David's 2 development...
Rugby Union: Wales Given Huge Boost by Absence of Big Three
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Byline: MIKE RUDDOCK MIKE RUDDOCK believes new coach Peter de Villiers' controversial Springbok team selection has played right into Wales' hands as theystandonthe verge of history today. Never before, Ruddock reckons, have Wales had such a golden...
Rugby Union: Welsh Start the World Assault with Italian Job
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Byline: Gareth Griffiths at the Liberty Stadium WALES U20s overcame their first hurdle in the IRB Junior World Championships last night when they defeated Italy with a four-try display at the Liberty Stadium. After watching pool rivals France...
Second Bodde Bid Is Rejected
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SWANSEA CITY have stood firm after snubbing a second bid for want-away midfielder Ferrie Bodde. And the club have repeated they want at least pounds 2m for their Dutch star. Championship rivals Derby County yesterday tabled an improved pounds...
Sex Tom, Sex Tom, You're My Sex Tom. and Baby You Do Turn Us All on! Home Truths
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Today is Tom Jones' birthday. This is not unusual. It seems to happen about this time every year. Ha ha. He will be 68. Amazing. What keeps him going? It must be that we all love Tom. We love his strong hairline, we love his barrel chest,...
Shane out to Achieve What the Legends Couldn't
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Byline: Simon Thomas SHANE WILLIAMS says the Wales class of 2008 have set their sights on achieving something in South Africa today not even the greats of our proud rugby past managed. In six Tests in the Springboks' own backyard, Wales have...
Slab of Lad Rock Creates a Heady Mix; Review the Pigeon Detectives Newport Centre ***
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Byline: Michael Took LAST year was a triumph for loutish lad rock. Debut albums from The Enemy and The Twang fused small town frustrations with gritty melodies to create a sound that spoke to the beleaguered everyday man. Leeds outfit the Pigeon...
SOAPS: It Doesn't Matter How Many Family Troubles You Have, the Residents of Soapland Will Always Have More. Sit Back and Watch This Week as Everyone Rows with Their Nearest but Apparently Not Dearest
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Byline: EMILY LAMBERT EMMERDALE Ashley's hopes of a happy family life diminish quickly when his relationship with Laurel deteriorates further. She refuses to have anything to do with Arthur, and to make matters worse, the baby seems unwilling...
Spotlight On
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Paul Newman Image: Blue-eyed superstar Best Known For: Playing Butch Cassidy Early Life: Paul Leonard Newman was born January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio. His dad ran a sports shop. Newman excelled in sports and took a keen interest...
Studio Clutter Adds to the Charm Factor
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Byline: BY GAVIN ALLEN Favourite room IT'S more like a womb than a room," grins Cate Le Bon, pleased with the accidental lyricism of the description. The singer/songwriter is currently nurturing her debut album at The Signal Box studio in...
Studio Clutter Adds to the Charm Factor; Favourite Room
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Byline: BY GAVIN ALLEN IT'S more like a womb than a room," grins Cate Le Bon, pleased with the accidental lyricism of the description. The singer/songwriter is currently nurturing her debut album at The Signal Box studio in Cardiff Bay and is...
'Sumptuous' Suite Opens to Promote Hayes Apartments
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A NEW marketing suite has opened promoting Cardiff city-centre apartments. The suite, promoting the St David's 2 flats, is on St Mary Street at the corner of Wyndham Arcade. It is open to the public from 10am-6pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday...
Swansea: Tref Yr Anialw; Ddydd Sadwrn Nesaf Bydd Arddangosfa Newydd Amymfudo O Gymru Yn Agor Yn Abertawe, AC Yn Datgelu Rhai O Gyfrinachau Hanes Tref Swansea, Arizona. Gethin Matthews Sydd A'r Hanes
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MEWN cornel anghysbell o ddiffeithwch poeth Arizona mae hen dref o'r enw Swansea, sy'n llawn ysbrydion o'r gorffennol ac yn araf ddadfeilio a dychwelyd i natur. Sylfaenydd y dref oedd George Mitchell, a anwyd yn Abertawe ym 1864 ac a ddysgodd y...
TAKE TWO; Actress Delyth Eirwyn on Saying Goodbye to Her "Wild" Character Bev in the S4C Drama Tipyn O Stad
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Q This seventh series of Tipyn o Stad is the last. Has it been difficult for you to say farewell to Bev and all her troubles? A I was quite pleased, actually - she's much too wild for me! Although, secretly, I did enjoy it when she had one of her...
The First Word
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Byline: HANNAH JONES I IN the good old days, those where I used to get out and about a bit more, I was invited to the Royal Variety Performance. But, stop there - before you get ideas that I was on the proper, grown-up, VIP list or forked out...
The Other Land of Our Fathers; BBC Wales Broadcaster Beti George Kept a Diary of Her Adventurous - and Sometimes Dangerous - Trip of a Lifetime to the Welsh Settlement of Patagonia. This Is Her Account of That Time
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It was a dream job. A project commissioned by BBC Radio Cymru and the National Library of Wales to look at life among the Welsh inhabitants in today's province of Chubut. I had heard so much about the promised land but had never had the opportunity...
The Property Doctor
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Byline: BY EMYR PIERCE Q I have had my house up for sale with a local estate agent for six months and it still hasn't sold. I now want to put it on the books of two more in a bid to make a sale. Am I allowed to do this? A The answer depends...
'This Report Snub Simply Confirms That the Wales Office Thinks Cardiff Is the Centre of the Universe.' AM Says Publication Has Failed to Mention Swansea Achievements
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Byline: Robin Turner A ROW has broken out over the latest annual report by the Wales Office which has been accused of "snubbing" Swansea. Swansea-based Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black had a mood to match his name when he examined the document....
Time to Put Wales on the Map for Venture Capitalists
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A FASCINATING report on venture capital investment has shown the major challenges we face as a nation in attracting the right type of finance to support the technologies of the future. The 2008 Global Venture Capital Survey, published last week...
TRAVEL: As to the Manor Born; Nicola Boden Gets a Taste of the High Life at the Five-Star Hayfield Manor Hotel in Cork
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IT is not every hotel room that comes complete with its own doorbell and golf putter, but these are exactly what await you at the splendid five star Hayfield Manor Hotel in Cork City. It is one mile from the centre of Ireland's second largest city...
WAG Denies Use of Pounds 92m EU Grant Breaks Rules; Concern Follows Worries about What Objective One Has Achieved
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Byline: Martin Shipton Chief Reporter QUESTIONS have been raised over whether European rules are being broken in the running of a new pounds 92mbusiness grant scheme. The concerns follow a meeting at the Holland House Hotel in Cardiff on Thursday,...
Wales 'Mummy's Boys' Set to Prove They've Grown Up; WALES
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Byline: Delme Parfitt WARREN GATLAND last night insisted Wales have banished their "mummy's boys" reputation on the world stage and vowed to force South Africa to give our game a whole new level of respect. The Kiwi will send out his Grand Slam...
Wales 'Must Become More International in Its Outlook to Drive Forward the Economy' London's Lord Mayor Says Foreign Talent Is Crucial to Future Success
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WALES needs "foreigners" to thrive economically, the Welsh Lord Mayor of London said yesterday. David Lewis, who plans to study Welsh at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and retire to Carmarthenshire, next year, said the nation must attract clusters...
Weird World
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RED BULL BAN A school has banned Red Bull after staff reported a rise in bad behaviour by students who had drunk the high-energy drink, the school's headteacher said. Teachers at Chatsmore Catholic High School in Worthing, West Sussex, said there...
Welsh Connection Is Gone, but the New President's Influence Will Still Get Here; Barack Obama V John McCain - Whoever Wins This November's US Presidential Election Will Have a Huge Influence on Life in the UK
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone reports FOR a while, it looked like the US presidential election in November was going to be an all-Welsh affair. A few months ago Hillary Clinton was the favourite to win the Democratic nomination, while Mitt Romney...
Welsh MP Loses Bid to Lower the Voting Age to 16
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone Political Editor A BID by a Welsh MP to lower the voting age to 16 failed in the House of Commons yesterday. Opponents of the move, put forward in a private Bill by Cardiff North MP Julie Morgan, used parliamentary procedure...
We're Champions, So Lets Act like It - Tom; Shanks Urges Team-Mates to Have Self-Belief
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Byline: Andy Howell TOM SHANKLIN has laid down the law to his Wales team-mates as they bid to make history in South Africa today, telling them: "We have to perform like champions." The centre rock didn't mince his words as the Six Nations kings...
What the SA Papers Say about Wales
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THE CAPE TIMES: Should Wales be a realistic obstacle? If you consider that we are world champions, then no, they shouldn't be. The Bok team is made up of players who are incredible athletes. That, though, is exactly the kind of attitude that...
Where the Skirrid and the Sugar Loaf Are Neighbours; If You Are Looking for a Grand Place in the Country, Then Why Not Splash out on Dramatic Great Triley?
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COMPLETED more than a century ago, Great Triley was built as a seven-bed-room country house on the extensive Triley Estate. Situated in some of Monmouthshire's most dramatic countryside, between the Skirrid and the Sugar Loaf mountains, it comes...
Where the Skirrid and the Sugar Loaf Are Neighbours; If You Are Looking for a Grand Place in the Country, Then Why Not Splash out on Dramatic Great Triley?
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COMPLETED more than a century ago, Great Triley was built as a seven-bedroom country house on the extensive Triley Estate. Situated in some of Mon mouth shire's most dramatic countryside, between the Skirrid and the Sugar Loaf mountains, it comes...
Women's Own
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Byline: LYNNE BARRET-LEE "Gaveme the creeps, it did. It was like I'd ventured into some scuzzy underworld that I thought only advertised its wares in phone boxes LET'S set the scene here. It's 1am on Sunday. I'm in bed with my contraband wine...
Zimbabwe Police Halt Mugabe Rival Election Campaign
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Byline: Mike Jones POLICE stopped the election campaign of Robert Mugabe's main rival in its tracks yesterday. Just weeks before the run-off ballot for Zimbabwe's presidency, Morgan Tsvangirai was detained at an official roadblock then told all...
