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Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
A daily newspaper and news website serving the cities of Liverpool and Merseyside, England. Stories cover local, state, and national events in politics, news, entertainment, culture, sports, and recreation, with selected stories included of international significance.
Articles from August 18, 2005
Alison Taylor: My Shout
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Byline: ALISON TAYLOR MY agent says I should read modern novels to see what sells and why, but I prefer non-fiction. When the little grey cells tire of science, history, music or civil engineering, I lie in the bath with the likes of Josephine Tey...
Anger over Graffiti on Cenotaph; War Veterans Blast Heartless Vandals
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Byline: By DAVID POWELL WAR veterans last night blasted vandals who daubed graffiti on a North Wales cenotaph. The culprit sprayed large black writing on the large war memorial near Llandudno Promenade, infuriating Royal British Legion chiefs....
Anthony's Family Praised for Savouring Good Times
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Byline: BY LIAM CHRISTOPHER Daily Post Correspondent THE family of murdered teenager Anthony Walker were praised for their courage when an inquest opened into his death yesterday. The 18-year-old A-level student was killed with an axe just yards...
Appointment: Loyalty Has Led T O Success for Gary
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IT IS rare these days to find an individual who has remained with the same company throughout their working life, but Gary Pickavance has done - and enjoyed doing - just that. Gary began working for DIY superstore B&Q at the age of 16 and now,...
Arts Diary: Memories of Dad in 40-Year-Old Payslip; Rawhide Comedy Club Owner Kevin Fearon Found a Link with His Dad. Mike Chapple Reports
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Byline: Mike Chapple THE theatre stays in the blood is an expression usually associated with actors and their offspring. But it goes a lot further than that as Kevin Fearon, founder of the Rawhide Comedy Club, was reminded recently to his delight....
Arts Diary: World Premiere to Be Staged in Gateway's New Season
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Byline: PHILIP KEY CHESTER'S Gateway Theatre, due for closure in early 2007, is - surprisingly - about to stage one of its busiest seasons ever. Over the next four months, some 48 different shows will be staged at the theatre, from drama to dance,...
Assembly Base for 500 Staff; Move Will Bring Big Boost to Mid Wales
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Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN MORE than 500 workers will be based at a new Assembly regional office in Aberystwyth, finance minister Sue Essex said yesterday. Up to 200 civil servants from Cardiff, plus staff from Assembly offices around North and...
ATHLETICS: Corrigan Shades Gold in 200m; Youngsters Takes Silver in Long Jump BY PHIL THOMAS Athletics Correspondent
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Byline: BY PHIL THOMAS TONY CORRIGAN narrowly won the 200m at the AAAs under 15 championships held in Birmingham recording 22.46, the same time as the 100m champion Antonio Infantino, Corrigan getting the judges' verdict. The Liverpool athlete...
ATHLETICS: West Cheshire's Whitton Lands on His Feet for Bronze in Birmingham
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Byline: BY LUKE JAMES ANDREW WHITTON won a medal at the AAA Under-15 Track and Field Championships. The 14-year-old West Cheshire AC member clinched a bronze medal in the triple jump at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium. Andrew, a Christleton...
A University Place Might Be Yours through the Clearing System
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EVEN if your child does not match the grades for their conditional offer, they may still be able to get a place through the clearing system. Around 35,000 people each year find a place through the programme. If your teenager is eligible for clearing,...
Balfour Beatty Hit by Rise in Raw Material Costs; Firm's Half-Year Profits Are Slashed to Pounds 8m
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Byline: BY GRAEME EVANS ENGINEERING and construction group Balfour Beatty revealed yesterday it had incurred losses on some projects following a rise in raw material costs. The group - the second largest construction company in the UK with annual...
Beautiful Victorian Game; with This Season Still Young, a Football Historian Recalls the Brief Reign of New Brighton Tower FC, Who Found You Can't Always Buy Success. David Charters Reports
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Byline: David Charters WIDE boys with their pork-chop side whiskers and flashy fob chains strolled along the promenade, arm-in-arm with their molls, who had naughty garters and smiled with ruby lips. And they stopped to kiss under the tower,...
Better Grades, Better Students; Minister Defends A Level Standards
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Byline: By IAN JONES EDUCATION bosses last night insisted A-levels were not getting easier, as students anxiously waited for their results. Lord Adonis hit back at critics who claimed the qualification was "dumbed down." His comments came...
Bird Notes
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Byline: BY ALAN DAVIES, RSPB, CONWY WITH the biggest event in the birdwatching year almost upon us, many people will be planning to head down to Rutland Water for the British Birdwatching Fair. The three-day event, Friday to Monday, has everything...
Bomb Scare Brings Chaos to M-Way; Army Called to Services
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Byline: BY JESSICA SHAUGHNESSY Daily Post Staff BOMB squads carried out three controlled explosions after a security alert during rush hour at a busy motorway service station. A major security alert was declared at Hapsford services at junction...
Changes Afoot in the Queen of Fibres' Court; Andrew Forgrave Visits Porthmadog Wool Depot Where Modernisation Is under Way
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Byline: Andrew Forgrave DAI Jones handles wool as if it were the finest silk. He caresses it gently, still marvelling at the complexity of a material he had spent a lifetime studying. "An old grader used to say that if cotton is the king, then...
Changing Rooms . . and Emotions
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Byline: BY DEBORAH JAMES THE size, shape and colour of shop changing rooms and mirrors have a significant influence on women's perceptions of their body shape, according to researchers in Merseyside. Academics at the University of Liverpool have...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Aim to Go Higher at Coleg Menai
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OLEG Menai offers excellent opportunities to study at a higher education level in Bangor, the City of Learning. The college is located between mountains and sea in a particularly attractive part of North Wales, which has excellent transport links by...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Commit to a Career in Uniform
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IF you're looking for a career to take you further, test your limits and have a responsibility for the safety of others, then a career in uniform could be for you. You've finished your A-Levels and are now looking for the best career path to take,...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Education Accessible for All
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BEING disabled should never be a hindrance to getting where you want to be in life. Disabled students form significant minority within the UK's overall student population. It is thought that between four and five per cent of students in the UK has...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Get on Course to Climb the Career Ladder
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THERE is a huge variety of opportunities open to those who have received their A-Level results today. Perhaps the most obvious is the progression to university or college to study for a degree. And if your results are what you expected, then you...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Nothing like School: College Life Rules
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WITH hundreds of courses to choose from after A-Levels, it can be hard to see the wood from the trees. Which is why it is great to find out about real people, what they have studied, and how they have found the experience. Andrew Currie, 18, lives...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Take a Year to See the World
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MORE and more young people are taking the opportunity to take a year out before going to university, whether to work, study, travel, or even re-sit their exams. Taking a gap year is a chance for you to see the world, learn new skills or do some...
COLLEGE ENROLMENTS: Watch Those Pennies
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ACCORDING to studentUK.com, you will almost certainly get into debt while at university. In some cases, debts mount up to the tune of anything between pounds 10,000 and pounds 20,000. However, remember that ultimately you have control over your...
Cricket: Jones Can't Wait; Paceman Confident of Victory in Ashes
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Byline: By RICHARD GIBSON OLD Trafford hero Simon Jones is warning Australia that England's belief has grown - despite their failure to clinch victory in the third Ashes Test. Fellow fast bowler Glenn McGrath suggested the home team had missed...
Cricket: Jones Has Built Up Steam for Ashes Surge
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Byline: BY RICHARD GIBSON OLD TRAFFORD hero Simon Jones is warning Australia that England's belief has grown - despite their failure to clinch victory in the third Ashes Test. Fellow fast bowler Glenn McGrath suggested the home team had missed...
Cricket: Tourists Ponder How to Combat Reverse Swing
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Byline: BY RICHARD GIBSON AUSTRALIA are swotting up on reverse swing in their bid to halt the dominance of England's bowlers in the Ashes. World number ones Australia have shown vulnerability once the shine is off the new ball, particularly against...
Daily Post Comment: Hours Shake-Up Pays Dividends
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THE hours worked by junior doctors at hospitals across Britain had become completely unacceptable long before the Government was forced by Europe to take measures to change them. Change in institutions like hospitals is never popular, and there was...
Daily Post Comment: Needless Death of an Innocent
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T HE catalogue of blunders which, it is now apparent, led to the summary killing of an innocent man by the Metropolitan Police the day after the failed London suicide bombings, beggars belief. It is undeniable that the force was under immense pressure...
Did N.Wales Man Snap Up Diana's Old Records for Just Pounds 6
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Byline: By ROLAND HUGHES DID these records once belong to the late Princess Di? They were snapped up for pounds 6 at a car boot sale by a North Wales music fan. The unsuspecting collector bought the vinyl albums at a Cheshire car boot sale...
Easyjet Saves Pounds 10m on Maintenance Deal; Budget Carrier Cuts Costs
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Byline: BY TONY McDONOUGH BUDGET airline Easyjet yesterday signed a a 10-year aircraft maintenance deal worth more than pounds 550m. The new agreement, with Zurich-based SR Technics, will allow the carrier to cut its costs by pounds 10m over...
Football: Bent: I Want to Stay with Blues
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Byline: By IAN DOYLE MARCUS BENT admits he is unsure about his Everton future - despite receiving public backing from David Moyes. Bent has been the subject of persistent speculation concerning a move away from Goodison, with Charlton Athletic...
Football: Bent Keen to Stay at Goodison Bent Wants to Commit His Future to Everton; Striker Happy to Remain at Goodison as Speculation over Transfer Interest Mounts
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Byline: BY IAN DOYLE MARCUS BENT admits he is unsure about his Everton future - despite receiving public backing from David Moyes Bent has been the subject of persistent speculation concerning a move away from Goodison, with Charlton Athletic the...
Football: Danish Pastries; Rooney Consolation Fails to Save England's Bacon
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Byline: By MARK BRADLEY ENGLAND were given a cold dose of reality at the start of a World Cup season as they were torn apart by Denmark in the heaviest defeat of Sven-Goran Eriksson's 54 games in charge. After all the overblown statements of...
Football: Eriksson Angered by Worst England Defeat in 25 Years; Denmark. 4 England ......1
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Byline: BY MARK BRADLEY SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON branded England's second-half display in Copenhagen a "disaster" after the nation's worst defeat in 25 years against Denmark last night. England's World Cup preparations suffered an embarrassing jolt...
Football: Eriksson Fury after England Collapse
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ENGLAND manager Sven-Goran Eriksson slammed his players' performance after their dismal defeat in Denmark Eriksson's team were beaten 4-1 in Copenhagen in their only run-out before their next World Cup qualifier against Wales in 17 days' time. Denmark...
Football: Great Danes Deliver Harsh Wake-Up Call
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Byline: BY MARK BRADLEY ENGLAND received a cold dose of reality at the start of a World Cup season as they were torn apart by Denmark in the heaviest defeat of Sven-Goran Eriksson's 54 games in charge. It normally takes rather longer than this...
Football: Leicester Honoured in West Cheshire Goal Feast
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Byline: BY ERNIE McDONALD ESCAPING relegation fromThe Carlsberg West Cheshire League's Division One last season has had an indelible effect on long-suffering West Kirby, whose new regime celebrated a first day win at Ashville. Paul Rowlands gave...
Football: Little Gets His Man as Bruce Aims for Promotion
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Byline: BY NICK HILTON ALEX BRUCE hopes he can taste a promotion experience for the second time in a short career this season with Tranmere Rovers. The 20-year-old Birmingham City defender completed his move to Prenton Park yesterday in a loan...
Football: Opposites Attracted to One Common Footballing Goal
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Byline: BY NICK HILTON THE contrast could hardly be more stark between the personalities of the two managers who face each other across the dugouts at Griffin Park on Saturday when Brentford entertain Tranmere Rovers. Brentford's Martin Allen...
Football: Warhurst Helps Reserves to Comfortable Win
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Byline: By CHRISTOPHER BEESLEY NEW signing Paul Warhurst had his first run-out in a Wrexham shirt yesterday as he helped the reserves to a 3-0 victory at Rochdale. The Dragons netted through Jamie Reed, Adam Brazedale and Levi Mackin with utility...
Football: Young Guns Step into the Breach; Tosh's Injury-Hit Squad Relies on New Blood to Hold Slovenia to Credible Goal-Less Draw WALES 0 SLOVENIA 0
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Byline: By MARK CURRIE THE value of international friendlies less than two weeks into a new season is obviously lost on Newcastle United boss Graeme Souness, who this week branded them as unnecessary and unhelpful at this time of year. Wales...
From Knotty Ash to the National Portrait Gallery
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Byline: BY EMILY ASHTON HE IS more often seen hanging around the Liverpool suburb of Knotty Ash. But now Ken Dodd's image has been immortalised in central London after an official portrait was revealed at the National Portrait Gallery. Painted...
Getting Ready to Make the Most of Your GCSE Results; with a Week to Go before the Big Day Laura Davis Looks at the Post-16 Options
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Byline: Laura Davis WHEN you're in the middle of the exam period, your head buried in a book or over a perfectly coloured in revision timetable, it seems like there couldn't be a worse feeling. But when results day arrives next week, and with...
Golf: Woods:My Gamble Was Never in Doubt
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Byline: BY MARK GARROD THOSE wondering where Tiger Woods was on Monday morning as the golf world waited to see if he would be in a play-off for the USPGA now know the answer - he was 1,000 miles away. If Woods's name had been called to go into...
Green Light to Dredge the Dee; Way Clear for Airbus Superjumbo Wings
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Byline: By CARL BUTLER ENVIRONMENT watchdogs yesterday gave the green light for trial dredging of the Dee Estuary to allow superjumbo wings to be shipped out. The Port of Mostyn was told by regulators, including the Environment Agency, Department...
IDEAS: Stress-Free Travelling with Our 23 Must-Haves; Trains, Planes and Automobiles . . . Emma Johnson Tracks Down the Travel Essentials
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Byline: Emma Johnson 01MAKE sure you look the part when you ask for that upgrade with Aspinal of London's travel collection including two leather luggage tags (pounds 30), a deluxe passport cover (pounds 35) and the Aspinal classic travel wallet...
Interiors: Goodbye to All the Clutter; Style without Breaking the Bank
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IS IT just us, or does this 'living' room look like a giant bruise? Just look at the way that shiny blue vinyl sofa merges into the Freddy Kreuger scratched carpet - it'd be a nightmare on any street let alone Elm Street. And what should every home...
Interiors: Tricks of the Trade
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BORN through frustration only this weekend - but an absolute gem of an idea with which we're tickled pink. While working with wood filler on an uneven floorboard we were frustrated by the white filler which screamed out like Morgan Fairchild smiling....
Irish Sea Freight Soars for Stena
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Byline: By DAVID JONES STENA Line Freight has announced a big jump in freight volumes through its Irish Sea ports, as well as Holyhead this year. The company said there had been a 28% rise in its Irish Sea business during the first six months...
It's Not Greed - It's What Dad Needs; Pounds 120k for Run-Down Warehouse Defended
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Byline: By DAVID GREENWOOD A DOOR-to-door "fizzy drinks" salesman last night defended his decision to sell a dilapidated warehouse for pounds 120,000. Derek Roberts, 68, of Park Street, Holyhead, was forced to put the corrugated iron-roofed stone...
It Was like Nostalgic Generation Game Special
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Byline: David Cottrell MADONNA falls off a horse. A case of soft mare unseated by tough one? The news broke on Tuesday evening while I was listening to David Essex, which I'll explain in a moment. I mention the Queen of Pop's mishap because (i)...
Jail Police Who Shot and Killed My Cousin; Fury Mounts over Errors Which Led to Tube Killing
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Byline: By NEVILLE DEAN SCOTLAND Yard chief Sir Ian Blair should resign if he is found to have deliberately misled the family of an innocent Brazilian electrician shot dead by anti-terror police, their supporters said last night. The Commissioner...
Job Post: How to Be a Car Valet
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What is the work like? Car valets clean and finish car interiors and exteriors, using specialist equipment and cleaning products. Each job depends on what the customer wants - just an exterior wash or a full valet of the car. This would entail examining...
Junior Doctors' Scheme Success; Merseyside Project to Cut Hours Is Rolled out across the Country
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Byline: BY ROBERT MERRICK A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to slash the hours worked by junior doctors is being adopted across the UK after being successfully pioneered at four Merseyside hospitals. Ministers claim that new shift patterns at the Royal...
KATE ROBERTS: Buy It Now - Welcome to the New Consumer Revolution
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Byline: KATE ROBERTS THE internet auction site eBay has become the nation's favourite carboot sale. Hardly surprising really, if you want to buy and sell what could loosely be described as a load of old tat then surely it is much better to do it...
Letter: Public Jobs
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Byline: Wyn Hobson J. Protic (Letters, 9 August) claims that people who are not literate in Welsh are not employable in the public sector in Gwynedd and Ynys MOn. The ability to speak and write Welsh is an essential requirement only for those...
LIFE STYLE: Good Health Is Child's Play; Laura Davis Discovers a Truly Healthy Environment Where Children Can Exercise
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Byline: Laura Davis FAT parents pass on their unhealthy ways to their children, new research has revealed. It is no surprise that youngsters who grow up in families with bad eating habits and inactive lifestyles are more likely to grow into obese...
Liverpool's Very Own Eden Project
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Byline: BY LARRY NEILD THIS is the first striking image of the new home for Liverpool's world famous botanical collection. Three glass spheres are planned for a site in Calderstone's Park for what has been dubbed Liverpool's Eden Project. ...
Make Sure Your Gap Year Makes a Difference; Deborah James Examines the Highs and Lows Awaiting Students Who Want to See a Bit of the World before Plunging into Work or Academic Life
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Byline: Deborah James WHETHER it's surfing in Australia or re-building tsunami-hit towns in Sri Lanka, more and more people are waking up to the opportunities taking a year out can present. No longer the preserve of the rich and famous, the gap...
Mass Eviction of Settlers; Thousands of Troops Drag Israelis on to Buses
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Byline: BY LIAM CHRISTOPHER THOUSANDS of Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school yesterday and hauled them on to buses in a massive evacuation from the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, an...
Mickey Thomas: A More Mature Rooney Can Inspire
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Byline: Mickey Thomas THERE was only one place to be last Saturday on the opening weekend of the new Premiership season and that was at Goodison Park. And no one could really argue with Manchester United's 2-0 win over Everton because they had...
' Missing Boy' Hoax Slammed by RNLI; SOS Teams Spent Hour Scouring the Coast
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Byline: By ERYL CRUMP A HOAXER who sparked a full-scale search was last night branded "deplorable" by lifeboat bosses. Emergency teams spent an hour scouring the North Wales coast after a woman claimed her son was missing. The "mum" said the...
Modern Image for Cob Society
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Byline: By ANDREW FORGRAVE Rural Affairs Correspondent BRITAIN'S largest breed society has responded to criticism by introducing a series of modernising measures designed to make it more "professional". Council members of the Welsh Pony and Cob...
My Capital Confusion ... So Is It or Isn't It
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Byline: By ROLAND HUGHES CARDIFF doesn't really feel like the capital of Wales to some of us in the north - it's a nightmare to get to and becomes an exhausting cross-country trek. Some people in North Wales would rather visit English cities...
Night of Triumph Captured in Lego; Not to Mention Emin's Bed
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Byline: BY SAM LISTER WITH a triumphant look on his face, Steven Gerrard can be seen standing next to the Champions League Trophy flanked by his manager, Rafael Benitez. But look again. For this is not an image from the historic final between...
Obituary: Matthew McGrory
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IF YOU have to duck to enter any doorway that is under 7ft 6ins, life follows a rather predictable path in which your fine skills or sensitive feelings will be lost under the great shadows cast by your height. But, from early adulthood, Matthew...
Post Past: Day When Gascoigne Reignited Old Glory
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Byline: BY PHILIP J REDMOND Everton Supporter PAUL GASCOIGNE was undoubtedly one of the most exciting players of his generation. For Newcastle, Spurs and during his early England career, he was the real deal, combining breathtaking close control...
Post Past: Hateley's Lofty Heights - If Only for a Season
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Byline: BY SEAN JOSEPH Liverpool Supporter PETER CROUCH misses out on his Anfield league debut against Sunderland through suspension and injury on Saturday. But for another lofty Liverpool striker a home match against Sunderland early in the season...
Pressure on Yard over Tube Killing
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Byline: BY GARETH JONES SCOTLAND Yard chief Sir Ian Blair should resign if he is found to have deliberately misled the family of an innocent Brazilian electrician shot dead by anti-terror police, their supporters said last night. The Commissioner...
Put World's Best Beef Back on Sale; Unions Want Anti-BSE Restrictions Lifted on Animals over 30 Months
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Byline: By ANDREW FORGRAVE GOVERNMENT ministers must cast off Welsh beef's shackles and allow meat from older cattle to go back on sale as soon as possible. Wales's farm unions insist consumers should no longer be denied access to some of the...
Racing: Cucaracha for Sprint Success
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Byline: BY ARGUS LA CUCARACHA can make a successful step into Group One company when she returns to her favourite track for the VC Bet Nunthorpe Stakes at York today. Barry Hills is a past master when it comes to getting his horses in top condition...
Sent to Die for 'A Pack of Lies; Families Seek Independent Probe on Iraq War
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Byline: By CATHY GORDON A NORTH Wales dad yesterday launched a legal bid for an independent inquiry into the legality of the Iraq conflict. Reg Keys, of Llanuwchllyn, near Bala, said his son was "sent to war on a falsehood". His Red Cap son...
Sophie's Pounds 90 Bus Pass Is Money for Nothing to Council; Parents' Appeal over Daughter's School Travel
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Byline: By ERYL CRUMP FURIOUS parents last night blasted a council for demanding they stump up for a bus pass because of a row over a few hundred yards. Eleven-year-old Sophie Jones will start at Ysgol Aberconwy in Conwy next month. But council...
SOUTHPORT FLOWER SHOW 2005: Famous Show Stands out from the Crowd; Graham Davies Takes in the Sights and Smells of the Southport Flower Show
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Byline: Graham Davies AUGUST is traditionally the month Southport comes alive as the town's flower show fills the 34 acres of Victoria Park. For 76 years, the Southport Flower Show has been one of the biggest events in the North West's social...
Students Play the Wait-and-See Game; the A-Level Debate Is Here Again Deborah James and Alan Weston Report on the Fight for University Places
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Byline: Alan Weston EVIDENCE of a hobby or volunteering experience are fast becoming key factors in determining whether school leavers get a last-minute university place, according to academic recruitment experts in Liverpool. With A-level pass...
Study Sparks Fresh Call for Badger Cull
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Byline: By ANDREW FORGRAVE FARMERS have seized on a new scientific study which, they claim, supports their calls for a nationwide cull of badgers. A report in the Journal of Applied Ecology has revealed that TB-infected badgers and cattle tend...
The Car Dragged Her for 20 Yards - She Was Screaming; Gabrielle,4, on Mend after Horror of Runaway
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Byline: By CARL BUTLER A LITTLE girl dragged under a runaway car was safe back in the arms of her anxious mum last night. Chunks of four-year-old Gabrielle Pringle's blonde hair were torn out by the wheel of a car. The youngster was walking...
The First Lesson - How to Survive; Going to University Is about More Than Attending Lectures, Writes Laura Davis
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Byline: Laura Davis ALTHOUGH most students have spent their time in sixth form counting down the days to leaving school and home behind them, preparing for university can still be a daunting experience. Not only does it involve starting a new...
The Heart of the Country? This Year Is Cardiff's 50th Anniversary as the Capital of Wales, but Does It Really Fly the Flag for Our Nation? by Ian Parri
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Byline: By Ian Parri NEXT month, the National Assembly's controversial pounds 67m new home will be handed over to its government - half a century after Cardiff officially became thecapital city of Wales. Some see it as the culmination of a dream...
Trevor Peake: Champs Keep Faith; Denbighshire T O Stick with Youth
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Byline: Trevor Peake FEW North Wales Four Counties champions Denbighshire again stick to their youth policy for their final match of the season against Anglesey at Rhosneigr on Sunday. "The young lads did us proud when we clinched the title at...
Trust the Post: Sporting Heritage
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Byline: Mark Thomas FANS of our Heritage Collection supplements will be delighted to know the next in the series will be published in the paper from next Monday. The Sports Heritage Collection is a 48-page part work which can be collected in the...
Turbines Will Cut Our Farms' Value; Action Group Claims Noise Will Affect Milk Production
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Byline: By ANDREW FORGRAVE ANGRY farmers claim a planned wind farm in west Wales would slash the value of their holdings. An action group has been set up to lodge objections against a bid by Renewable Energy Systems to build 10 2MW turbines at...
VIEW FROM THE FARM GATE: Tradesmen's Entrance for the Peasants
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Byline: Nia PARRY WE HAD a successful Eisteddfod at the Faenol Estate in Bangor: apart from the rain, the mud and the queues, that is. Getting a glimpse of what was once behind the Faenol wall was interesting: it was intriguing to see how the...
WALES of the UNEXPECTED: We've a Ghostly Lodger That Isn't Welcome
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Byline: WITH RICHARD HOLLAND WHAT must it be like living with a ghost? It's an experience one family in Ruabon have got used to over many years. Richard Burgess, the son of the family, told me they have a rather unwelcome lodger in their home,...
Weighing Up the Options after Your Exam Results; Laura Davis on the Day That Ends Months of Work and Worry for A-Level Students
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Byline: Laura Davis WHILE to most people August may mean lazy, sunny days, to teenagers awaiting their exam results it can be a time of dread. Today is the day weeks of worry will end for many youngsters, as they collect their A-level results...
What's Such a Thrill in Knocking Rhyl; Festival Comic Runs Down Town in Hit Act
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Byline: By ROLAND HUGHES AN EDINBURGH Festival comedian is packing in punters at the expense of a North Wales seaside resort. Rhyl finds itself the butt of jokes cracked by South Wales funnyman John Sparkes. Sparkes is better known on Welsh...
When It's Bad News Come Results Day; Not Everybody Will Get What They Need from Their A-Levels - but There Are Still Options, Writes Laura Davis
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Byline: Laura Davis THE waiting is over and your child's results have arrived. For many A-level candidates today will be a red-letter day, but for others that long-awaited envelope will contain, not a passport to the university course of their dreams,...
Your First Steps to the Future
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THAT Day has finally arrived! But don't get in a stew. Here's how to make the most of your A-Level results, with the help of Careers Wales. As those long-awaited envelopes are eagerly ripped open today, some will be celebrating their AS and A-Level...
