Boxes of raw meat and animal carcasses have been found dumped near Llanelli's Millennium Coastal Park. The seven boxes of butchers'...
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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Irvine Welsh helps Radio 4 to loosen up 
The Times
The Times
It's not the way Lord Reith would have planned it, but Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting who is famed for his ripe use of language, has prompted a new liberal...
Welsh English speech goes online
BBC News
BBC News
Hundreds of recordings of disappearing dialects of English spoken in Wales from the 1960s onwards are going online. Swansea University researchers taped the "folk-speech" of elderly villagers, and later urban youngsters, to compile the Survey of...
Kenneth Welsh magically impersonates 50 characters in Dylan Thomas' only play
Canada Dot Com
Canada Dot Com
To begin at the (real) beginning: When Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas' "play for voices," was first broadcast by the BBC, the First Voice -- that's how he was billed -- was Richard Burton. He shared the play's narration with a Second Voice, but he had...
Royal Welsh Show 2008 diary
BBC News
BBC News
Monday 0900 BST "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today," said show official Hadyn Jones during the Royal Welsh Show's first press conference since last year's very, very wet event. Mr Jones, a truly gracious gentleman, was trying to advise...
Durham 163-8 Glamorgan 119: Durham reach finals day as Smith makes Welsh turn tail
The Independent
The Independent
After two changes of opponents, Durham belatedly claimed their place at the Twenty20 Cup finals day by seeing off Glamorgan last night. The Dynamos had expected to play Yorkshire in the quarter-finals a fortnight ago, but the White Rose county were...
The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991
The Times
The Times
When George Noakes was consecrated Bishop of St Davids in Bangor Cathedral in 1982, the preacher remarked (in Welsh): "Now one of the village children has become a bishop." The village was Bwlch-llan in Cardiganshire, where Dr Noakes was born in...
NFU celebrates centenary at show
BBC News
BBC News
The National Farmers' Union, which was formed in a period of deep depression in the industry, is celebrating its centenary at the Royal Welsh Show. The NFU is urging members to bring along memorabilia to its stand on Tuesday so that it...
He's witnessed its horrors and its rebirth. John Humphrys on the hope and despair in Basra The Daily Mail
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