Britain's Got Talent: Another 'Star' is Born - Jamie Pugh

Britain's Got Talent has discovered yet another unknown singing sensation this past week.  Thirty-seven year old pizza delivery driver Jamie Pugh of Blackwood, Glamorgan is proving that this will not be a...

UK and Scottish governments ready to fall out over nuclear

The UK and Scottish governments are ready to have their first major fall out over nuclear powerstations.The UK Government has released a list of 11 sites, of where they could erect new nuclear powerstations in...

Wales Book of the Year

Administered by the Academi with funding from the Arts Council of Wales. The Wales Book of the Year prizes, administered by the Academi with funding from the Arts Council of Wales, are awarded to the best Welsh...

Billy Bragg pins market crisis on Thatcher's 80s attack on miners

Billy Bragg opines in the Guardian that Maggie Thatcher's attack on the miners set in motion the calamity that has beset global financial markets today. It's worth a read -- and includes a fascinating BBC video...

Stabbed 177 Times, Guilty Party Claims - "Not my cup of tea"

The last couple of months has seen a rash of stabbings both in the U.S., and the U.K.  This particular method of killing people, seems to have become the 'crime du jour'. The story that I'm focusing on today,...

Scotland and Wales cancel football Euro bid

The credit crunch has claimed another victim, this time it's football. Scotland and Wales have cancelled plans for the two nations to joint host the Euro 2016 football tournament because of the global economic...

Welsh town screens Monty Python film after 30-year ban

"He's not the messiah - he's a very naughty boy." I've seen this film so many times that I think I've memorized every line!" A Welsh town that banned the classic Monty Python movie Life of Brian 30 years ago has...

Cigarette Machines, Tobacco Displays to be Banned in Scotland

In an effort to curb child smoking in Scotland, cigarette vending machines and tobacco displays in shops will be banned under proposed legislation.  Retailers would also have to partake in a registration...

Countries drinking patterns based on alcohol bought and drank

Some like a drink more than others but this can also be said for countries. The lastest firgures from the World Health Organisation show a new list of big drinkers based on pure alcohol bought and drank in 2007. 1)...

Russian oil slick expected to hit Irish/Welsh coastline

The UK coastguard have said that a Russian refuelling accident at the weekend that caused oil to hit the ocean is expected to hit the Irish and Welsh coastline within a couple of weeks.Reports just before 8pm...

Farmer's secret GM crop defies green rulebook

It is so scary how easily these policies are sabotaged. "Environmentalists are calling for the prosecution of a farmer who claims to have sabotaged Wales's GM-free status by secretly planting and harvesting genetically modified varieties of maize and feeding them to local...

Welsh plane crash: Teenage girls among the dead

Two teenage girl Air Corps cadets and their RAF trainers were the four onbaord the two planes that collided mid-air into each in the sky near Porthcawl, Wales. The wreckage is spread over about half a mile and...

British banking fat cats

WELL, we got an apology. Sort of. The four jokers who destroyed Britain’s once-proud banking industry fell over each other to say sorry... for other people’s mistakes. Fred “The Shred” Goodwin, of RBS,...

Big Day for Ireland - Six Nations 2009

The start of the 2009 Six Nations tournament this year was brilliant for those who have won their first fixtures. The two games that started off the 2009 Six Nations were England vs. Italy and Ireland vs France....

Baby mauled to death in dog attack in Wales

A three month old baby boy was attacked by two of his grandmother's dogs while he was asleep in his basket at his grandmother's house. It was thought that he was asleep on lower floor of the house and although police have not said exactly how the baby was killed, it is...

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