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Dan O'Neill

Things have changed since that 1927 win

G’DAY! Allow me to introduce myself. I am your Cardiff City cup final correspondent. Read

Do it yourself or get someone else in? It depends how old you are

MY mother rings to share her woes. Decorators are arriving tomorrow and should she take the curtains down for them? I say this might be silly as she is 68 years old and the windows are quite high up. Can’t she get the painter to wobble around on ladders? Read

Hannah Jones

It’s Hannah vs healthy earth mother in a bitter sweet tale

WHO knew that a packet of white chocolate mice, sugar-free jelly, Hula Hoops and glass of squash, again without the sweet goodness, could cause so much trouble? Read

Dan O'Neill

Woodbines and a pint of light for cup heroes!

CITY for the Cup. And we’ve been here before. But only a handful really remember... the year 1927, and a Cardiff so different to today’s town that you know what LP Hartley meant when he wrote that “the past is a foreign country”. Read

Denise Robertson

Adoption was a travesty

LAST week two senior judges strongly criticised a local authority that forced through the adoption of a baby girl, abandoned by her mother, against the wishes of her father. Read

Steve Dube

Why this French farmer wants farm subsidies to disappear

“I HAVE always been an optimist, but I think I should have been a pessimist and then the little progress we have made would have made me happy.” Read

Valleys boy Daniel gives Big Apple a Welsh flavour

WE were standing in the most marketable square mile on the planet and two of the biggest faces glowing on the giant illuminated adverts belonged to a Welshman and Welshwoman. In Times Square they call the digital hoardings “spectaculars” – and the striking features of Joe Calzaghe and Duffy certainly added to the dizzying spectacle of New York’s commercial heart. Read

Watch out, there are Mallercisers about!

IT was a clear message. “Leap into summer”, it said. If only it were that easy. Read

Matt Withers

First ladies in waiting for Lib-Dem leadership

LAST week, following local election results which the Welsh Liberal Democrats could justifiably claim as making steady progress, I remarked that all that was left to settle was for leader Mike German to keep his promise, stand aside and make way for his successor. Read

Nathan Bevan

Amy's pappy daze

I WAS watching a documentary about crack scarecrow Amy Winehouse the other night. Read

Matt Withers

Clever or just a little ‘Lib Dim’?

MOST people are in general agreement that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s interview with Piers Morgan in GQ, in which he boasted of bedding “no more than 30” women was a PR disaster for the wet-behind-the-ears politico. Read

Angharad Mair

Stop giving us the brown stuff, Gordon

GORDON Brown tells us that he feels our pain. “I am someone who believes passionately in opportunity and fairness,” he says. Read

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The Insider: Peter Finch

WE’RE crossing the city by metro, rush hour, hanging on the strap. This is Budapest, the twin cities of Buda and Pesht. You drop the ‘h’ if you’re a visitor. Read

Tryst Williams

Mind matters: Tryst Williams

The head and shoulders portrait in front of me is my first glimpse of the dad who walked out before I was born Read

Lynne Barratt-Lee

Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

Stray too far into the more “girly” areas of a menu, and it’s Russian roulette on an oversized plate Read

Hannah Jones

The First Word: Hannah Jones

WHO is your inspiration? Mine is my mother and my late grandmother. That’s not such big news, is it? After all, I drone on about the former all the time but rarely talk about the latter because something gets stuck in my throat when I start to think about her. Read

Peter Collins

An ordinary task for world’s power-hungry

THE people having spoken, I was standing in my favourite spot overlooking a sun-blessed Barry Island beach. There were few other people around and so it was at its tranquil, glorious best. Read

Graeme Whitfield

Mind-boggling insanity on a massive scale is the only explanation for Boris vote

IF last week’s local elections have taught us one thing, it is that Londoners are a bunch of complete halfwits. Read

Tomos Livingstone

Essex man also wants his say on devolution for Wales and Scotland

ANDREW MACKINLAY is a bumptious and friendly man, a Labour MP with a constituency on the Essex coast. Few people in Wales will have heard of him, but he’s started taking a keen interest in Celtic affairs. Read

Lowri Turner

Good nagging works

NAGGING works. Read

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