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Selling Wales through sports success

With a second Grand Slam win in four years, a football team in the FA Cup final, and a Ryder Cup on the horizon, Welsh sport has never had it so good. Richard Houdmont, director of the Chartered Institute of Marketing for Wales, explores how on-field success can be exploited for the benefit of the whole country Read

There’s no wolf-whistling here!

ALLISON Hall, 28, of Blackwood, has been selling models ranging from pricey, supercharged convertible Jaguar XKRs for £31,999 and Land Rover Discovery seven-seaters for £21,999, to Rover 25 Impressions for just £2,499, for a year. She said that the lure of working in an all-female dealership was what first attracted her to the job. Read

All about us: Electrovamp

Sisters Tammy Jay and Kally Davies perform together in the band Electrovamp. Tammy Jay, 18, and Kally, 17, are single and live in Caerphilly. The former St Cenydd School pupils started performing together at the age of 14 and 13 and their debut single was I Don’t Like The Vibe In The VIP. Read

Pianist Rachel is going all the way to the top!

GETTING to the top exam grade on the piano is an achievement for any teenager, but for Rachel Starritt being blind makes it even more momentous.ABBIE WIGHTWICK finds out how the teenager has become so good she rivals the talents of degree students at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff Read

Shocking facts behind supermarket voucher scheme

PARENTS have spoken of their shock after learning that they would have to spend £127,000 at the supermarket to get enough vouchers for the cheapest computer in Tesco’s Computer For Schools scheme. Read

City park wrecking a disgrace

LET’S not be embarrassed to say it – the treatment of one of Cardiff’s most beautiful parks by students on Saturday night was a disgrace. Read

Single, free and happy: Meet the freemales

FORGET desperate Bridget  Jones, a new generation of  women are rejecting the search  for a man and embracing the  opportunities that come with a  single status. CLAIRE REES  met the Welsh ‘freemales’ who, with 16 happy single years between them,   are leading the singles’ trend in  style... Read

Burma: Lives on the line

Thousands of Burmese people have perished. Thousands more are at risk. Yet despite worldwide efforts to help the cyclone-torn country, LAURA WRIGHT reports that Burma’s isolationist government are still making the delivery of critical supplies as difficult as possible... Read

Rhoda demonstrates model behaviour

BORN beautiful and into a world of privilege, ex-model Rhoda Emlyn-Jones had the world at her feet. But at 20 she swapped life on the catwalk to dedicate her time to helping others. As the search begins to find the new Welsh Woman of the Year, Catherine Jones talks to the reigning champion about help, hostels and the downside of high fashion. Read

Kick start for Mo’s hopes of Chelsea gold

Kick start for Mo’s hopes of Chelsea gold

MO DORKEN is hoping that her large floral rugby player will score highly with the judges at the world’s premier flower show. The landscape officer from the city’s parks department is taking her rugby player in his sports-themed garden to the Chelsea Flower Show. Read

A big bite of history

Shipwrecks around the coast of Wales have yielded all sorts of relics. But experts now believe that a glamorous ship owned by one of America’s most successful families in the early 19th century left a legacy that still survives on a windswept Cardigan Bay hillside today. Rhodri Clark reports Read

Antiques bargain hunter

From bargains to serious collectors’ items, soufflé to flambé, beautiful Ruskin pottery can come in all shapes and sizes Read

En garde for sword fight show

MARK Vance is like a modern day Mr Benn. One day he is a musketeer, the next he transforms himself into a Roman gladiator and the one after that, a Viking. Read

Why we need to introduce energy efficiency for homes on a scale never seen before

Welsh homes can make a major contribution to cutting our carbon footprint – and boost the economy, says Nick Tune, director BRE Wales and adviser to the Heads of the Valleys Programme Read

The Welsh hands that shaped the Middle-East conflict

Almost 90 years ago, a man from Gwynedd led Arab fighters to an amazing victory over the mighty Ottoman empire, having inspired them with his vision of Arab self-government in the Middle East. But another man, from the same part of Wales, had already promised some of that land to the Jewish people. Rhodri Clark compares the Welshmen who shaped the modern Middle East Read

Hell of stockpiled aid for stricken Burma must end

A WEEK on from one of the most devastating cyclones to hit Asia in decades, thousands of tonnes of aid are sitting in stockpiles waiting to be flown in as Burma’s military leaders block foreign aid. Read

Forcing businesses to use Welsh would be unhelpful

THE announcement by Culture Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas that another 57 organisations are to be brought under the remit of the Welsh Language Act is a good deal less dramatic than it first appears. Read

Dining out vegan style!

VEGAN campaigner Tony Wardle knew he had his work cut out when he agreed to appear on Channel 4 reality TV show Come Dine With Me. Read

Mums on the run for their kids!

LOOKING at Brodie Morgan playing in the sunshine with her brother Tom it is difficult to tell that she has a serious illness. Read

More than one million could be homeless after cyclone, warns charity

Save the Children has launched a global emergency appeal to help children and families in Burma after their homes were destroyed by Cyclone Nargis. Read

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