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Voters say Rachel BB’s best

A whopping 91% of online voters rated Rachel Rice as the hottest babe in this year’s Big Brother house. Read

Imogen's Big Brother blast

BIG Brother babe Imogen Thomas has sensationally blasted the show that made her famous – claiming it should be pulled off the box. Read

Caroline Flack’s new role

It’s no more early morning kids’ TV for Caroline Flack for a while as she prepares to start a new presenting job on ITV2 Read

5 minutes with: Tony Kirkham

Tony Kirkham is the head of the arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the presenter of a TV show about trees which made Britain Read

Antiques Bargain Hunter: Don Rodgers

It’s available at every food shop now, mostly in bags, but tea was once a more precious substance that needed guarding Read

Rhys nails down his dream job

Celtic Tools, 174a Whitchurch Rd, Cardiff, CF14 3NB, 029 2061 9137 Read

We do like to live beside the seaside

AS we enter the summer months, the long awaited arrival of some warmer weather brings with it a prime period for a great British tradition – the weekend getaway. Read

Where Alastair enjoys a winter fire drill

SINCE buying their Victorian home nine years ago, Alastair and Sara Milburn have been working hard to restore the property to its former glory. Read

The WM Interview: Nia Roberts

Actress Nia Roberts tells Rin Simpson about the new VIP in her life and why the diet will have to wait Read

Comment: Tory could rue detention gamble

DAVID CAMERON must have been wondering whether things had been going a little too well of late, and after months when he could seemingly do no wrong the Tory leader now has an unexpected and unpleasant problem on his hands. Read

This is not just any restaurant, this is an M&S restaurant

The newly refurbished Marks & Spencer Culverhouse Cross store in Cardiff is the first in Wales to feature a 120-seat restaurant with waiter service. Read

Bringing the issues of disability into the open

AUTHOR Shanta Everington has used her struggle to accept she was disabled as the inspiration for her first novel. Read

Phil Morris used to knock about in tracksuit bottoms and football tops. But winning our Father’s Day competition changed all that...

TO Ellis and Anais Moulding, their stepdad Phil Morris is the best dad in the world, which is why they surprised him and nominated him as our Father’s Day winner. Read

Keeping our heads above water when it comes to flash flooding

It’s a year since last year’s devastating floods brought chaos to towns and cities across the UK. The director of Environment Agency Wales, Chris Mills, explains how we can avoid similar scenes in the future Read

How a Pembrokeshire farming family learned to put on a Folly good show for visiting tourists

It opened in 1988 as an attempt to survive in an increasingly tough agricultural market. Two decades later, it’s Wales’ top paid-for visitor attraction. Neil Collins spoke to the team behind the surprising Folly Farm success story Read

Socially, mining was far from the pits, says ex-miner turned tour guide

It is a quarter of a century since one of Wales’ most famous collieries mined its last coal. Ben Glaze spoke to Ivor England about life down the pits – before and after the closure Read

An alternative to oil?

Oil prices could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year, and the cost of filling up is rising nearly as fast. Lee Waters, of sustainable transport charity Sustrans, explains why it’s time to explore better ways to get around without the car Read

Don’t leave dyspraxic kids to pick up litter

It’s a condition that can cause suicidal feelings in those forced to live with its symptoms and some believe it affects several million children and adults across the UK. Yet dyspraxia sufferers often find themselves at the back of the queue when it comes to receiving the additional support their disability demands, even though experts suggest one child in every class has the condition. Darren Devine reports Read

‘It’s essential with window dressing to have a flair for it’

John Hiscox, 51, has worked for Maskreys furniture store in Cardiff and Newport for the past 26 years. He lives in Bristol with his partner Carmen. Read