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Feb 8 2008
PLAID CYMRU claimed it was making a real difference in government yesterday as a £150m boost was announced for small businesses in Wales....
Feb 8 2008
A MURDER inquiry has been launched after the discovery of a body at Grovers Close, Glyncoch, yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
A £40,000 SPECIALIST barometer belonging to the Ministry of Defence was sold on eBay for just £57, a court heard yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl hanged herself with a pink ribbon as she re-enacted alone an innocent game she had earlier been playing with a friend, an inquest heard yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
A SHOP owner sold unwitting customers forged autographs of their sporting heroes, a court has heard....
Feb 8 2008
Yesterday’s interest rate cut will come as music to the ears of families straining under the weight of adult children unable to move out of the family home, according to recent research....
Feb 8 2008
MOST major mortgage lenders yesterday confirmed that the cut in interest rates announced yesterday would be passed on to customers....
Feb 8 2008
JAMIE OLIVER is making a cookery-style TV show for children....
Feb 8 2008
ROBBERS who attacked a late-night reveller made off with his £2,350 Rolex watch....
Feb 8 2008
A MULTI-MILLION pound spending spree with improvements to libraries, community centres and a major boost for recycling in Cardiff was unveiled today....
Feb 8 2008
SINGING sensation Rhydian Roberts made a surprise appearance at a big bash for Cardiff’s call centre workers – to thank them for their X Factor votes...
Feb 8 2008
A DISABLED granddad is on his third day of hunger strike in protest at the closure of a post office....
Feb 8 2008
AN assault victim suffered a broken jaw after two men jumped out of a car and attacked him....
Feb 8 2008
A TEENAGER who had his legs surgically broken to correct a birth defect faces further painful treatment because he was denied splints after the operation, his parents have claimed....
Feb 8 2008
RUGBY fans today arrived in the capital ready for tomorrow’s crunch Six Nations match....
Feb 8 2008
FIREFIGHTERS have been whipping up a curry to warn people about the dangers of cooking after a drinking session....
Feb 8 2008
PRE-SCHOOL children should not be allowed to watch TV or play with computers, a conference was told yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
A PENSIONER who freely admitted smashing up the roof of council offices with a hammer has been cleared of causing criminal damage....
Feb 8 2008
HOMEOWNERS received a much-needed boost yesterday after the Bank of England cut interest rates....
Feb 8 2008
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl said, “Tell mummy I love her” before hanging herself in front of her five-year-old sister, an inquest heard yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
ONE of the nation’s best-loved insects is coming under increased threat from cannibalism as one of Britain’s most invasive species makes its way into Wales....
Feb 8 2008
AN INQUEST into the death of a six-year-old boy killed when his father dropped him from a Greek hotel balcony is likely to be reopened in the summer, a coroner said yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
A VICAR is turning to technology to spread the word of God....
Feb 8 2008
A MOTHER accused of neglecting four children told a jury she cooked fresh food for them every day....
Feb 8 2008
A GROUNDBREAKING recycling scheme will collect disposable beer glasses from the capital’s streets tomorrow....
Feb 8 2008
THE man who claims to have been the long-time lover of married mum Beverley Parkhouse said she liked the excitement of being smuggled into his house without the neighbours seeing....
Feb 8 2008
STALL-HOLDERS have been invited to get involved with this year’s Eisteddfod festival. Institutions, societies and businesses are invited to exhibit at Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, between August 2 and 9. For details, contact Eira Bowen on 029 2076 3777....
Feb 8 2008
A MULTI-MILLION pound spending spree with improvements to libraries, community centres and a major boost for recycling in Cardiff was unveiled today....
Feb 8 2008
A HIGH Court claim has been lodged against a Valleys council over an opencast mine....
Feb 8 2008
AN old grinding machine has begun a new life at an industrial museum....
Feb 8 2008
TY Hafan, the Children’s Hospice in Wales, has relaunched its newsletter called Cwtch....
Feb 8 2008
THE MOST borrowed book in Welsh libraries last year was The Fifth Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro....
Feb 8 2008
SYLVIA and Frederick Summers cooked up a special recipe for love during their school home economics classes....
Feb 8 2008
IT’S time to saddle up, and get on your bike for a children’s charity as one of South Wales’ most popular annual fundraising events is launched for another year....
Feb 8 2008
LEWIS Llewellyn’s chance meeting with a damsel in distress led to 60 years of love....
Feb 8 2008
COPPER plates and wooden blocks engraved by one of Wales’ most important wildlife artists for the original publication of Tarka the Otter could raise up to £15,000 when auctioned later this month.The plates and blocks used in Charles Tunnicliffe’s prints and illustrations include some from his most famous work of all on Henry Williamson’s 1932 book. The materials were among paintings, prints and other property bequeathed by Tunnicliffe to his niece Cecily Ridgway and were discovered in her home after she died in 2005.Though originally from Macclesfield, Tunnicliffe settled on Anglesey, where he became close friends with the late Sir Kyffin Williams.After Tunnicliffe’s death in 1979, Sir Kyffin led a campaign to keep the wildlife artist’s personal collection in Wales. Eventually Anglesey Council was persuaded to buy the collection for £40,000 and the works are now on display at Oriel Ynys Môn in Llangefni.Sir Kyffin described Tunnicliffe as a “genius”, who inspired others and had a gift for communicating with the public.And though known as a wildlife artist with a penchant for scientific precision, he also achieved fame in advertising after illustrating Brooke Bond tea cards once collected in their thousands in the 1950s and 1960s.The five copper plates and 20 wooden blocks, mostly of birds and other wildlife, are examples of Tunnicliffe’s painstaking efforts to translate his detailed drawings into mirror-images for the printer. They date from the 1930s when Tunnicliffe was at his most prolific and each one would have taken the artist many hours to produce. They are expected to fetch a total of around £15,000 when sold by Cheshire auction house Peter Wilson later this month.Wilson’s paintings specialist Stephen Sparrow said, “It is almost unheard of to be given the opportunity to acquire the actual blocks which Tunnicliffe made to translate his pictures into prints.“They are truly fascinating and we anticipate a huge amount of interest from Tunnicliffe’s following from both this country and internationally.”The most valuable item in the collection is likely to be a copper plate showing farmhands loading sacks on to a horse-drawn cart, a subject Tunnicliffe probably sketched at his parents’ farm in Langley, near Macclesfield. It is estimated it will sell for between £800 and £1,200.A plate of an illustration from Henry Williamson’s book, showing hounds disturbing an otter in the roots of a submerged tree, is estimated to reach £700 to £900.Spokesman Christopher Proudlove said Tunnicliffe become involved with Tarka because at the time Williamson was writing it, the artist was recognised as one of the foremost wildlife illustrators. “Williamson was writing these wonderful books about otters and Tunnicliffe was drawing them and drawing the countryside in which he found them, so it was a match made in heaven.”Mr Proudlove said the artist’s obsession with capturing every last detail of the animals he depicted, down to their exact dimen- sions, caused him to go blind.“He was virtually blind when he died because he was so painstakingly precise.“He would draw wildlife from the actual animals. People on Anglesey used to take him roadkill – badgers, foxes and crows.“He would measure them really accurately. He made loads of what are called measured drawings of a wing, or a leg, head, ear or tail, and it would be absolutely precise.”The plates and blocks will be sold by the Nantwich fine art auctioneers on February 20Tarka the Otter could raise up to £15,000 when auctioned later this month....
Feb 8 2008
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have called for the trans-Wales gas pipeline project to be put on hold, after it emerged no written advice was sought from government safety experts about a crucial installation....
Feb 8 2008
AN MP last night strongly criticised a charity that runs a mental hospital after a patient absconded and allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl....
Feb 8 2008
RELIGIOUS and secular groups have criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury after he said the adoption of elements of Islamic sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”....
Feb 8 2008
PLAYING fields look set to get legal protection under a new measure that would force councils to consult communities before pressing ahead with development plans....
Feb 8 2008
SKYDIVING 75-year-old Dilys Price is to be featured on TV tonight....
Feb 8 2008
MORE than 300 balloons were released to mark the launch of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life runs....
Feb 8 2008
SOLICITORS acting for a resident living close to one of the biggest opencast coal sites in Britain yesterday issued a High Court claim against Merthyr Council....
Feb 8 2008
PATIENT helpline NHS Direct Wales has dealt with a massive 625,000 calls for help over the past year – with toothache topping the list for pleas for advice....
Feb 8 2008
PLANS for one of the world’s first commercial scale tidal power schemes to be built off the Welsh coast were unveiled by an energy consortium yesterday....
Feb 8 2008
A GROUP of Welsh researchers are making “significant” progress in developing a new treatment for leukaemia....
Feb 8 2008
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl today paid tribute to her brave dad as he lay dying in hospital after being attacked in a car park....
Feb 8 2008
KYLIE yesterday launched her new fragrance Showtime....
Feb 8 2008
THE Australian Paralympic Team is to make its training base in Wales in the run-up to the 2012 Paralympic Games....
Feb 8 2008
AN MP yesterday launched a scathing attack on the media over the reporting of a spate of suicides in Bridgend....
Feb 8 2008
A TOP executive at Brains Brewery has been banned from driving after being caught speeding at 102mph....
Feb 8 2008
A CAMPAIGN to save fashion guru Julien Macdonald’s old school from demolition has been launched....
Feb 8 2008
BOYZONE have announced another date in the capital for their 2008 tour....
Feb 8 2008
A BURGLAR really put his foot in it when he left his shoe-print behind at the scene of his crime....
Feb 8 2008
A VERDICT is expected today in the trial of a Welshman accused of shooting and strangling his wife then hiding her remains for 23 years....
Feb 8 2008
CONFUSION about the number of economic migrants in Wales is giving extremists the opportunity to propagate myths, AMs were warned yesterday....
