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The Wales This Week special ‘The Bullseye Killer’ has won a British Academy Cymru Award (Bafta Cymru). The hour-long documentary won a Bafta in the Current Affairs category of the awards at the Wales Millennium Centre. The programme documented the crimes of John Cooper, one of the most notorious criminals in British history. Cooper burgled, raped and murdered
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When Wales This Week began filming with Hywel Jones there was a determination not to turn his story into a “misery film”. That determination came from Hywel himself. But the aim would not necessarily be easily achieved: Hywel was dying of cancer. He knew already that his condition was terminal. But he hoped that by
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Next week an inquest will open in London to answer questions about one of the most baffling of all modern spy stories. Gareth Williams was a well-liked and extremely talented young man from a small village in Anglesey, who went to work for the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. But he died in bizarre circumstances. Gareth’s
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Wales This Week‘s film ‘Living With Dementia’, which was broadcast on ITV Wales last year, has won a Guild of Health Writers’ Award for Best Broadcast Programme. The award was presented at the Royal Society of Medicine in Wimpole Street, London. The film followed Jim McWade, who suffers with Alzheimer’s Disease, and his wife Maureen, and
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those were the words of Jim McWade in a Wales This Week film called ‘Living With Dementia’ which
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He is one of Wales’ greatest explorers – but few remember his name and there is no national monument in his honour. There is a story behind why Wales may have tried to forget Edgar Evans – but it concerns a sense of misplaced shame. ITV Wales’ Wales This Week has turned the clock back
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health says the presence of lethal dust fibres in school buildings is a “national scandal”. In a new report, it warns that 75 per cent of state schools are exposing children, teachers and other staff to the carcinogenic material. Jim Sheridan MP, Chair of the All-Party Group,
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It was meant to be the case in which South Wales Police drew a line under some of the difficult times from the past. Instead, the force and the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales are waking up to difficult headlines about the collapse of the largest alleged police corruption trial ever seen in the UK.
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‘Living With Dementia’, a half-hour documentary following two couples who are dealing with dementia, is now available on You Tube. It is in two parts. We filmed with the two couples for almost a year. There is more on their stories here. The programme is now being used to help teach clinical psychology trainees at
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There was a very strong response to Wales This Week: ‘Living with Dementia’. The programme is now available on-line and there is a discussion forum on the Alzheimer’s Society website.
Greg Lewis 