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In early 1942 a courageous band of Welshmen found themselves fighting side by side against the all-conquering Japanese army. The men, who had joined up to provide air defences for Cardiff, Newport and Barry, had been sent to the Far East as the Japanese bore down on Britain’s “impregnable fortress” at Singapore. But the battle-hardened
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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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A few years ago while working on a book called ‘Airman Missing’, a short biography of RAF evader John Evans (no longer in print!), I became intrigued with those who had helped him evade capture in occupied Belgium. John, who was originally from Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, evaded the Germans for 114 days after his Halifax was
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‘I Fought Them All’, the biography of Irish prizefighting legend, Tom Sharkey, has been shortlisted for a Wishing Shelf Award. The book is nominated in the adult non-fiction category. The winner is due to be announced in April. Top major boxing website, Max Boxing, said of the book: “It emits quality from the first opening
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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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“We hear from the guards that one bomb blew up Nagasaki.” Les Spence writes in his diary, August 1945 For more than three years during World War II, Les Spence was a prisoner of the Japanese. Spence, who would later go on to become president of the Welsh Rugby Union, had been captured in early March
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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 man who advises both the Crown and the UK Cabinet on the law has expressed his “huge regret” at the collapse of the Lynette White police corruption trial. The UK Solicitor-General Edward Garnier QC was answering questions from MPs about the collapse of a trial of eight police officers accused of perverting the course of justice during the
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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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