Wales This Week
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Six-year-old Brecon Vaughan is to undergo a life-changing operation this week thanks to the generosity of a young man left paralysed after a road accident. Dan Black donated more than £20,000 to Brecon’s fund and helped his family meet the costs of the operation in the United States. Dan’s gift of hope to Brecon marks
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The funny and inspiring Joe Holloway describes life with Tourette’s Syndrome. “In a way, I wouldn’t get rid of it because if I did I wouldn’t be me.” Watch Joe’s film, ‘Tourette’s and Me’, here.
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“There’s a resilience in Machynlleth which says Mark Bridger’s evil will not prevail. That the goodness of a little girl will endure. And that April Jones will always be remembered.” Tribute: ‘APRIL: A WALES THIS WEEK SPECIAL’
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A leading GP and writer on medical issues has called on the Attorney General to launch a public inquiry into the death of a 10-year-old boy from Wales. Dr Phil Hammond said the UK Government had to allow a public inquiry into the death of Robbie Powell, from Ystradgynlais, and into the events which followed
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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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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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