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In your face Tom Jones: I'm a Welsh icon
Matt Beynon Rees | December 27th 2009
Welsh Icons ("an Encyclopedia and Gazetteer of Wales and all Things Welsh - A Cymrupedia if you like."...uh, "Cymru" being the Welsh word for Wales.) lists me among the "iconic" writers on its site. That puts me in the company of thriller king Ken Fo read more
First Class posts on Tuesday
Letters From A Tory | December 22nd 2009
1. Longrider attacks the latest justification for the DNA database. 2. Tory Politico discusses the lunacy of the SNP and Plaid Cymru. 3. The Tap discovers what Gordon Brown really does lead the world in. 4. Man in a Shed hates focus group tested soun read more
British Medical Association Cymru Wales Backs Private Members Bil…
Zamp BioTopics | December 17th 2009 by Zamp
Welsh Secretary of the BMA, Dr Richard Lewis said: “We are delighted that Julie Morgan MP has chosen to use her Private Members Bill to close a loophole in law to protect the public – particularly young people – from the dangers of read more
Turnstile’s Bento #5
Welikeit.indie | December 17th 2009
Turnstile’s Bento #5 is curated by Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1, C2 Radio Cymru, Swn Festival). As Huw poured over his delicious Bento Selection, he stopped to think: “These songs come from... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos read more
British Medical Association Cymru Wales Backs Private Members Bil…
Zamp Bionews | December 17th 2009 by Zamp
Welsh Secretary of the BMA, Dr Richard Lewis said: “We are delighted that Julie Morgan MP has chosen to use her Private Members Bill to close a loophole in law to protect the public – particularly young people – from the dangers of read more
ABERAVON
BNP ELECTION RESULTS | December 15th 2009
Unlike other seats there has been no changes to this seat and so continues to be a strong Labour stronghold.But the Labour grip on the area has loosenedGeneral Election, 1 May 1997 Labour John Morris 25,650 71.3 +4.22 Liberal Democrat Ronald McCon read more
Cheerful story about Lexus
My Lexus IS | December 14th 2009 by Ginger
My girlfriend drives a tayotu Cymru (apologize immediately for his French in the car's name . Once we have met our mutual friend and when we got out of the car, he said, estimating gaze car, said: "When I see a car and sitting behind the wheel of read more
MI5’s Attempt to Infiltrate Plaid Cymru Inspires Novel
Americymru | December 11th 2009 by ceri shaw
The Prince and the Patriot, published this week, is a lively account of the political divisions and deep resentments surrounding the investiture – 40 years ago – of Charles Windsor as Prince of Wales. Author John D Rogers, who was himself invol read more
In: Elis Owen, Head of Commissioning, BBC Cymru Wales
Everything you need to get your factual TV programme commiss… | December 10th 2009
Elis Owen has been appointed the new head of commissioning at BBC Cymru Wales, responsible for all English-language programming on BBC1 Wales and BBC2 Wales. He was previously National Director of ITV Wales. Source: Broadcast read more
Welsh Nat joins Tories because of "respect for Queen and Cou…
John's Labour Blog | December 8th 2009 by John Gray
I cannot resists this story and as someone who has family (I was born and brought up in North Wales and my mum’s a Denbigh “Matthews”) who are sincere Plaid Cymru supporters (my niece's step-dad is one of their Councillors). I know they will b read more
Welcome, Mohammad
David Jones, MP | December 8th 2009 by David Jones MP
I am delighted to welcome the former Plaid Cymru Assembly member, Mohammad Ashgar and his daughter, Natasha, a former Plaid European candidate, to the Conservative party. Mr Ashgar told a news conference today that he felt “out of tune” with Plai read more
And Then There Were Thirteen: Plaid AM defects to Conservatives
Miss Wagstaff Presents... | December 8th 2009 by Pippa Wagstaff
Plaid Cymru AM Mohammad Asghar has crossed the floor to join the Conservatives in the Welsh assembly. The defection was announced by Welsh Conservative leader Nick Bourne and Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan.Mr Asghar, the assembly's only ethnic read more
Giggs lands BBC Wales accolade
MISSING WILLIAM WRIGHT | December 7th 2009 by COLLIN HOWARD
Wales and Manchester United football legend Ryan Giggs wins the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2009. read more
BMC AGM/Fun Day (Life in the Vertical)
Cragwag | December 7th 2009
Well, I had a busy day on Saturday, in the morning I gave a coaching workshop for 13 climbers for the BMC Cymru/Wales Area AGM Fun Day, held at Plas Y Brenin. After two hours of theory and practice, I had a spot of lunch before having to sit in on th read more
Cornish rights trampled under Labour votes.
The Cornish Democrat | December 5th 2009 by The Cornish Democrat
It comes as no great suprise that the UK parliament -dominated by MP's from England- voted against the inclusion of a dedicated Cornish tick box for the 2011 UK census. The amendment to include a tick box for Cornish national identity was prop read more
Team Cymru Offers Free Series of Security Videos Online
Open source in higher and further education | December 3rd 2009
Team Cymru has created a YouTube channel in order to share short videos (3-5 minutes each) on a variety of security topics. "The Who and Why Show" provides a weekly dose of insight and information on all things from the Underground Economy. read more
Blast from the Past: Wigley on Morgan
Miss Wagstaff Presents... | December 2nd 2009 by Pippa Wagstaff
Slow-retiring First Minister Rhodri Morgan made two big mistakes during his near decade in office, according to former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Wigley.In an article written for Ninnau, the North American Welsh newspaper that is largely compliment read more
Wales – do-able in a lifetime, according to historian and autho…
Americymru | December 2nd 2009 by ceri shaw
Bijou but beautiful - Wales may be small but that just makes it all the easier to get to know and love. All within easy reach; accessible and inspiring, enchanting and evocative. And if you need more encouragement to get out and about, the in read more
General election timetable, 2010
Mark Pack's blog | November 30th 2009 by Mark Pack
There's a handy summary of the timetable for March, April, May or June 2010 general elections in a research paper produced earlier this year by the House of Commons Library. The paper is here and the timetables are on page 13. Related posts:Lib Dem read more
Rhy Roberts
videocharmers | November 28th 2009 by johnpaul
Rhydian Roberts, was born in Wales and attended the Pontsenni Cylch Meithrin and then went onto Ysgol y Bannau Welsh medium school in Brecon. He is a native Welsh speaker. He represented the school and Powys in the Urdd Gobaith Cymru Eisteddfod from read more
Cymru
He Dances For Nickels | November 27th 2009
Don't quote me on this, but I believe it is the highest selling Welsh language album of all time.I can't imagine that was a difficult record to break.Super Furry Animals - Mwng (Disc 1) (Disc 2). ??? New. read more
The Story Of A Welsh-Russian Town Hughesovka - Multi-Media Packag…
Americymru | November 24th 2009 by ceri shaw
Thursday 26 November sees the Cardiff launch of Y Lolfa’s first book-DVD package, at Womanby Street’s bar, Y Fuwch Goch. Multi-prize-winning TV documentary film maker Colin Thomas’ awards include three from BAFTA Cymru, as well as the Prix read more
Greenlit: Snowdonia Farmhouse, BBC Cymru Wales
Everything you need to get your factual TV programme commiss… | November 24th 2009
Snowdonia Farmhouse - Social history reality series in which two Welsh families will live in 19th century conditions in a Victorian hillside cottage. Channel: BBC Cymru Wales Producer: Indus Television Source: Broadcast read more
Free Places Screensaver download
CHILLAPPLE Everthing made Free. | November 21st 2009 by S. VINUKIRAN
Across the miles Screensaver from coot n brown€s wild theme series The author's homepage. 95/98/NT/2000. 6.4MB Africa Photographs from Africa. 1.2MB Alaska Photos from Alaska, USA. The author's read more
Limba engleza : Anotimpurile
ATELIER WEB 2.0 | November 19th 2009 by avram
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/seasons/eng/Introduction/default.htm read more
Cat breeds - The Cymric cat
My cats' diary | November 18th 2009 by Maria
To be honest, until a couple of minutes ago, I completely ignored the existence of this breed: Cymric derives from Cymru, the Celtic word for Whales and is pronounced "kim-rik" or "kum-rik". However her origins have nothing to do with Whales. The read more
Snooker Legends: Five more dates added
Pro Snooker Blog | November 16th 2009
Following the announcement of eight dates for the new Snooker Legends series last week, the group behind the events have announced a further five dates scheduled for 2010… And the dates and venues are: Thursday 15th July 2010, Venue Cymru, Lla read more
Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys
The Teenage Theatre Critic | November 16th 2009 by Teenage Theatre Critic
From Backstreet to Bad Boys but sadly without losing the commercial edge. Bryn Terfel's latest tour, largely to promote his new album, has a distinctly iffy whiff of money about it. It's lucky then that Terfel is both highly charismatic and the posse read more
País de Gales - Cymru - Wales - Nação Celta.
Celtas Today | November 13th 2009 by fellipe
País de Gales “O Tigre Celta”País de Gales Cymru em galês e Wales em inglês é uma das nações que constituem o Reino Unido e é uma das Sete Nações Celtas. Porém o País de Gales é autônomo em relação à coroa britânica e sua capita read more
Bloc Party, Venue Cymru Llandudno, 18th October 2009.
Mumble Mumble... | November 12th 2009 by Wendy Dawson
Not a great gig really, the band were arrogant (not always a bad thing but it didn't work this time) and looked like they weren't talking to eachother. The set had it's high points, but on the whole nothing about this gig enriched my life one bit.Edi read more
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