The Swansea-born actress won an Oscar in 2003 for her performance in the musical Chicago, and a Tony in 2010 for her Broadway performance of A Little Night Music. She’s one half of a Hollywood power-duo with husband Michael Douglas. ‘Zeta’, by the way, was the name of a ship tha...
Welsh name:Abertawe ("estuary (or mouth) of the River Tawe") Swansea is the second-largest city in Wales. The urban university city is in the south of the country, on the coast, and has the River Tawe running through it (again, hence the name). The city also has a strong focus on...
Byline: Nathan BevanLIVING in an abandoned Tennessee school house with no heating or hot water and only a blind stray dog for company, is an unusual situation in which to find a 76 year old from Swansea.But nothing about Stan Brock's eventful life can be described as normal, having ...
Wales Air Ambulance covers the whole of Wales every single day. Each year our helicopters attend around 2,500 missions, covering rural countryside and our bustling towns and cities.
who will be performing songs from the Great American Songbook inspired by the classic recordings from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. The resident house pianist at Swansea Jazz Club for the past 30 years, Dave has a wealth of musical experience, while since graduating from ...
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In 1984, a young designer by the name of Takashi Tezuka was tasked with devising the story and setting for a new game. An exploration epic inspired by his colleague’s childhood obsession with adventuring through the caves around Kyoto, Tezuka decided to delve into his own childhood...
Blackwood’s Edinburgh MagazineJanuary 26/2), but there was no hint of any use for NSW. So is this a nonce, perhaps jokey, usage by the governor or is the adjective occasionally used that way, flying below the radar of the OED?
Swansea had a skittles alley and we played all our matches in a pub in Pontardawe which is approximately 10 miles from Swansea. We always ordered fried chicken in the basket for each member of both teams during the interval, but the meal was affectionately known across the country as the...
One grey day in April I travel to LlanwrtydWells to meet the Green Events team as they prepare for a new season. My train from Swansea consists of a single carriage and at certain stations only stops on request. At the entrance of the Neuadd I’m greeted by Bob Greenough, 78, a direc...