South Wales Evening Post back issues from June 2007:
Shapes mark the landscape
Jun 01, 2007 ... Bryan Moss Ceri Richards Gallery, Taliesin, until Saturday, June 23 THE colours and forms of nature are explored in a new exhibitionat the Ceri Richards Gallery, at Swansea's Taliesin Arts Centre. The solo show from Bryan Moss focuses on abstract shapes andmarkings ...
Family time
Jun 01, 2007 ... Our local beaches are a great asset. CATHRYN INGS picks the bestfor a family day out THERE is no better place for a family day out than the beach. And when it comes to beaches, we in Swansea and the surroundingareas are spoilt for choice. Whether you like the fun, ...
Remake limps along
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Hitcher (15) Director:Dave Meyers. Cast: Zachary Knighton, Sophia Bush, SeanBean, Neal McDonough. THE original 1986 version of The Hitcher, written by Eric Red,contrived a nerve- shredding game of cat and mouse between a driverand a psychotic drifter. Rutger ...
Tragic tale of lust and lies
Jun 01, 2007 ... Tosca Grand Theatre, Swansea, Wednesday TOP Italian-based soprano Natalia Margarit will be tackling one ofthe most challenging opera roles in a tragic story of lust, love andlies in Swansea next week. The visit of Ellen Kent and Opera International's lavishproduction ...
Play makes big splash
Jun 01, 2007 ... Swansea-based physical theatre company Volcano is planning to makea bigger splash than normal as it prepares to premiere its latestproduction. In the midst of worries over hosepipe bans, drought orders andclimate change, Volcano has been storing up its water resources readyfor an ...
Welsh way with family values
Jun 01, 2007 ... Whose Coat is that Jacket? Grand Theatre, Swansea, Thursday & Friday A NEW, professional theatre company based in Swansea launches nextweek with its debut production - which has already almost sold out. Whose Coat is that Jacket? by Jack Llewellyn is a Welsh ...
Students take grand finale
Jun 01, 2007 ... Showcase Grand Theatre, Swansea, Monday and Tuesday FINAL year performing arts students from Swansea Institute willtake to the Grand Theatre stage next week with their 2007 Showcase. The showcase is the result of three years' hard work, and willcover every aspect ...
Concert to raise tourette's funds
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Tireless worker for Tourette's Syndrome sufferers returns to hishome patch next weekend to promote a major fund-raising concert. Cerith Owens, now director of fund-raising and awareness for theTourette's Syndrome (UK) Association, was born in Cwmtwrch and wentto school in ...
Legend paco's taliesin date
Jun 01, 2007 ... Pace Pena Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, Thursday FLAMENCO legend Paco Pea is currently on his first tour of Wales,and stops off at Swansea's Taliesin Arts Centre on Thursday. As guitarist, composer, dramatist, producer and artistic mentor hehas transformed perceptions ...
Symphonic treat for music-lovers
Jun 01, 2007 ... Charismatic conductor Tadaaki Otaka winds up the BBC NationalOrchestra of Wales Swansea season on Thursday with a programme thatincludes one of the most popular symphonic works. The orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony,alongside works by British composers ...
More great films at city festival
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Swansea Bay Film Festival 2007 continues next week with awhole host of films from all over the world. Films from as far away as the United States, Australia and Europewill be shown at screens in the Swansea area. Venues include the Dylan Thomas Centre, the Ibis Hotel at ...
Ex-child star canvasses controversy with show
Jun 01, 2007 ... By anyone's standards, Lauren Harries has lived a complicated,troubled life. And now she has turned to art as a release from its stresses. Lauren, formerly known as James, was a familiar face on TV as ayoungster during the 1980s, as an antique expert. She launches her ...
Welcome to world of wonderful food
Jun 01, 2007 ... Right, this is going to be the easiest meal review I have everdone, I thought. No more lurking in dark corners scribbling down choices and pricesinbetween courses - it was all on the internet. Or so I deluded myself. I printed out a menu from www.thewelcometotown.co.uk ...
What you need to know:
Jun 01, 2007 ... Where is it? The Welcome To Town restaurant is in the centre ofNorth Gower village Llanrhidian. It is near the Dolphin Inn. What are the prices like? Two courses on the lunch menu costpounds15.95 each. Three courses are pounds19.95. Is there room for the car? The restaurant ...
Win copy of t-rex on TV
Jun 01, 2007 ... Thirty year's after Marc Bolan's death, the sounds of thecharismatic showman and his band T-Rex are still picking up fans. A shiny new release from Demon Music, T-Rex on TV, is a collection of the band's greatest TV interviews and performances , with contributions from his ...
Jazz column
Jun 01, 2007 ... The weekly live jazz music sessions continue tonight at the BayView, Oystermouth Road, Swansea. On Friday at 7.30 pm, the Henley Farrell Big Band can be heard atTaliesin Arts Centre, Swansea. This band performs a wide-ranging programme drawn from GlennMiller to Count Basie ...
Club column
Jun 01, 2007 ... Here we go again - your weekend starts here TONIGHT the Monkey Cafe on Castle Street offers a night of allsorts with Mashed Up. The clue is in the title, but this is a nightwhere anything goes, from reggae to hip-hop, breaks to dub. Keep youreyes peeled for local break- dancing ...
Who will bring 24-carat rock
Jun 01, 2007 ... Accept no substitute - The Who bring some 24-carat rock stardom toSwansea's Liberty Stadium tonight. As inaugural gigs go it couldn't get much better for the venue andfor the city. Fans of their generation will remember queuing up to see the bandtear it up at The Vetch 31 ...
Heavy hitters
Jun 01, 2007 ... Sonic Brew Royal Exchange, Neath, June 22 SONIC Brew will shred their way through a night of Zakk Wylde'stowering numbers at the Royal Exchange, Neath. The New Jersey rocker never likes to stray too far fromcontroversy and his wildman image has been enhanced of late ...
Sun, sea and riffs
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Holloways Sin City, Swansea, Monday THE Holloways are part of a fizzy slew of young acts plugging intothe retro pop sensibilities of fun, sun and party songs. In their world, rhythm and groove need the natural sweetener ofmelody, and the grubbiest corners of modern ...
Folk column
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Series of concerts go ahead this weekend featuring Irish andWelsh music. Celtic Connections features Ammanford's Henry Marten's Ghostand Pembrokeshire-based Lowri Evans. The first takes place atRhiwfawr Village Hall tonight with the second tomorrow night, atGwynfe Village ...
David gets the Friday feeling
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Friday Night Project C4, 11.05 S4C, 12.05am IT'S the end of another working week, so settle back with a glassof something fizzy and prepare to have your ribs tickled, courtesy ofa new series of this popular entertainment show. Regulars Justin Lee Collins and Alan ...
Also . . . Tonight
Jun 01, 2007 ... Coronation Street, ITV1 Wales, 7.30pm CARLA (Alison King) tells Leanne (Jane Danson) she has set up ameeting for them with a financial adviser, then phones Frank Taylor(Robert Whelan) and arranges a drink with him. Later in the Rovers,Leanne walks in with Liam and is horrified to ...
Recycling charity is riding high
Jun 01, 2007; ... Business is booming for Swansea-based charity Re-Cycle thanks toreaders of the Evening Post. The scheme revamps and recycles old bikes, selling them on atcheap prices to unemployed people, people with low incomes andasylum seekers. Bosses say responses from the public to an ...
Calendar dares to go bare
Jun 01, 2007; ... A Few strategically placed props and maybe the application of oneor two flesh-coloured sticking plasters will preserve the modesty of pharmacy staff about to embark on a semi-naked calendar shoot. The ladies who dare to bare will be getting their kit off nextmonth for what promises ...
Search for dog of the decade
Jun 01, 2007; ... It will be a decade of waggy tails for the Llys Nini animal centreon Sunday. And to celebrate the RSPCA branch's tenth year, staff are invitingevery dog from the past 10 years to take part in a Dog of the Decadeshow. It will form part of this year's annual dog show, held to ...
Landmark for D-Day veteran and his bride
Jun 01, 2007 ... Swansea D-Day veteran George Harris has celebrated his 60thwedding anniversary to wife Mary. The 91-year old former soldier, who left the Army as a SergeantMajor in 1967 and moved to Gwydr Crescent in the Uplands, and wasmarried to his sweetheart from Sandfields at the Guildhall ...
Smokers could get pill to help stub out habit
Jun 01, 2007; ... Welsh smokers could be offered a prescription-only pill on the NHSto help them kick the habit for good. The first non-nicotine drug, Varenicline - also known as Champix -has been given the thumbs-up after trials showed almost half of thosewho took it managed to quit. Draft ...
Litter louts face spot fines
Jun 01, 2007; ... Litter louts in Swansea have just days to mend their ways or facethe consequences. Monday is D-Day in the city - drop litter in the streets and youcould be landed with a pounds75 fine. Council wardens and Police Community Support Officers will be outand about from Monday to ...
Civic leaders' message for attack victim
Jun 01, 2007; ... Town leaders in Ammanford have sent get well wishes to the victimof a vicious attack in the town. Paul Pugh (pictured), the 27-year-old captain of Cwmaman FC, wasleft fighting for his life after he was attacked in Ammanford's QuayStreet, last January. Paul cannot walk, talk, ...
Drunk attacker spared jail to look after son
Jun 01, 2007; ... A 23-year-old man who beat a man up in an unprovoked attack hasavoided a prison term so he can look after his sick son. Barry Wayne Clarke, of Cae Bad Terrace, Llanelli was handed athree-month prison sentence for common assault on May 30 by townmagistrates. His sentence was ...
School offers fun of fair
Jun 01, 2007 ... Copperworks School Parents and Friends Association will hold asummer fair on June 9. The fair is being held in association with Carmarthenshire Youthand Children's Association. Taking part in the displays will be ...
Peanut topping the bill
Jun 01, 2007 ... Christine Williams cannot speak highly enough of the animal centrewhich saved her dog's life. Peanut was born deaf and blind four years ago, and his formerowner took him to Llys Nini and told staff there that if they didn'ttake him, he would be destroyed. Luckily staff did ...
Young people hammer home speed warning
Jun 01, 2007; ... Youngsters armed with speed cameras have been taking to thestreets to tell motorists to watch their speed. They have been recruited to hammer home the message "speed kills"after residents in Penlan complained about the number of driversbreaking the limit. The Speedwatch ...
New drills for rugby aces
Jun 01, 2007 ... Carmarthen Quins rugby club has pulled in the talents of an armysergeant to help train their under-16s team as they gear up for theirexciting summer tour. Sergeant Lee Rees works as a recruiter in the Carmarthen ArmyCareers Information Office on Lammas Street. Sergeant Rees ...
Tower of strength
Jun 01, 2007; ... Teacher Katy Jones is hoping her body beautiful will out-muscle the competition at this year's Miss Universe final. But the 30-year-old head of PE at Daniel James School in Treboethis also eager to prove that size isn't everything. Judges at the final being staged in Southport ...
Record crowds
Jun 01, 2007 ... Another record was broken on the second day of competition at theUrdd Eisteddfod in Carmarthenshire. Visitor numbers were up ...
Working together
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Strategic partnership agreement has been signed which will allowUrdd activities to be considered when developing national policiesand strategies. The document was signed by Welsh Local Government Associationpresiding officer Meryl Gravell and Urdd Gobaith Cymru ...
Festival gets into Top Gear
Jun 01, 2007 ... Tuesday was renamed Gravell's Day, as the Gwendraeth Valley cardealership was the main sponsor of the Urdd. Gravells of Kidwelly is also sponsoring a number of other eventson and off the field. Managing director Jonathan Gravell said: "We feel very proud tobe able to work ...
Film drives home road safety need
Jun 01, 2007; ... A New hard-hitting film, written by and featuring talent fromCarmarthenshire, has been launched at the Urdd, aimed at youngdrivers. The film has been shot in and around Carmarthen by students fromTrinity College with help and advice from Llanelli-based independentmedia company ...
Opencast plan rapped
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Plan to develop an opencast mine near Port Talbot has beenlabelled a "horrible mistake". Assembly member Alun Cairns has joined with anti-opencastcampaigners in Neath Port Talbot and urged the planning department toturn down an application to extend mining at Margam. Celtic ...
Gay protesters supported
Jun 01, 2007 ... Swansea University staff and students have joined a campaign toprotest against homophobia in Russia after a group of gay rightsactivists came under attack from neo-Nazi thugs on Sunday. The activists were trying to present a petition asking Moscow'smayor, Yuri Luzhkov, to lift a ...
Beauty spot theft warning
Jun 01, 2007 ... Police have issued a warning to day-trippers not to leavevaluables in their cars after a vehicle was broken into at a beautyspot in the Swansea Valley. Fifty-year-old Ann Morgan, of Mynyddgarnllwyd Road, Morriston, hadher Renault Clio targeted at the Henrhyd Falls near Abercrave ...
Can u tecst?
Jun 01, 2007 ... A New texting service in Welsh has been launched at the Urdd. Tecstio is a new free predictive texting programme available ...
Eco festival's big leap forward
Jun 01, 2007 ... Carmarthenshire's Urdd has been the most environmentally-friendlyEisteddfod yet. For the first time in the festival's history, eisteddfod visitorsare able to recycle their rubbish. Carmarthenshire Council is providing recycling bins for paper,cardboard, plastic and cans at ...
Climate action plan
Jun 01, 2007 ... An initiative to help tackle climate change has been launched atthe eisteddfod. Urdd Gobaith Cymru and Environment Agency Wales have joined forcesfor a two-year project aimed at seeking opportunities to promoteawareness of climate change among the Urdd's membership. Chris ...
Pupils spread message of world peace
Jun 01, 2007; ... Youngsters from a Carmarthenshire performing arts school took tothe main stage to perform the Message of Peace and Goodwill as itcelebrated a special milestone. More than 80 youngsters from Ysgol Berfformio Dyffryn Tywiperformed during the 85th anniversary of the message, which ...
Medics battle to overcome bed shortage
Jun 01, 2007; ... The winter beds crisis that left Neath Port Talbot Hospital staffstruggling is not getting better, even though winter has long gone. Medics and nurses are still battling to maintain the best qualitycare for patients even though there are times when every bed is full. Although ...
Motorist cleared of danger driving
Jun 01, 2007; ... A Neath Valley motorist has been cleared of driving dangerouslyafter smashing into two cars that had collided with each othermoments before his car hit them. But 46-year-old Hugh Church was found guilty of a lesser offenceof driving without due care and attention in the ...
Residents rage as homes bid back on table
Jun 01, 2007; ... Campaigning Baglan residents face having victory cruelly snatchedfrom them just weeks after celebrating the end of a fight to stop acontroversial development of flats going ahead. An action group led by comedian Rob Brydon's mum forced developersto go back to the drawing board even ...
Carmarthenshire trio romp home in poetry competition
Jun 01, 2007 ... Carmarthenshire's poets have swept the board at this year's UrddEisteddfod. Bard Hywel Griffiths, of Carmarthen, won the Chair yesterday -which had been made and designed in the county. Eurig Sailsbury, originally from Carmarthen, came second and IwanRhys, originally from ...
Outcry sparks park future debate call
Jun 01, 2007; ... Swansea Council leader Chris Holley has called for what he calls a"proper debate" on the future of Swansea's biggest park as a venuefor events. There has been a huge outcry over plans to hold three-day rockconcert Fflam in Singleton Park this July. However, it is not thefirst ...
Grave vandals behead angel
Jun 01, 2007; ... Bereaved families have been left devastated by an attack ongravestones at a Swansea cemetery. Vandals wrecked 24 headstones and beheaded a stone angel at StPeter's graveyard in Cockett in the attack. The Rev Mark Williams of St Peter's church said the cemetery hadbeen ...
Driver banned
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Swansea man has been banned for driving after he was caught overthe drink-drive limit. Mariusz Sowinski, of Pentremalwed Road, was charged with theoffence on May 5 this year. City magistrates heard Sowinski, aged 26, committed the ...
Insulting behaviour
Jun 01, 2007 ... A 34-year-old Swansea man who used threatening, abusive orinsulting words or behaviour has been given a six-month conditionaldischarge by city magistrates. Ceri Carter, ...
Walk for hospital patients
Jun 01, 2007 ... Swansea's Ty Olwen care hospital is holding a walk and prayerservice on Saturday, July 7. The event will be held in memory of those who have died at thehospital and in support of those ...
Lord Coe's stadium date for key government talk
Jun 01, 2007 ... Lord Sebastian Coe and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain will be amongthe key speakers at the Welsh Local Government annual conference atSwansea's Liberty Stadium from Wednesday to Friday. Lord Coe, chair of the London Olympic Games 2012 organisingcommittee, will also share a stage with ...
Summer fete
Jun 01, 2007 ... Murton Methodist Church is holding a ...
Asda protesters favour 'dignified approach'
Jun 01, 2007 ... Protesters against a proposed Asda store in Gorseinon will notdemonstrate if planners decide to hold a site visit. A town businessman against the development said waving placardsduring such a visit was not the answer. Phillip Sillick, secretary of the town's Chamber of Trade, ...
Mayor's charities support
Jun 01, 2007 ... Llwchwr Council's new mayor says he hopes to end 35 years ofcouncil service by supporting two Loughor charities. Mayor Raymond James has chosen Loughor Inshore Rescue and LoughorSt John Ambulance as his chosen charities for the year. He said both voluntary ...
Therapy boost
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Charity coffee evening to raise funds for the Children's TherapyCentre at Hill House Hospital, Swansea, takes place on ...
Star attraction
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Liverpool football shirt signed by star player Steven Gerrard isamong the items up for grabs at a silent auction in St ...
Fire station plans could see 'winners and losers' Pontardawe fire station could soon be run by a part-time crew during the night. The proposal would see standby firefighters respond to emergencies during night-time, while a new station would be built at the top of the Swansea and Amman Valley. But the plans have been greeted with concern by many living nearby. NINO WILLIAMS reports.
Jun 01, 2007 ... Pontardawe fire station could soon be run by a part-time crewduring the night. The proposal would see standby firefighters respondto emergencies during night-time, while a new station would be builtat the top of the Swansea and Amman Valley. But the plans have beengreeted with concern ...
Warning over letters promising top prizes
Jun 01, 2007 ... Letters offering top prizes in return for money have been landingon doormats around Swansea. The mail, from Prize Verification Services, promises people thechance to win a Ford Ka, a home entertainment system or pounds2,000in cash. But contestants have to send off pounds8 to ...
Drug abuse at garage sparks residents' fear
Jun 01, 2007 ... Drug users have been shooting up and crashing out in a disusedNeath garage. The makeshift drugs den off Rockfield Terrace is causinghouseholders in the area growing concerns. "There are needles, cans and all sorts of debris in that garage,"a worried resident told this month's ...