South Wales Evening Post back issues from May 2008:
Boys are back for life of crime
May 01, 2008 ... The Invisibles BBC1 Wales, 9pm WHAT happens when the Costa Del Crime costs too much for retiredcrooks? They come home and settle in Devon, of course. That's the unlikely idea behind this good-looking comedy drama,featuring the likes of Warren Clarke, Anthony Head, Dean ...
Charming encounter ; Kathryn Lay samples a leisurely Sunday lunch at the White Lion.
May 01, 2008 ... Kathryn Lay samples a leisurely Sunday lunch at the White Lion. You don't need much of an excuse to visit the charming littlevillage of Ferryside. That view as you drive down from Kidwelly, of a long expanse ofclean, pale sand, its pretty church, and its Brigadoon sense of ...
Ballerina's lessons for hip-hoppers ; Hip-hop is turning to ballet, says KATHRYN LAY
May 01, 2008 ... Hip-hop is turning to ballet, says KATHRYN LAY Award-winning hip-hop and street dancers will pick up some pointetips with their popping thanks to their latest recruit at theGroundswell Dance Company HQ. The group, newly based at a studio in Oxford Street, overlookingthe Grand ...
Shakespeare's sister gets to grip with bard
May 01, 2008 ... A Captivating glimpse into Shakespeare's own domestic drama isexplored by scholar and author Germaine Greer at Pontardawe ArtsCentre on Wednesday. Some versions of his wife Ann Hathaway see her as a jealous ...
Festival organisers in volunteers call
May 01, 2008 ... The projectors are primed and ready to roll for Swansea FilmFestival, which will see movie fans and movie-makers descend on thecity for screenings of entertaining, thought-provoking and inventiveworks. With an awards ceremony, all-day screenings, workshops andyoungsters' projects ...
What you need to know:
May 01, 2008 ... Verdict? The White Lion isn't a gastro-pub and it makes noconcessions to trendiness in its menu or in its presentation. Butit is a great example of well-cooked, traditional food served in arelaxed, home-from-home local and at a ...
Bet on Ashton for laughs
May 01, 2008 ... It's refreshing to find that an actor who has you in stitches onscreen is equally entertaining in person. And Ashton Kutcher is goodcompany. The 30-year-old Dude, Where's My Car? star is back on form inWhat Happens In Vegas alongside the ever-bubbly Cameron Diaz, andwas in jovial ...
Theatre takes on film classic
May 01, 2008 ... It's something of a young man's dream come true for studentMatthew Maxwell-Carr, who allows himself to be seduced by an olderwoman next week - all in the line of duty. Matthew, aged 19, is a new face in Swansea theatre, cast asBenjamin in the classic story The Graduate, launched by ...
History dances onto the stage
May 01, 2008 ... Welsh dance performer Eddie Ladd delves into one of her favouritesubjects in her latest show to visit Swansea. It's six years since the avant garde dancer last visited TaliesinArts Centre - and true to form she is rolling back the boundaries ina mixed media production called Cof y ...
Anything goes!
May 01, 2008 ... Anything Goes in Carmarthen next week as the local amateuroperatic society sets sail in one of Cole Porter's finest musicals. The action takes place on the SS American, where convicts onthe ...
Comic brings chums to city
May 01, 2008 ... Paul Merton owes a lot to Swansea. The 50-year-old comic is atthe top of his game, appearing on screen in everything from atopical news quiz to a Chinese travelogue. But it began in the city where all good things come from - at StJude's Church Hall, Mount Pleasant, to be ...
Comedy crosses cultural divide
May 01, 2008 ... It's the north-south clash of the comedy giants in Swansea nextweek, as Phoenix Nights sensation Dave Spikey goes back-to-back withimproviser Paul Merton. The two funnymen are separated by just 24 hours at the city'sGrand Theatre. And with the cheers from Joe Calzaghe's ...
Belly good night
May 01, 2008 ... Belly dancing isn't just for exotic-looking ladies. Ozgen takes to the floor at Baglan Social Club on Saturday, May10, for a belly dance Halfa, from 7.30pm until ...
Rock is alive and kicking
May 01, 2008 ... Scot rockers Simple Minds celebrate 30 years of music making byreliving their New Gold Dream. The band are tuning up for a special performance of their 1982album at Cardiff's CIA on Tuesday, December 2. The Evening Post is offering one lucky reader and their guest thechance ...
American idol brings miracle
May 01, 2008 ... Monkey Cafe welcomes painter, singer and media darling Tom Baxteron Thursday, May 15, as part of its Made in Americana event. Miracle, the latest single from Tom's album Skybound, is releasedon Monday, June 2. During his recent US tour, the singer was invited to perform ...
Be a cockney sparrow
May 01, 2008 ... The Fountain Inn, Pontarddulais, will roll out the barrel for anEast End-themed night on Friday, May 9, to raise cash for theNational Blind Children's Society. If you fancy a singalong around the piano, you might ...
All aboard for ride to new art station
May 01, 2008 ... Artworks from popular local painters, glassworkers and jewellery-makers are on the menu at The Junction Cafe, which has reopenedafter a revamp with a new look and a new ethos. Visitors to Mumbles galleries will be familiar with some of theartists showing at the new exhibition ...
Everybody needs good neighbours
May 01, 2008 ... "UPON this rock I will build my church" were, according to thebook of Matthew, the words of Jesus to his follower Peter, and localbands seem to be taking it literally. St Peter's Church, Cockett, will host a concert to raise cashfor neighbouring St Barnabas Church, Waunarlwyyd, ...
Bands come together to raise cash
May 01, 2008 ... Up-and-coming and established rock and pop outfits will clubtogether to raise cash for Romanian Aid Organisation at Swansea'sMilkwoodjam on Saturday, May 24. Kiddo360, Sierra Alpha, Black Amber, the Illegal Amigoz, AcousticZeppelin and Orange Fall are ...
The bigger gigs
May 01, 2008 ... What: Paul Weller When: Thursday, November 20 Where: Cardiff CIA Tickets: pounds30, on sale from tomorrow, call 029 20 224488 What: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Where: Cardiff Millennium ...
Feel the blues this weekend ; Admiral Mumbles Mostly Jazz and Blues Festival
May 01, 2008 ... Admiral Mumbles Mostly Jazz and Blues Festival Swansea Jazzland favourites Hamish Stuart, The Brian BreezeRhythm and Blues Band, as well as the BBC Big Band are some of thehighlights of this year's Mumbles Mostly Jazz and Blues Festivalthis weekend. Jazzman-about-town Dave ...
Beauty's top idea
May 01, 2008 ... A Swansea beauty is asking people to get their tops off for afund-raising mission. Kylie Hearne is collecting screw-caps from milk cartons - andsays she needs as many as she can get. She will hand them over to bosses of Lupus UK, who will get cashfor the plastic ...
Solicitors help children to take cover
May 01, 2008 ... Green-fingered solicitors have been getting their hands dirty ina Swansea school garden. Employees from John Collins and Partners LLP solicitors (JCP),who are based in Valley Way, Swansea Enterprise Park, were giventime off to undertake a garden makeover at Morriston Primary ...
Warning plea over cold-call tricksters
May 01, 2008; ... New pay-as-you-go phone owners in the area have been warned to beon their guard against cold callers. Swansea Council's trading standards team are investigating anumber of companies working in the area who are making unsolicitedcalls to new mobile phone users attempting to sell ...
Society laughing all way to the bank despite crunch
May 01, 2008 ... While most lenders are licking their wounds following the globalcredit crunch, Swansea Building Society's business model has left itsitting pretty. At a time when most mortgage lenders are reeling from theinternational credit crunch and money is becoming more expensive toborrow ...
Scout's honour, it's a movement for success ; The Scouting movement has come a long way since the days of woggles, dib dib dib and Scout's honour, says CHRIS PEREGRINE.
May 01, 2008; ... The Scouting movement has come a long way since the days ofwoggles, dib dib dib and Scout's honour, says CHRIS PEREGRINE. Until not all that long ago, it had all the symptoms of anorganisation in the dying throes of its final days. What a difference a few years can ...
Business guide to open up deaf access
May 01, 2008 ... The Royal National Institute for the Deaf Cymru has launched amust-have advice guide to help businesses open up their service tothe 480,000 deaf and hard of hearing people in Wales. The charity's not-for-profit retail arm is advising companies onwhat help and equipment they need to ...
Pool club is dream come true
May 01, 2008 ... A Former Swansea girl is opening a leisure club in St Clears. Elizabeth Davies, who hails from Overton, and her husband Dyfrig,have opened a 40ft swimming pool with a spa, sauna, state-of- the-art gymnasium and coffee lounge. Called the Llety Cynin Leisure Club, it will create ...
New boss at funerals
May 01, 2008 ... Port Talbot's oldest-established funeral directors has a new manat the helm. Forty-two-year-old Andrew Akins is the new boss at Cockwellsfuneral directors in Cwmavon. The company, which has been in business for 150 years, has beenrun in recent years by Keith ...
Blitz on company fire law apathy
May 01, 2008 ... A Fire safety campaign aimed at helping businesses with fire riskassessments has been launched to ensure firms comply with new laws. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order which came into forceon October 1, 2006, applies in all buildings except single privatedwellings. The ...
PR firm tops table at awards
May 01, 2008; ... Swansea-based Mgb PR has reaffirmed its status as Wales's leadingspecialist public relations agency by picking up a coveted award ata glitzy ceremony in Birmingham. The event was attended by the crme da la crme of the UK's PRindustry. The award follows on from the firm's ...
Raise a glass to closed pub
May 01, 2008 ... There was a time for many in Swansea that a mention of CardiffArms meant one thing and one thing only. What came to mind was not a vision of Gareth Edwards heading forthe try line once again, but of some good old rock'n'roll. The Cardiff Arms was the much-loved Swansea pub, ...
This week in . . .
May 01, 2008 ... 1952 Newcastle United became the first football team since 1891to win two English FA Cup Finals in succession by beating Arsenal 1-0. 1954 Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile on theIffley Road track in Oxford, in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. 1960 Princess Margaret ...
Tale of famous bank robbery
May 01, 2008; ... It is a tale from a different era when Port Talbot was known asTreasure Island because of the wealth brought into the town by thenew steelworks. During that time - the 1950s and 1960s - thousands of men andwomen earned very high wages working for the Steel Company of ...
Holidaymakers intrigued by graveyard discovery
May 01, 2008 ... In a cemetery in an old mining town in South Africa stands amemorial to a Swansea man. Edward Thomas, son of Thomas A Thomas of Llansamlet, died on June30 1915, at the age of 38. His grave was discovered by ex-Swansea couple Hugh and LesleyJones on their travels. Once they ...
Green grant
May 01, 2008 ... The Neath Port Talbot Countryside and Environmental Group ...
Fresh look for food store
May 01, 2008 ... Bosses at Morrisons are freshening up their Neath supermarket. Over the next week the store's Market Street will be given abrighter and fresher look, with fresh food counters allowingcustomers to see specialists at ...
Youths' fire warning
May 01, 2008; ... A School boss has warned youngsters in Neath to learn from thehard lesson imposed on two teenage arsonists who are now facingprison. Crynallt Infants' chairman of governors Peter Rees has alsocalled on the two teens to give a public apology. Paul Darren Jones and Michael ...
Boxing fan fined after lashing out at police station
May 01, 2008; ... A Neath man who stayed up until the early hours to watch a JoeCalzaghe boxing match went on to throw a few punches of his own,magistrates have heard. After tuning in to watch the Welsh legend complete his 45thundefeated fight, Richard John Davies was seen on CCTV punching ...
Student has got criminals' number
May 01, 2008; ... Criminals could soon find their number's up thanks to thepioneering work of a Port Talbot student. Paul Owen aims to change the way mobile phones are used incriminal investigations across the world. As mobiles become more sophisticated, the data on them can beused to paint ...
U-turn over cab licence by council
May 01, 2008; ... A Swansea man stopped from getting a taxi licence by councilofficials was given the green light to drive a school bus. Chris Houlihan was bitterly disappointed when Swansea Councilrefused him a hackney carriage licence. The father-of-two dearly wanted the licence so he could ...
Building firms probe
May 01, 2008; ... Two firms carrying out major building schemes in Carmarthen arebeing investigated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over allegedbid-rigging. Simons Group - part of which, Simons Developments, is currentlyworking on bringing a multi-million pound retail scheme to the town -and ...
Couple's hope for holidays
May 01, 2008 ... A Retreat-style holiday site - thought to be one of the first ofits kind in Carmarthenshire - could be on the way to Crwbin. Plans are in place to create the eco-camping facility, which willboast yurts which sleep two adults each, at Faerie-Thyme, Bryn yCoed. The application ...
Pals' cash tribute to tragic dad
May 01, 2008; ... Factory workers in Llanelli have raised thousands of pounds inmemory of a former colleague killed in a tragic forklift accident. Staff at Calsonic Kansei collected around pounds3,100 for theWales Air Ambulance in tribute to 35-year-old Darren Small, fromLoughor, who had worked at ...
Davies sacked in region shake-up
May 01, 2008; ... Llanelli has been rocked by the shock news that Scarlets coachPhil Davies has left the region. In the town which famously drank the pubs dry after its rugbyheroes beat the 1972 All Blacks, the sport is a main staple in manyof its residents' lives. The talk echoing along ...
New bishop service
May 01, 2008 ... The new bishop of Swansea and Brecon is to be consecrated thisweek. The service for the Very Rev John Davies will take place atLandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, on Friday at 2.30pm. He will then be enthroned as the ninth Bishop of Swansea andBrecon in Brecon Cathedral on May 24, ...
Coaches to spread keep-fit message
May 01, 2008 ... The Llanelli Scarlets are taking their health and wellbeingmessage into the gym this weekend. Coaches from the region are to host a circuit training sessionat Llanelli Leisure Centre on Saturday from noon to 1pm. Rugby development officer Chris Spriggs said: "This is part ...
Citroen saxo stolen from driveway
May 01, 2008 ... Ystradgynlais police are investigating the theft of a blueCitroen Saxo. The vehicle was stolen from a driveway in Dinas ...
Talking plants
May 01, 2008 ... Harold Grenfell will give a talk and slideshow on wild Gowerplants at the next meeting of Sketty and District ...
Pixie hops to help people battling cancer
May 01, 2008; ... They were the must- have toy from the 1970s - and now they havebounced back to Swansea for a cancer charity fund-raiser with adifference. Pennard's Pixie Taylor decided to organise a Space Hopperthon ather local parish hall to raise cash for Macmillan Cancer Support. The ...
Katherine set to belt out anthem at FA Cup final
May 01, 2008 ... Singing superstar Katherine Jenkins (pictured) has sent hercongratulations to the Swans - before hoping to inspire rivalsCardiff to FA Cup glory. The rugby fan is swapping games as the Welsh sporting successstory continues. She will be the first performer to sing the Welsh ...
Student charity's funds success
May 01, 2008 ... Swansea fund-raisers collected pounds185 when they headed to WindStreet last week. The ...
Battle with apathy at the ballot box ; Today is the day that many will head to the ballot boxes to decide who they want to run their local council for the next four years. But many will ignore the local elections.
May 01, 2008 ... Today is the day that many will head to the ballot boxes todecide who they want to run their local council for the next fouryears. But many will ignore the local elections. Emma Judd looks at the reasons behind why some people don't vote. PEOPLE die to get the chance to vote ....
Family have lucky escape from blaze
May 01, 2008 ... A Swansea family has had a lucky escape after their garage caughtfire yesterday. Katie Williams was at home with her 15-month-old and three-year-old children just before 8am when her neighbour rushed to herhouse in Ffordd Melyn Mair, Trallwn, after he spotted smoke ...
Soccer pundit thanks fans for support
May 01, 2008 ... Swansea City legend Leighton James (pictured) has thanked thecity for its support after being reinstated by the BBC. The football pundit lost his job with the BBC after he said inhis weekly Evening Post column the overwhelming majority of Swansfans would support Barnsley in their ...
Anger at labour election advert
May 01, 2008 ... Independent candidates in today's election have hit out at thesuggestion that they have an agreement with the Liberal Democrats. In an election advert this week, the Labour Party suggested thatIndependent candidates standing today are in agreement with the LibDems. The advert ...
Train travelling at 55mph hit metal sheet
May 01, 2008; ... A Speeding passenger train could have been derailed afterploughing into objects on a main railway line in Swansea. The Arriva three-carriage train, which was fairly full, wastravelling at 55mph when it hit the obstacle at Cockett Tunnels,west of the city. It stayed on the ...
Cooking up spot on capital runway
May 01, 2008 ... Thomas Cook is to base an aircraft at Cardiff Airport for thefirst time. Its Airbus A321 aircraft which ...
School's report success
May 01, 2008 ... Staff at Pentrepoeth Junior School are celebrating the outcome ofa recent inspection. Estyn inspector Robert Wormleighton, who spent 10 days at ...
Monkey is looking for love
May 01, 2008 ... A Swansea Valley Macaque is hoping to hit it off with his newforeign love interest. But Pozzi the primate needs help setting up home before gettingup to any monkey business. Pozzi was taken in by Cefn-yr-Erw primate sanctuary, inAbercrave, before Christmas. He had ...
Car park drug exchange user avoids prison
May 01, 2008; ... A Swansea Valley man has avoided custody for supplyingamphetamine outside a Tesco store near his home in Pontardawe. Jason Morgan handed over the drug to a fellow user in thesupermarket's car park. He was arrested after a security guard became suspicious and theactivity was ...
Uncertain future for floodlights
May 01, 2008; ... Hundreds of sports fans are still in the dark over the future offloodlights at a Swansea Valley leisure facility. The lights at the artificial pitch at Maesydderwen School, inYstradgynlais, have not been switched on since last September, whena row broke out over their use. In ...
Rubbish blaze
May 01, 2008 ... Firefighters were called after a fire broke out at Grove Road,Pontardawe, on Monday night. Rubbish left in the ...
Industrial estate boss hits back over site safety
May 01, 2008; ... The manager of a Swansea Valley business park involved in a firehas hit back at claims over its safety. David B Cornelius (pictured) rubbished suggestions that PlayersIndustrial Estate poses a threat to homes in Clydach after ascrapyard went up in smoke. He accused local ...
No more traps for golf plan
May 01, 2008; ... Plans for a pounds15 million golfing resort in Swansea areexpected to receive the final go-ahead soon. The championship golf course and leisure resort, Royal Fern Park,will go before Swansea's planning committee in May. RPS Planning and Development of Cardiff, which is managing ...