South Wales Evening Post back issues from August 2008:
Saddling up for medals success
Aug 01, 2008; ... Horse rider Alison Corp has had more hurdles than most toovercome in her battle to reach the top of her sport. And it's all paid off for the remarkable Ammanford woman, who hasreturned home from a national riding championship with a rack ofrosettes - despite being almost completely ...
Photo contest aims to frame natural beauty
Aug 01, 2008; ... South West Wales is home to some of the most stunning scenery inthe world. And Swansea Bay Futures is today launching a photographycompetition to raise the profile of the area, and promote it as agreat place to live and work. Competition entries need to reflect that. The photos ...
Fashion fixes
Aug 01, 2008 ... It doesn't matter what age you are . . . you still want to lookgreat! The Post's fashion team has been out and about delving intothe rails of stores in the region to find out what they have ...
Historic market gets a makeover
Aug 01, 2008; ... Swansea's historic indoor market has been spruced up. The revamp includes new sail-style canopies on the market's threeentrances, new doors, floors and lighting. Hi-tech rolling LED signs have been installed at the entrances,and will be used to screen information about the ...
This mystery makes a killer night of TV
Aug 01, 2008 ... I Wish I could be invited to luxurious little weekend get-togethers. You know the kind of thing, just pop your tennis racketand a couple of favourite gramophone records in the back of the carand motor down to Devon for a few days. It always looks such fun, until, that is you see ...
Soapwatch
Aug 01, 2008 ... Usually with a soap wedding the drama lies in the fact that onehalf of the partnership is far too good for the other one. We allknow it, but the loved-up sucker doesn't get to find out till it'stoo late. However, in tonight's trip up the aisle in EastEnders I honestlyfeel the ...
Heart docs 'can pick up salaries of pounds225k'
Aug 01, 2008; ... Heart consultants at a Swansea hospital are picking up awhopping pounds225,000-a-year salary, it has been claimed. Cardiologists at Morriston Hospital are being given the lsum asbasic pay, excluding fees for private work on top, it has beensaid. The payment is understood ...
'I felt very well-off as I got my first pension'
Aug 01, 2008; ... The state pension is old enough to claim its own pension, andshould be receiving a telegram from the Queen. The Old Age Pensions Act, now the state pension, is celebratingits 100th birthday today. The non-contributory benefit was first introduced during theLiberal government ...
Success on cards for Young artists
Aug 01, 2008 ... Santa made a distinctly unseasonable visit to a Swanseasupermarket this week. He surprised shoppers by dropping in at Tesco Extra inFforestfach to launch its Design a Card for Christmas competition. Tesco has joined forces with Marie Curie Cancer Care to run thecompetition as ...
Drugs charge
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Man accused of a drugs offence has been further remanded incustody by Swansea magistrates. Forty-year-old Karl Hoggins, of no fixed address, is charged ...
Holiday of a lifetime starts in city car park
Aug 01, 2008 ... Feeling the heat? Starting to think you can't afford that exoticholiday you've been promising yourself, not with the credit crunchstarting to bite? You can, you know - without ever leaving Swansea! Just follow these tips from Europe's leading international travelconsultancy, Worlds ...
Grav artist chosen to create hero's legacy
Aug 01, 2008; ... The great nephew of renowned Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis has been chosen to create a bronze sculpture of Welsh hero RayGravell. The sculpture will take pride of place outside the LlanelliScarlets new Parc y Scarlets rugby stadium. David Williams-Ellis, whose great ...
Crash driver drunk
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Driver involved in a late-night accident in Swansea told policehe had drunk three bottles of wine. Barry Sanderson provided a positive breath sample at the roadsidebut failed to give a satisfactory specimen at the police station,the court heard. He was arrested following an ...
Bird man's imports had no paperwork
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Margam man has been found guilty of illegally keeping wildbirds, despite his protests that he had bought them in good faith. Robert Jenkins, of Byass Street, had pleaded not guilty to theoffence of keeping linnets, goldfinches and a chaffinch, all of wildorigin. However, ...
Call for charity riders
Aug 01, 2008 ... Bridgend's Helen Tucker (pictured) is the current World TriathlonChampion and will be representing Great Britain at the Olympics,which start next week. She says she is throwing her support behind the 2008 Mighty Bike& Hike being staged through Carmarthenshire and into ...
'I can be a person, not a cancer patient here'
Aug 01, 2008; ... Cancer hit Michelle Irving like a punch to the stomach. Exactly four years after her mother was diagnosed with breastcancer, she was devastated to find a lump in her own breast. "It knocked me for six," she said. "I thought, 'just get it out of me' and the doctors didn't ...
OAP, 94, confronts thief on staircase
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Courageous 94-year-old man has challenged a would-be thief whotricked his way into his house. The brave pensioner and his 88-year-old wife have been targetedtwice in a less than a fortnight by distraction burglars, who posedas workmen to get into their home. Their daughter ...
Newly-weds celebrate a shore thing
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Swansea couple have become the first in Wales to have theirwedding celebration outdoors. In a setting more common to the Caribbean or Hawaii, Ruth Webband Andrew Figgis, both from Sketty, said: "I do" near the shorelineof Oxwich Bay. And not even the weather could put them ...
Property paradise has an sa postcode ; Two Swansea streets feature in the top five in a new property rich list for Wales. Post reporter RICHARD YOULE visits West Cliff in Southgate, to see if it really is paved with gold.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Two Swansea streets feature in the top five in a new propertyrich list for Wales. Post reporter RICHARD YOULE visits West Cliff in Southgate, to see if it really is paved with gold. Like many villages, Southgate has a shop, car mechanic,hairdresser and a post office. It also ...
'Quiet location and sea make for luxury living'
Aug 01, 2008 ... As soon as I got into the office yesterday, I was told to leave.Not a great start to the day. My brief was to have a nose around two streets which had made it into a new property rich list for Wales. Average houses there were apparently more than pounds800,000. I did a ...
Detailing past for future
Aug 01, 2008 ... I Often wonder where we would be if we forgot about our heritageand culture, as history can play a large part even in today's age. We should never forget the past and cherish the memories. Thatbygone era perhaps is no more but I believe we should indeedremember it. Excellent ...
Where the wind blows
Aug 01, 2008 ... Your correspondent's list of only three failures out of thousandsof turbines in operation is a good record (Have Your Say, July 24). However, we should make sure the reasons for any failures are fullyinvestigated, and lessons are learned to improve the design andmanufacture. Don't throw ...
Hard lessons on drinking
Aug 01, 2008 ... Although we are European champions in binge-drinking (Post, July28) our northern and mid-European neighbours are fellow sufferers.However, because of stronger social controls, stricter policing ofanti-social behaviour and because governments invest more in allkinds of facilities and ...
Motivate kids to be healthy
Aug 01, 2008 ... The 20-year Assembly plan to place sport and recreation at theheart of Welsh life was launched at the summit of Snowdon - anappropriate enough venue given that its aim was a real mountain toclimb. The Climbing Higher strategy wants to create a happier andhealthier Wales with a ...
How many OAPs?
Aug 01, 2008 ... The old age pension is 100-years-old. Muriel Carter, who is sixyears older than that, remembers feeling very well-off when shefirst collected her pension 40 years ago, and she still isn'tcomplaining today. It is doubtful that many of today's pensioners are satisfied withtheir ...
For Roy, read Kris
Aug 01, 2008 ... The Kristian O'Leary story - printed in our sports pages in therun-up to his testimonial game tomorrow - has been riveting reading.It has almost Roy of the Rovers qualities, travelling from the lowsof the Tony Petty days, when he feared he might be sacked, onwardsand ...
Children need space to grow
Aug 01, 2008 ... Do we really need our children to mimic adults at school? Withprimary schools staging proms, mock weddings and now graduationceremonies (Post July 30), ...
Solar power needs grants
Aug 01, 2008 ... When is a political party going to start lobbying the Governmentfor substantial grants to homeowners to install solar power forheating and electricity? Germany and Scandinavian countries havedone this very ...
Special needs play provision
Aug 01, 2008 ... It is the season of play schemes, so may we use your columns toask your readers for information about play for special needschildren. Is there sufficient play provision out there for thesespecial children? Because many special needs children, especially those withautistic ...
Gas talk is a lot of hot air
Aug 01, 2008 ... The recently-announced price increases by Centrica/British Gashas caused great concern among customers. What has gone wrong with privatisation which was once said to bea beautiful solution to the nation's ills and something that wouldtake us all into a better age? British ...
Lovely Lisa's show of talent
Aug 01, 2008; ... Llanelli's Miss Universe has been inspired to raise more thanpounds5,000 to help women with breast cancer after hearing theirharrowing stories. Lisa Lazarus (pictured) has organised a charity catwalk that willfeature some of the brightest talent in Wales. Lisa, who won the ...
Police appeal in hunt for suspect
Aug 01, 2008 ... Police are appealing for help in finding a 23-year-old man wantedin connection with a series of offences. An arrest warrant has been issued for Lee Stuart Evans (pictured)after he failed to appear at Swansea Crown Court to answer chargesof aggravated burglary and assaulting ...
Furnace prove too hot in first soccer contest
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Football tournament for young homeless people has kicked off. The Llanelli Homeless Football tournament got underway for thefirst time at the Bwlch five-a-side ground. Teams taking part included Furnace Bank, Carmarthen, SwanseaFoyer, Choose Life from Swansea, and the Wallich ...
Car crash highlights road danger worries
Aug 01, 2008; ... Council highway officials witnessed the danger of a stretch ofroad after a car crashed near where they were holding a site visitto discuss safety issues. Representatives of Carmarthenshire Council, Llanedi CommunityCouncil and Llanelli MP Nia Griffith were on a site visit at ...
Test mix-up sparks NHS legal action
Aug 01, 2008; ... A 58-year-old man is suing health bosses for compensation afterthe result of his prostate cancer test was found to be wrong. The Llanelli man, whose identity has not been revealed, is one ofup to 70 people who are brining, or could bring, a civil caseagainst the former ...
Hunt for missing accused
Aug 01, 2008 ... Two men are being hunted by police after they failed to attendcourt to answer charges of burglary and aggravated vehicle-taking. Missing are 28-year old Kenny Peters and 31-year-old ChristopherSlater. Both men had been due to appear at Swansea Crown Court on ...
Call for firms to join event
Aug 01, 2008 ... Swansea's Economic Regeneration Partnership is inviting localbusinesspeople to attend an early morning event on September 10 ...
Townhill set for its pact date
Aug 01, 2008 ... The next Townhill Partnerships and Communities Together meetingwill be at Gors Community School, Gors Avenue, ...
'Wise' use of lottery cash boost
Aug 01, 2008 ... Parents who home-school their children in Neath and Port Talbotare in line to receive extra support. A local group which works with such families has received apounds5,000 cash boost and will now be able to develop its work inthe area. The organisation, called Wise Up ...
Summer thefts warning
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Series of burglaries across Neath has prompted police to issuea warning to residents not to become complacent over the summer. A force spokesman confirmed several break-ins had been carriedout in homes in the Morgans Road area, as well as in the Neath andDulais ...
Remember class of '58
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Reunion for past pupils of Sandfields comprehensive, to markthe school's 50th anniversary, is to take place at the AberavonBeach Hotel on Friday, ...
Anger over taxi safety crackdown
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Blitz on dodgy taxis in Neath and Port Talbot has seen around15 ordered off the road - and sparked an angry backlash fromcabbies. The vehicles were hit with immediate prohibition and suspensionnotices after defects were found during safety checks. The operation also saw ...
Fines for foul play
Aug 01, 2008 ... Dog owners are being warned that their pet's business is theirbusiness - and it can be a costly affair. A clampdown on owners who fail to clear up after their pets iscontinuing across Neath Port ...
Syringe scare teen waits for all-clear
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Teen who stepped on a discarded syringe is facing a six-monthwait to see if he's okay. Thirteen-year-old Ryan Richards, of Bettws Road, Penlan, wastaken to hospital when a needle pricked him on his ankle. The incident happened on a footpath near Brynmelyn Flats, ...
Cousins in jail for OAP burglary
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Pair of Neath cousins have been jailed for a distractionburglary at the home of an 83-year-old widow. Jailed at Swansea Crown Court were cousins Paul Saunders, aged46, of Parc Bryn, Skewen, who got two-and-a-half years, and KennethSaunders, aged 47, of Bryn Nedd, Cimla, who was ...
pounds2.1m revamp set to start at hospital
Aug 01, 2008; ... Work on a pounds2.1 million upgrade at Cimla Community Hospitalwill start this month. It will expand and improve rehabilitation and therapy facilitiesat the hospital to help patients, many of them elderly, regain theirindependence. Cimla, which has 52 rehabilitation beds and ...
Can leadership tip the balance? ; Obesity rates are rising to worrying levels, but is the appointment of a fitness leader what's needed to turn fortunes around in Wales? Reporter HELEN KEATES finds out.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Obesity rates are rising to worrying levels, but is theappointment of a fitness leader what's needed to turn fortunesaround in Wales? Reporter HELEN KEATES finds out. Who is to blame for the growing rate of obesity? Tory leader David Cameron says it's down to the ...
Let the games begin
Aug 01, 2008 ... A New pounds150,000 sports facility has opened in Aberavon justin time for the school holidays. Football, basketball, netball, cricket and hockey will be playedat the multi-use games area in Hopkin Street, which also includes ayouth shelter and community garden. County ...
Threats and ABH
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Port Talbot man has been made the subject of a two-yearcommunity order for offences of assault causing actual bodily harmand making a death threat. Neil Alexander Findlay committed the offences last February,Swansea Crown Court heard. He denied both matters during ...
Store's on the case
Aug 01, 2008 ... Wilkinson has donated 30 suitcases to help vulnerable youngpeople in the city move their possessions. The city centre store made the donation after a recycled fashionshow highlighted a charter signed by Swansea Council to ensureyoung people in and leaving care have luggage to ...
Surfing for charity
Aug 01, 2008 ... Six-hundred surfers from around the world are set to descend uponSwansea Bay this summer in a bid to make the record books. Jay Doyle, owner of Siro's Bar in St Helen's Road, is organisingthe largest ever "surfer's chain" - a massive gathering of surferswho will form a giant human ...
Prison has African guests for cell tour
Aug 01, 2008 ... Prisoners locked up in Port Talbot Police Station might beg todiffer - but they are having it easy. Just ask Maasai warriors Kaseti Lelesengei and Simon Lengoiboni,who found themselves in the cells there. The two were guests ofNeath Port Talbot police, who gave them a ...
'I wanted to nurse my Ryan as he lay dying'
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Heartbroken mother has said she will be "haunted forever" bythe brutal murder of her son in a military-style attack in a railwaystation car park. Mark Cook, aged 39, and 29-year-old Rhys Lewis, were yesterdayboth jailed for life for murdering Port Talbot construction workerRyan ...
Outdoor Shakespeare
Aug 01, 2008 ... Oystermouth Castle in Mumbles is to be the setting for an outdoorperformance of a Shakespeare favourite this month. Quantum Theatre will be presenting A Midsummer Night's Dream onWednesday, August 13, and Thursday, August 14, from ...
15 months for burglar
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Swansea man has been sent to prison for a burglary near hishome in Clase. Lee John Dennis, aged 26, of Elan Avenue, was sentdown ...
Work to start on quadrant station
Aug 01, 2008; ... Years of promises for a new bus station for Swansea will finallybe kept, with next year seeing the Quadrant's station redevelopment. Evening Post readers have kept up a steady stream of complaintsabout the dingy station over the years, especially focussing on howunsafe they feel ...
Farmland cost increases by 33 per cent
Aug 01, 2008 ... Wales's farmland prices are increasing at the fastest pace sinceat least 1995. But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) found thenumber of lifestyle buyers dropped as the credit crunch worsened. The farmland market jumped forward, with the average price inWales ...
Station timeline:
Aug 01, 2008 ... January 1997 - pounds75,000 facelift promised. August 1998 - Planning permission to refurbish inside of station toilets sought. January 1999 - Promised pounds75,000 facelift due to start inMarch that year. March/April 1999 - Work still set to begin on ...
Cwmtawe sevens tipped to have best ever year
Aug 01, 2008 ... There will be a cosmopolitan field in the Cwmtawe Sevenstomorrow, with specialists from Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand and SouthAfrica vying for the pounds5,000 top prize. Defending champions the British Army will again be the side tobeat. They will be led by Scotland sevens ...
Over-50s host Kent
Aug 01, 2008 ... Wales host champions Kent for a place in the Over-50s CountyCricket Championship quarter-finals at Hoovers Cricket Ground,Merthyr, on Monday (1pm). Group winners Wales won six of their seven ...
Llansawel face Neath
Aug 01, 2008 ... Llansawel face Neath Athletic in the third Malcolm Judd MemorialMatch at Cwrt Herbert tomorrow (3pm). The Welsh League division three side took the inaugural matchback in 2006 with the Eagles ...
Juniors shine at festival
Aug 01, 2008 ... The juniors took centre stage at the Swansea Bowls Festival asthey took advantage of the better morning weather before the rest ofthe day's play was washed out. Recently-crowned West Glamorgan Under-14 singles winner AndrewTrick found the going tough early on against West Glamorgan ...
Son took pounds200 after card theft
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Swansea man took his mother's debit card and withdrewpounds200 from her account while she slept. Wynford Green appeared in custody before city magistrates toadmit the July 29 theft of cash belonging to Ann Green. Prosecutor Andrew Fouracre, said that while she was sleeping ...
Robbery accused face trial
Aug 01, 2008 ... Two men accused of robbery have had matters against them sent tothe crown court. Before the court were Robert Andrews, aged 32, of Viola Road,Port Talbot, and 35-year-old ...
Drugs accused held in custody
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Birchgrove man accused of offences involving class B and Cdrugs has been remanded in custody by Swansea magistrates. Steven Morgan is charged with possession of amphet- amine,cannabis and cannabis resin with ...