Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) back issues from March 2008:
OUR pounds 500m GAMBLING DEBT; EXCLUSIVE Losses soar as online betting craze sweeps nation.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By MATT WITHERS WELSH gamblers are losing pounds 500m a year - twice as much as six years ago. The astonishing figures have been released to Wales on Sunday by the Betting Research Unit at Nottingham Business School. And the shocking sum does not ...
BLUE HEAVEN.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Selley secures injury-time victory over Muster, P7 Purse howler seals black day for City, P8&9 CAPTION(S): HARD ...
TOE WORRIES.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Injurys care for Scotland as Swans win again, P8&9 Inside Enzo's big-fight training camp, P18&19 CAPTION(S): JASE IN JEOPARDY: Jason Scotland ...
TOUT OF ORDER! EXCLUSIVE Fury over rip-off site owned by WRU agents.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By JAMES McCARTHY SEATS for the potential Grand Slam decider between Wales and France are being sold for more than pounds 400 by a firm owned by the Welsh Rugby Union's official ticket agents. The tickets, which will be like gold dust if Wales overcome Ireland ...
Harmony, truth, hope - now give victory; "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope." - Margaret Thatcher on the steps of 10 Downing Street after her election victory in 1979.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: SIMON ROBERTS WARREN GATLAND is easily more popular than Margaret Thatcher will ever be in Wales - but he knows he is just a few defeats from dropping as low as her in the popularity stakes. Such is the fickle world of Welsh rugby, writes SIMON ROBERTS. Yet, ...
Fees push up prices.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE prices charged for Wales international rugby tickets on the website Get Me In are just the tip of the iceberg. For, when buying the tickets, purchasers must also stump out huge handling charges. One ticket for the Ireland-Wales game at Croke Park next week was ...
Sister pact; Starlet Scarlett Johansson tells ROBIN WALKER she's had a right royal time playing the British monarchy.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: ROBIN WALKER NEW Yorker Scarlett Johansson seems to have a thing about playing British royals at the moment. In The Other Boleyn Girl she plays Mary, Henry VIII's mistress, who is believed to have produced his son but never made it to queen. That honour went ...
Girls go chopping!(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THESE girls are willing to walk through walls to become a Miss Wales finalist - or smash through a few planks at least. Beauties bidding to get into the final of the 2008 competition showed that they are more than just pretty faces as they karate-chopped their way through boards ...
cover star: soap box coming this week.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... CORONATION STREET (ITV1): Gail counsels caution and urges Tina not to tell David she's pregnant, before making her an offer she reckons she won't be able to refuse. At the Rovers, things are still strained as Michelle refuses to let Alex go, prompting Ryan to confide in his Uncle Liam. ...
CERYS' DAD IN HEALTH SCARE; EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By CATHERINE EVANS I'M A Celebrity star Cerys Matthews kept a bedside vigil after her father was struck down with a serious illness. While the rest of the world speculated on her budding relationship with ex-EastEnder Marc Bannerman, the Welsh singer stayed at ...
Tongue-lashing.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A FURIOUS mum has blasted staff at a shop who pierced her 15-year-old son's tongue. When Kelly Davies, 31, from Swansea, received a text from her son Ricky saying he was getting the piercing, she phoned the Blue Banana store to tell ...
review: top movies; This week's Top 10 films.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... 1 (1) JUMPER (12A) Adapted from the novel by Steven Gould, Jumper is a special effects heavy, science fiction adventure. Hayden Christensen's young hero is a blank slate, devoid of charmor personality, and there's no sexual chemistry with Rachel Bilson's childhood sweetheart although Jamie ...
THE CHIPS ARE DOWN; EXCLUSIVE pounds 169 lost for every man, women and child last year as gambling soars.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By MATT WITHERS A MULTI-MILLION pound gambling epidemic cost Wales an incredible pounds 169 per head in losses last year, Wales on Sunday can reveal. Around pounds 500mwas lost in bookmakers' shops and on online accounts - double the amount taken from gamblers ...
review: videos & dvds.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Saw IV (Extreme Edition) (Cert 18, 95 mins) HYPERACTIVE editing renders a couple of elaborate death sequences an incomprehensible blur, and characters are sketched in such flimsy detail that their grisly demise doesn't curry any sympathy. The actors oblige with the loudest, most ...
Betting trapped soccer star.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... MODERN-DAY gambling is far removed from the image of old men in betting shops, putting their cash on the horses. Former Wales footballer John Hartson knows that more than most - he publicly struggled with an addiction to gambling throughout his career. At 19 he joined ...
review: This is vow not to do it.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND (12A, 90 mins) ***** A romantic comedy starring: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Justina Machado, Sam Shepard, Lindsay Sloane. Director: Griffin Dunne. P ERFECT, split second comic timing is a rare gift. Few actors ...
review: also released.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE BANK JOB (15) ROGER Donaldson's thriller tunnels through familiar ground and the film is severely handicapped by a lifeless leading man, Jason Statham, with all the charisma of a crowbar. His co-stars bring colour to their underwritten roles, while David Suchet hams it up as an East ...
review: books.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster, pounds 12.99) HOW do you investigate a murder when it is a crime to admit that murder can exist? Howdo you catch a murderer when the presumption of the guilt of all is the natural order? In 'Child 44', Leo Stepanovich Demidov, an up-and-coming ...
Addiction cost me everything; CASE STUDY.(News)(Case study)
Mar 02, 2008 ... SELF-CONFESSED gambling addict David Evans, spent half his life on slot machines and roulette wheels - and it left him divorced, jobless and homeless. The dad-of-four, from Canton, Cardiff, who nowlives in Australia's Gold Coast which has hundreds of glitzy casinos, admits it ...
We're ready for the Irish cheap shots; INSIDE THE WALES TRAINING CAMP.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By SIMON ROBERTS IT IS one of the enduring images in modern Welsh rugby - but Gethin Jenkins' Grand Slamtry celebration also sums up the relationship between the current generation of Welsh and Irish players. The prop crossed for Wales' opening try against ...
review: Keeping it Real! "real" RADIO 105~106fm Wales' real good feel good music.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... ANGELA: It's all over, the apartment has been won TONY: Congratulations to Neil Earne, from Pontypool, the winner of Hide and Key and now the proud owner of a Debut apartment form Redrow. ANGELA: Fantastic but the fun doesn't stop just because Hide and Key is over. ...
Bay developers 'losing the plot'.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By JAMES McCARTHY FLAT prices across Wales have plummeted by as much as 10 per cent over the past year - the latest indication that the property boom is over. Hundreds of new flats worth millions of pounds are lying empty across the nation because developers ...
It's Reddan for danger in Croke clash; INSIDE THE WALES TRAINING CAMP.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: Barry John Rugby's one and only king DUBLIN, Croke Park and a resurgent Ireland - talk about a litmus test for this Welsh side. Gatland's glorious revolution is in for its first severe test after a remarkable few weeks and it's going to be one to watch all ...
review: new albums.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE CARDIGANS - THE BEST OF It's easy to forget just how many past hits The Cardigans have enjoyed until this Best Of album reminds you. The only jolting wake-up call is Burning Down The House with Tom Jones, sounding rather like a comical karaoke collaboration. This bulging 22-track ...
review: top game.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... No More Heroes, Wii, Action, pounds 39.99 After what seems like months of mediocre mini-game collections, it's about time that Nintendo's Wii had another hero aside from the untouchable Mario. Could Travis Touchdown provide that in No More Heroes? Quite possibly, as this action adventure ...
what's on: A cut above; PICK OF THE WEEK Simon Yates: Beyond the Void Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Tom.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan SIMON Yates has achieved more in his life than, say, you have - unless you happen to be Sir Jimmy Saville and were a professional wrestler and the inventor of the disco before turning your attention to completing marathons and arranging for ...
Action after Clwych Abuse.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE Assembly Government claims it is close to implementing the last of 16 recommendations made following an investigation into abuse at a South Wales school. The Clwych Inquiry probed sex assaults on children at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd, by drama teacher John Owen ...
what's on: best auditions; Children's Auditions for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang @ Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Saturday.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan DO your children look undernourished? Undeveloped? It's probably been a source of shame in the past. But hang your head in shame no more - here's a chance to make some cash out of your kids' pasty faces. Chitty Chitty Bang ...
I SAW THE NEWS AND FELT SICK; EXCLUSIVE Victims of abuse relive their nightmare as Jersey home of horror gives up secrets.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By BEN GLAZE THE child abuse allegations rocking the tiny island of Jersey have brought back nightmares for victims of the UK's biggest child sex scandal. Ten years ago, 150formerresidents of North Wales care homes came forward claiming they were physically ...
what's on: best music; Bjorn Again @ Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl, Thursday.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan ABBA are very unlikely to reform anytime soon, having turned down the GDP of pretty much the whole of Africa to regroup, so here's the next best thing for fans of the spangle-suited Scandinavian superstars. It's the 19th anniversary ...
Forgotten children had no voice.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE lawyer who spearheaded compensation claims for North Wales abuse victims last night admitted there were worrying parallels between what is emerging from Jersey and what went on at Bryn Estyn decades ago. Between 1997 and 2000 Billhar Singh Uppal, of Nottingham-based Uppal ...
what's on: best theatre; Potted Potter - The Unauthorised Harry Experience @ Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, Friday.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan Aha! A parody of Harry Potter! That's a good idea - it's a wonder nobody's ever thought of it before. Well, apart from the Barry Trotter series of books, beginning with Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody. Oh, and the hilarious ...
Youngsters killed themselves to escape hell.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A WELSH victim of the Jersey sex abuse scandal has spoken of how two youngsters killed themselves to avoid being abused again. Carl Denning, 49, of Caernarfon, said two children were found hanging at Haut de la Garenne after they were abused. Carl, who was aged six ...
what's on: best of the rest.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan Clannad, St David's Hall, Cardiff, Friday: Fiddle-dee-dee music from veteran Irish musicians back together for the first time in a decade. Tel: 02920 878444. Tegan and Sarah, The Point, Cardiff Bay, Tonight: Canadian indie-rockers who ...
tv choice: best documentary; DON'T MISS THIS! Last Orders, Friday, BBC2, 9pm.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE first programme in a season looking at the white working class sees US filmmaker Henry Singer follow the lives of the regulars at Wibsey Working Men's Club in Bradford, Yorkshire. It may seem that they're straight out of ...
IN BRIEF: Riders at risk.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... MOTORCYCLISTS are at much greater risk of death or serious injury on Welsh roads than car users, according to new figures from the Welsh Assembly Government. On average, one in every 100 ...
IN BRIEF: Prescoed escape.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... ANOTHER prisoner has escaped from Prescoed open prison. Police warned the public not to approach robber AndrewClifford Phillips, who failed to return to the prison, near Usk, yesterday. He is ...
tv choice: best comedy; Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tomorrow, More 4,10.35pm.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... THE slightly disappointing sixth series should pick up here, in this pivotal episode. Cheryl phones husband Larry David from a plunging plane seemingly about to crash. Larry ...
IN BRIEF: pounds 10,000 song.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A GAMES teacher has won S4C's singing competition Can i Gymru - A Song for Wales. Aled Myrddin, 24, from Machynlleth, won pounds 10,000 for his song Atgofion (Memories) on Friday ...
tv choice: best sport; Football Italiano, Today, Five, 1.45pm.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... ENGLAND might have all the money and the world's top players, Spain has the flare but Italian football remains the purists' choice. And it has this: Five's coverage, best ...
IN BRIEF: Tax axe storm.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A ROW has erupted at the imminent closure of Newport's tax office. Outraged politicians said the closure represents a "sad loss" for the city. Newport East MP Jessica Morden vowed to ...
tv choice: best soap; Neighbours, Monday-Thursday, Five, 1.45pm and 5.30pm.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... NEIGHBOURS, which has settled into its new home on Five without too much kerfuffle, is always at its best when the plotlines focus on the Kennedys. And now poor Susan, who has divorced, remarried, been widowed, become a ...
tv choice: best drama; Dexter, Tuesday, 11.40pm, ITV1.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... ALANIS Morrissette doesn't understand whar 'ironic' means. Maybe she would if she watched this newUS import, annoyingly scheduled in Wales a week after the rest of Britain. Dexter is a ...
television: Cat jinxed in love again.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... ACTRESS Catrin Morgan is the first to admit hat the characters she plays tend to be unlucky in love. In Calon Gaeth, the 23-year-old played a woman who suffers disappointment and tragedy after falling in love with a married man. At the moment, Catrin is playing Abigail Williams, ...
WAR IS NOT A GAME, HARRY; Headlines hide veterans' suffering.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By CATHERINE EVANS AS PRINCE Harry returned from Afghanistan wearing a wrist-band in support of wounded troops yesterday, two injured Welsh soldiers are struggling to return to civilian life. Gunners Peter Hire, from Tre-degar, and Samantha Bowen, from ...
County set the pace; BLUE SQUARE SOUTH.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... NEWPORTCTY 1 BSTORTFORD 0 COUNTY clinched a vital three points to leapfrog Bishop Stortford and step up their challenge for a play-off place. County took the game to their opponents in the first half. Andy Gurney and Nathan Davies kept a tight grip on ...
Football: Scot's on the rocks; HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 0 SWANSEA CITY 1.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: STEPHEN CARRINGTON reports INJURIES to Jason Scotland and Andy Robinson marred an impressive victory for Swansea City as Roberto Martinez's men overcame another of their bogey teams at the Gal-pharm Stadium. Top-scorer Scotland's injury was deemed to be the ...
television: It's Michelle for leather.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... MICHELLE Collins is not a woman to be crossed ... particularly at special occasions. The former EastEnder reveals she was so angry with an ex-boyfriend once that she gave him a black eye - with a Christmas pudding. "It wasn't even cooked - it was in the plastic ...
Prince salutes injured heroes.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... PRINCE Harry flew home to Britain alongside two horrifically injured soldiers, giving him a shocking reminder of the reality he was leaving behind. Harry, 23, shrugged off the label of a hero, insisting: "The bravery of the guys out there was humbling." In a sombre ...
A Field day for Martyrs; SOUTHERN PREMIER.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... MANGOTSFIELD 0 MERTHYR 2 THE Martyrs gained what could be a crucial away victory at fellow strugglers Mangots field, a goal in each half earning Merthyr a deserved three points. Starting brightly, the visitors went close after only three minutes when ...
television: By George what a show!(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... IN the words of Jonathan Davies, 'Beti George is an icon'. This week, the Welsh broadcasting stalwart will exchange in-depth interviews and fine art for tomfoolery and rugby chit-chat. And if that's not enough, joining Beti on the show is Cardiff Blues and Wales ...
Cam's devolution vow.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By MATT WITHERS in Llandudno CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron yesterday announced a review of the party's position on devolution as it prepares for a referendum on full law-making powers. Mr Cameron told the party's Welsh conference in Llandudno that a ...
THERE AIN'T NO SUNSHINE FOR PURSE; Coca Cola CHAMPIONSHIP CARDIFF CITY 0 LEICESTER CITY 1.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: DARREN WITCOOP reports DAVE Jones insisted there would be no sunshine break - but the Bluebirds boss saw his side's play-off hopes all but sail into the sunset. With no money to jet off for a training campahead of their FA Cupquarter-final tie with ...
television: switched on; what are your favourite TV stars up to?(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... REALITY TV star Piers Morgan says he doesn't think glamorous girlfriend Celia Walden loves him for his looks. "If Celia had her way, I'd be in the gym every day, have spray tans and any form of plastic surgery available," says the ex-editor. SHE may be a girl in blue in The ...
Fourth defeat leaves Bluebirds boss raging.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... DAVE JONES rounded on his Cardiff side after their woeful loss to Leicester saying: "We wouldn't score if we were playing now." Jones blasted the lacklustre performance and also slammed red-faced captain Darren Purse following his comical own-goal. The fourth defeat ...
Rapist fights to stay in UK; EXCLUSIVE.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By BEN GLAZE CONVICTED rapist fighting extradition to France is living in Wales after being granted bail. Michael Jervis, 46, is due back at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, when he will learn if he is to be extradited. The ...
Doc facing drugs rap.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A GYNAECOLOGIST who did national service under Saddam Hussein faces being struck off after sending drugs to family in Iraq. Dr Eman Al-Teman, who qualified at the University of Baghdad, wrote prescriptions for her son and husband, who lived in the UK, but sent them to help ...
Football: Dragons can only draw their 'must-win'.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: By CHRIS WATHAN WREXHAM 1 MANSFIELD 1 THE disaster was averted, but the crisis remains as large as ever as Wrexham failed to win their must-win match. If Wrexham fans came to the Racecourse looking for inspiration for survival, the best ...
BNP given legal aid to sue police.(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A GROUP of BNP activists arrested while delivering leaflets have been granted legal aid to sue police over claims of false imprisonment. Five men were arrested and held for 13 hours in Swansea in May 2006 while delivering leaflets for the far-right party. Now, at ...
Plane to see stars have got love bug!(Features)
Mar 02, 2008 ... SIENNA Miller and Rhys I fans left fellow passengers amazed as they openly frolicked during their 12-hour flight home from the Oscars. The stunning actress, 26, and the Ruthin-born Notting Hill star -who began dating last year - couldn't keep their hands off each ...
Bowling alley death; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A SECURITY guard at a bowling alley was killed in the early hours of yesterday morning. Seven people were arrested following the incident at Bowlplex bowling hall in Longwell ...
Football: Scot's on the rocks; HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 0 SWANSEA CITY 1.(Sport)
Mar 02, 2008 ... Byline: STEPHEN CARRINGTON reports INJURIES to Jason Scotland and Andy Robinson marred an impressive victory for Swansea City as Roberto Martinez's men overcame another of their bogey teams at the Galpharm Stadium. Top-scorer Scotland's injury was deemed to be the ...
'Girl wasn't Maddie' UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A REPORTED sighting of Madeleine McCann in southern France has been officially ruled out Gerry McCann revealed ...
Rocket kills airman; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... A BRITISH airman has died after a rocket attack on his base in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The serviceman, who was attached to 903 Expeditionary Air Wing, Royal Air Force, was ...
Teen troops banned; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Mar 02, 2008 ... YOUNG British soldiers face being banned from the Cyprus resort of Ayia Napa after a series of drunken brawls. The town's mayor, Antonis Tsokkos, said he had "no choice" but to introduce the ...