Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) back issues from July 2008:
life Oh Mamma!(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... She's known for her serious Oscar-winning performances but music's the name of the game in Meryl's latest role GET A KICK OUT OF KUNG FU ...
5 minutes with... Annie.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Your first album came out in 2005. What have you been up to since? It's been a little while hasn't it, three years or so. I was doing a lot of promotion in the US. I did six tours there, and I was spending time working in Asia and South America too. How was America? ...
Dancing Queen; Meryl Streep reveals why she couldn't wait to camp it up in the movie adaptation of hit musical Mamma Mia...(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... MERYL Streep is best known for her serious roles in films like Out Of Africa, so it's really quite hard to imagine her as a flamboyant Lycra-clad blonde, belting out Super Trouper and other camp Abba numbers. But this is exactly the surprising transformation the two-time ...
soap box coming this week.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... CORONATION STREET: Steve is in for a shock when he returns home to discover Michelle is expecting him to pop the question. Sean is excited at the prospect of moving in with Marcus, and Kevin is shocked to find Tony Gordon at the garage. EASTENDERS: Ronnie's situation gets worse ...
review: top movies.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... This week's Top 10 films 1 (1) The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian The second book of CS Lewis' epic fantasy series is a titanic battle between the gentle Narnians and race of human usurpers called the Telmarines. It's a bigger and more ambitious adventure, ...
review: Panda packs a punch.(Features)(Movie review)
Jul 06, 2008 ... KUNG FU PA NDA (PG, 92mins) *** Featuring the voices of: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McShane, David Cross, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu MARK Osborne and John Stevenson's computer animated comedy does exactly what it says on the tin, spinning a ...
review: also released.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM (12A, 104 mins) ROB Minkoff's martial arts adventure for the whole family begins in Chinatown, NewYork, where outcast schoolboy Jason often goes to sort through the DVDs at a pawn shop run by the decrepit Old Hop (Jackie Chan). Unfortunately, the lad becomes the ...
review: dvds.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THERE WILL BE BLOOD (15, 158 mins) SET in 1911 when Daniel Plainview(Daniel Day-Lewis) has made a modest fortune buying plots of land and draining them of oil. A tip-off leads the businessman to a rural community in the thrall of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday where the tug of ...
review: books.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE GOOD PLAIN COOK by Bethan Roberts (Serpent's Tail, pounds 10.99) SET in the summer of 1936, it tells the story of young Kitty Allen, who is hired by millionairess American Ellen Steinberg. Tensions run high in the seemingly carefree, bohemian household. The story is told from three ...
review: Angela & Tony; Keeping it Real!(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... TONY: Do you knowwhat date it is today? ANGELA: Yes, July 6. Why? TONY: It's the 6/7/08. Did you realise that? It's a consecutive numbers day. It's thanks to my brilliant teachers I know that, I should have appreciated them more at the time. ...
review: new albumbs.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... RATATAT- LP3 THE electronic duo from NewYork - guitarist Mike Stroud and Evan Mast, who takes care of all synthesizer and production duties - have made a remarkably emotive record. Committed to tape in just a few weeks, the 42-minute albums kips along. If you want a short burst of ...
review: top game.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Wacky Races: Crash & Dash, Nintendo DS, pounds 29.99 IT'S certainly not a 21st century cartoon concept. In fact, it's amazing we've had to wait so long to see those Wacky Racers appear on the DS. But here it is - a series of races across a variety of action-packed and colourful ...
Rocking Rhys; PICK OF THE WEEK.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE PETH @ Cwmaman Institute, Cwmaman (Tonight) WHAT do you do when your girlfriend dumps you? Have a mope about maybe? Perhaps get drunk with your pals and finish the night off with a lamb kebab seasoned with your salty tears. Or, if you're a ...
best of the rest.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Them Is Me @ Milkwood Jam, Swansea Former members of Brit rockers Reef endure, lucky old us eh? Enquiries: 01792 477577 Milkshake! Live @ St David's Hall, Cardiff Kids' spectacular featuring such TV favourites as Noddy, Rupert Bear and the Mr Men. Words of advice, parents. Take ...
tv choice: best food; Marco's Great British Feast (Wednesday, ITV1,9pm) DON'T MISS THIS!(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... ENFANT terrible of the kitchen, chef Marco Pierre White headsup this new mouth-watering documentary series. Here he travels the length and breadth of Britain searching for the finest ...
tv choice: best sport; Superstars (Friday, Five, 8pm).(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... WITH the muchmooted Gladiators comeback having fizzled out already it's time for the other well-worn physical challenge show to get a bit of spit and polish. Kids of the 70s should be in track-suited nostalgia heaven for this new series of Superstars ...
tv choice: best entertainment; TV'S50 Hardest Men (Tonight, Sky One, 9pm).(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... I LOVE lists, me. In fact I won't be happy until someone decides to make a list programme profiling the very best of all the recent list programmes over the years. Until that moment of post-modernist meltdown happens we'll just have to ...
tv choice: best comedy; Room 101 (Monday, Virgin1, 10pm).(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... AN oldie but a goodie, this. Funny men Ricky Gervais and Johnny Vegas both pop up on this repeat to tell Paul Merton about just what gets under their skin and should thereby be consigned to Room 101 for all eternity. The ...
tv choice: best film; Kill Bill Vol 2 (Friday, BBC1, 11.45pm).(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... AFTER the blood-splattered chop-socky tribute to Asian cinema that was Vol 1, Quentin Tarantino decided to visit dust-blown spaghetti Westerns for this more contemplative sequel. You get to find out about The Bride (Uma Thurman) and why her former assassin chums left her for ...
Music festival's a high note for Rhodri.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE annual Llangollen International Music Festival will be held this week and one man looking forward to the event is Rhodri Owen, who'll be co-presenting S4C's coverage. "It's such an honour to be part and it's always a pleasure to visit the town and the Eisteddfod," says ...
Wok star on tour.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: Jon Harry RISING star of Chinese cooking Ching-He Huang whips up a five-course lunch in a hotel garden armed only with her trusty wok, a gas canister and two cool bags, writes Jon Harry. It's a mere taster of what we can expect in her new BBC Two series, ...
what are your favourite TV stars up to? switched on.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... SHANNEN Doherty may resurrect character Brenda Walsh in a new series of 90s favourite Beverly Hills 90210. The 37-year-old actress is currently engaged in formal talks to return to the eagerly anticipated updated show. NOEL Edmonds has unveiled a new show to "name and shame" ...
WALES HASN'T GOT TALENT! EXCLUSIVE TV's X Factor judges in amazing outburst after capital auditions.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW DAGNELL X FACTOR judges headed out of Wales this week after declaring: "There's no talent here." In a stinging slur on Welsh wannabes, pop guru Simon Cowell said they had found almost NO talent when hundreds auditioned in ...
HANOI FROCKS! Lisa's luggage disaster on Miss Universe dream in Vietnam EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By GAVIN O'CONNOR TO become Miss Universe you would expect to have a back up of beautiful clothes, dazzling make-up and killer heels to impress the judges. But UK entry Lisa Lazarus landed nearly 6,000 miles away across the world without any of those things. ...
Billy's Royal bits hit pounds 240k.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... HUNDREDS of mementoes that give a unique below-stairs insight into the Royal household have fetched hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction. The collection had been amassed by the late William Tallon, known as Backstairs Billy for his role as Page of the Backstairs. ...
Fake cash warning.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... BOSSES and customers of fast food restaurants and petrol station are being urged to be aware of dodgy bank notes doing the rounds. The warning comes after a number of counterfeit notes have been circulated in the Llandudno, Colwyn ...
TRAFFICKERS SOLD ME AS A SEX SLAVE; Fight to save mum threatened with deportation after years of torment EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By JAMES McCARTHY A REFUGEE brought to Wales as a sex slave has revealed her hell at the hands of evil traffickers who brought her here. Sold by her mother when she was 11, Kemi Ayinde - now five months' pregnant with her second child - was promised a job in ...
IN BRIEF: Mum improves.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE condition of a young mum who fell eight storeys from a hotel balcony is said to be improving. Rhian Evans, 22, from Crynant near Neath, was left critical in hospital on the Costa Brava after the fall last Monday ...
IN BRIEF: Motorist dies.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... AYOUNG motorist has died after a car crash near Chepstow, Monmouthshire. One vehicle was involved in the accident on the Monmouth to Devauden road at around 12.25am ...
IN BRIEF: Doctor at sea.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... ADOCTOR had to be rescued by lifeboat after getting into difficulty while swimming off the North Wales coast. The 51-year-old, from Abergele, Conwy, was treated for mild hypothermia after his ordeal off Black Rock Sands near ...
'HOME NO PLACE FOR AMBITION'.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... CHART-TOPPING Welsh songstress Duffy has slammed her home town as a place "where pipe dreams are quashed in order to prevent you from being disappointed". In an interview with an American radio station, Duffy also claimed Nefyn, on the Llyn peninsula, is a place where nobody ...
'We arrived here expecting to see Tom Jones and all we got was Bonnie Tyler!' EXCLUSIVE Next X Factor winner won't come from Wales, blast show judges.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW DAGNELL THE X Factor judges have blasted Welsh talent after holding the hit show's auditions in Cardiff this week, saying: "This year's winner won't come from Wales". Pop supremo Simon Cowell said they had found almost NO talent in Wales - and that ...
Sorry Simon, you've got it all wrong...(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE judges' comments left one Welsh show business great almost speechless. 1960s singing sensation Maureen Evans said she was disgusted by what Simon and Louis had to say. Theatre school owner Maureen, who has sung with stars like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, ...
M&S deserves rap for hypocrisy.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: angharad mair This week shares in Marks and Spencer plunged as the shop announced that sales had fallen 5.3% in the past few months with food sales tumbling 4.5%. Head of Food, Steven Esom, was sacked. M&S blamed the credit crunch; the fact that we all have ...
Chitty's bang on.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: angharad mair Twelve huge lorries. 130 people to move the set. 35 performers. 16 musicians. 30 technicians. 10 dogs and finally 39 children. That's what it takes to bring Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Wales' MillenniumCentre. This is the largest West End show to ...
WHAT ABOUT US, SLIMY SEB?(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: angharad mair If you type "slimy Sebastian Coe" into Google, you will find 146 different articles agreeing with this opinion. "Smarmy" too will give you some strong views. Someone called "Duncan Disorderly" thinks that "Sebastian Coe is a big-headed, ...
PRICKLE MONSTERS! EXCLUSIVE These little cuties have a spine-chilling reputation.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW DAGNELL THEY might slumber all day, look tiny and come running when you call their name. But don't let appearances deceive you. African pygmy hedgehogs are the latest craze in exotic pets - and they are far from cute and cuddly. ...
Charlotte goes Army barmy for chat show bearskin stunt.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE Church managed to fool more than 500 Welsh Guards that she was one of them. The Cardiff singer and television presenter was revealing the highlights of the third series of her Channel Four show, due to start in a new slot next Thursday. For one segment of ...
No mercy for sex shop's clientele.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... SEX shop clients looking to spare their blushes by going in a rear door have had their hopes dashed by the local council. Staff at Secret Desires, a licensed sex shop in Taibach, Port Talbot, originally hoped their patrons would no longer have to face the embarrassment of ...
Cash joy for 999 chopper.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... FUNDRAISERS collecting money in memory of a rugby player who died after falling through a roof handed over nearly pounds 28,000 to the Wales Air Ambulance. Aled Evans, 29, from Dolgellau, who played ...
ROCK'S NEW RHYS OF LIFE; EXCLUSIVE Hall's well for dumped actor.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW DAGNELL YOU can't help but feel sorry for Rhys Ifans after he was dumped byhis girlfriend SiennaMiller over the phone last month. But what better way to get over lost love than with a little help from your friends? His bandYPeth-Welsh for ...
Degree of grief and pride.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE heartbroken parents of an innocent student killed in a drink-fuelled attack have received his university degree on his behalf. On Friday, Sion Hardy, from Bangor, should have stood proud in his graduation robes at a ceremony at Liverpool University. But instead, ...
UK AND WORLD BRIEF: Flat murders arrest.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... A 21-YEAR-OLDmanhas been arrested in connection with the murders of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, Scotland Yard said. The friends, both 23, were bound, gagged and stabbed ...
UK AND WORLD BRIEF: Adolf Hitler beheaded.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... AMAN has ripped off the head of a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds' newly-opened branch in Berlin. The man, 41, ...
UK AND WORLD BRIEF: Baby death probe.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... A MAN and a woman arrested in connection with the death of a 10-week-old baby boy have been released on bail while inquiries continue. The 33-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were arrested following the death of the child on Friday. A Dorset Police spokes ...
UK AND WORLD BRIEF: Birds taken by RSPCA.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... A FORMER falconry centre that supplied owls for a Harry Potter film is being investigated by the RSPCA. Officers from the animal charity removed several birds, thought to include owls and harris hawks, ...
UK AND WORLD BRIEF: Star's brother seized.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... GUNMEN have kidnapped the younger brother of Nigeria and Everton football star Joseph Yobo. Nigerian police spokeswoman Rita ...
UK AND WORLD BRIEF: 'Send stabbers to Iraq'.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE stepmother of a 16-year-old who was fatally stabbed has called for violent teens to be forced to join the Army and "be sent to Iraq". The 36-year-old, who would not give her name, ...
SCORE TO SETTLE; Fan sues Bluebirds boss over pounds 5,000 wager on Fowler EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By DAVID JAMES and MARTIN SHIPTON CARDIFF City chairman Peter Ridsdale is being sued over a pounds 5,000 bet he allegedly lost over striker Robbie Fowler. The Bluebirds boss is facing a County Court claim from fan Steve Day over the alleged "unpaid wager". ...
sunday roast: Glastonbury revellers.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... DUFFY warned Glastonbury revellers to beware of her fellow Welshmen in the crowd. Spotting some Welsh flags during what was reportedly a blistering set at the festival last week, the Rockferry star, who was one of the main acts alongside Amy Winehouse, Hot Chip and spurious ...
sunday roast: Charlotte wants a boy, say friends.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... BUDDING mum Charlotte Church has revealed she wants a brother for first-born Ruby, but is already panicking about putting back on the baby weight she worked so hard to shift. The singer and TV presenter battled to lose the four stone she piled on during her first pregnancy and ...
sunday roast: LIZ GOES GOBI.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... A FORMER Miss Great Britain swapped her stilettos for walking shoes when she tackled the Great Wall of China to raise money for charity. Self-confessed "budding philanthropist" Liz Fuller, from Swansea, joined Olivia Newton-John, Dannii Minogue and Sir Cliff Richard on the ...
sunday roast: HOT SPUDS.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... JOGGING: Come on. It might be Sunday but it's never too soon to start getting fit. LAGER: But your body can't be a ...
sunday roast: SOGGY VEG.(Features)
Jul 06, 2008 ... SUMMER COLDS: It's finally hot outside. So why are we all still shivering, red-faced and sneezing? INAPPROPRIATE CLOTHING: Why are there people wearing ...
Search on for missing teens.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... POLICE are continuing the search for two missing teenage girls. Jodie Thomas, 14, and Heledd Jones, 15, both from Caerphilly, went missing on Thursday. It is thought the two friends are together and could be in Aberdare or Cardiff. Jodie is white, 5ft 7ins tall, of a ...
SPECIAL BREW! Son stirs up up happy memories by turning dad's ashes into teapot.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By NATHAN BEVAN WHEN Jon Lowndes' father died he was devastated. The 54-year-old from Pembrokeshire didn't know how he'd cope without the heart-to-heart chats he'd share with dad Ian over a cuppa each night. But then the jeans shop-owning ...
Shamed therapist struck off.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW DAGNELL A SPEECH therapist who took photos of a half naked vulnerable patient has been banned from the profession. Paul Jones was trusted by Ceredigion& Mid Wales NHS Trust to help people with speech impediments. But a Health Professions ...
THE NEWS IN PICTURES.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... HOMECOMING: Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugs French President Nicolas Sarkozy as she arrives at Villacoublay air base, outside Paris, on Friday. The dual French-Colombian citizen was freed in a daring operation on Wednesday after being captured by Colombian rebels six years ago ...
DEE FOR DUMB.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: nathan bevan OOPS! Amy Wine house may have committed another PR boo-boo by elbowing a fan at Glastonbury who dared to touch her rat's nest, sorry, I mean hair. But beating that hands down in the toe-curling stakes is Dee Schneider, front man of '80s heavy ...
FEELING FRUITY!(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: nathan bevan IF you see hordes of men furtively emerging from the local supermarket this week trying to hide a big green orb under each arm, then I know the reason why. It's because water melons are the new Viagra, apparently. Now, I know what ...
It's a punny old business!(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: nathan bevan THERE'S a knack to making people smile as they hand over their cash. Hats off then to all those shops putting the comedy back in commerce by helping to raise a titter, despite the rising price of goods. My favourites? The ...
Scream lover.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: nathan bevan ODD-BALL film director David Lynch has revealed howmeditating twice a day for 20 minutes a time helps bring about sense of supreme balance and happiness. "I have never missed a session in 34 years," he said. Now, bear in mind this is ...
Shooting star.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: nathan bevan DID you see the interview with legendary (and by 'legendary' I mean that me and my tiny circle of musical anorak friends have heard of him) soul singer Solomon Burke in one of last weekend's papers? The big man, he's 30-stone, with the big voice ...
Ex-guard shows bad lads cell life.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... HARDNUT prison officer Jim Dawkins has been putting wannabe gangsters through their paces in a jailhouse version of Big Brother starring former Home Secretary David Blunkett. Banged Up, which starts on Five this week, sees bad lads from around Britain thrown into jail for 10 ...
PACKING A PUNCH; New chapter for 'Million Dollar Baby' Louise.(News)
Jul 06, 2008 ... Byline: By SARAH MANNERS SHE'S already proved a smash hit in the ring. Now boxer-turned-novelist Louise Walsh is hoping that her book 'Fighting Pretty' will prove an instant hit too. "That feeling you get when you hit something really hard - there's ...