Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) back issues from August 2008:
Good for the Goose.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Claire is hanging up her nurse's uniform to go on the beat in The Bill MULDER AND SCULLY ARE BACK PAGE 4&5 WHY WE LOVE CERYS ...
5 minutes with... Ching-He Huang.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Ching-He Huang If you had to bestuck in a lift with some one, who would it be? I'm going to get killed by my other half but Christian Bale. I'm really looking forward to The Dark Knight. I loved his first Batman movie. I just think he's such a fantastic actor ....
cover star: Fresh sauce for the Goose; Claire is a girl who really likes a uniform... after leaving the wards of Casualty she's back in The Bill.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... AVETERAN of hospital and police dramas, Claire Goose is donning a uniformyet again as she joins The Bill this week. The actress became a household name and lads' mag pin-up following her roles as Tina Seabrook in Casualty and Mel Silver in Waking The Dead. Now, four years on, ...
coverstar: soap box; coming this week.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... POBOL Y CWM: With Dai Scaffalde still in hiding, Diane has been worrying herself sick about his safety. Derek is again under suspicion as the police try to ascertain if Dai has been murdered. With her heart at breaking point Diane learns the truth about Dai's disappearance. ...
review: top movies; This week's Top 10 films.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... 1 (-) The Dark Knight (12A) With a record-breaking opening weekend in America tucked under its utility bat-belt, The Dark Knight swoops onto these shores amidst a storm of hype. No film could live up to such expectations but The Dark Knight soars tantalisingly close, probing the ...
review: dvds.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... STRANGE WILDERNESS (Cert 15, 82 mins) DRUG-ADDLED slacker Peter Gaulke (Steve Zahn) has followed in the footsteps of his father as the less than gregarious host of an ailing natural history television show. When the boss of the network (Jeff Garlin) sensibly threatens to cancel ...
review: X doesn't quite hit the spot.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE X-FILES: IWANT TO BELIEVE (15,104mins) *** Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet, Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley. IF ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder then we should be ready to fall in love again with ...
review: also released.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... MAN ON WIRE (12A, 94 mins) ON August 7, 1974, high-wire performer Philippe Petit stunned the residents of Manhattan by seemingly walking on thin air between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. His exploits, accomplished with the help of accomplices on both buildings including lover ...
review: books.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... POPPYLAND by Raffaella Barker (Headline Review, pounds 12.99) GRACE lives in NewYork and works as an artist in a warehouse she uses as a studio. She is given the chance to display her work in Denmark. On the opening night she has a chance meeting with a man on the waterfront ....
review: Keeping it Real! real RAIO 105-106fm.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Angela & Tony RICKY: Now then, now then ... what's all this then? ANGELA: Ricky ...stop being Tricky Ricky now that Malcolm's away. Just because you fooled Malcolm in that garage! RICKY: "Now then, I have a tool box full of gold tools ..." was the ...
review: new albums.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE COOL KIDS - BAKE SALE THERE'S no disguising that this twosome, Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish, have been heavily influenced by the 80s. This, together with their unique style, has seen them labelled as ones to watch. Does it deliver? Pretty much. Slick lyrics, good beats and enough ...
review: top game.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... PUZZLER COLLECTION, Nintendo DS, pounds 19.99 IT'S school holiday time and if those long car journeys are starting to send shivers down your spine, why not stock up on a bundle of over 2,000 puzzles to keep the kids quiet? Puzzler Collection brings you Fitword, Crossword, Sudoku and ...
Queen of cool; CERYS MATTHEWS @Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wednesday.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan CERYS, Cerys Cerys, how do we love thee? Let me count the ways. We love you because youwere the First Lady of Cool Cymru. We love you because of the way you rolled your "Rs" in Road Rage. We love you because you quite spectacularly ...
best gig; Brecon Jazz Festival @ Brecon, Thursday-August 10.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan AH jazz! There's nothing, and I mean nothing, so guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of ordinary man upon its very mention. Go on, try it. Pop out and ask the first person you see if they fancy coming back to yours to listen to a ...
Best day out; Beatles Photographic Exhibition@Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, until September 28.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan YES, it'll probably have that photo of the elderly lady in the owl-rimmed specs looking lustily through a train windowat Paul, or the one of John sharing a sneaky snout with Wilfrid Brambell during a break in between filmingAHard Day's Night. ...
booking now; Billy Bragg@Parc&Dare Theatre, Treorchy, November 22.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan THE main reason I loved Billy Bragg while I was growing up was the fact that I could play his CDs during very long car journeys to annoy my old dad. "Who's this clown? He isn't even singing in tune!" he'd rant, and I'd have to bat ...
best of the rest.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan Whole LottaLed @NewQuay MusicFestival, NewQuay, Today: One of the best tributeacts in the business reproducesthe soundsof PercyPlantand Coin theirheyday.Enquiries:07976 176183 Eugene FrancisJr@10Feet Ta ll, Cardiff, Tomorrow:Welsh ...
Enjoy the pleasures of the beach.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Compiled by Nathan Bevan WALES has such superb beaches that more than a hundred of them are award-winners - 42 European Blue Flag beaches, five Blue Flagmarinas, 44 Green Sea Award beaches and a further 40 winners of Seaside Awards. All we need now to enjoy ...
tv choice: best Documentary - Vanessa-Mae: The Making Of Me, Thursday, BBC1, 9pm - DON'T MISS THIS.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... SINGAPORE-BORN "techno-acoustic fusion violinist" - which basically means she's the Nigel Kennedy you can look at without feeling slightly itchy afterwards - examines whether it was nature or nurture that made her such a talented musician. ...
tv choice: best reality - Britain's Missing Top Model, Tuesday, BBC3, 9pm.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... BIT of a misnomer this one. I mean, Britain's Missing Top Model suggests that some catwalk beauty has been bungled into the back of a van by maskedmen and stashed for ransom in ...
tv choice: best film - The Jackal, Friday, BBC1, 11.20pm.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... NOTDay Of The Jackal, mind, there's no Edward Fox-style stiff upper lip here. Instead Bruce Willis, in an assortment of shonky disguises, stars as the shady assassin in town tomake a killing, while Richard Gere is improbably cast as an ex-IRA man hired to bring him down ....
tv choice: best entertainment - I'm Kylie's Body Double, Monday, BBC3, 9pm.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... THIS showintroduces the world of the body-part doubles: men and women who have such perfect hands, feet, legs and, yes, even bums, that they earn a living modelling them while standing in for the stars. You see, not even in this modern world of media artifice canmodels ...
tv choice: best drama - TheWire, Monday, FX, 10pm.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... NO, I've not seen a single episode to be honest. But everyone else in the world seems to be of the belief that The Wire is a work of unparalleled genius and not to bemissed. That kind of ...
television: Meet the athletes going for gold.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... ON the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jason Mohammad and the Sport Wales gang catch up with the top Welsh team GB Olympic sports stars going for gold in China in Sport Wales Special - Olympics Preview. The 2008 Beijing Olympics could provide Wales' ...
television: A NEW ERA FOR NIKKI; Ex Corrie star goes back to the '60s.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... NIKKI Sanderson is one of the most humble soap stars you could ever hope tomeet. During our chat at ITV HQ, the petite actress manages to slip the words "wonderful", "lucky", "grateful" and "happy" into her answers at least 30 times, while never dropping her famous dimpled ...
television: switched on; what are your favourite TV stars up to?(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... IT LOOKS like baby fever has caught on with the Ugly Betty cast. Rebecca Romijn who plays Alexis is expecting twins, Eric Mabius, who plays Daniel, is expecting his second child and Christopher Gorham, who plays Henry, his third. HANNAH Montana star Miley Cyrus has revealed that ...
THE PAIN NO MUM SHOULD HAVE TO SUFFER; Torment of Ben's parents clearly visible as their boy arrives home.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... HER bowed head cannot hide the agony - Marilyn Mullany's son Ben lies just metres away in a life-threatening coma, possibly unaware his beloved bride Catherine is dead. He arrived at Morriston Hospital yesterday after being airlifted from Antigua where the honeymooners were shot ...
Sun factor pumps up Eisteddfod numbers.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: By MATTHEW APLIN THOUSANDS of visitors embraced Welsh culture in the sunshine yesterday. Nearly 17,700 from across the nation converged on Cardiff for the first day of 2008's National Eisteddfod. Wales' leading cultural festival hopes to welcome ...
OLYMPIAN FEELING THE TENCH-ION! Davies reveals a fear of fish.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: By GAVIN O'CONNOR THERE'S a feeling eel do really well at the Beijing Olympics - as long as there are no fish involved. Welsh long-distance swimmer David Davies has let slip he hates the thought of being in the same water as anything with fins and scales. ...
Festival-goer fighting for life.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... A ROCK fan from Wales was fighting for her life last night after taking drugs at a music festival. The 20-year-old woman was taken ill at the Kendal Calling festival in Cumbria's Lake District. She was rushed to hospital, where her condition was described as critical. ...
Darker Doctor Who.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE new man behind Doctor Who has warned fans the next series of the hit sci-fi show is going to be the darkest yet. In a recent American interview Steven Moffat, who will take over as executive producer and lead writer when Russell T Davies steps ...
SCANDAL OF POLICE BONUSES; EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL REPORT: Calls for pay-outs to be scrapped after Welsh cops pocket an extra pounds 8m.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW DAGNELL POLICE officers patted themselves on the back with bonuses of more than pounds 8m last year, Wales on Sunday can reveal. All some of them had to do was turn up to work and do their job properly to be rewarded with jackpot pay-outs - funded by ...
IN BRIEF: Jail for tourist.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... AN AUSTRALIAN tourist whose cash ran out yesterday began sampling Welsh hospitality of a different kind - in jail. Karli Penberthy, 24, from Adelaide, had run up food and accommodation bills of nearly pounds ...
IN BRIEF: Biker killed.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... A BIKER was killed yesterday - the latest victim in a string of fatal motorbike accidents in North Wales. The 53-year-old, who has not been named, died on the A541 at Llong, near Mold, shortly before ...
IN BRIEF: Mum's regret.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE mother of 33 stone Georgia Davis yesterday said she couldn't afford to buy her 15-year-old daughter healthy food. Lesley Miles, 53, from Aberdare, said she filled her up on meals like egg and chips because ...
GETTING TO BOTTOM OF STAR RHYS.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... RHYS IFANS has described how the video for his band The Peth's latest single will include a very up close and personal look at the star. In a bizarre interview with an internet music station, the Twin Town hell-raiser said the promo clip for the track Let's Go ******* Mental ...
Ministers back Brown; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... THREE senior Cabinet ministers yesterday issued a public vote of confidence in Prime Minister Gordon Brown, insisting he is the right person to lead the Labour Party. Chancellor Alistair Darling, deputy ...
Reformed George; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... BARRY George, who was cleared of murdering Jill Dando after eight years behind bars for the crime, said last night he was a reformed character, ...
Girl dies from burns; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl, who was critically injured in an arson attack on her grandmother's home, has died, police said yesterday. Alana Mian from Sydney, Australia, had been visiting relatives in ...
Anthrax letters test? UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... ANTHRAX-LACED letters that killed five people may have been part of Dr Bruce I vins' warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin, US officials claimed yesterday, following the US army scientist's suicide. ...
Glitter to be freed; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... ADATE has been set for the release of disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter. Glitter, 63, who is serving a three-year sentence ...
River gunman caught; UK AND WORLD BRIEF.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... A GUNMAN suspected of opening fire on a group of young swimmers on a riverbank, leaving three dead, has been arrested. Scott Johnson, 38, was dressed in camouflage when police confronted him outside woods near ...
SAY A PRAYER FOR BEN; Doctors fight to save life of shooting victim as he returns home in coma.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... DOCTORS treating the newlywed shot in a suspected bungled robbery in Antigua in which his wife was murdered said yesterday he remained in a coma. Benjamin Mullany arrived at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, in the early hours after being flown home from the Caribbean island where ...
'He'll always be my hero'.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... BEN MULLANY'S ex-fiancee yesterday said that he'll always be a hero to her. Former University of Wales student Rebecca Gosling, 29, who met the tragic bridegroom during a working holiday in the US in 2001, said the former army man and police officer had spent his life trying to ...
Couple robbed at gunpoint on beach.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... AMARRIED couple last night described their horror at being robbed at gunpoint on a Venezuelan beach while on honeymoon. Adrian and Amanda Ward of Llantrisant say they were threatened two days after they were married on the Caribbean island of Margarita. A "bandit" ...
WAG's falling behind in health race.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: angharad mair I WAS delighted to hear that our new Heritage Minister, Alun Ffred Jones, is keen to address the challenge of building a nation whose citizens have healthy bodies and minds and that he wants to change our "sedentary lives" through the development of ...
Maes to see you in Cardiff.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: angharad mair THE greatest cultural show in Wales, and one of the few cultural events that can rightly claim to be amongst the best in the world, is in Cardiff this week. The National Eisteddfod is held this year in Pontcanna fields and if you have never ...
An act of love and vision.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: angharad mair HOW incredibly brave of Pete and Lindsay Burgess who lost their beloved little daughter Meg last week when a wall fell on top of her in Prestatyn to donate her eyes and heart. They said that three-year-old Meg "will be thrilled with the decision ...
QUEEN OF THE CASTLE; Hearst girl's Wales link.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: BY NATHAN BEVAN SHE may look like a million dollars, but she's actually worth a lot more than that. Because, while Lydia Hearst may be the new face, and body, of the latest range of Myla designer lingerie, she's also the great-granddaughter of American ...
Sgt's life saving charge.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... ABRIGHT Welsh soldier has been handed a top award for helping to save lives in Iraq. Staff Sergeant Keith Phillips came up with an idea to stop soldiers having to risk life and limb to change some batteries. Sgt Phillips feared soldiers would die changing power packs ...
FOOTING THE BILL! Forget the credit crunch, these fans are having a ball.(Sport)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: By GAVIN O'CONNOR THE miserable economic forecast has failed to cast a cloud over football fans who have vowed to keep spending. That's the indication from early ticket sales coupled with the views of loyal supporters of the top three Welsh clubs. ...
Suspect tracked to Vietnam.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... A POLICE manhunt continues today for a Vietnamese man, after three others were convicted over the death of an immigrant who was beaten and left at a hospital. The three - Thanh Van Le, 31, Cong Van Le, 48, Quynh Van Huynh, 51 - were found guilty of Tran Nguyen's manslaughter on ...
Changing his hot captain heroes?(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... TORCHWOOD star John Barrowman has hinted he could be the next super hero to hit the big screen. The Scottish-born star and Doctor Who regular could be swapping his Captain Jack Hark ness character for that of Captain America, whose movie outing is currently under development. ...
sunday roast: MISS UK Lisa Lazarus.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS MISS UK Lisa Lazarus may have narrowly missed taking home the crown for the Miss Universe competition, but the Swansea-born beauty queen has stuck to her charitable word and is busy organising a charity catwalk in aid of Breast Cancer ...
sunday roast: A JILTED Andy Scott-Lee.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS A JILTED Andy Scott-Lee has found love again and is dating 22-year-old Living TV star Lydia Louisa. Bodelwyddan-born Andy, 28, recently split with his Liberty X ...
sunday roast: CHINA-BOUND.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS CHINA-BOUND commentator Gabby Logan, daughter of former Wales international football player and manager Terry Yorath, is getting ready to leave her husband Kenny and her two kids ...
sunday roast: DESPITE.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS DESPITE reports he'll "never get over Sienna", it seems Rhys Ifans might already be onto the next on the list of Jude Law's famous exes. The troubled ...
sunday roast: DUFFY'S.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS DUFFY'S' new best friend' probably wouldn't be your first guess. The 24-year-old soul singer, who turned down the chance ...
sunday roast: Diva Kath's cooking up a career change.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS SHE might be better known for her high notes but Katherine Jenkins also has high standards in the kitchen. And now she's got her sights set on the top in the domestic sphere as well. "I love cooking," she says ....
sunday roast: THE BIG SQUEEZE; Charl ponders Jordan's juice diet.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS AWORRIED, pregnant Charlotte Church has turned to new pal Jordan for diet tips to try to ensure she doesn't pile on the pounds with baby number two. And she's certainly gone to the right place - mum-of-three Jordan, aka ....
sunday roast: HOT SPUDS.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS STRAW HATS: So hot this summer it hurts. HOLIDAYS IN EUROPE: No long-haul flights, ...
sunday roast: SOGGY VEG.(Features)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: MATT THOMAS AND VICTORIA RICHARDS BOTTLED WATER: It tastes just the same as tap water, it's expensive, and it's not very kind to the environment. ...
1cm; Josh cheats death by.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: By GAVIN O'CONNOR A BOY cheated certain death within four minutes by just 1cm. Joshua Morgan, nine, was showered with shards of shattered glass when he ran into a patio door he thought was open. One pierced his groin, threatening to cut open the ...
I'VE HAD ENOUGH; After 15 lorries crash into the side of her house, terrified Welsh mum says.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: By NATHAN BEVAN A TERRIFIED mum says she's been driven to distraction because 15 lorries have crashed in to the side of her house at the rate of almost one a year. Amanda Sand land says she's sick of her century-old terrace being hit by HGVs which sat-navs ...
Bananas have sting in the tail.(News)
Aug 03, 2008 ... FEELING the pinch from the credit crunch? Then spare a thought for poor old Nigel Sparks, who opened up a box of bananas at his local supermarket to find a livescorpion! Nigel, 53, who works at the Somer field store in Penryhn Bay, Llandudno, was quietly getting on ...