Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) back issues from April 2009:
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft; Air rage terror at 32,000ft.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: MIke Jones s A HOLIDAYMAKER whose drunken rampage at 32,000ft caused panic among hundreds of flight passengers was jailed yesterday. Gareth Jackson, 34, drank 11 beers and a quarter of a litre of vodka before getting on board the flight home to Wales from ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Brown restricts top-level pay rises PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday imposed lower-than-recommended pay settlements for most senior officials. He restricted increases for top civil servants, NHS managers and judges as he approved annual pay rises for teachers and military ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy?
Apr 01, 2009 ... Welsh psychologists believe they know the ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple; Spaniard hid their bodies under rocks.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Steffan Rhys THE jury in the trial of a Spaniard accused of killing a Welsh married couple in the Canary Islands was yesterday shown the hammer he used to batter them to death. Juan Carmelo Santana Alamo, 42, admitted on Monday to bludgeoning Brian and Tina ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE.
Apr 01, 2009 ... UK & World Letters Morning Serial TV guide 22 8-9 18-19 ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE Music 300 years old found and recorded.
Apr 01, 2009 ... MUSIC dating back more than three centuries has secured a recording deal, a five-star review and a place in history. The religious music, unheard since the 16th and 17th centuries, was unearthed by a lecturer at Bangor University and has now been recorded by the ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE Music 300 years old found and recorded Community plans iconic memorial to Six Bells martyrs; Devastating blast continues to cast a shadow half a century later.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Sarah Miloudi ; Ian Caleb SOME said the explosion at Six Bells Colliery in the summer of 1960 thundered through the valleys, while others said it silently claimed the lives of 45 miners. Either way, nearly 50 years after its legacy of grief was first felt, ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE Music 300 years old found and recorded Community plans iconic memorial to Six Bells martyrs Rail revolution' has echoes industrial vision; UK rail network to get massive cash injection.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Tim Lewis A MASSIVE programme of spending will bring the biggest expansion of the railways since the age of Brunel, Network Rail said yesterday. The company was announcing ambitiousS pounds 35bn plans to carry out more than 500 projects across the UK over the ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE Music 300 years old found and recorded Community plans iconic memorial to Six Bells martyrs Rail revolution' has echoes industrial vision Unions brand public sector pay deals 'gesture politics' Settlement for top staff lower than suggested as PM urges restraint.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: James Tapsfield GORDON BROWN insisted the public sector had to show "restraint" on pay yesterday, as he imposed lower-than-recommended 1.5% settlements for most senior officials. Annual rises for teachers and military personnel were approved but the Prime ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE Music 300 years old found and recorded Community plans iconic memorial to Six Bells martyrs Rail revolution' has echoes industrial vision Unions brand public sector pay deals 'gesture politics' Speaker angered by leak of MPs' expenses.
Apr 01, 2009 ... COMMONS Speaker Michael Martin yesterday expressed his anger at the leaking of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's expense claims, saying he was "deeply disappointed" the details became public. He said the security and confidentiality of MPs' expense claims was "all important" and the ...
Terror as passengers tackle air rage drunk at 32,000ft INSIDE Why is Linda so happy? Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple INSIDE Music 300 years old found and recorded Community plans iconic memorial to Six Bells martyrs Rail revolution' has echoes industrial vision Unions brand public sector pay deals 'gesture politics' Speaker angered by leak of MPs' expenses Driver hurt as car crashes onto rail line.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mike Gibson A MAN was injured when his car crashed off a railway bridge and onto the track 20ft below. The 46-year-old had to be cut from his overturned Volkswagen Golf by firefighters after it left Stanwell Road near Penarth station in the Vale of Glamorgan ...
INSIDE.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Brown restricts top-level pay rises PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday imposed lower-than-recommended pay settlements for most senior officials. He restricted increases for top civil servants, NHS managers and judges as he approved annual pay rises for teachers and military ...
Why is Linda so happy?
Apr 01, 2009 ... Welsh psychologists believe they know the ...
Jury shown hammer used to batter Canaries couple; Spaniard hid their bodies under rocks.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Steffan Rhys THE jury in the trial of a Spaniard accused of killing a Welsh married couple in the Canary Islands was yesterday shown the hammer he used to batter them to death. Juan Carmelo Santana Alamo, 42, admitted on Monday to bludgeoning Brian and Tina ...
INSIDE.
Apr 01, 2009 ... UK & World Letters Morning Serial TV guide 22 8-9 18-19 ...
Music 300 years old found and recorded.
Apr 01, 2009 ... MUSIC dating back more than three centuries has secured a recording deal, a five-star review and a place in history. The religious music, unheard since the 16th and 17th centuries, was unearthed by a lecturer at Bangor University and has now been recorded by the ...
Community plans iconic memorial to Six Bells martyrs; Devastating blast continues to cast a shadow half a century later.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Sarah Miloudi ; Ian Caleb SOME said the explosion at Six Bells Colliery in the summer of 1960 thundered through the valleys, while others said it silently claimed the lives of 45 miners. Either way, nearly 50 years after its legacy of grief was first felt, ...
Rail revolution' has echoes industrial vision; UK rail network to get massive cash injection.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Tim Lewis A MASSIVE programme of spending will bring the biggest expansion of the railways since the age of Brunel, Network Rail said yesterday. The company was announcing ambitiousS pounds 35bn plans to carry out more than 500 projects across the UK over the ...
Unions brand public sector pay deals 'gesture politics' Settlement for top staff lower than suggested as PM urges restraint.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: James Tapsfield GORDON BROWN insisted the public sector had to show "restraint" on pay yesterday, as he imposed lower-than-recommended 1.5% settlements for most senior officials. Annual rises for teachers and military personnel were approved but the Prime ...
Speaker angered by leak of MPs' expenses.
Apr 01, 2009 ... COMMONS Speaker Michael Martin yesterday expressed his anger at the leaking of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's expense claims, saying he was "deeply disappointed" the details became public. He said the security and confidentiality of MPs' expense claims was "all important" and the ...
Driver hurt as car crashes onto rail line.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mike Gibson A MAN was injured when his car crashed off a railway bridge and onto the track 20ft below. The 46-year-old had to be cut from his overturned Volkswagen Golf by firefighters after it left Stanwell Road near Penarth station in the Vale of Glamorgan ...
Rhodri warns over BT service; wales newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... FIRST MINISTER Rhodri Morgan yesterday said that if telephone-provider BT is shown to be discriminating against Welsh-speakers the communications giant could be referred to human rights authorities. As revealed in theWestern Mail, customers who want to operate in Welsh could ...
Firms hold back over online crime; wales newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... ONLINE fraud is costing the Welsh economy pounds 300m a year, a senior policemen said yesterday. North Wales Police Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Corcoran, chairman of the E-Crime Wales partnership, said 54% of ...
Doctors call for prescription parity; wales newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... LEADING Welsh doctors have called for English patients to be given the same access to free prescriptions. Speaking on the second anniversary of the abolition of prescription charges in Wales, the British Medical Association Cymru said it was time the scheme was extended to ...
World leaders fly in for crunch economic summit; Brown confident that global rules will be passed to regulate banking.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: AndrewWoodcock US PRESIDENT Barack Obama arrived in the UK last night as world leaders gathered in London for the crunch G20 summit to seek global agreement on tackling the recession. The President touched down at Stansted airport in Essex on board Air Force ...
Man released after Commons scuffle; uk newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A MAN arrested after a fight broke out in the Houses of Parliament was released on bail yesterday. Officers used CS spray on the 40-year-old man after he allegedly hit a police officer in the House of Commons on Monday night. He was arrested on suspicion of ...
Bungalow destroyed after 'explosions' uk newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE home of a disabled man facing eviction was destroyed in a blaze. Fire crews were called to the one-bedroom bungalow, in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, at about 9.45am yesterday, following reports of explosions. Police said the cause of the fire was unknown, but it was ...
Girl rescued from house fire dies; uk newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl rescued from a house fire which killed her parents and brother, has died. Sophie Colley was taken to Sheffield Children's Hospital after fire crews found her in the burning building in South Street, Sheffield, in the early hours of Sunday morning. ...
North Korea to put US journalists on trial; world newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... NORTH KOREA intends to put two American journalists on trial over allegations of illegal entry and "hostile acts" amid ongoing tension between Pyongyang and Washington over a rocket launch. The secretive state's news agency confirmed that Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who work for ...
Netanyahu pledges to look for peace; world newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... ISRAEL'S incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he would seek "full peace" with the entire Arab and Muslim world. Mr Netanyahu made the comments in a speech to parliament before he was sworn into office last night. He said radical Islam and the Iranian regime ...
Madonna hits back at adoption claims; world newsbulletin.
Apr 01, 2009 ... MADONNA yesterday hit back at claims she was using her fame to pressure Malawi into allowing her to adopt another child. She confirmed she was trying for custody of a young girl but said she was following normal procedures. The 50-year-old popstar arrived in Malawi ...
Staff failed to spot baby was being severely abused.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A COUPLE were able to conceal the injuries they inflicted on their baby son because of failures by health-care professionals, a council report revealed yesterday. Stacey Louise Taylor, 20, and Mark John Harrison, 27, were allowed to get away with abusing Jack for weeks before he ...
Taxpayer body to reject Goodwin pension.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE war of words over former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin's controversial pension flared up again yesterday, as a taxpayer-backed body prepared to lodge a formal protest vote over the pounds 703,000 deal. City minister Lord Myners came under renewed pressure ...
Consumer site slates Premium Bond returns.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A CONSUMER website launched a scathing attack on Premium Bonds yesterday, claiming most people would be better off putting their money into a savings account. MoneySavingExpert.com said following recent changes to the Premium Bond prize fund, people with pounds 1,000 invested ...
South Downs to become latest National Park.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A NEW National Park in the South Downs finally got the go-ahead yesterday more than 60 years after the area was first earmarked for protected status. The decision by the Government to create the 627-square-mile National Park in Sussex and Hampshire was welcomed by countryside ...
UK forces start a staged withdrawal from Iraq; We've finished this right, says general handing over to US forces.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Sam Marsden BRITISH forces' withdrawal from Iraq began last night when the UK's top commander and his headquarters staff flew out of the country. Major General Andy Salmon earlier handed military command of the southern province of Basra to the US Army in a ...
Shocking violence against teachers; Assaults accounted for most of the 241 exclusions in Wales.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: David Williamson VIOLENCE against teachers is the most common reason for pupils being permanently excluded from schools in Wales, new government statistics have revealed. Assaults on staff or other pupils accounted for more than 30% of the 241 permanent ...
Words from a master of the true story ring out in our new serial.
Apr 01, 2009 ... EVEN during the earliest days of his career, George Ewart Evans seemed to realise that true stories were the most important ones. Tomorrow sees the start of the Western Mail 's Voices of the Children serialisation - a delightful, evocative tale about a young boy growing up in ...
Life was so much better in the 1980s. Or was it? Modern gloom over family and money worries.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Rachael Misstear ACCORDING to Monty Python's legendary Four Yorkshiremen sketch, we didn't know we were born. Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Eric Idle would tell us how hard life was in the olden days when we should have been grateful to live ...
I thought that this was the end of my life... 'Stroke survivors need more help' says comedian.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Madeleine Brindley COMEDIAN Owen Money has spoken of how he feared his life was over after suffering a stroke. And he has appealed for more help for other stroke survivors who are still suffering speech and communication problems. The 61-year-old ...
Botox could lift your mood as well as your face, claims research; Psychologists believe cosmetic treatment makes people happier.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Madeleine Brindley BOTOX may be regarded by many as the elixir of youth, but it could also be a recipe for happiness. Research has suggested that injecting the toxin in a bid to smooth out wrinkles also has a surprising side-effect. Psychologists ...
Tesco fined pounds 18,000 short fuel measures; Motorists were overcharged at Welsh pumps.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Wendy Horton SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has been fined pounds 18,000 for shortchanging its customers at the pumps of one of its Welsh stores. The company was caught selling short measures of fuel to its customers during a routine inspection by trading standards ...
Glyndwe r letter comes home - as a copy; Facsimiles to go on show at six Welsh locations.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: David Williamson AN historic Welsh treasure "exiled" in a French library is coming home - in copy form at least. Exact reproductions of the letter in which Owain Glyndwe r set out his vision of an independent Wales are to go on display in six locations ...
Poor impression; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - The last of four TV programmes called The Victorians on BBC recently showed the works of artists who had broken away from materialism and embraced the world of fairies, knights and damsels in distress. The treasures of Cardiff Castle were shown as an illustration of this ...
Fluent Europeans; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - I am in agreement with Peter Reed (Letters, March 21). If we are really serious about doing the best for Wales then let Wales be the first country in the UK to make the teaching of another European language compulsory. That really would be of great benefit to the country. ...
No comparison; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - I'm amazed at the arrogance of Peter Hain, Eluned Morgan and Alan Davies in associating Aneurin Bevan with today's New Labour ("Tory fury at 'childish' Labour Delilah video", March 28). Can you imagine the comparison between the Labour leaders of the Bevan era, when the ...
Graffiti is art; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - You say that pounds 1m is spent annually cleaning off graffiti, with the scathing attack that it's a crime - not art ("Campaigners say writing's on the wall for graffiti: It's a crime, not art", March 26). Some of the places where this art form is practical make it a ...
Sorry, Irish; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - In your back page Comment on March 23, you stated that the Irish had gone over the top regarding what Gatland had said in his March 18 statement - this is absolute nonsense! This comment was not only to do with the Welsh team and rugby but also the people of two nations. ...
Score the ref; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - Some thoughts on your rugby coverage to date. It's OK if Andy Howell doesn't like Gavin Henson, but does he have to make it so obvious? It's getting tedious now.. Secondly, it seems that players no longer speak to him: they now blast, let-rip, rant and snarl. Do ...
Dog mess presents a serious risk to health; LETTERS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SIR - A few years ago parents were made very aware of the threat that the dog worm toxocara canis could have on the health of the population. It was clearly shown that the eggs from these worms could survive for many years in soil which had been contaminated by dog faeces. ...
Rail plans welcome - but there's much more to do; COMMENT.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE upgrade in investment for the rail network, announced by Network Rail yesterday, comes not before time. The organisation is spending pounds 35bn on expanding the railways, a substantial amount of which - although not as much as we'd like - is being spent in Wales. ...
When it comes to the mysteries of life children cut to the chase.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: AbbieWightwick Abbie Wightwick mumsays CHILDREN scare me. This isn't great when you live with three of them but they have a way of making it impossible to ignore the big questions in life. You just recover from teenage angst to enjoy things in a flippant way ...
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
Apr 01, 2009 ... I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language ... it means above all ...
Queen leads family in mourning; RETRO REPORT How we covered...
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Tony Woolway THE Queen last night led members of the Royal Family in prayer and remembrance at the coffin of the Queen Mother, who died on Saturday, aged 101. Senior royals filed solemnly into the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park for a brief ...
Staying at home for the Regeneration game; A wave of investment is sweeping across the resorts of Wales, breathing new life into our maritime heritage. With the Easter school holidays about to start this year's tourist season, Sally Williams looks at how the coastal revival may benefit a recession-hit nation eager to see some economic activity.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Sally Williams IN THE heyday of the quintessential British holiday, the Victorian era bequeathed a handful of promenades and piers that still grace the bays of Wales. For succeeding generations they became familiar tourist hotspots until the rise of cheap ...
G20 must put people first; As world leaders including Barack Obama arrive in the UK ahead of tomorrow's landmark G20 summit, Julian Rosser, Oxfam Cymru's campaigns co-ordinator, sets out what the world's richest nations need to do to achieve long-lasting changes.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Julian Rosser WHEN the leaders of the G8 group of rich countries promised to "Make Poverty History" at Gleneagles in 2005, it was clear the process would take decades. But four years later and the cry for "Jobs, Justice and Climate" by 35,000 people, ...
Plwg yw'r lleiaf a'r mwyaf o bethau y pwyswn arno; welshcolumn.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Menna Elfyn PRIFIO. Dyna fues i'n ei wneud dros y Sul - prifio go iawn. Oddi mewn wrth gwrs. Dyna beth yw teitl yr we yl hynod o ddifyr ac ysgogol a gynhaliwyd ym Mhorthmadog gydol yr wythnos. Bechod, (ie bechod go iawn) imi golli rhai o'r sesiynau difyr ond ...
Morning Serial; The Death of Justice.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Michael O'Brien I'd challenged that evidence again and again because it had no doubt done so much to send us down. Now, though, with new techniques about linguistics we could revisit that key strand of "evidence". For most of November 10, 1987, Ellis and I ...
today's tv; Starfile Alan Whicker.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Alan Whicker Image: Suave TV legend. Best Known For: Being one of Britain's best-loved travel journalists. Early Life: Alan Donald Whicker was born in 1925 in Cairo. His father died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother in Hampstead ....
QUIZ OF THE DAY.
Apr 01, 2009 ... 1. How would a dendrochronologist estimate the age of a timber-framed building? 2. Which ingredient gives dark ales and stouts their characteristic black colour? 3. The story of which second world war fighter pilot was featured in the film Reach For The Sky? 4. What is the common name for ...
They said what?
Apr 01, 2009 ... "I'm rather glad really, because I think I'm beginning to lose it a bit" Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, looks forward to his successor's appointment "She claims, of course, that she has done nothing wrong. So do they all, all Honourable Members. We simply ...
Who on earth? Yesterday's picture.
Apr 01, 2009 ... What am I? I pick locks six-day tease Answer tomorrow CAPTION(S): ...
Home cooking; Tomato and pepper pasta sauce with fresh spaghetti.(Recipe)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Serves: 4 Ingredients 125g organic sun- ripened tomatoes in oil, from the deli counter 100g Pepperdew Sweet Piquante Peppers, rinsed and drained 2tbsp salted capers, rinsed 2 garlic cloves, chopped 100ml extra virgin olive oil ' x 25g pack fresh basil, torn into pieces 500g bag Waitrose ...
The new lords of the dance.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A LOT'S changed in the 10 years since I last saw Riverdance. That too was at Cardiff International Arena, when Michael Flatley's virtuoso steps wowed the legions of fans who had snapped up videos of the troupe's shows in their millions since they shot to fame as part of the 1994 ...
Yourstars with Patrick Arundell.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Patrick Arundell ARIES Mar 21st - Apr 20th If you are born today, no doubt over time you have become accustomed to the concept of being an April Fool, well, at least when other people tease you. But this can be a time for action and progression in your affairs. ...