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Don’t let drink sneak up on you will also offer people support to help them accept their drinking behaviour is a problem. The Welsh Health Survey in 2010 suggests 44% of Welsh adults regularly drink more than the recommended guidelines (37% of women...
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Warren Gatland takes his side to Twickenham on Saturday for the Triple Crown clash, with Lancaster admitting that Wales have become the blueprint for the English game to copy. “Wales deserve credit for what they have achieved,” said Lancaster. “They...
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Scotland lost in translation If you like your rugby updates with a twist, Ruck and Maul recommends the Jakarta City News website. Someone in Indonesia is pushing the Six Nations soundbites through a language filter of dubious accuracy. Hence we have...
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And, inevitably, they are beginning to shoulder the angst and pressure that come with this newly forged status. Wales will provide England with their sternest test to date. France in Paris may prove even more intense, but for now there is more than...
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Northampton were, of course, without their five England players. Jim Mallinder, their director of rugby, believes that Courtney Lawes should be included in England's squad to play Wales next weekend. Lawes came through a second full match showing no...
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They did not even stop to pick up the £130,000 Aston Martin DB9 that Cassey had her eye on. The only thing the former Iceland worker and her decorator boyfriend have splashed out on so far is a £40 tent for the summer. A friend said: “They wanted to...
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But I think that's dangerous for Wales. It will be difficult to assess how to defend, and England do have deadly finishers. I've played for the Ospreys twice against Saracens this season, and Owen Farrell used Strettle and the pace out wide well. So...
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Wales can break down the England defence – and that will be a heck of a task. I’m convinced they will do it, but not to the point that some people are saying – 15 points difference. It will be much harder than that and we will probably have to wait...
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He had planned to climb the Polish Glacier – the last vertical kilometre of the mountain – but high winds, crevasses and the threat of avalanches meant he was forced to abandon the bid. Parks, capped four times by Wales, instead climbed the False...
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WELSH oil worker Richard Foscolo became trapped in the Libyan desert as chaos gripped the region during the uprising against Colonel Gadaffi. The father-of-three was stranded in the desert for days amid fears that so-called Black Shadow militia...
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Speaking directly to former Plaid supporters from the conference stage, he said: “If you voted Plaid but know, as I do, that independence is bad for Wales, then Welsh Labour is your party.” A Plaid Cymru spokesman hit back, saying: “That Plaid Cymru’s...
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“There are some absolutely fabulous movies out there made in the 1920s. There are so many films from that period that are waiting to be discovered.” In an almost fairytale story, Hughes was born in 1894 to a proud, chapel-going, working-class household...
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Figures released to Wales on Sunday show staggering numbers of people are reporting their friends and neighbours for benefit fraud. Fraud investigators received almost 400,000 tip-offs last year on people fleecing the system – a 55% increase on 2005...
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Dr Whitaker was one of a team of forensic scientists working on the case and pioneered the use of familial DNA, which allows detectives to track down culprits via their family members. Speaking to WalesOnline, he said the discovery would not have been...
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I remember Alan Davies saying when he was in charge of the Welsh team that handling pressure was the big thing. In my day, we didn’t have much use for sports psychologists – as a fully paid-up member of the front five, it was about winning your own...
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As its Swalec Stadium conference will continue to hear today: “Carwyn Jones’ government is showing there is an alternative.” So far, so good. But here’s the problem. If Labour chose to adopt the platform of government taken by Mr Jones’ party in Wales...
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“A lot of their exit strategies are not to get the ball off the field and there are reasons behind that. Having a big backline also suits the Welsh style. “Physicality is an important factor at international rugby and the ability to get over the gain...
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Agreed, this English squad is not a vintage one when you consider the graph of the last 20 years. It is packed full of international inexperience, and coach Stuart Lancaster is bedding in new combinations all over the park as England seek redemption...
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Today aged 22, Ffion weighs almost six stone and is trying to get her life on track, determined to get better. While her friends were getting on with their lives she has spent the last 11 years in and out of hospitals. With no long-stay specialist beds...
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Nine-year-old Tom Sargent’s biggest ambition in life is to run around and play with his friends. The boisterous fun-lover dreams of running or even walking as he is mainly confined to a wheelchair. As an infant he could walk a little but as his body...
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