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The Big Spring Beach Clean, Surfers Against SewageFreshwater West, PembrokeshireApril 7th 2019 It’s World Oceans Day, June 8th, and people around our world celebrate and honour the ocean, which connects us all. https://www.worldoceansday.org #TOGETHERWECAN To celebrate we would like to release a video of the Big Spring Beach Clean. It is the UK’s biggest coordinated beach clean activity, which has brought together over 150,000 volunteers over the last five years, contributing an incredible two million hours of volunteer time to protecting and conserving our beaches for everyone...
Read MoreThis week sees the publication of a book of delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes from the hugely successful catering company No Bones Jones. No Bones Jones: Festival Cookbook shines a spotlight on the authentic, wholesome vegetarian and vegan food that the company supplies to festivalgoers across the UK. No Bones Jones started after Hugh Jones returned from a long period driving an overland tourist bus around India, Nepal and Turkey in the 1980s. “When he left, he knew little about food or catering, and cared even less. When he came back, he was a man transformed! He seemed to have...
Read MoreTunes of vigour soar in that chapel in the Simple Round-Headed style raised by your great grandfathers in a confluence of overworked meadows and sparse whitewashed settlement the Word and its compositions its words verses and choruses among friends and familiar worshippers joining in with your sister at the organ as Mrs Angel falls to her knees in her fervour praying as tears escape down her face while outside the minstrelling of blackbirds the hymns of wind the sighs of boughs and the symphony of waves approaching then breaking do their bit as a tailor you earned...
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN CONSCRIPTS These young men could well be described as having served in the secret underground movement during the Second World War, but not in the sense that most people would imagine, for even today many have not heard of the term Bevin Boy. Sixty-eight years ago on the 2nd December 1943, Ernest Bevin the wartime Minister of Labour and National Service announced in the House of Commons a scheme that was to change the lives of many young men, by being directed to serve their National Service working underground in the coalmines of Britain. When war was declared...
Read MoreThose men who have lost their mothers and who live like men who have lost their mothers gather at a rock on a unclassified road that dispenses warm weak grateful ale and incremental amounts of confidence as they rub shoulders with ascetics and saintly aesthetics but still feel inadequate in comparison with their forebears among their number but standing somewhat apart somewhere between the sugar and the salt and consuming a more spirited beverage is the monumental mason Tomb Jones no relation who keeps a creased miniature image of his loved one secure in the treasury of...
Read MoreVOICES FROM WALES - THIRTEEN OF FIFTY-TWO The ABC of Opera is the brainchild of Mark Llewelyn Evans. Mark has visited over 250 schools in South Wales and has now published a book to go with the workshops that is sold online worldwide. It is a fantastic piece of work that has been collated with the help of creatives across Wales. Five Hundred years of opera to captivate, inspire, enlighten and empower children of all ages and abilities. I feel so passionate that every child should have the chance to experience the performing artswhilst using their imagination to their full...
Read More'Rabbit Hole' is the first single from SERA's collection of songs for 2019 and from her new collaboration with producer Andi Bonsai.SERA played a mellow acoustic 'Rabbit Hole' on her guitar to Andi one wet and windy October morning and by the end of the day, that song had transformed into the high energy version you hear today. 'Rabbit Hole' stays true to SERA's Americana/folk style but takes on some bold new ideas.The chorus explodes into Come with me to incredible things, where the oysters march from the sea, inviting you into a world of the fantastic. SERA's new songs will continue to...
Read MoreTom 'Paddington' Jones Photos: 5 It may come as a surprise to some readers that Tom Jones has been formally inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Many readers will be aware of the fact that Tom has had a long standing interest in the squared circle...except in this instance we aren't talking about the famous singer, but a lesser known Welsh namesake, who was actually added to the famous Boxing Hall of Fame back in 2010. He may not be as familiar to boxing fans as other Welsh inductees, which include Joe Calzaghe and 'Peerless' Jim Driscoll, but Tom...
Read MoreVOICES FROM WALES - TWELVE OF FIFTY-TWO The Eclectic Shed Experience are Ron Savory and Liz Crippin. Both solo singer-songwriters who have now combined to inspire fresh arrangements of their most popular self-penned material. They hope to record their first album soon. You can find them on the web at: theese.co.uk They have just performed at the World famous Tredegar House Folk Festival in Gwent. Last week they recorded an interview with Malcolm Cawley for B.B.Skone’s Pembrokeshire Music Show for Pure West Radio. If you want to listen to one of the the tracks in full that...
Read MoreVOICES FROM WALES - 11 of 52 James Page, Columbus Campervans An enthusiast from Swansea who over the years has learnt how to restore old VW vans and from a hobby has turned the projects into a small business. I first heard about Jimmy nearly 30 years ago when a guitar tutor friend came to a band rehearsal and said: "You wont believe this but I am teaching guitar to Jimmy Page! Hang on!" he said, "I’m also teaching bass to his mate, Steve Miller!" As the boys grew older and learnt their respective guitars to a high standard, they formed a band. Another friend called Paul Young...
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