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Mom doesn't approve of her daughter being marked, "100% Welsh lamb"!

Regrettably, there's no photo of the tattoo.

Theyve branded my girl for life, says angry mum

A MUM is furious after finding a tattoo on her 16-year-old daughter.

Police are investigating after Renee Brady reported a South Wales tattoo parlour for branding her daughter without proof she was over 18, the legal age for a tattoo.

Renee, of Fairwater, Cardiff , said she was mortified when she first found out daughter Levi -Paige had a tattoo just above her backside reading 100% Welsh lamb.

HM Stanley statue unveiled in his home town of Denbigh

A of controversial Victorian explorer HM Stanley has been unveiled in his Denbighshire home town.

Critics have opposed honouring the African explorer saying he was guilty of crimes against humanity.

But people celebrating the statue's unveiling outside Denbigh library called the claims unfair.

They included representatives from the Congo-Wales Friendship Circle, who said Stanley is still revered in their country.

The sculpture shows the moment Henry Morton Stanley uttered the phrase by which he is best remembered - "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" - when he found the explorer in east Africa in 1871.

Read on to learn Stanley's birth name, what famous war he fought in, and more trivia--good for pub nights!

First Minister Carwyn Jones has officially opened a 5m redevelopment of a Victorian quarry village and Welsh language centre in Gwynedd.

It is hoped the renovation of Nant Gwrtheyrn on the Lln peninsula will turn the location into a tourism hub.

Tucked away in a remote blind valley, the village was once home to 200 quarry workers and their families.

Abandoned in the 1970s, it now boasts four-star accommodation, and a heritage centre.

See 'before' photo and read more here.

Glaslyn osprey's early Porthmadog visit

One of Porthadmog's most loyal visitors has returned a week earlier than expected.

The male Glaslyn osprey has started preparing the nest for his other half who is expected anytime soon.

The only known breeding pair in north Wales, they usually don't arrive from wintering in west Africa until later in March.

Read more here.

The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff has opened a book of condolence after Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

The centre has two rooms named after the donations it received in its early days from Japanese firms and people.

Corporate affairs head Bet Davies said: "Our staff were upset whenever they passed the Japan Room and felt so helpless - so we have set this up."

Read more here .

18 March 2011 Last updated at 13:30 ET

Llandaff Cathedral celebration of Elvis's gospel greats

By Neil Prior BBC News, Wales

In the 1950s some scandalised clergymen and parents disparagingly dubbed Presley 'Elvis The Pelvis', and warned of his degenerate influence on young people,

Little could they have imagined that 60 years later, the singer's life would be celebrated in not one, but three UK cathedrals.

But on Friday his life and love will be commemorated in Cardiff's Llandaff Cathedral, as part of a tour by his Las Vegas backing group, The Imperials, in partnership with the Morriston Orpheus Choir.

The tour has been organised by life-long Elvis fan, Carol Pugh, from Merthyr Tydfil, who runs the Elvis in Wales fan club.

"For some it will seem strange that Elvis is being remembered in a place of worship, but times move on, and nowadays you'll find plenty of vicars and bishops who're happy to admit that they're Elvis fans."

Read full story here .

March 16, 2011: Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.

"The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. "I'd say it's worth a look."

Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): diagram. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit.
Super Full Moon (movie strip, 550px)
Above: Perigee moons are as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons. [video]

"The full Moon of March 19th occurs less than one hour away from perigee--a near-perfect coincidence1 that happens only 18 years or so," adds Chester.

A perigee full Moon brings with it extra-high "perigean tides," but this is nothing to worry about, according to NOAA. In most places, lunar gravity at perigee pulls tide waters only a few centimeters (an inch or so) higher than usual. Local geography can amplify the effect to about 15 centimeters (six inches)--not exactly a great flood.
Super Full Moon (moon illusion, 200px)
The Moon looks extra-big when it is beaming through foreground objects--a.k.a. "the Moon illusion."

Indeed, contrary to some reports circulating the Internet, perigee Moons do not trigger natural disasters. The "super moon" of March 1983, for instance, passed without incident. And an almost-super Moon in Dec. 2008 also proved harmless.

Okay, the Moon is 14% bigger than usual, but can you really tell the difference? It's tricky. There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. Hanging high overhead with no reference points to provide a sense of scale, one full Moon can seem much like any other.

The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. That is when illusion mixes with reality to produce a truly stunning view. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees, buildings and other foreground objects. On March 19th, why not let the "Moon illusion" amplify a full Moon that's extra-big to begin with? The swollen orb rising in the east at sunset may seem so nearby, you can almost reach out and touch it.

Don't bother. Even a super perigee Moon is still 356,577 km away. That is, it turns out, a distance of rare beauty.

See the ScienceCast of this story on YouTube at:

Be afraid, be very afraid! You know who you are!

BENNINGTON, Vt. A Bennington neighborhood is being stalked by a renegade gray squirrel, but a Vermont state veterinarian says it's possible the animal is upset because it's homesick for the people who raised it.

At least three people on East Street in Bennington say they've been attacked by a squirrel over the last few weeks.

Kevin McDonald said he was shoveling snow recently when a squirrel jumped onto him. "All of a sudden I felt something on my back and shoulders, scratching," McDonald said.

McDonald said his first concern was that the squirrel might have been rabid, but Vermont Public Health Veterinarian Robert Johnson said there has never been a documented case of a squirrel passing rabies to a human.

McDonald said the day after he was attacked he saw a neighbor battling a gray squirrel. He later learned that another person on the street had also been attacked.

Game Warden Travis Buttle told the Bennington Banner he'd spoken to two people on East Street, but not McDonald, about the squirrel. One woman was bitten on the back of the neck and was undergoing preventative treatment for rabies, but Johnson said he didn't think the squirrel posed a rabies threat because the animal would already be dead from the disease.

One possibility is that the squirrel was raised by humans and then released into the wild. "They've lost their fear of people and they go ballistic (when they encounter a person) because it's not their human," Johnson said. Another possibility is that the squirrel suffered some sort of injury.

"The take-home message is don't try to take care of wildlife because it's very hard to return them to the wild," Johnson said. "A tame squirrel is a loose cannon sometimes."

Ive been really fancying chilli con carne for some reason and unfortunately the cupboards at home are as bare as the protective coating on my final nerve. After adding Tabasco sauce to toast, crisps and mashed potato I realise that Im going to have to bite the bullet and bring the weekly shop forward a day- I know, maverick behaviour. Being the ever considerate wife I am, I decide that I will do the shopping and time it so that all hubby has to do is meet me at the check out and help me pack.