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The Welsh language television channel S4C has been celebrating its 25th birthday this week, with a great deal of attention being paid in the press to how it was established and the challenges it is now facing in the digital age.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
A teenager has been temporarily excluded from her school for refusing to remove a symbol of her faith.

Source: Golf Publisher Syndication
The Celtic Manor Resort's three golf courses, including its newest, the 2010 Ryder Cup host Twenty Ten Course, are stages for the world's top pros every year.

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Brechfa, (Meaning: WELSH "mottled place") hidden in the Cothi valley north east of Carmarthen, has been described as one of the most secluded villages in South Wales and has a long and fascinating history.

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David Bellamy, the international environmental campaigner addresses a rally outside the Senedd against Wind farms.

Source: Golf Publisher Syndication
At Tenby Golf Club in Wales, a little restraint goes a long way. Keep your tee shot in the fairway, and the course is much more enjoyable. Otherwise, you'll spend the day looking for lost balls.

Source: BBC News
Wales has been enjoying a revival of its native tongue, driven chiefly by those in rural areas. Now a new awareness is growing in the industrialised south, but some - including native Welsh speakers themselves - fear it could foster division and resentment.

Source: BBC News
A clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived creature discovered.
Scientists said the mollusc, an ocean quahog clam, was aged between 405 and 410 years and could offer insights into the secrets of longevity.

Source: BBC News
Wales has been enjoying a revival of its native tongue, driven chiefly by those in rural areas. Now a new awareness is growing in the industrialised south, but some - including native Welsh speakers themselves - fear it could foster division and resentment.

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The Wikipedia defines it as:-"a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers, especially if they either have subject matter relating to Wales or (as in the case of Anglo-Welsh poetry in particular) are influenced by the Welsh language in terms of p …

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WALES' coalition government today fired the starting gun for a referendum on a full law-making parliament within the next four years.

On 23 Oct 1707 the first parliament of Great Britain met for the first time marking a United government on Britain.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
Ten years of Labour rule have failed to create a classless society, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that Britain remains a nation dominated by class division, with a huge majority certain that their social standing determines the way they are judged.

Source: BBC News
To demonstrate their commitment to energy saving, members of a women's group are giving up some of their much loved electrical products for a week.
Hair straighteners, hairdryers and toasters are some of the items being ditched by Merched y Wawr members.

Source: Golf Publisher Syndication
Royal Porthcawl in Wales sees just a fraction of the rounds of its more famous neighbors in England and Scotland. The result is a golf course just as good as most British Open venues, but one that gives golfers an isolated, tranquil round

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Denmark's loss has been the UK's gain, as a company behind one of the world's most advanced wave technologies has taken its project to Wales due to the government's funding freeze, reported Politiken newspaper Wednesday.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
Rescuers have called off an attempt to reach a deaf and blind dog which was trapped in a disused mine in Torfaen, Gwent.
Sprogget, an 18-year-old Jack Russell cross, fell down a crack in the hillside on Wednesday, prompting a three-day rescue operation.

Source: the Mail online
Children as young as 11 are being offered pole dancing lessons by their council, it has been revealed.
The two hour 'beginners' sessions' are described by the organisers as a 'great way to keep fit and have lots of fun at the same time.'

Source: Independent.co.uk
New safety rules are to be drawn up for Wi-Fi in schools for the first time in Britain, after a local authority officially voiced concern last week about possible effects on children's health.

Source: Independent.co.uk
The largely unsuccessful 16-month tenure of the former Llanelli flanker and coach ended when he met the Welsh Rugby Union's chief executive, Roger Lewis, and chairman, David Pickering, at the team's hotel in Pornichet on Brittany's Atlantic coast.

The Open University in Wales has employed t2 business solutions to create bespoke commercial training for it's IT and Office Support Service staff.

t2 business solutions worked alongside HCD Group for nine months to increase turnover by over £600k, and create a dozen new jobs.

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From 1st October 2007 it's going to become illegal to sell tobacco products to people under the age of 18 (an increase from 16) in England and Wales.

LARGER percentages of older students enrolled in University this term but it doesn't stop there, with work-based modern apprenticeships taking mature students by storm.

Source: icwales.icnetwork.co.uk
A CARDIFF priest loves Dr Who so much he is preaching to his congregation through the Time Lord.
St Paul's Church, in Grangetown, Cardiff, was used as a location for an episode of the first series of Doctor Who starring the ninth Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston.