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COLIN WELSH NEWS
Corus, the steel group now owned by India's Tata, will invest £185m in its Port Talbot plant in Wales, giving a 20-year lease of life to an old furnace.
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Grandson of the Liberal prime minister who was flown to the Welsh wizard's funeral on Churchill's orders
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Italy's Edoardo Molinari voices concern over Colin Mongomerie's pick as decision time looms for captain.
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Alex Jones, the new Welsh presenter of The One Show, says she will be nervous on her first appearance on the flagship BBC programme.
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Alex Jones, the new Welsh presenter of The One Show, says she will be nervous on her first appearance on the flagship BBC programme.
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Australian paceman Shaun Tait said Monday he will not be available to play in the Ashes Test series against England.Tait, who has just returned home after playing Twenty20 cricket for Welsh county Glamorgan, confirmed he will no longer play in the longer forms of the game, even if asked by the Australian selectors.Tait, 27, played three one-dayers for Australia in England last month, prompting captain Ricky Ponting to ask the paceman to reconsider playing longer formats."He just mentioned it quickly but nothing was really talked about," Tait told reporters.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday made a Barack Obama-style "Yes we will" pledge to transform the country's healthcare and workforce ahead of knife-edge weekend elections.Welsh-born Gillard, the country's first woman leader, talked up a planned broadband network and mocked opposition leader Tony Abbott's new initiative against illegal immigrants at an austere Labor Party "launch" in Brisbane."Yes we will move forward with confidence and optimism," said the "humble" Gillard, at the climax of a low-key, 40-minute speech focusing on health and education.
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Cardiff City are set to sign Craig Bellamy from Manchester City on a six-month loan deal today. The forward has favoured a move back to his hometown club despite interest from Tottenham, Fulham and Celtic. Cardiff’s manager, Dave Jones, will make the fiery Welsh international his captain.
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While the golf world had one eye on the final round of the USPGA Championship here last night and the other on Tiger Woods frantically trying to play his way into the Ryder Cup team, the vision of Colin Montgomerie was suitably scrambled by his own team's qualification picture. Complicated seems the only word to describe it.
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While the golf world had one eye on the final round of the USPGA Championship here last night and the other on Tiger Woods frantically trying to play his way into the Ryder Cup team, the vision of Colin Montgomerie was suitably scrambled by his own team's qualification picture. Complicated seems the only word to describe it.
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LONDON (AFP) - Manchester City's Welsh international striker Craig Bellamy has been linked with a switch to Championship side Cardiff City, the club he supported as a boy, reports suggested on Sunday.
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The 'blood diamonds' trade, which is at the heart of the war-crimes trial of Charles Taylor, was partly run by his brother-in-law, Cindor Reeves. He tells Colin Freeman about his role
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It's not every day you find yourself wandering round a ghost village, on a Welsh hilltop, in pursuit of an ancient Greek tragedy.
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If it is possible to worsen Colin Montgomerie's mood at the moment then Padraig Harrington managed to do so when the second round of the USPGA Championship was eventually concluded here yesterday. The Dubliner double-bogeyed the last to miss the cut – and then refused to alter his schedule to chase the few euros he needs to qualify for the Ryder Cup automatically.
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If it is possible to worsen Colin Montgomerie's mood at the moment then Padraig Harrington managed to do so when the second round of the USPGA Championship was eventually concluded here yesterday. The Dubliner double-bogeyed the last to miss the cut – and then refused to alter his schedule to chase the few euros he needs to qualify for the Ryder Cup automatically.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin (AFP) - Colin Montgomerie, whose PGA Championship ended in misery with an 18-over 162 after two rounds, can at least now concentrate on putting together his Ryder Cup team.
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Colin Montgomerie, whose PGA Championship ended in misery with an 18-over 162 after two rounds, can at least now concentrate on putting together his Ryder Cup team.The European captain had a dismal run here shooting rounds of 79 and 83 with a second round scarred by seven bogeys and three double bogeys on holes four, nine and 11."A very long two days," said Montgomerie. "I am looking forward to getting the Ryder Cup team picked. I will be watching the Europeans now and seeing what happens.
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She is the Welsh-born Australian prime minister who is fighting in a neck and neck race for every last vote, including those cast by Australians in Britain.
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Europe's captain suffers wretched round at US PGA as he gets a close look at likely Ryder Cup opponent.
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The resignation of Iona Jones, the head of Welsh-language channel S4C, is greeted with shock
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