John Chard News Today

In court from Newport, Blackwood, Pontypool and Abertillery

When greed for diamonds drew the British Empire into conflict with the Zulu Kingdom, soldiers at a tiny outpost waged a desperate fight to survive.

The importation of parts of wild game animals from Africa or elsewhere resulting from trophy-hunting has now been banned by our Parliament. But let us be clear on this; it is only the importation of the trophies that we can ban.

During the month of March, Harbor Theater presents a brief series – Wild Wild Westerns. For fans of the tough Western action genre, these three classic movies should stir your sluggish waiting-for-Spring blood! Shown twice each week at special times...

Commanding and rugged, the Welsh actor could have saved 1980s British cinema from naffness. Instead, hard living took him at 48

Research shows that family engagement is vital to improving student outcomes, so here are six ways educators can strengthen the school-to-family connection by helping caregivers emphasize reading fluency — with actionable ideas for families to help their students develop stronger fluency skills at home.

Zulu shows that even history’s darkest moments can inspire rousing cinema If you havent yet seen this dignified portrait of heroism, seek it out soon – before somebody bans it for its “colonialism” Michael Caine in Zulu Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./Alamy  The recent ludicrous decision by the Royal Collection to label Lady Butler’s 1880 painting of the defence of Rorke’s Drift with the warning that it has links to “colonialism and violence” prompted me to do something I ...

19 Dec 2020 A picture in the Queen’s collection celebrating the Battle of Rorke’s Drift — one of the proudest moments in British military history — has been given a trigger warning following a Black Lives Matter style review. For the last 140 years, the painting by Lady Butler, The Defence of Rorke’s Drift, has been left to speak for itself. It shows red-coated, pith-helmeted soldiers heroically defending their mission station redoubt as vast hordes of Zulu warriors — off-screen �...

Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, secure items belonging to Rorkes Drift hero John Chard VC  |  Updated: 13:46, 18 December 2020 A museum has won its bid to secure a set of artefacts belonging to a man portrayed in the classic war film Zulu. The Royal Engineers Museum, Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, purchased three items from a collection owned by Lt John Chard VC at an auction in London yesterday. Lt. Col. John Chard VC. Picture: RE Museum The first lot secured was a set of surveying and ...

The aftermath of Rorkes Drift: Battlefield where British garrison held off 4,000 Zulu warriors is seen in 141-year-old photographs belonging to Lieutenant Chard who led the famous defence Photographs show the aftermath of the 1879 battle in which a British garrison fended off 4,000 Zulu warriors They also show scenes from Zululand and the aftermath of an earlier British debacle at Battle of Isandlwana Lieutenant John Chard compiled the album following the battle - later immortalised in the 1964...