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Brodie Watson, 11, has deadly genetic disorder

KEVIN EGAN looks ahead to the remaining eight games down for decision this weekend in the opening rounds of the senior and intermediate football championships…

Standup in a swimming pool, naked tractor driving, heart attacks, heckles, walkouts, rain and an onstage marriage proposal – as the fringe turns 75, this year’s performers on the memories that make the festival unique

Businesses are finding new ways to attract and keep employees, as workers rethink how and where they work, and whether they want a 9-to-5 office job at all.

The Fringe should be enjoying its 75th year. Instead Nish Kumar, Mark Watson and other performers insist it needs reform.

With established names and experimental acts, plus plenty of atmosphere and a dash of anarchy, Jay Richardson explains why he’ll be spending much of his Fringe with the upstart primate

Eirys Brett, 31, carried out the countryside burial of her father Donald with her partner Mark Watson, 46. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard that Donald had asked for a medieval, non-Christian style burial.

The daughter carried out his last wishes by burying him in the pagan-style ritual, court hears.

Nica Burns, driving force of the festival’s comedy prize, talks about the winners and losers in 40 years of the hugely influential event

A POWYS couple have avoided going to prison after they pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful and decent burial of a man in his late 70s.