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By Richard Youle, Local Democracy Reporter Llangennech train fire THE rumble of trains has finally returned to a section of railway which resembled a scene “almost like Armageddon” in August last year. Passenger and freight services have begun plying the line near Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, where 520m of new track is the culmination of a major clear-up following a freight train derailment and fire on the night of August 26. Th...

By Gage McKinney | Special to The Union No one will toss pasties this year. The Cornish flag won’t rise above city hall and the choir won’t sing the Cornish anthem “Trelawny.” As it has on other events, the pandemic has stamped canceled on this year’s St. Piran’s Day, Grass Valley’s quirky celebration named for Cornwall’s patron saint. But be assured, the Cornish are still here. In their Celtic homeland, in the southwest corner of Britain, the Cornish mined tin since the Bronze ...

The next-gen upgrade for Grand Theft Auto 5 is not just a simple port, said Take-Two, and more remasters could be on the way for older games.

City of Culture: How the BBC plans to put Coventry in the spotlight Highlights include a Motor City film and documentaries on Coventry Cathedral and Delia Derbyshire 07:48, 3 MAR 2021 View taken from the north showing the construction of Coventry Cathedral including the erection of a ramp for the foundation stone laying ceremony, shuttering to the assembly area and choir practice room, and concreting to altar and nave slab Never miss another story from Coventry and Warwickshire by subscribing t...

The BBC is planning a year of special features, events and programmes all about Coventry to celebrate it being UK City of Culture 2021.

Tuesday 27 October 2015 - 11:08am File: Mxit social media messaging platform. by Stuart Thomas, Memeburn  Mxit as we know it is dead. The company announced on Friday that it had shut down its commercial operations and would be transferring its IP to the Reach Trust, its charitable arm. The news had an air of inevitability about it — we predicted that this would be the direction Mxit would take back in February — but it’s a far cry from the hype that surro...

A wise old blue faced man once said you can take our lives but you can never take our Warhammer figurines, and I think he might have been onto something. Having seen Warhammer Fantasy phased out entirely by Games Workshop last year, the classic tabletop game is back with a bang thanks to the folks at Creative Assembly. Total War: Warhammer is the most outlandish Total War yet, and you can see just how frenetic the frontline can get in a new 360° launch trailer.

Remedial works are due to complete by the end of February 2021, with ongoing monitoring and ecological restoration over the next two to five years. The ongoing clean-up of the Llangennech freight derailment and diesel spill site is the most challenging recovery operation since the Sea Empress disaster 25 years ago, according to the incident recovery manager. Environmental contractors Adler and Allan have been working around the clock to complete the complex remediation work at the site wher...

The Roars A-League expert tips and predictions: Match week 1 A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Welcome to another season of A-League tips and predictions on The Roar. Despite the rather jittery lead in and a 2020 that each and every one of us would probably prefer to forget, domestic football will be back on our screens this Monday night. It will be a season like no other, with a decreased salary cap, red...

The 10 best optimized PC games of 2020 PC Performance Tools After 2019 showed us that it is indeed possible to release a well-optimized game at launch, 2020 has almost been a step back because, well, it’s 2020 of course and nothing seems to go right. Though there have been a handful of games that showed terrific optimizations, it shows a lot when our very own top 10 list drops to 6.8 as the lowest. Finding out whether a game is well optimized is easy - head to it’s game page here on G...