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A live audience will be whisked back at least a century next month when Llangollen’s Collen Players stages its latest music hall and variety show.

Joshua Buatsi claimed the WBA light heavyweight title beating Ricards Bolotniks with an 11th round KO to close the show on Fight Camp 2.0.

By Harold Heys, local historian IT WAS Darwen Football Club’s biggest crowd of the inter-war years. More than 12,000 packed the Anchor Ground to see the Welsh Wizard turning on the style. He had everyone in raptures with a dazzling performance that was cheered to the echo. It was a super spectacle and even the hard-bitten reporters were impressed. “Memorable” said the Darwen News chap. “Impressive,” said the Northern Daily Telegraph man. Praise indeed, considering that the star ...

  For the last 100 years, the behaviour of British prime minister David Lloyd George at the end of the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations has been the subject of much speculation and controversy. The Welsh Wizard, as he was known, was a skilled negotiator who could use bluff, flattery and coercion in equal measure to get his way. On the dramatic night of December 5th, 1921, Lloyd George pressed the Irish delegation to sign. With a characteristic flourish he produced a document seeming to suggest ...

Not the easiest to get on with but universally respected: Richard Parry-Jones Mercurial describes very few in this world, but it’s an apt depiction of Richard Parry-Jones, Ford’s former head of global product development, who has died aged 69 in an accident at his farm in Wales.   RP-J, the Welsh wizard and Ford’s saviour would be other names, for this was a man who in his pomp would cross the Atlantic for a 20-minute drive in a prototype car, give his verdict to his engineers and catch...

The writer is an author and a lawyer based in Mumbai. TWO events happened on April 12. The Election Commission of India took the drastic step of imposing a 24-hour ban on campaigning in the general elections to the assembly of West Bengal on the state’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee. Her crime was that she had made “highly insinuating and provocative remarks” regarding the ECI and the central forces. The ECI’s indictment had another grave charge — namely, her appeal to minority vot...

Investors in William Hill are on tenterhooks after another week without a judgment on the scheme of arrangement to complete the £2.9billion sale to US rival Caesars. Powerful hedge funds and their lawyers have objected to the board’s decision to recommend investors to approve Caesars’ offer, saying shareholders did not have enough information. Court moles suggest the judge may simply be on holiday. But in an unusual twist, William Hill’s shares traded above the terms of Caesars’ takeov...

Credit: peter byrne/pa SIR – My 94-year-old mother is in a nursing home in Cheshire. Up until Christmas, the matron and staff had done a wonderful job of protecting the residents. However, currently, the staff are exhausted and feel abandoned because many residents and staff have tested positive for Covid and there have been a number of deaths. Since Christmas, the matron and relatives of residents have been contacting relevant people, including the local MP, trying to obtain a batch of vacc...