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A miner's son who became a globe-trotting sales director has revealed how he became friends with comedy king Sir Ken Dodd, who gave him two of his famous tickling sticks. During his long career Geoff Williams, raised in Llay, near Wrexham and now living in Southport, also rubbed shoulders with stellar names like singing superstar Sir Tom Jones, Hollywood actors Richard Burton and Jack Nicholson and Kop hero Bill Shankly. Another claim to fame was that the 88-year-old persuaded Leeds United to allow the FA Cup to go on show at the British Legion in Llay. Now he has put pen to paper abo...

The last time the British & Irish Lions won a series in South Africa, in 1997, it was the Scottish coaching duo of Ian McGeechan and Jim Telfer that masterminded the Springboks’ downfall. In 2021 New Zealander Warren Gatland will lead the Lions for a third time, but the Scotland national team coaching duo of Gregor Townsend and Steve Tandy will play a key role. Gatland, the former Wales coach, has never lost a series as Lions head coach – guiding them to a 2-1 win in Australia in 2013 and 1-1 drawn series in New Zealand in 2017. Townsend and Tandy have quickly rebuilt Scotland into a form...

CPD Y Rhyl looks forward to summer kick off for competitive action Competitive football will return to Belle Vue in Rhyl for the first time since the formation of CPD Y Rhyl 1879 last year. CUP football competition dates for the 2021/22 season in Wales will begin earlier than usual as clubs return to action following a year of cancelled matches. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said the first round of the Welsh Cup, which usually takes place in September, will instead be held on July 10, while the FAW Amateur Trophy will get underway on July 17. Meanwhile the Women’s Cup will beg...

THIS season's Welsh Cup competition has been scrapped, the Football Association of Wales has had to concede. The Wales National Cup Board has announced that it has cancelled this season's competition, after the ongoing Covid crisis made it impossible to make the competition viable. The 2019-20 national tournament was also cancelled, ahead of last year's semi-finals, because of the pandemic. It means that the third-placed team in the Cymru Premier will now play in next season's Uefa Europa Conference League. The FAW Women's Cup and FAW Futsal Cup competitions have also been cancelled...