IT’S a long story, but today I should have been working at the Palace of Versailles, a very long hop, skip and a jump from the Olympics city of Paris.
The team of volunteers preparing for next week’s modern pentathlon events at the palace will

FEEDBACK is much appreciated when it comes to this weekly column – if only to reassure me that some folk are reading and paying attention!
There’s been quite a bit of reaction to last week’s piece about Hollywood legend Glynis Johns being buried in Burry

PAY attention film buffs: here’s a question to test your knowledge.
Name the Mary Poppins star who is buried in a quiet corner of a Burry Port chapel cemetery.
She was nominated for an Oscar and won a Tony Award for a celebrated role in

Here’s a tribute piece I wrote about Wales rugby great Ken Owens for the Sports Aid Cymru Wales dinner programme on Friday –
KEN OWENS TRIBUTE AND TOAST
IN the hall of fame of Welsh rugby greats, there are a handful of celebrated players who

FORGET fist bumps or high fives, I’m a collector of handshakes.
Important people from history, celebrities, sporting superstars, you name them and I like to chalk them up in my little Black Book.
And, if I can’t get to the main man, or main woman,

Rugby ace Glen Webbe, widely acknowledged as the first black man to be capped by Wales, was the guest speaker at the spring Cymru/Wales Sports Aid lunch in Carmarthen.
Webbe, 62, made 10 appearances on the wing for Wales during the 1980s.
He used his