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When South Korea held their general election earlier in the year, it was praised by electoral authorities all over the world for the fact that it showed a national election could be held during a pandemic (and in the process recorded the highest turnout in an election ever), however since then sever...

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This video is from the archive held at the National Library in Aberystwyth of ITV Wales / HTV Wales news reports from the company's inception in 1958 and was filmed in 1968.

Having now been told that due to soreness, Barry does not train quads and calves (save from the usual cycling that he does), his training schedule has now altered and so as a result, the plan for the week he is here has altered, therefore this is the new schedule Friday October 9th 2020: Arrive, Mea...

Barry has been keeping me abreast of his developments since the gyms re-opened and he is making sterling efforts. He now weighs 141lbs and yesterday did 10 reps on bench press with 85kg on the bar. Using a 1RM calculator this comes back as 113kg (176% of his bodyweight) which means that he is well o...

Since I posted that another one of the candidates has withdrawn as their nomination papers were incorrectly filled in, this means that I will not be any lower than third on the regional list and would be elected to the Senedd if the Greens were able to poll something like 40,000 votes across the who...

Would be interesting to hear what some of your policies would be Harry. Will health and fitness feature in them? The main campaign plank will be, as you might expect, environmental policies, but as an official party candidate I will have the chance to have an input into the main party platform. The...

In May of next year, the Senedd of Wales will be elected for its sixth term of office (2021 - 2026) and as such the political parties of Wales are starting on the procedure for selecting candidates for that election. The election has two elements. The first is the constituency element where forty me...

Tony, i have the set signed by Bill.It is very well put together and contains a lot of information about iron game pioneers.Our David gets a fair bit of coverage for his contributions, as well he should.If i was coming over to the UK i would not mind bringing them for you.However with the C-virus w...

That's an interesting reference Harry but I doubt those claims lived up to much in the way of scrutiny. In the same way cigarettes were once promoted for their 'health' benefits, the reality we now know is very different. You are quite right, indeed during the Victorian era they went completely ove...

The earliest reference I can find to cannabis in the UK (with a connection to physical culture) comes from the Newcastle Daily Chronicle on April 6th 1887 (specifically in the adverts section) where an advert reads: "For Asthma, Hoarseness: Grimault's Indian Cigarettes of Cannabis Indica (otherwise ...