Merthyr Tydfil FC

Will the last London-based civil servant please turn the lights out?

Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | yesterday

It seems that the Government have reached the conclusion that a review is needed to see what civil service and quango jobs could be moved out of London and the South East... again. There is, it is suggested, scope to move some of those 132,000 civil service and 90,000 "arms-length bodies" jobs and achieve not only savings but place civil servants in the heart of the communities they serve....

It is unusual: low-budget Welsh film outperforms big hitters

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Bawdy farce involving Tom Jones's penis becomes a multiplex sensation The Hollywood blockbusters 2012 and A Christmas Carol are playing to respectable audiences Merthyr Tydfil's Vue multiplex, entertaining fans with their multimillion pound effects. But in screen eight, the staff are having to drag in extra beanbags in an attempt to accommodate everyone who wants to see a comedy made for just £100,000...

Shephard looks to keep upward curve going against Leamington

icWales (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

MERTHYR Tydfil boss Garry Shephard is looking for back-to-back wins to propel his Martyrs into a mid-table position, starting with a win at home to Leamington tomorrow (3pm).

Martyrs are on the rise

icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

THIS eventually became a comfortable victory for the Martyrs and one which they richly deserved on a day that saw them get within touching distance of safety, writes Anthony Hughes.

Martyrs boss Shephard calls on fans to boost winning team

icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

“We would be 8th or 9th now had we not suffered the 10-point deduction and only one point away from the play-off places,” he said after this latest victory which has seen Merthyr take seven points out of the last nine.

Old Firm, new challenges

Missives From Doktorb (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

My post last week concerning proposals to bring Celtic and Rangers into a modified two-tier Premier League brought a very considered response in the Comments section from a reader called "Martin". This post is a part reply to him. It would appear, following the Premier League vote last week, that this "Anglo-Scottish League" proposal has been roundly defeated. Martin says, "Having...

Merthyr teach Ruby a lesson about football

icWales (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

MERTHYR emerged convincing winners at struggling Rugby, for whom debutant manager Lee Colkin had introduced four new faces into the home side’s starting line-up.

1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Correspondent who exposed Soviet Ukraine's manmade famine to be focus of new documentary In death he has become known as "the man who knew too much" – a fearless young British reporter who walked from one desperate, godforsaken village to another exposing the true horror of a famine that was killing millions. Gareth Jones's accounts of what was happening in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33...

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Vital three points for Merthyr

icWales (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

A VITAL three points for Merthyr in a game that took almost 70 minutes to burst into life.

Merthyr Tydfil 3 Banbury United 2

icWales (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

MARTYRS boss Garry Shephard will be hoping the phone doesn’t ring over the next few days following his side’s morale boosting 3-2 victory over high-flying Banbury.

Belle blitz leaves Banbury cross

icWales (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

THE Martyrs gained what could be a vital three points against high-flying Banbury United as Cortez Belle blasted a second-half hat-trick in the space of six minutes.

Would you invite a convicted rapist to visit

Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Well I would like to know who invited Mike Tyson to come to Merthyr He presented flowers and talked to members of Johnny Owen’s family, before also paying tribute at the statue of Howard Winstone. “This is an awesome experience,” he said. “I’ve been to Wales before, but this has really blown me away. It’s worth so much more to me than doing anything I get paid for....

Lewis confirms relocation

Welsh Ramblings (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Huw Lewis has launched a new campaign website to replace his old one. It's definitely worth a read. This blog has already pointed out that Huw's "Mythbusters" section is weak and actually ducks most of the charges against Huw, although despite being defensive it is a clever part of the site. Huw has toned down the "Mythbusters" section in his new lay-out, giving it less precedence....

Thousands of innocent people in Wales still on DNA database.

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Wales on line runs with this story that the plod in South Wales have stuck more than 4,300 innocent people have been added to the DNA database by Welsh police forces since a European court ruling that the practice was illegal, according to new figures. The figure equates to 15 new innocent people added every day since last December’s legal ruling. The European Court of Human Rights decided that...

Wage cut blow for Merthyr

icWales (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

MERTHYR TYDFIL assistant manager Danny Carter admitted that its as bad as it gets after he and manager Garry Shephard broke the news to the team that all staff had to take a 50 per cent pay cut for the club to survive.