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Wales Bureau Editor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, BBC News. Golygydd Newyddion i'r BBC. News and #FPL obsessive (🌍21st in 23/24 if you must ask). A bit of cycling too.
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If Mo can match this Chelsea midfielder then things will have gone well in #gw27 #fpl

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The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪: 🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map. 🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East. 🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%! Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Third century of the season, thanks to Crystal Palace and the mighty Mo. Up to 12.8k Some tricky chip decisions lie ahead. #fpl

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“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Interesting that Matt Sherratt talks about ‘removing the fear’ in his post-match interview. Chwarae efo angerdd ac uchelgais 👏 #SixNations #6N

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NEW on our site Our data shows that people are turning away from the news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising. A new piece by our researcher Craig T. Robertson explains why this is happening and what publishers can do about it reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Conservative politics today is the president of Argentina handing a South African billionaire a giant chainsaw at CPAC.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

When Gary Neville says "you wouldn't see this in under 9s or under 10s football" - you would though, wouldn't you. In an U9s game I once saw a goalkeeper shout to his teammate, as the game was going on, "JAMES, HAVE YOU FINISHED CHARLOTTE'S WEB YET?"

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech has gone down well…in Moscow. Komsomolskaya Pravda headline: “Humiliated Europe out for the count. Its American master flogged its old vassals.”

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

The story of how Mark and Dave brought a COW back to BBC Wales. vimeo.com/1056578810

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

If you want to understand the doom loop facing local authorities, then this is worth a read...

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Lidl denies Reform councillor officially opened shop www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.

submitted 14 days ago • 165 comments

Pretty sure the only way to watch this live was on Ceefax, with highlights on Sportsnight. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

BBC asked leading AI tools 100 basic questions, using its articles as sources. Significant issues with just over half of the answers. Clear factual errors in a fifth Where answers included quotes from BBC articles, more than 1 in 10 were altered, or didn’t exist www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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One of the benefits of getting old is not having to pretend to have an interest in the Superbowl.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Big vote for cycling here 🚴‍♂️ (and Vit D in winter) Vitamin pills and icy swims: Can you really boost your immune system? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Imagine a revolutionary method of transport which offers so many benefits but where the appropriate level of safety and vehicle maintenance is decided by Californian tech investors who are seeking rapid financial growth. Let’s talk about Lime in London! www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-ebike...

submitted 17 days ago • 39 comments

Very sad news - the former Plaid Cymru leader and the Senedd's first presiding officer Lord Elis-Thomas has died www.bbc.com/news/article...

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submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

There hasn't been a good chocolate bar introduced in the UK since the Spira.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Snêcs ar y plên 🐍🐍

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Huge congratulations to Ian Wood, who has won the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award! 👏 In his perfectly timed photograph, Ian captures the surreal moment an ambling Eurasian badger looks up at graffiti of a badger in St Leonards-on-Sea, England. 🦡

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

It's quite hard to find television to watch with teenage children, so we've decided to delve into old films. Last night we watched Peter Ustinov play Poirot in Death on the Nile. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ according to my 12 year old.

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