@TPExpressTrains 17:30 from Leeds to Liverpool Lime Street, sitting on sweltering train no air conditioning no open windows no air just a carriage full of people dripping in sweat 🥵🥵🥵
"Today, we teach the Sacson that this island was only ever theirs to share."
To mark Owain Glyndŵr Day, introducing the first image and audio of @michaelsheen as the iconic Prince of Wales.
Owain + Henry on-sale from 3 Nov @theCentre
https://t.co/pO7jCwvqbE
📸@KMTPhotographer
@lookfantastic Appalling service. Parcel was meant to be delivered by @evrisupportline Monday morning. Still not arrived. No help from either customer services just excuses and lies and told to wait another 3 days for delivery. Still no answer from Evri 24 hour enquiry.
"Mae pêl-droed yn fwy na gêm! Mae'n ffordd o fyw!"
Mae Rhian Wilkinson wedi cyhoeddi carfan ar gyfer yr Ewro, ond mae un person ar goll!🏴
There's one person missing from the coaching team - but don't worry, Rhian - Sandra is on her way! 🤝
Today marks the launch of my petition to make neurodiversity training mandatory for all education staff.
Too many pupils are being failed by a lack of understanding.
Please sign to help build a more inclusive future for every child:
https://t.co/n3CfzgqWPv
Vamos, @RafaelNadal!
As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.
Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.
I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.
And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more.
OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.
We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.
I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.
I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.
And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.
Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.
Rafa that!
Best always, your fan,
Roger
Does anyone know why life saving air ambulances have to rely on funding from charities
But helicopters for the Royal Family are paid for by the tax payer?
Any chance of a Team Wales at the next Olympics? Its hard to be passionate about our athletes competing for that flag.
🏴 Welsh athletes won 13 medals for Team GB:
🥇x3
🥈x3
🥉x7
Good enough for 24th in the table.
🏴4% of pop of 🇬🇧 but 🏴 athletes contributed 20% of🇬🇧medals
Shame on you Llanelli. One of the poorest Towns in Wales, a Town that's been dying for decades under Labour, and latterly under a Labour Govt in Cardiff. We now lead the way in poverty and, by virtue of the Reform vote, stupidity.
Iesu Bach, we truly deserve what we get!
Have the Greens and reform both got four seats each, same as @Plaid_Cymru?
Can we now expect equal media coverage for Plaid & Greens as the far right get?
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