Ronan O’Gara Red-Carded, Faces Potential Ban
Ronan O’Gara is staring at a possible ban after an on-field run-in with referee Jeremy Rozier escalated from a warning to a red card for comments. File under lessons learned late, arguing with the person holding the cards seldom improves your hand. Disciplinary consequences now pending.
Wayne Lineker Gives Serious Health Update After ICU Stay
Wayne Lineker, 63, says severe pneumonia left him unable to walk and in intensive care for 10 days after falling ill on a flight from Mauritius to Dubai. Back in the UK, his condition worsened overnight and he was taken to hospital by ambulance. He is out of the critical phase and on a respiratory ward, expects around two months of rehabilitation and physiotherapy, and says he delayed going public until he felt confident about recovery. He initially feared COVID or a heart attack as symptoms intensified and noted higher pneumonia risk at his age. Family and friends are visiting as he continues treatment.
MP David Chadwick’s Blueprint to Jump-Start the Welsh Private Sector
Twenty-five years after devolution, Wales’s economy is still idling, says MP David Chadwick, pointing to Port Talbot’s wind-down while Scunthorpe feasted on funding. His remedy, treat business as partner, not suspect, and move fast before offshore wind jobs blow overseas. He calls for five shifts, replace property-based business rates with incentives for investment and productivity, rebuild EU trade via a new customs union to cut exporter red tape, create a Welsh Investment and Innovation Agency, WDA 2.0, to attract capital and scale firms, cut regulatory drag and speed planning so Wales is the easiest place in Britain to grow, and upgrade transport plus broadband and 5G, especially in rural areas. He wants Welsh-owned engineering at the core of a revived industrial base, from steel to renewables, and for Cardiff Bay to stop treating growth like a background app. In short, stop inventing industries here and exporting the profits elsewhere.
President Invites Families of Two Shot National Guard Members to White House
The president says he has invited the families of two National Guard members who were shot to the White House, describing the outreach as a gesture of support following last week’s attack.
National Gallery Honors Welsh Quarry That Sheltered Art in WWII
The National Gallery unveiled a slate plaque made from Manod quarry stone, inscribed in Welsh and English, to honor the wartime evacuation that hid its collection in Eryri’s caverns. By summer 1941 the entire collection was relocated to Manod, where an enlarged entrance and small brick bungalows stabilized temperature and humidity, before returning to London in 1945. Conceived by Jeremy Deller and carved by John Neilson, and commissioned by Mostyn with support from Wales’s CELF network, the tablet will be on permanent display in the Portico Vestibule. A fitting tribute to the classiest bunker in art history.
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