735 Smoggies (R) 800 Breakfast News With sign-language 815 Thunderbirds (R) (C) 905 Film: It's That Man Again (1942) Fast-moving comedy Tommy Handley stars (bw) 1030 Film: Half a Sixpence (1967) Lavish musical comedy starring Tommy Steele (C) 1250 The Secret Gardens 100 Children

mum got the present of a lifetime when she gave birth just two hours after sitting down to Christmas dinner While others in Merthyr were settling down in front of the telly to watch the Queen 20-year-old Hayley Jones was in labour at Prince Charles Hospital Hayley of Duffryn Faw

at St Tydfils Hospital aged 79 years Thanks to all for messages of sympathy and flowers also to the Nursing Staff of St Tydfils for the care given in the last six weeks The service was carried out by Rev Hitchings at the Chapel of Rest Pant Funeral Service was carried out by All

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Oz which sees our heroine escaping from a Kansas sanitarium to find refuge in the magic kingdom Fairuza Balk stars BLESS THIS HOUSE (BBC1 140pm) (1972) Sid James and Diana Coupland star in an entertaining spin-off from the original comedy series of the early 1 970s The couple ge

rugby they could face next season when they entertained fourth division Kidwelly in their annual Rover Cup match The early play saw Merthyr in charge and exerting all the pressure It therefore came as no surprise when Merthyr established a lead through an Andrew Loring try after

a hopeless actor (Dick Van Dyke) who gets mistaken for a gangster Edward G Robinson and Henry Silva co-star BIG RED (HTV Wales 1 1 0pm) (1 962) Filmed in Canada this typically warm-hearted Disney tale stars Walter Pidgeon as a wealthy dog fancier who owns ‘Big Red’ a prize-winni

friends borrow a bus and drive around Europe With The Shadows Una Stubbs and Ron Moody NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (HTV Wales 125pm) (1989) More mindless fun with Chevy Chase and family This one finds the clan getting up to more trouble during the festive season STAR T

six months living wild However the first thing his Dowlais owners did when they saw Basil was back was give him thorough wash “He returned home absolutely filthy” said Megan Prosser aged 64 of Glendwr Street “The first my husband Tommy and I did was to take him upstairs and give

high spirited letter saying prison was his best holiday in years Mr Kendall of the Penydarren End Inn had been given a nine-month sentence for possessing firearms Boxing greats Howard Winstone and Eddie Thomas both opened get-well-soon cards from jailed gangster Ronnie Kray “The