I have been a supporter of Wrexham AFC for 35 years. I have ploughed tens of thousands of pounds into the club I love. My relationship with the football club has been the one consistent relationship in my life and outlasted failed relations with the opposite sex. I believed I would be Wrexham til I […]
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I am excited to announce the imminent release of my second book: Dancing on Thin Ice. This is a volume of poetry by myself, including Tanka, Haiku and List Poems. It will retail for just £5 and will be an ideal stocking filler for friends and family. It is due to be officially launched at
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About seven years ago, I started writing to prisoners on Death Row. After much research, I decided to keep in regular contact with Gerald Marshall #999489, who is imprisoned in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. Due to my work on the #SaveWILG campaign, I did not keep up the commitment I had made to
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The following is an article written by John Pring on his excellent Disability News Service website. This can be accessed by clicking here. I have been put in a difficult position following the publication of the Welsh Government’s new framework on independent living – Action On Disability – The Right to Independent Living. I have
Below is a press release from Disability Wales on the launch of ‘Action on Disability: The Right to Independent Living’. My views on this framework are not overwhelmingly positive, but it doesn’t really affect me that much. I will look more closely at this in future to see how it will affect my disabled brothers
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By visiting Senedd.tv and watching the Petitions Committee meeting from September 17, you can listen to probably the final discussion of the #SaveWILG campaign by the committee. Many thanks to the Petitions Committee for all the time and work put into considering the petition. I am glad to report that I received an email from
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This morning I received an email from Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales, outlining his party’s approach to the Brexit shenanigans. I thought I would share this below. I have lots going on at the moment, as I am still waiting on my WILG assessment and am in the midst of a staffing crisis.
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I have found a new hero. John Callahan is someone to admire and revere. I have only just been introduced to his work, through the film ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’, which was sent to me by my friend Ted Eames. After sharing this with my followers on Facebook, another of my good
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I received the following email to inform me that the Petitions Committee at the Senedd will be discussing my petition to Save the Welsh Independent Living Grant on Tuesday 17th September at 9.00. This may be one of the final times that the petition is considered by the committee in question, considering how far we
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The following article has been written by John Pring and appears on his excellent Disability News Service website which can be found by clicking on this link. *** The Labour party is on a “collision course” with the equality and human rights watchdog and the United Nations because of its failure to accept the need
