Contents of the Magazine

Cambria Autumn 09 WAT’S IN A NAME?
KEITH NURSE on Wat’s Dyke - the ditch-and-rampart earthwork, one of
the most puzzling historic features of the northern Welsh borderlands.

SWANSEA JACK - CANINE VC
DAVID JONES tells the story of one of Swansea’s most famous characters, Jack, the
life-saving dog which apparently gave the city’s sons their familiar sobriquet

THE HELEN OF WALES
Princess Nest remains one of the great heroines - and one of the great
enigmas - of Welsh history. GWENLLIAN MEREDITH tells her story.

ROY NOBLE - Sleeping around in Cowbridge
PATRICK THOMAS - Mr Pughe and the Prophetess

TRAVEL - RHOBERT AP STEFFAN and DIARMUID MCCONCHUILL on Patagonia
LITERATURE - JON GOWER on Pwll; PAUL GROVES on Anna Wigley; Book reviews
BOOKS - MEIC STEPHENS on the publishing scene in Wales
POETRY - SHEENAGH PUGH: Book; DAVID FAIRFAX: The Lake
MUSIC & OPERA - NORMA LORD on Mal Pope; DAVID PETERSEN on Clerorfa
NATURE - CHRIS KINSEY Fungi among the harebells
ART - LAURA GASCOIGNE on William Brown
GARDENS - CAROLINE PALMER: The Flowering of Aberglasney
MOTORING - JOHN E. EDWARDS: The Real Rolls; Suzuki Alto
DIRECTORY - The best places to eat in Wales
FOOD - DOROTHY DAVIES on the super apple
HOTELS - Llandrillo’s Tyddyn Llan
ONLOOKER - National Eisteddfod; Smithsonian Festival; The Royal Welsh
WEB DIRECTORY - cambria’s Welsh website guide
DYSGU’R IAITH - MIRANDA MORTON: Lesotho gefell Cymru

EDITOR’S LETTER
LETTERS
POLITICS&OPINION - CLIVE BETTS, SIÔN JOBBINS, EURFYL AP GWILYM, CYNOG DAFIS, DENIS CAMPBELL

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Leanne Wood AM on Workfare

Blame the unemployed for unemployment. This is the basic principle behind New Labour’s proposals to reform welfare benefits. Failure to find employment is no longer the result of labour market conditions or health barriers to work, but rather a motivational failure on the part of the unemployed. If they have their way, New Labour will preside over the dismantling of the welfare state, which has existed in a recognisable form since the reforms which came out of the Beveridge r...
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Funding & Finance for Wales

Have your say on the way Wales is funded

The Welsh Assembly Government has established an Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales.

The Commission is reviewing the way in which resources are allocated to the Assembly Government and considering the case for change. The Commission has recently published its first report, which focused mainly on how Wales is currently funded by a block grant and made suggestions for changes to the block grant process. This report benefited fr...
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IT SEEMS MEET AND RIGHT TO US, HERE IN THE OFFICE OF CAMBRIA, that this the year the Eisteddfod was in Bala, and that this is the year when our publisher, Henry Jones-Davies has been elected to the Gorsedd of Bards. His great-uncle was the great Tom Ellis of Bala, a statesman, pioneer and visionary whose legacy is still felt in Wales today, not least through his surviving family, many of whom are still working for Wales. Tom Ellis had four sisters, one of whom was Henry’s grandmother, an...
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