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BBC News By Peter Shuttleworth media captionSuperTed started with a teddy, a tea towel and a bedtime story He was the teddy bear with magic powers who was a cartoon favourite among royal princes and a generation of children - and now SuperTed is being brought back to life once again. More than 35 years since his last show, his creators are set to sprinkle magic dust over SuperTed again and recreate him for a new audience. Work on new episodes is expected to start later this year. It is hoped SuperTed will be back on TV screens by 2023. His return will be the latest cartoon comeback. ....
BBC News By Peter Shuttleworth image copyrightTransport for Wales image captionThe first train to stop at Bow Street was not made public so people wouldn t be tempted to break Covid lockdown rules The name may be synonymous with a space on a Monopoly board and its connection to the birth of professional policing - but Bow Street has got its station back. However, it is not the Bow Street near Covent Garden in central London but its namesake near Aberystwyth in mid Wales. For the first time in 56 years, the village was joined to the rail network as the first train stopped on Sunday. ....
BBC News By Peter Shuttleworth media captionBrains has brewed beer in Cardiff for almost 140 years What pies are to Melton Mowbray or Guinness to Ireland is how the Welsh capital feels about its famous brewery. It s Brains You Want screams the slogan, but now Cardiff is in danger of losing its iconic brand after almost 140 years of brewing by the River Taff. Nothing else says Cardiff more than a pint of Brains, it s iconic to this city, said Cardiff writer and poet Peter Finch. The 138-year-old family-owned brewery is among Wales most notable brands. Brains Beer was on rugby shirts when Wales won two Grand Slams while Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals were pictured in front of one Cardiff s Brains bridges for their first album back in the 1990s. ....
BBC News By Peter Shuttleworth media caption How art helped me after I quit rock n roll From dancing with the guy who sang Chocolate Salty Balls, a two-finger salute from Johnny Rotten and stopping the Gallagher brothers squabbling for a minute, it was a rock n roll life well spent. His Britpop band moshed in Glastonbury s mud, rocked Reading, supported the Sex Pistols 1990s comeback and was an undercard for Oasis in their early days. Legendary DJ John Peel once said in the mid-90s every town had a teenager who only ever wore a 60ft Dolls T-shirt as the Welsh punks became the face of 90s rowdy rock. ....
Christmas: The mail order pioneer who started a billion-pound industry By Peter Shuttleworth image captionThe Pryce Jones catalogue was thought to be the world s first mail order catalogue when it started in 1861 Lots of things about Christmas are different this year, including how and where the gifts you ve unwrapped today were probably bought. It s that mail order shopping industry, now worth billions, which was inspired by a little known 19th Century Welsh draper who lived in the middle of nowhere and left school at 12. Pryce Jones could only dream of the impact his entrepreneurial vision would have on the world when he was selling Welsh flannel to Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale in the late 1800s. ....