14 JUNE 1986, page 18

Redundant Wales

Gerda Cohen finds pockets of revival in the worked-out Valleys REVIVAL is strong in the Valleys; revival of a sort. Up in Tredegar, Ken John was showing me his orange excavator,......

Uncle Tom's Schooldays

Andrew Gimson on the crisis of rising expectations which threatens to destroy South Africa `DAMN sight nicer desks than the ones I had when I was at school,' the PR man said......