World news reports that South Korea and North Korea are combining together in the Winter Olympics. With wars and rumours of wars battering our security, this was encouraging. Will this prove to be a simple foundation on which politicians can begin to reconstruct a major peace ? I recollect the day, some years ago, when the Olympic torch was carried through Pontypool. What stays in my memory was the sight of our local street cleaner making a last sweep of the road, five minute

The days when the paper boy delivered the daily news, so that we could peruse it over breakfast are just a memory for most of us now. We miss the postman's cheery greeting in the morning, and again in the afternoon, because there were two deliveries every day! Milk is stacked in plastic containers on supermarket shelves, but some people still remember a horse drawn cart, and a milk man with churns and a measuring ladle. Once upon a time... buses had a driver to drive and a co