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PRINCESS Margaret is to open the BBC’s new headquarters at Llandaff, Cardiff, in March.
It will be the climax of a dream of more than 14 years’ standing when the BBC officially moves into the new Broadcasting House, Cardiff.
Moving the staff of 360 from the old premises in Park Place, Newport Road and Museum Place began in September.
The BBC Orchestra which has premises in Charles Street, will move out early in the new year. AN RAF rescue helicopter winchman from Cardiff, who risked his life to drag three boys from quicksands on the Isle of Sheppey earlier this year, will receive the Royal Humane Society’s Certificate on Vellum in a special ceremony.
He is Master Signaller John Murphy, pictured below left, aged 43, whose mother, Mrs Frances Murphy, aged 72, lives at Greenway Road, Rumney.
For Mr Murphy, married to a German woman and with two sons, the rescue was “all in the line of duty” as a member of the crew of helicopters which are called on to perform such difficult operations many times a year.
An RAF spokesman pointed out, however, that Mr Murphy, who was educated at Splottlands County Secondary School, went “far beyond the line of duty” and risked his life to bring the trapped boys to safety. KEITH Jarrett rated the most talented teenager Welsh rugby has produced since Terry Price, steps straight from Monmouth School into the Newport first team this week.
Jarrett, pictured right, an 18-yearold centre who as already attracted the interest of Welsh selectors, leaves school tomorrow. On Saturday he plays for Newport in their tough away game with Ebbw Vale.
This is a big jump for a boy who has built up a big reputation on the strength of displays in schoolboy football and a few first class games for Abertillery. CARDIFF City Council chief officials are recommending a podium development of new transport offices and a hotel above the existing open-air bus station in Wood Street, Cardiff.
Their recommendation that an outline plan be prepared by Mr John Dryburgh, the city architect, has already been approved by the public works and town planning committee.
Professor Colin Buchanan, in his probe study report on the central area development, included proposals for a new building in Central Square partly covering the bus station and extending across the road and land fronting Cardiff General Railway Station. PENUEL Welsh Calvinistic Chapel, the 100-year-old church overlooking Pontypridd’s Taff Street, is to be demolished to make way for a new block of shops.
The site has been earmarked for development for a number of years, and a Bradford property company has announced it has planning permission for a block of about 12 shops at a cost of £500,000. ABERTILLERY Council workmen today destroyed three large boulders