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RHONDDA-BORN actor and producer Stanley Baker, knighted in Sir Harold Wilson’s Honours List, spoke at his Surrey home about one of the most fantastic weeks of his life.
The star revealed medical tests last week have shown he has completely recovered from lung cancer, which threatened to bring a tragic end to his illustrious career.
The results of the test, given to him this week together with his knighthood, means a double celebration for his family and friends in London.
He regarded his knighthood as a great honour for himself, his wife Ellen, and their four children.
He added: “It is also a great honour for the Rhondda. I am an exile only in terms of mileage, not heart.”
Sir Stanley, below, a staunch socialist – “Coming from the Rhondda what else could I be?” – has been friendly with the former premier Sir Harold for a long time.
Sir Stanley said he was currently working on a follow-up, Zulu Dawn, on which shooting starts in South Africa next April.
He has a home in London and a villa in Spain but still finds time to return to Ferndale, often to raise money for charities. POLICE inquiries into the alleged discovery of washing machines in the boots of workers’ cars at the Hoover factory in Merthyr were continuing today.
The police were called to investigate after a check by security officers at the Pentrebach factory.
Security men became suspicious after an all-night routine check was made on the factory car park. They noticed the same cars were not moved between shifts.
A number of washing machines and a spin drier were found in the cars. Security men are trying to discover how the men managed to get the machines so far without being detected. WALES Gas will start a multi-millionpound drilling programme in the Celtic Sea in July.
Mr Dudley Fisher, chairman of Wales Gas, said the corporation would be teaming up with major oil companies in their huge exploration programme.
Together with Amoco and Mobil, Wales Gas have licence to drill in three blocks of the Celtic Sea. One of these will be drilled in July. NEW measures to combat crowd trouble are expected to be considered by Cardiff City Football Club as a result of the ugly scenes at Saturday’s Wales v Yugoslavia European Championship game at Ninian Park.
Both City and Wales face bans from European competition following the fury that erupted on Saturday.
Wales could be banned from all European competitions – and Ninian Park could be blacklisted for European matches.
Uefa, armed with reports from East German referee Rudi Gloeckner and their assessor, Mr Necdet Cobanli, of Turkey, will discuss the incidents at a disciplinary committee meeting in Switzerland.
Mr Lance Hayward, secretary of Cardiff City FC, said: “In light of spectators getting on to the pitch from the enclosure and Canton Stand our board will probably consider the need to fence off the pitch from these parts of the ground as well.
“As for existing fencing not being high enough because it was scaled by several fans, how do you decide what height it should be?
“No-one has ever climbed over before.” it MERTHYR TYDFIL pop musician Mike Palmer aims to set a new world record for playing the electric guitar non-stop.
Mike, of River Walk, last year set a world record of 115 hours, but it has been beaten recently by an American who played for 38 minutes longer.
He begins his marathon session at Tiffany’s Dance Hall, Merthyr, and Mike, aged 22, said: “I have given up