Preparing for London 2012, from a South Wales perspective. With the Olympic Torch Relay recently passing through Cardiff. And my year-long university course coming to an end this week, it suddenly feels like the London games are looming fast. A lot of thought must have gone into decorating the inside of the UDAC.

Irregular, irreverent musings on sport, the news, politics, and anything else slightly interesting. Tuesday, 1 May 2012. As voters go to the polls this week, Cardiff is likely to be a bellwether council in terms both of the Liberal Democrat collapse and the Labour resurgence. It is not only Labour which looks set to profit from a decline in Lib Dem support. Despite recent problems for their London coalition partners, and depending on how the Lib D.

Motorsport news, views and reaction. Pryce, from the North Wales town of Ruthin, had only been the fourth Welsh driver and was by far the most successful. His predecessors Jackie Lewis, Alan Rees and Shane Summers had all entered Grand Prix but had only scored a combined total of three points between them. Pryce had scored 19 by the time of his death in what was looking like a promising career.

2012 was a year not only for sport, but for volunteering. The recruitment of over 70,000 people at the Olympic and Paralympic Games was the biggest ever peace-time mobilisation of volunteers the United Kingdom has ever seen and without them, the Games would not have happened.