3 d. ago Horse killed and driver taken to hospital in another crash on busy Valleys road

It is the second time in less than a month that horses have been involved in accidents on the busy dual carriageway

Events

1 week ago Discounty review – cozy shop life simulator takes satisfying approach

PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox; Crinkle Cut Games/PQubeDon’t be fooled by the graphics, there is no twee, relaxing vibe in this intense and work-heavy game where you are taken in by your aunt and put to work in her supermarketWe are thick in an era of retail simulators. In the comet-trail of Stardew Valley, a genre is now fat with titles wherein a protagonist restarts their life and career in a bucolic, quasi-rural landscape and undertakes a blue-collar job. They get to know the local people, interfere in some lives, solve some community issues – maybe even a mystery or two. Maybe even get married. In a way, they are all Harvest Moon’s pixelated offspring – but Discounty, Crinkle Cut Games’ new offering to the genre, tackles the cozy shop life simulator a little differently.In Discounty, you are taken in by your tricky, cantankerous aunt and are put to work in her branch of a franchised supermarket. A fascinating approach, given that the road less taken through Stardew Valley involves priori...

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2 w. ago A Road to a Village review – striking visuals ballast Nepal drama of haves and have

Widening gulfs in mountain society drives one father to the precipice in Nabin Subba’s humble yet mythic parableIf an interest in realism is a bellwether for a film industry’s relationship with social conditions in a given country, it’s always instructive to see where notable examples of the genre crop up. After 2012’s Wadjda prefigured the opening up of Saudi Arabia, here is a fretful example from Nepal, resplendently shot in the vast mountainsides above the eastern city of Dharan, but which agonises about the country’s modernisation.Weaver Maila (Dayahang Rai) finds himself on the wrong side of progress after a road is built connecting the Rai village of Balankha to the valley below. With plastic tarps on sale at a local store now bursting with hot new merch, no one wants his bamboo mats any more. His electricity is cut off, stopping his scallywag son Bindray (Prasan Rai) from studying, and driving the youngster to instead obsess over other modern distractions: the elixir of Coca-...

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2 w. ago Woman rushed to hospital after crash at busy roundabout off M56

She had been riding as a pillion passenger on a motorbike

Events

3 w. ago Two horses killed and two drivers hospitalised in crash on busy Valleys road

The road was closed for around four hours

Events

3 w. ago Car upside down on 20mph valleys road and driver taken to hospital

Police and the fire service were called to the incident in a village in the Rhondda early on Wednesday morning.

Transport