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A proposal for two digital communications aerials, eight satellite dishes and five control boxes has been allowed on a block of flats in Swansea, with an inspector deciding that the [...]

The owners of a hotel in a north Wales conservation area have failed to persuade an inspector to allow a colour scheme applied to the property to be retained. The [...]

An inspector has decided that the reclamation and restoration of an opencast coal site in south Wales should be allowed through a technique involving sewage cake and recycled paper products. [...]

The change of use of an office and store at a commercial garage in a west Wales town into a gym has been allowed after an inspector decided that it [...]

The change of use of a house in Powys to a residential training centre, campsite and shower block has been approved after an inspector concluded that the site lay within [...]

In the scientific and medical pantheon few have received more adulation and honour than Sir Alexander Fleming. Even so it is abundantly clear that his triumphant discovery of penicillin owed much to the work of others, especially Florey and Chain, who accomplished the difficult task of taking penicillin from the test tube to patient. This essay does not attempt a detailed re-examination of that discovery. Rather the present study suggests that even the initial observation on that critical day in September 1928 and its subsequent ramifications were even more complex and perplexing than the accepted version. It is likely that Professor Daniel Merlin Pryce, a somewhat unconventional but gifted son of the Welsh mining valleys played an important, quite possibly a crucial, role in the original observation. However one which, except for a very few occasions, he himself sought to downplay, even virtually to deny.