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Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Wales captain Metcalfe looks to follow in sister's footsteps
Rugby is a family affair for Wales U20 captain Branwen Metcalfe and she does not have to look too far for inspiration. The 18-year-old is determined to follow the same path as her older sister Nel and reach the senior team – but first she leads her country into the U20 Six Nations Women's Summer Series. Advertisement Metcalfe and her teammates have the opportunity to push their cases for full international call-ups when they take on Ireland this afternoon as the competition gets underway in Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly. It is the second edition of the U20 tournament, which debuted in Italy last year, and despite suffering three defeats out of three 12 months ago, the Welsh class of 2025 are relishing the chance to showcase what they can do. 'I'm really excited,' said back rower Metcalfe, who attended Hartpury College. 'The girls have had a good few weeks of training, we've had a good team run this morning. We are feeling really confident going into tomorrow. Advertisement 'We are really positive. The girls have gelled really well today and it's so nice to see everyone from different places coming together to represent Wales.' Following on from the 2024 Women's Summer Series, 14 players across the six countries went on to achieve senior honours during the 2025 Guinness Women's Six Nations, including Branwen's sister Nel, 20. And Metcalfe, who is from Llanrwst and started playing rugby aged seven, highlighted the importance of the competition for giving players the opportunity to standout and to use it as a springboard to break into the senior team. 'Our pathway in Wales is definitely working,' she said. 'I have seen it myself personally, my sister is in the senior squad now, and it is really great to see how we've got so many youngsters pushing for places. Advertisement 'She has always been an inspiration to me. I definitely want to follow in her footsteps if I can.' With women's rugby going from strength to strength and the game on an upward trajectory, the 2025 Six Nations Women's Summer Series is a big chance for stars of the future to gain vital international experience, graduate along the development pathway, while also inspiring a new generation of rugby fans. Spread across three dates during July, Wales will also face Scotland on 11 July before rounding off their campaign against Italy six days later.
BBC News
27-06-2025
- BBC News
Conwy farm honesty box closed after thieves steal eggs
A 10-year-old boy has been forced to close his family's honesty box after thieves stole the eggs and did not leave any family egg stand had been run over the years by Celt and his siblings, Brenig and Briallen, outside their home near Llanrwst, Conwy was a way for them to save pocket money but their mum, Dwynwen Williams, said the family recently decided to shut the stand after a dozen eggs were taken with no money left. "It is disappointing that someone can do that," she said. Ms Williams said she her husband Paul started selling the eggs from a stand near their farmyard around the time their eldest son was born as it was "something nice to do with the children".She added: "Brenig is 15 now so he hasn't done them for a while but for Celt who is 10 there was the excitement of going to see how many egg boxes had gone and counting the money still there. "There was great disappointment when the jar was empty and the eggs had disappeared." Ms Williams said she did not know if someone had paid for the eggs and that money was taken by someone else or if thieves had just stolen the eggs added that closing the box had saddened her children as the money they made was "theirs to spend as they want when we're out or to get an ice cream". Colin Jones keeps 10,000 hens on a farm near Llandderfelin, supplying shops and businesses - he also started selling eggs with an honesty box during said children in the area "love" dropping the money off and picking up the when he noticed less money in his honesty box, Mr Jones did an audit and found about 24 eggs a week were not being paid for and said he would have to close the honesty box if it continued. He added: "I don't want to have to spoil something for the children who enjoy coming here to collect eggs."You try your best so it's quite sad that this is happening... over the years it's getting quite big." Huw Mackinnon scrapped the honesty box on his farm in Llanrug, Gwynedd, because of thieves and replaced it with an egg vending opened his honesty box during Covid but said, as it became more popular, "people started stealing all the money and all the eggs".He said it was "disgraceful" that honesty boxes were disappearing and it was "a shame that some people are spoiling it".
