Wales' answer to Hollywood. (Ear To The Ground).Hollywood could soon be losing some of its business to 'Valleywood'. That is if the project to build a massive film studio complex on a former South Wales coalfield The South Wales Coalfield is a region of Wales that is rich with coal. It lies in parts of the districts/counties of Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Vale of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Powys. gets off the ground. Driving force behind the 350 million [pounds sterling] scheme is British film mogul Mogul: see Mughal. Lord Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won an Academy Award, BAFTA and three Golden Globes. . He says the proposed Dragon International Studios at Llanilid, near Bridgend, will offer world-class film and TV studios, workshops and a film academy, together with a theme park. 'This is one of the greatest opportunities for British film-making we have ever had,' he enthuses. He is already planning to have a Welsh male voice choir choir [O.Fr.] 1 A group of singers; traditionally the chorus organized to sing in a church. Usually, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran choirs are composed of men and boys, but occasionally in these churches and customarily in other Protestant at the opening. |
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