SINGER Rosie Havel is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Katherine Jenkins and Charlotte Church by winning a part in a new opera.

By BARRY McDONALD WILDLIFE is all around us. Well, around me, anyway. There's the rat in my compost heap, the mice in the garage, the nesting tits in the attic, the rabbits in the garden, the magpies on the bird table, and the house flies in the kitchen.

Ancient Welsh woodland being nurtured by volunteers will be featured in a new television series. Coed Craig Ruperra, near Caerphilly, is the focus of a BBC Open University programme shown on November 14 and being presented by Alan Titchmarsh.

By Roz Laws SITTING for hours in the pouring rain, waiting for a rare bird to appear, doesn't sound much like fun. But for Alan Titchmarsh it was one of the highlights of filming his new series, The Nature Of Britain (BBC1, Wednesday).

Blackpool Medics: Ten Days in May BBC1 DURING the 147 years that I've been writing this column (I started when TV sets were halftimbered and gas-fuelled), I like to think that I've gained a little bit of wisdom.