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The nine-year-old Welsh tennis prodigy

A nine-year-old boy from Neath who is taking the tennis world by storm has been selected to represent Great Britain next month - and is one of the youngest players ever chosen. Fletcher Davies started accompanying his mum, who is a tennis coach, to her lessons when he was just two months old. By the age of two, he could get a rally over the net, recalled his proud mum, Melissa, and he began competing at a local club level when he was five. He started playing at major events when he was six and...

The young entrepreneur who loans prom outfits to children for free

When Ally Elouise attended her school prom 12 years ago it was a night to remember. She had got the dress she wanted and had a "great time" with her friends celebrating the end of their high school journey. Then just 15 years old she didn't think much about the reasons some children in her year didn't come to the pivotal event. "I thought they just didn't want to," said the 27-year-old. "But obviously as I got older and became an adult I looked back on it and I realised that the people that did

'I fled Afghanistan after my dad was murdered by the Taliban'

As the horror unfolds in Afghanistan following its capture by the Taliban, for most of us living here in Wales the desperate plight of civilians trying to escape probably feels like a distant and unfathomable nightmare. But for Cardiff resident Mohammed Jalali, the scenes that have been playing out on our screens for the past few days evoke terrifying memories - ones he unfortunately cannot banish from his mind by switching off the news on TV like the rest of us.

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