William Jenkins, a high hill farmer from Manmoel near Blackwood, Caerphilly county, said there is little snow where he is but a cold, penetrating wind which leaves new born lambs at risk of being frozen to death.

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With the blessing of El Paso Chairman William Wise , Jenkins plans to buy fiber-optic equipment, metropolitan communications loops and even "telco hotels" stuffed with switches that allow customers to select among many competing carriers.

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The mediocrity of the characters and the production is relieved, though only momentarily, by the usually sombre Richard Jenkins, who shows up in black, looking like William Burroughs and playing some sort of ageless sex hipster.

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John William Mason, 55, is accused of beating to death Angelika Dries-Jenkins, 66, at Narberth last year.

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