2015 in Wales

2015 in Wales

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Other events of 2015

This article is about the particular significance of the year 2015 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Charles
• Princess of Wales – The Duchess of Cornwall (does not use title)
• First Minister – Carwyn Jones
• Secretary of State for Wales – David Jones
• Archbishop of Wales – Barry Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Christine James

Events

• 9 January - Strong winds cause damage and disruption in parts of Wales, as trees are blown down, electricity supplies interrupted, and flood warnings issued.^[1] Three children from Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw are injured when a falling tree hits their school bus.
• 12 February - Health minister Mark Drakeford announces a ban on smoking in cars carrying children, with effect from 1 October.^[2]
• 26 February - Gwent Police and social services apologise for their failure to prevent three murders carried out by Carl Mills in Cwmbran in September 2012.^[3]
• 6 March - Seven teenagers are arrested for dangerous driving following an accident on the A470 near Storey Arms, in which four people were killed.^[4]
• 18 March - A document confirming Henry Gower's consecration as Bishop of St David's in 1328 goes up for auction at Bonham's, where it is expected to fetch between £4,000 and £6,000.^[5]
• 31 March - Plaid Cymru launches its election manifesto in Bangor.^[6]

Arts and literature

Welsh Awards

• Glyndŵr Award
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair –
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown –
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal –
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen:
• Wales Book of the Year:
  • English language:
    • Fiction:
    • Non-fiction:
    • Poetry:
  • Welsh language:
    • Fiction -
    • Non-fiction:
    • Poetry:

Sport

• Football
  • 9 January - Cardiff City F.C.'s owner, Vincent Tan, meets supporters and agrees to a return to the traditional blue playing strip, saying his mother helped him come to the decision.^[7]
• Road bicycle racing
  • 27 March - Geraint Thomas wins the E3 Harelbeke race and becomes the first Welsh cyclist to win a classic cycle race in 119 years.^[8]

Broadcasting

English-language television

• Michael Sheen's Valleys Rebellion^[9]

Welsh-language television

• Dan y Wenallt^[10]

Deaths

• 8 January - Richard Meade, equestrian, three-time Olympic champion, 76^[11]
• 12 January - Paul Morgan, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer, 40^[12]
• 30 January - Howard Norris, Wales and British Lions rugby union footballer, 80^[13]
• 12 February - Steve Strange, singer (Visage and Strange Cruise), 55^[14]
• 16 February - John Davies, historian, 76^[15]
• 21 February - Meredydd Evans, professor, musician and television producer, 95^[16]
• 23 February
  • John Rowlands, novelist and academic, 76^[17]
  • Dave Williams, footballer, 72
• 24 February (date body discovered) - Roger Cecil, painter, 72^[18]
• 6 March - Osi Rhys Osmond, painter and television presenter, 71^[19]
• 11 March - Harri Pritchard Jones, author, 81^[20]
• 24 March - R. Geraint Gruffydd, Celtic scholar, 86

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