Greenaway directs Drowning by Numbers. Welsh-language films Stormydd Awst Broadcasting Welsh-language television Pobol y Cwm becomes the first European soap opera to be broadcast daily. C'mon Midffild (drama) English-language television The Divided Kingdom (HTV/Channel 4) Sport Association football April – Newport County A.F.C., one of four Welsh teams in the English Football League, are relegated to the GM Vauxhall Conference. Athletics Steve Jones becomes the first British competitor to win the New York Marathon. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Colin Jackson Rugby union Wales top the 1988 Five Nations Championship winning the Triple Crown. 18 May to 11 June – Wales tour New Zealand, losing heavily in both Tests to the All Blacks. Snooker 2 May – Terry Griffiths is defeated in the final of the 1988 World Snooker Championship by Steve Davis. 27 November – Doug Mountjoy defeats Stephen Hendry in the final of the UK Snooker Championship to claim his second UK title. Births 29 January - Catrin Stewart, actress 14 February - Jamie Jones, snooker player 18 February - Mark Davies, footballer 29 February - Hannah Mills, sports sailor 24 March - Curtis McDonald, footballer 11 April - Nathan Stephens, athlete and Paralympian 20 June - Shefali Chowdhury, actress 24 August - Kelly Lee Owens, electronic musician 5 October - Sam Warburton, rugby player 15 November - Daniel Evans, rugby player 13 December - Darcy Blake, footballer 22 December - Leigh Halfpenny, rugby player 28 December Ched Evans, footballer Elfyn Evans, rally driver 31 December - Holly Holyoake, singer Deaths January - George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian, 78 26 January - Raymond Williams, writer, 66 2 April - Euros Bowen, poet, 83 April - T. Glynne Davies, poet, novelist and broadcaster, 62 13 May - Elfed Evans, footballer, 61 18 May - Brandon Rhys-Williams, politician, 60 15 June - David Blackmore, cricketer, 88 8 September - Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player, 87 23 September - Arwel Hughes, composer and conductor, 79 12 October - Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and children's author, 102 16 October - John Gwilym Jones, dramatist, 84 11 November - William Ifor Jones, conductor and organist, 88 1 December - Alun Oldfield-Davies, controller of BBC Wales, 83 13 December - Brynmor John, politician, 54 25 December - W. F. Grimes, archaeologist, 83 27 December - Tecwyn Roberts, aerospace engineer, 63 date unknown John Morgan, journalist Ray Price, rugby player,