Langland Bay Golf Club in South Wales, unveiled a plaque on Friday commemorating the life of a former club greenkeeper who was killed in the First World War. The South Wales Evening Post reports that Lemuel Philip Ace was a greenkeeper and professional at the club and once officials became aware of his contribution to the war effort they were determined to mark it.

The paper says Lemuel enlisted in Mumbles and served as a Private in the King's Liverpool Regiment and died of wounds from a shell splinter, aged 33, on October 30, 1917. He is buried at Brierlen, near Ypres in Belgium. A marble stone plaque has been engraved and now resides in the clubhouse following Friday's ceremony which was attended by standard bearers  from King's Regiment and  from Liverpool & Irish regiments.

To the Second World War now, and a frustrated gardener has discovered why his 30 years of trying have failed to produce a decent lawn. Yahoo News has reported that Jim Clark of Bedlington, Northumberland, has just discovered a full-sized concrete air-raid shelter buried beneath his turf. Jim told the site, "'I've been trying everything to get the grass to grow in that area for three decades - putting down turf, new seed, fertiliser, leaving the hose pipe running for three hours to soak the grass - but it's always been brown and dry.

"'I'm just glad to get to the bottom of it after all this time. My wife came out and I'd unearthed this air raid shelter. She couldn't believe it, she thinks I'm crazy." View more pics here.

And check out the video below of Ivory Coast's 2-0 win over Angola last week at their national stadium the Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny. Is it really as the Daily Mirror proposed, the worst pitch in international football history? If one was being cheeky, one might suggest that until Blackpool start hosting world cup qualifiers, it probably is!