Wales

Adopted by the Welsh football hardcore, bucket hats in the national colours are now as much a symbol of Wales as the leek, daffodil or rugby shirt.

“My old man lives in England so he’d get out of lockdown and be able to go get a haircut or go to the pub, and we’d be here, unable to do bugger all besides go to work and go home.” With more Covid deaths per capita than anywhere else in the UK, youth in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, have been through a lot. THE FACE discovers how they tried – and struggled – to recover.

The South Wales Valleys as you’ve never seen them before.

The Welsh designer has a penchant for pubs. It takes us three pints of lager and a packet of crisps to find out why.