In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

* 1949 – Angharad Rees, Welsh actress ( d. 2012 )

* 1989 – Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer ( d. 2012 )

* 1929 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor ( d. 2012 )

The concept of free access to towpaths is one of the proposals that will be enshrined in the legistation to transfer responsibility for the English and Welsh canals from British Waterways to the Canal & River Trust in 2012.

* September 2 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor ( d. 2012 )

Numan's new album Dead Son Rising was released on 16 September 2011 which had a full U. K tour split in two halves, 15 – 21 September and 7 – 11 December, Both parts were supported by Welsh soloist Jayce Lewis in an interview during the tour ; Gary praised the Welshman to being the best supporting act ever in his 30 years of touring, later documenting the tour in a Tour diary and publicly inviting Jayce to join him for an American tour in 2012.

was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966. by 2012 had 1 of 4 Welsh seats in the European Parliament, 3 of 40 Welsh seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 of 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales, and 206 of 1, 264 principal local authority councillors.

With the July 2012 announcements of further cut backs in the regiments resulting in the disbandment of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh, that left the 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers ) as once more the only non-Guards based infantry regiment drawn from Wales.

He later returned to the Cabinet from 2009 to 2010 as Welsh Secretary, before becoming Shadow Welsh Secretary in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet from 2010 until 2012, when he announced his retirement from front-line politics.

The following 12 clubs will compete in the Welsh Premier League for the 2012 – 13 season:

Cefn Druids reached the semi finals of the Welsh Cup during the 2011 / 2012 season.

On Saturday 31 March 2012 Cefn Druids defeated Airbus at Rhyl's Belle Vue 4-1 to reach their first Welsh cup final in 108 years.

Striker Gary O ' Toole also won the Golden Boot award again and with Nomads having successfully obtained a domestic license, promotion back to the Welsh Premier League was secured for season 2012 – 13.

GAP secured promotion to the Welsh Premier League in 2012, having failed to obtain a domestic licence in 2011, leaving Rhyl as potential favourites for the title in 2012 / 13.

In March 2012 UEFA stated that Welsh clubs playing in the English football league system could not qualify for European competitions via the Welsh cup but they could qualify via the English league and cup competitions, hence they were subsequently again excluded from the Welsh cup

In May 2012, it was announced that Welsh had signed for Preston North End on a two-year contract.

The most recent was in May 2012, when Washington Post columnist Mike Wise published a piece entitled " Fans who yell ‘ Oh !’ during national anthem are tainting a moment meant to unite Americans ".

In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.

A study published in 2012 also found that conspiracy theorists frequently believe in multiple conspiracies, even when one conspiracy contradicts the other.

Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.

Abridged 14 was published in 2004, Abridged 15 is due early 2012.

In September, 2012, the Israeli ' Haaretz ' newspaper published an expose on Eritrea.

Collier's has not been in print since 1998 ; the Encyclopedia Americana was last published in 2006 and Britannica announced the discontinuation of its print editions in 2012.

* Admiel Kosman, Between Orthodox Judaism and nihilism: Reflections on the recently published writings of the late Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, Haaretz, Aug. 17, 2012.

The systemic practice of hedge funds submitting periodic electronic questionnaires to stock analysts as a part of market research was revealed by the results of investigative reporting by The New York Times published on July 16, 2012.

Under the proposal, the ICD-9-CM code sets would be replaced with the ICD-10-CM code sets, effective October 1, 2013. On April 17, 2012 the Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) published a proposed rule that would delay, from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014, the compliance date for the ICD-10-CM and PCS.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

A sequel to this game was released for the Game Boy in 1991, and a third entry to the series was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in March 2012.

A 3D Classics remake of Kid Icarus was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in Europe on January 5, 2012 and in Australia on January 17, 2012.

Kirlian Photographer Mark D. Roberts, who has worked with Kirlian imagery for over 40 years, published a portfolio of plant images entitled " Vita occulta plantarum " or " The Secret Life of Plants ", first exhibited in 2012 at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis.

On 3 August 2012, skipper George Edwards published a photograph he claims to be " The most convincing Nessie photograph ever ", which he claimed to have taken on November 2, 2011.

On 7 August 2012, Stephenson released a collection of essays and other previously published fiction entitled Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing.

* Open Skies Treaty Fact Sheet published by the United States Department of State Bureau of Arms Control on March 23, 2012, last accessed on April 9, 2012.

Although the Panamera will be a 4-door model, Road and Track magazine published a speculative piece in their April 2006 issue regarding the possibility of a new, 928-esque coupe that may debut on a shortened version of the Panamera's platform sometime around 2011 or 2012 model year.

In 2012, however, the University of Chicago published the first translation of the three languages with its Demotic dictionary .< Ref > http :// www. aljazeera. com / video / middleeast / 2012 / 09 / 2012918204348950439. html </ ref >

King's next novel, 11 / 22 / 63, was published November 8, 2011, and was nominated for the 2012 World Fantasy Award Best Novel.

The eighth Dark Tower volume, The Wind Through the Keyhole, was published in 2012.

The project, ultimately reduced to a single film called Prometheus, which Scott described as sharing " strands of Alien's DNA " while not being a direct prequel, was released in June 2012.

In 2012, a prequel, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, titled The Family Corleone was written by Ed Falco.

He is also currently writing a prequel to The Saga, a series of four books all about Larten Crepsley ( one of the main characters ) starting with Birth of a Killer ( 2010 ) and finishing with Brothers to the Death ( 2012 ).

In 2012 Archaia Studios Press announced they were developing a graphic novel prequel to the film.

Monsters, Inc. will see a 3D re-release in theaters in 2012, followed by the release of a prequel, Monsters University, due in 2013.

It spawned a sequel in 2001, The Mummy Returns, and a prequel spin-off of that sequel, The Scorpion King, in 2002, which spawned a 2008 prequel, The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior, and a 2012 sequel, The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption.

* The Seven Wonders ( 2012 ) is a prequel recounting the journey of the young Gordianus to see the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World beginning in 92 BC.

Earth Unaware, a prequel to the entire Ender series, was released on July 17, 2012.

Combs stars with Andrew Divoff in the 2012 Screen Media Films release " Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation ", a prequel to the 2006 cult hit " Night of the Living Dead 3D " directed by Jeff Broadstreet.

" Although the 2012 prequel film is entitled " Re-Animation ", it has no connection to Combs ' most well-known film, " Re-Animator ," nor does the film play on the imagery from " Re-Animator " in any way.

A sequel remained in Development Hell for over two decades, before Mad Max: Fury Road, which is instead to be a prequel to the original film, was finally greenlit in 2012.

In July 2012, Trick Daddy released a mixtape entitled " D * ck & Dynamite " as a prequel to his upcoming album release.

* The Hobbit – two-part prequel to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, currently in production, scheduled for release in 2012 and 2013.

In February 2012, it was announced that AnnaSophia Robb will play the role as a teenager in Teen drama The CW's upcoming Sex and the City television prequel series, The Carrie Diaries.

* Magnus Greel's days as The Minister of Justice are explored in the 2012 prequel audio story The Butcher of Brisbane, featuring the Fifth Doctor, being careful not to change his own past.

A prequel, Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed, is set for release on August 17, 2012.

A prequel, Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed, will be released on August 17, 2012, in limited release.