NEWS EXTRA
BILLY Boston has been feted at a rugby dinner in Cardiff for the first time amid renewed calls for a permanent memorial of Rugby League’s record British try-scorer.
The event coincided with the launch of a campaign for a statue of Wigan’s original superstar to be erected in the city he left in 1953 without achieving his boyhood ambition of playing for Wales at the Arms Park.
Boston, now 83 and suffering from dementia, has been immortalised in bronze in his adopted Wigan and at Wembley. The tribute dinner, organised by David Power of the Welsh Charitables RFC, brought ...