{"id":955306,"date":"2026-11-07T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955306\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:02:21","slug":"wales-breaking-news-plus-weather-and-traffic-updates-friday-november-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955306\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales breaking news plus weather and traffic updates (Friday, November 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Star of cult noughties MTV show, Dirty Sanchez, Mike Locke aka Pancho, has died. The 47-year-old was born in Neath and found fame on the stunt and prank television show alongside Matthew Pritchard, Lee Dainton and Dan Joyce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A former stuntman and skateboarder, in the past decade he&#8217;d found success with another cool, cult Welsh brand as backer of the San Portablo clothing brand, alongside his friend and founder, Nigel Hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The sad news of his passing came via San Portablo&#8217;s Instagram on Friday morning, November 6, where they paid tribute to &#8220;an absolute Welsh treasure&#8221; and &#8220;all round Goodfella&#8221; who &#8220;lit up the world with his charm.&#8221; More on tributes to Pancho <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/lifestyle\/fashion\/dirty-sanchez-tv-star-pancho-34871848\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1_JS400235513.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Michael Locke better known as Pancho (left) has died at the age of 47\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Michael Locke better known as Pancho (left) has died at the age of 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star of cult noughties MTV show, Dirty Sanchez, Mike Locke aka Pancho, has died. The 47-year-old was born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-955306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}