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McKean has regularly graced the stage in recent decades, appearing in works by everyone from John Waters to Harold Pinter to William Shakespeare.

Lobbying behind-the-scenes, by campaigners and others - including, sources say, by Waters during the recent Welsh government budget process - appears to have triggered a re-think on cuts to funding for the next financial year.

In a statement, Mrs Perry's sister, Prof Julia Waters, said Ms Spielman's nomination for a peerage was a "disgrace", and that her record "should not be rewarded" with a place in the House of Lords.

While the legislation is being discussed in Sacramento, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has begun to revise the so-called Waters of the United States rule to bring regulations into line with the Supreme Court ruling.

One of them was blues master Muddy Waters.