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'It just wasn't meant to be for City'

Rhodri Morgan, the First Minister, said everyone could be proud of Cardiff City, after the team was beaten one-nil by Portsmouth at Wembley. Read

Outbreak of influenza forces hospital to close

A COMMUNITY hospital has been closed because of an outbreak of influenza B. Read

Welsh politics

Senedd image of Thatcher ‘an insult to Wales’

PLANS to install a huge image of Margaret Thatcher inside the Senedd building were yesterday condemned as an “insult to the people of Wales”. Read

I am the right leader for these difficult times, Brown insists

GORDON BROWN yesterday dismissed speculation that he faces a leadership challenge as “gossip”, promising to restore his reputation by focusing on the economy and the future of the Union. Read

Education News

Report’s call for early action on bad behaviour welcomed

THE Children’s Commissioner for Wales last night gave an enthusiastic welcome to a major report which calls for early intervention to combat truancy and misbehaviour in the classroom. Read

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Welsh pupils failing from the start

CHILDREN’S poor reading, writing and maths skills are key causes of bad behaviour and truancy in Welsh schools, a groundbreaking report published today warns. Read

Health News

First winners of Welsh NHS awards scheme announced

AN awards scheme to celebrate the NHS’ 60th anniversary has been launched in Wales. Read

Nurses day is marked by a live link to Afghanistan

WALES marked International Nursing Day by linking up with members of 203 Field Hospital in Afghanistan. Read

Features

Prince Harry and the chamber of secrets

When Prince Harry went to war in Afghanistan, it was under a veil of secrecy as the media agreed a blackout. And when the news seeped out, Harry was catapulted from wayward royal to national hero. Dr John Jewell, lecturer at the School of Journalism, Cardiff University, asks whether the British public had a right to know all along Read

fostering is so much fun

Fostering is so much fun

Lydia Whitfield discovers how gran Cath Evans has found a new purpose in life since becoming a foster mum Read

Columnists

Get a life, Celine, not another pair of shoes

CELINE DION owns 3,000 pairs of shoes. Read that again slowly. Three thousand pairs of shoes. How can anyone have that many shoes? Why would anyone want that many pairs of shoes? Read

Gay liberation is here to stay – it’s high time grey liberation took off

BACK in the 1960s, there were campaigns for Women’s Liberation, Black is Beautiful, Gay Liberation, and rights for the disabled. Suddenly all these groups were loudly proclaiming: “We are fed up with being treated as inferior.” Read

News from the UK

The Queen's eldest grandson marries

The Queen's eldest grandson, Peter Phillips, has married his Canadian bride, Autumn Kelly, at Windsor Castle. Read

Victorious Pompey lift FA Cup

Portsmouth lifted the FA Cup for the first time in nearly 70 years and ended the trophy dreams of minnows Cardiff City. Read

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Martin Shipton

Reflections on a day trip to Auschwitz

BLOG:Welshblogs: specialadviser 14 May 2008

A day trip to Auschwitz from Wales is an exhausting, harrowing, but extremely rewarding experience, as I have discovered. Read

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