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Airport chiefs red-faced after security blunder

CARDIFF International Airport today found itself at the centre of another security blunder after a woman flew to the Canary Islands – using her husband’s passport. Read

Welsh holidaymaker drowns

A CARDIFF man, who was yesterday airlifted to hospital after he and his son got into difficulty swimming in the sea, has died. Read

Deal allows use of Welsh at EU meetings

The limited use of the Welsh language in EU meetings was agreed today – but there are no plans for it to become Europe’s 24th “official” language. Read

Alun Ffred Jones named as Heritage Minister

ALUN FFRED JONES was yesterday named Wales’ new Heritage Minister, four days after Rhodri Glyn Thomas was forced to quit after a pub-smoking incident. Read

Almost 200 trained teachers failed to find a job

ALMOST 200 newly-qualified teachers failed to find a job in teaching last year. Read

Healthy food passes pupils’ test

HEALTHY eating is on the up at a school in a former mining community, after some of the pupils were enlisted to choose new foods for the canteen. Read

Cardiff at bottom of A&E waiting time league

EMERGENCY patients at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales continue to face the longest waits for A&E treatment, new figures revealed today. Read

Around 37,000 at risk of death if pandemic flu strikes

HALF the population of Wales could fall ill and 37,000 people may die if the nation is hit by a pandemic flu outbreak, according to Assembly Government estimates. Read

Drought is now the norm in the deprived north of Kenya

A toxic cocktail of factors, including successive droughts, violent conflict and chronic poverty has the potential to devastate East Africa. Oxfam Cymru’s Jonathan Tench reports on a visit to the deprived north of Kenya Read

Welsh dialect recordings given to the British Library

IT CONTAINS farm labourers’ Shakespeare-inspired expressions and the reasons why Pembrokeshire is called “Little England”. Read

Columnists

Wii will overcome the class barrier if players get a taste for real polo

TRADITIONALLY, the confession that one had spent the afternoon in the company of a guitar-playing rabbit would have triggered a police raid for controlled substances. Read

Clothes mix-up maketh the little man into a mini Michelin Manners

THE benefits of having a big brother are many. Thanks to Big Bro’s helpful interventions, my four-year-old is now not only able to wallop a football in the right direction with gusto, but is also light-years better than me (OK, hardly difficult) on the PlayStation. Read

News from the UK

High turnout signs as polls close

The polls have closed in the Glasgow East by-election amid signs of a higher-than expected turnout. Read

Adams blames DUP for stalemate

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams accused the DUP of pushing Northern Ireland's power-sharing government toward crisis. Read

Strong turnout set for by-election

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BLOG:WalesOnline: mattwithers 24 Jul 2008

Strange couple of days for David Cameron: first it emerges that the home he'll be holidaying in this summer is cursed by an evil witch (no, not her ). Read