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Councils slammed at final E.coli hearing

THE families affected by the deadly South Wales E.coli outbreak have accused the authorities of allowing a "rogue trader" to sell contaminated meat. Read

Devoted couple 'were about to be separated'

A DEVOTED couple found dead together in their retirement flat believed they were about to be moved to separate care homes after 60 years of marriage, it emerged today. Read

Welsh politics

Darling rewrites Budget to give basic rate taxpayers £120 each

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling threw a lifeline to Gordon Brown yesterday with a £2.7bn giveaway aimed at ending the 10p tax row. Read

Jack Straw: English parliament would split Union

SETTING up an English parliament would be a disaster as Wales and Scotland would demand independence, Justice Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday. Read

Education News

Community school head arrested over new sexual offence allegations

A HEAD teacher has been arrested for a second time following new allegations against him under the Sexual Offences Act. Read

Extra £5m for new early-years scheme’s ‘too little, too late’

A FUNDING boost of £5m for a planned transformation of early-years education in Wales was yesterday denounced by head teachers as “wholly inadequate”. Read

Health News

‘People are playing God with other people’s lives’

Mum is turned down last-chance cancer treatment

A MUM with bowel cancer has issued a plea for help from her hospice bed after health officials turned down her request for a last-chance drug treatment. Read

E.coli families attack council 'failures'

FAMILIES affected by the deadly South Wales valleys E.coli outbreak have slammed Bridgend Council for "individual, corporate and systemic failures". Read

Features

Selling Wales through sports success

With a second Grand Slam win in four years, a football team in the FA Cup final, and a Ryder Cup on the horizon, Welsh sport has never had it so good. Richard Houdmont, director of the Chartered Institute of Marketing for Wales, explores how on-field success can be exploited for the benefit of the whole country Read

There’s no wolf-whistling here!

ALLISON Hall, 28, of Blackwood, has been selling models ranging from pricey, supercharged convertible Jaguar XKRs for £31,999 and Land Rover Discovery seven-seaters for £21,999, to Rover 25 Impressions for just £2,499, for a year. She said that the lure of working in an all-female dealership was what first attracted her to the job. Read

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Dan O'Neill

Things have changed since that 1927 win

G’DAY! Allow me to introduce myself. I am your Cardiff City cup final correspondent. Read

Do it yourself or get someone else in? It depends how old you are

MY mother rings to share her woes. Decorators are arriving tomorrow and should she take the curtains down for them? I say this might be silly as she is 68 years old and the windows are quite high up. Can’t she get the painter to wobble around on ladders? Read

News from the UK

Man in court over street stabbing

An 18-year-old will appear in court accused of murdering a man in broad daylight in London's Oxford Street. Read

Police 'upset' at football clashes

Police have expressed their disappointment after the Uefa Cup Final was marred by clashes between fans and riot police. 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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