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Aug 11 2006
A £1.5M bid for a Welsh Assembly grant to help refurbish the Gwyn Hall in the centre of Neath is being put forward this month....
Aug 11 2006
FOUR people arrested for daubing red paint on the National Museum of Wales as part of an anti-Middle East war protest on Wednesday have been given police cautions....
Aug 11 2006
STRIKE action by up to 300 civilian workers at RAF Valley on Anglesey has been averted after discussions between unions and employers....
Aug 11 2006
TWO robbers tipped a man from his wheelchair when they attacked him and stole his mobile phone....
Aug 11 2006
THE funeral of the Welsh grandmother who was oneof Shrewsbury's massage parlour murder victims will take place next week....
Aug 11 2006
THE online bank accounts of 3.1 million UK customers at HSBC may have been exposed to hacking or fraud for at least two years, Welsh researchers claimed yesterday. ...
Aug 11 2006
Children at an after-school club are becoming more environmentally aware thanks to a Co-op grant....
Aug 11 2006
A teenaged biker who persistently ignored warnings not to use off-road vehicles illegally has had his second bike seized this year....
Aug 11 2006
Parents of young children are being urged to get the most out of a Children's Traffic Club and sign up now....
Aug 11 2006
Property support company OCS will provide security at St David's Shopping Centre, Cardiff....
Aug 11 2006
Two Newport politicians are visiting domestic radiator group Quinn next week to mark the first anniversary of the firm's decision to open a plant in the city. The Ireland-based company is investing £133m at a former LG building. Production is expected to start in January. Newport West MP Paul Flynn and area AM Rosemary Butler visit on Tuesday....
Aug 11 2006
Rally and race stars will be meeting shoppers this week. Star drivers, marshals and officials from the Wales Rally GB and the British Women Racing Drivers' Club will be in St David's Shopping arcade, outside Boots chemist, today, between 11am and 3.30pm. And tomorrow, Cardiff driving star Tom Haines will be there from noon until 3.30pm....
Aug 11 2006
Liz and Neil Duquemin have been welcomed as the new leaders of the Salvation Army in Merthyr Tydfil....
Aug 11 2006
New software to help people send text messages in Welsh has been launched....
Aug 11 2006
Detergent had to be used to clean up an oil spill on a busy Valleys road....
Aug 11 2006
The third edition of a guide to local health services is available for Caerphilly county area residents....
Aug 11 2006
A mum who suffered nine years of violence at the hands of her husband today speaks out and urges victims not to live in fear....
Aug 11 2006
Safer Cardiff has received a major boost to its HomeSafe home security service with a £385,000 grant....
Aug 11 2006
A married father-of-three who failed to take a breath test has apologised to a court....
Aug 11 2006
Employers in Wales can benefit from older workers....
Aug 11 2006
Knife-carrying thugs who create fear on trains and at railway stations were today being tackled with airport-style metal detectors....
Aug 11 2006
Employers are seeing a growing number of young people starting jobs with few business skills and over-confidence in their ability....
Aug 11 2006
Two firefighters prevented a woman falling 100ft down a South Wales quarry in a dramatic rescue operation early today....
Aug 11 2006
Hundreds of personal documents - which could be used for identity theft - have been found on a city centre street....
Aug 11 2006
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey is to preach at a South Wales jazz festival....
Aug 11 2006
Wales should consider introducing an afternoon siesta to protect workers during heatwaves....
Aug 11 2006
More than 40,000 medication mistakes were made in hospitals across Wales and England last year....
Aug 11 2006
A disability rights champion has been appointed to ensure universities and colleges in Wales provide support for all students....
Aug 11 2006
Drivers were held up in tailbacks on the M4 last night after a car and its trailer overturned....
Aug 11 2006
One of Wales' flagship innovations in education was endorsed by academics yesterday....
Aug 11 2006
Cardiff Bus services will be revised due to road closures in the city centre due to Sunday's Community Shield match between Liverpool and Chelsea....
Aug 11 2006
Amanda Buckley has proved she really is spec-tacular....
Aug 11 2006
A blaze at a disused changing room block was probably started deliberately....
Aug 11 2006
Rumours that South Wales has missed out on the main part of a £14bn contract to build a military training academy at RAF St Athan were today dismissed as 'total speculation'....
Aug 11 2006
Fans of the Rolling Stones are taking advantage of half-price tickets for the band at the Millennium Stadium on August 29....
Aug 11 2006
The judge in the Clydach murder retrial has told the jury they had probably seen the killer....
Aug 11 2006
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus spent three hours putting out a hay fire at...
Aug 11 2006
A host of Welsh acts have been nominated for music rock awards....
Aug 11 2006
A dangerous pimp who forced drugged teenagers to work as prostitutes is being hunted by police....
Aug 11 2006
Police are appealing for information to trace a mini motorcycle which was stolen from inside a house in Llanrumney, Cardiff....
Aug 11 2006
Two Cardiff volunteering charities are looking for community champions from across the city to take part in a pioneering new project....
Aug 11 2006
Conservative am Lisa Francis has called on the Welsh Assembly Government to tap into the potential for ancestry tourism....
Aug 11 2006
Two horses had to be rescued after a fire in a caravan spread to their stables....
Aug 11 2006
A project to create works of art in Wales has received £250,000....
Aug 11 2006
Cardiff will host the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2008 - for the first time in 30 years....
Aug 11 2006
Furious train travellers say delays and cramped cattle-like conditions are on the rise again....
Aug 11 2006
One passenger who bought a weekly season ticket was shocked to discover there were no trains home....
Aug 11 2006
The mum of a tragic champion skater is launching seafront cycle rides in his memory....
Aug 11 2006
It will be a case of Pirates of Cardiff Bay, rather than of the Caribbean, when a nautical extravaganza sails in this month....
Aug 11 2006
A man who beat his girlfriend now has a four-week wait to find out his punishment....
Aug 11 2006
A grieving father has hit out at the amount of time it took to give pain relief to his dying son....
Aug 11 2006
Budding inventors in Cardiff are facing a tricky challenge after a competition was launched to find the most novel way to cross a 25-metre stretch of water....
Aug 11 2006
A woman who drank with friends until the early hours of the morning was still over the limit at 5pm in the afternoon....
Aug 11 2006
A drug dealer with 66 previous convictions has been jailed....
Aug 11 2006
While children played innocently in a playground nearby, this convicted drug dealer was selling class A drugs....
Aug 11 2006
Fire crews were called to a small fire at a bungalow in Pontllanfraith....
Aug 11 2006
The aa has sparked fury after it snubbed Wales' capital city....
Aug 11 2006
A couple have appeared in court charged with a string of violent offences....
Aug 11 2006
A petition has been started by a mother of two calling for youngsters to be allowed to continue riding their off-road bikes on a green site near her estate....
Aug 11 2006
Extensive roadworks are continuing to cause chaos at a crucial road junction between Penarth and Cardiff....
Aug 11 2006
A new website designed to encourage more children to eat school dinners has been launched....
Aug 11 2006
Expansion plans for Wales' largest university have been given the go-ahead....
Aug 11 2006
Details of the disruption that will be created by the £650m St David's 2 development have been released....
Aug 11 2006
A man has appeared in court charged with a baseball bat attack....
Aug 11 2006
The politician leading the controversial city parking shake-up has said there will be no more consultation....
Aug 11 2006
Merthyr Tydfil Housing Association is seeking consent from the local authority to build 25 houses and eight flats at the Penydarren reservoir site....
Aug 11 2006
Campaigners are calling for all teachers to be trained how to support pupils with autisim to ensure every child gets the right education....
Aug 11 2006
They are a Mr and Mrs from another era....
Aug 11 2006
A pensioner who answered her door to two men pretending to be window cleaners had her purse stolen....
Aug 11 2006
Ever-youthful Edith Holdsworth took to the dance floor to celebrate her 99th birthday in style....
Aug 11 2006
An internet radio station is set to help young people with learning difficulties....
Aug 11 2006
A children's hospice is looking for volunteers. Ty Hafan, based in Sully, is looking for volunteers with a few hours to spare to help with maintaining paintwork within the hospice, housekeeping, laundry, making beds, flower arranging and watering plants. Contact Erica or Helen on 01446 739993 or Sian on 029 2053 2200....
Aug 11 2006
Volunteers Olive Bedford and Margaret Williams have taken tea with the Queen. The duo from Merthyr Tydfil were invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace in recognition of their work over the last 24 years with organisations that support the welfare of the elderly. They were nominated by councillor Ron Clark, of Troedyrhiw....
Aug 11 2006
Visitors can learn how to be more green at a fun family day. Coed Hills rural arts centre in St Hilary, Cowbridge, will hold workshops showing people how to be environmentally friendly tomorrow and Sunday. Visitors can also enjoy woodworking workshops, face painting and Indian head massage. Call 01446 774084 for details and prices....
Aug 11 2006
Cardiff University graduate Vivienne Band has been appointed an account executive to public relations firm Golley Slater....
Aug 11 2006
A new course is offering students the skills to crack down on computer crime....
Aug 11 2006
Children in South Wales are taking up yoga thanks to YogaBugs classes designed for those aged two-and-a-half to seven and incorporating yoga exercise and breathing techniques....
Aug 11 2006
Families are being tricked to giving their unwanted clothes to conmen, believing they are leaving them to charities....
Aug 11 2006
Cyclist Craig Mansfield sets off ride through France tomorrow to raise funds for an illness his cousin died from last year....
Aug 11 2006
A drink driver used his car as a weapon when he deliberately drove at a man standing on a pavement, a court heard....
Aug 11 2006
Sharon Dawn Hayes, 42, of Tresillian Way, Cardiff, was fined £50 and given one day's detention after admitting being drunk and disorderly....
Aug 11 2006
Cases heard in Pontypridd Magistrates' Court...
Aug 11 2006
Cases heard in Aberdare Magistrates' Court:...
Aug 11 2006
A CHILLING plot to blow up a series of transatlantic flights in the next few days was foiled by security services yesterday....
Aug 11 2006
Volunteers went back to school over the summer holidays to give it a makeover....
Aug 11 2006
A school which holds PE lessons in a corridor, only has one toilet for staff and has to share its playground, is one of the most successful in Wales....
Aug 11 2006
Teenagers have voted to receive their exam results online....
Aug 11 2006
With A-level results just days away, a charity is calling on parents and teachers to be sympathetic to students who fail their exams....
Aug 11 2006
BLEARY-EYED passengers arriving at Cardiff International Airport to catch early morning flights yesterday found armed police officers, blue-and-white police tape and check-in queues stretching out beyond the terminal building....
Aug 11 2006
CIVIL servants have made their recommendation on whether a £19bn military training academy with 4,000 jobs should be sited in Wales, we can reveal....
Aug 11 2006
WELSH golfer Ian Woosnam ended up looking like Johnny Cash when he unveiled his new style at a golf tournament....
Aug 11 2006
WELSH First Minister Rhodri Morgan was kept fully informed of developments yesterday as the terror plot unfolded....
Aug 11 2006
JOHN REID took control of the UK's response to the latest terror threat yesterday, prompting new questions over the role of beleaguered Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott....
Aug 11 2006
Holidaymakers hoping to fly from Cardiff today have been told to expect more delays....
Aug 11 2006
THE suggestion that the attacks that were prevented yesterday would have used liquid explosives may have been viewed by many as a new development in terrorism....
Aug 11 2006
WALES should consider moving towards Mediterranean-style siestas to protect workers during heat waves, health experts claimed today....
Aug 11 2006
POLICE yesterday stepped up their presence at ports and airports across Wales, as the threat level across the UK was raised to critical....
Aug 11 2006
HEALTH workers are being offered a university course on how to tackle the deadly "superbug" MRSA and control killer infections like meningitis and E-coli food poisoning. ...
Aug 11 2006
FANS of The Rolling Stones are taking advantage of half-price tickets for the rockers' concert at the Millennium Stadium later this month....
Aug 11 2006
IT MAY not have the cachet of the New Zealand shirt, but Justin Marshall yesterday proudly displayed the closest thing Wales has to an All Black jersey, and it certainly has the cash....
Aug 11 2006
A STEELWORKER was found crushed to death at Port Talbot's giant Corus plant where there had been "constant, intermittent faults" with safety equipment, an inquest heard yesterday ....
Aug 11 2006
STRIKE action by up to 300 civilian workers at RAF Valley on Anglesey has been averted after discussions between unions and employers....
Aug 11 2006
A POLICE custody detention officer was facing jail yesterday for breaking the elbow of a teenage prisoner....
Aug 11 2006
THREE teenagers have been remanded in custody after appearing in court yesterday charged with the murder of Sean Barwick, of Bridgend who was attacked after leaving a city-centre nightclub....
Aug 11 2006
A SELF-DIAGNOSIS kit which can identify gluten intolerance - the modern disease which affects thousands of families - is being marketed by a Welsh biomedical firm....
Aug 11 2006
TEACHERS claim they feel as anxious about exam results as their pupils, a new study shows....
Aug 11 2006
WALES needs more prisons and an overhaul of the courts, according to the country's top judge....
Aug 11 2006
FORMER Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey is to preach this weekend at the Brecon Jazz service at the annual festival....
Aug 11 2006
ONE of Wales' flagship innovations in education was endorsed by academics yesterday. ...
Aug 11 2006
POLICE chief Richard Brunstrom will be made a druid today....
Aug 11 2006
CARDIFF Film Festival will be supporting a nominated charity for the first time in its history....
Aug 11 2006
CARDIFF City has taken on extra match-day staff to deal with the rush for tickets. ...
Aug 11 2006
A TOTAL of 59 people now have the highly-contagious eye disease which is sweeping through parts of the Valleys. ...
Aug 11 2006
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan and MEP Eluned Morgan will be among the speakers at tomorrow's commemoration to Welsh martyr Dic Penderyn....
Aug 11 2006
TWO barristers at the Wales and Chester circuit have been appointed as QCs....
Aug 11 2006
THREE teenagers have appeared in court charged with the murder of Sean Barwick. ...
Aug 11 2006
EMERGENCY services responded to a series of calls from people believing a plane had exploded over South Wales....
Aug 11 2006
NINETEEN of the men arrested yesterday ranged in age from 17 to 35 and most were Britons of Asian origin....
Aug 11 2006
FIVE drunk people were arrested at Cardiff International Airport yesterday as the transatlantic flights bomb plot put airports on high alert....
