Articles...
Jul 10 2007
THE first hunting case has been brought by police in Wales since the Hunting Act became law three years ago....
Jul 10 2007
AN MP has asked First Great Western for evidence that the risk of deep-vein thrombosis has been minimised in its refurbished high-speed trains....
Jul 10 2007
A £45M bridge widening project is being proposed as a solution to traffic congestion between Anglesey and Gwynedd....
Jul 10 2007
THE executive director of the Basic Skills Agency in Wales was yesterday banned from driving for two months....
Jul 10 2007
LIBERAL Democrat MP Lembit Opik last night highlighted a food assurance scheme – by posing with the Cheeky Girls on a tractor....
Jul 10 2007
A WELSH language campaigner was jailed yesterday for refusing to pay a fine for painting political graffiti on a shop....
Jul 10 2007
ROME may not have been built in a day but these Romans had about that much time to raise as much money as they could for children with cerebral palsy....
Jul 10 2007
A SINGLE mum of two appeared in court after it was found she attended martial arts classes while claiming sickness benefit....
Jul 10 2007
CARDIFF City fan Rhydian Phillips was offered money for his City shirt while he was on holiday....
Jul 10 2007
THE son of an elderly pedestrian who died after a road accident has sympathised with the driver....
Jul 10 2007
THE nation’s road dust could be turned into “gold dust” it emerged yesterday....
Jul 10 2007
A BID to save one of Wales’ last remaining lidos will come a step closer to success today after campaigners raised £14,000 to save a historic outdoor pool....
Jul 10 2007
DETECTIVES in Port Talbot were last night granted more time to question a former steelworker about the death of his wife....
Jul 10 2007
A MOTHER who failed to send her five children to school was warned yesterday she cannot let them have their own way....
Jul 10 2007
COUNCILS could have to make one-off top-up payments to child trust funds as a means of reducing poverty in Wales....
Jul 10 2007
IN an article published by us in the issue of this newspaper for 13 April 2006 and on our website, there was an allegation that during the Second World War Mr Domenico Berni and his brother Mr John Berni, both of whom were and are residents of Wales of Italian background, tried to intimidate naturalised British subjects of Italian origin, warning they would be reported to Rome if they did nothing to help Italy. At the time Mussolini's fascist Italy, an ally of Hitler, was at war with Britain....
Jul 10 2007
A BOOK described as a “Welsh Arabian Nights” was last night named the English-language Wales Book of the Year 2007, winning its author £10,000....
Jul 10 2007
RON DAVIES admitted “I can’t take much more of this” before agreeing to resign as Welsh Secretary following his “moment of madness” on Clapham Common, it emerged yesterday....
Jul 10 2007
MORE than £10m of public money has been spent on agency staff at the National Assembly in the last two years, the Echo can reveal....
Jul 10 2007
THE deaths of two men, whose bodies were found floating in water, are no longer being treated as suspicious....
Jul 10 2007
A DEAL that will lead to a state-of-the-art archive headquarters housing historic South Wales records dating back to the 12th Century, has been struck....
Jul 10 2007
Former WRU referee and civil servant for more than 30 years, Ivor John Pitman has died at the age of 84....
Jul 10 2007
AS he searched for a job in the wake of ASW’s demise, pension-less reality struck home to Sid Jenkins....
Jul 10 2007
CARDIFF councillors Jayne Cowan and Adrian Robson are holding coffee evenings and surgeries on Thursday....
Jul 10 2007
THE collapse of ASW was just the start of a year in hell for Tony Magee....
Jul 10 2007
PHIL Jones should now be preparing for a comfortable retirement. Instead, years of work still lie ahead of him....
Jul 10 2007
William James Peter Ackerman, who ran Ely Angling for more than 25 years, has died at the age of 65....
Jul 10 2007
WANGERS will not be appearing as a topless page three girl....
Jul 10 2007
THE winner of a meal for two at the Marriott Hotel in Cardiff, in the South Wales Echo’s Food and Drink Awards competition has been picked....
Jul 10 2007
THE men with the most famous voices in sport stepped from behind their microphones to remember one of their own....
Jul 10 2007
GARDEN visitors can set sail in a beach-themed garden which opens this week....
Jul 10 2007
CARDIFF City fans got their season off to a flyer as they jetted off to Portugal to watch the Bluebirds on their pre-season tour....
Jul 10 2007
MORE than £10m of public money has been spent on agency staff at the National Assembly in the last two years, the Echo can reveal....
Jul 10 2007
RUGBY hero Gareth Thomas took time out from his World Cup preparations to open a garden prepared by a group of primary school pupils....
Jul 10 2007
THE deaths of two men, whose bodies were found floating in water, are no longer being treated as suspicious....
Jul 10 2007
A DEAL that will lead to a state-of-the-art archive headquarters housing historic South Wales records dating back to the 12th Century, has been struck....
Jul 10 2007
TWO former mining towns on the outskirts of Swansea have become the latest battlegrounds for Britain’s fast expanding supermarket chains Tesco and Asda....
Jul 10 2007
WIDESPREAD ignorance of traditional Welsh music reflects a lack of national pride and confidence, a leading expert has warned in a new book....
Jul 10 2007
A WOMAN taking an evening walk with her husband was “mown down” by a diabetic driver suffering from low blood sugar, a court heard yesterday....
Jul 10 2007
A WOMAN from Cardiff became the 2,000th passenger on the air service between South and North Wales yesterday....
Jul 10 2007
THREE people who kept an epileptic man prisoner in a garden shed for four months were yesterday given lengthy jail sentences....
Jul 10 2007
A PUBLICITY blitz to warn drivers of the dangers of hogging the middle lane of motorways was demanded by safety campaigners yesterday....
Jul 10 2007
PATIENTS with Multiple Sclerosis could be forced to wait years for widely available drugs to alleviate their symptoms....
Jul 10 2007
SOCIAL networking website MySpace yesterday revealed that more than 28,000 Welsh people regularly use the site....
Jul 10 2007
CAMPAIGNING children had a special delivery from a former Prime Minister....
Jul 10 2007
TRIBUTES have been paid to a dad who lost his battle to recover from a car crash....
Jul 10 2007
A MURDER victim had been involved in several pub brawls on the night he was killed, police have revealed....
Jul 10 2007
A DEPRESSED builder blamed his memory loss for stealing three taps from a DIY store....
Jul 10 2007
ARRIVA, which runs rail services across Wales, has been awarded the franchise to run cross-country routes across the UK from November 11....
Jul 10 2007
WHEN mum Mandy Williams gave birth to her seventh baby on Saturday night she began to sense a bizarre pattern emerging....
Jul 10 2007
POLICE are investigating an assault on three teenagers outside a Spar shop....
Jul 10 2007
ROD Stewart fan Susan Blackmore was left fuming following a “fiasco” at the star’s concert at the Wales Millennium Stadium at the weekend....
Jul 10 2007
BACK-PAY claims for thousands of under-paid women workers could land Cardiff council with a bill of up to £30m, it has been revealed....
Jul 10 2007
A TRAVEL agency which last month sparked Welsh-language protests yesterday attended a meeting with Carwyn Jones, Minister for Education, Culture and Welsh Language....
Jul 10 2007
A TOY store has blamed an “administrative error” after the Echo found toy figures of a child-killer on sale in Cardiff....
Jul 10 2007
A MOTHER of three appeared in court yesterday after being caught attending Tae Kwon Do classes while claiming disability living allowance at the highest level....
Jul 10 2007
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan was in hospital last night following a heart operation to relieve two partially blocked arteries....
