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Oct 9 2007
Two men were taken to hospital today after a tug collided with a number of safety boats at the scene of a recent fatal accident....
Oct 9 2007
MORE than 250,000 people in Wales will have vital data about their health collected for the next 30 years as part of a pioneering scheme unveiled yesterday to track the nation’s well-being....
Oct 9 2007
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT Assembly leader Mike German will announce on Sunday whether he will seek to remain at the helm of the party....
Oct 9 2007
DETAILED plans for an English-language national theatre in Wales were unveiled yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
THERE were last night no further confirmed cases of meningitis at a school in Wales, health officials said....
Oct 9 2007
A MULTI-MILLION-POUND project to provide a snapshot of the nation’s health has been launched in Cardiff....
Oct 9 2007
CHICO will launch his new single in his hometown of Bridgend....
Oct 9 2007
A CHILDREN’S centre has been shortlisted for an environmental prize....
Oct 9 2007
HOWARD Bartlett from Cosmeston Street, Cathays, Cardiff, had a cheeky gorilla trying to get a glimpse of his Echo....
Oct 9 2007
A THEATRE company is to put on free entertainment to celebrate World Mental Health Day....
Oct 9 2007
Cardiff city centre was turned into a rubbish tip after thousands of rugby fans partied the night away....
Oct 9 2007
A GRANDMOTHER caring for her baby granddaughter was left badly shaken after a terrifying robbery in her home....
Oct 9 2007
MOST council services across Wales have improved over the past year, according to figures released yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
A WELSH scientist known as the chief architect of stem cell research was yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine....
Oct 9 2007
SIR Jon Shortridge, Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Assembly Government, yesterday announced his intention to retire next April after nine years in office....
Oct 9 2007
A JEALOUS husband who stole and slaughtered a goat as part of a chilling threat to kill a love rival was jailed for two years yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
A RATTLED Gordon Brown admitted yesterday he had made mistakes over the election that never was....
Oct 9 2007
YOUNGSTERS spent 48 hours living in a slum to raise money for people who have to live in poverty....
Oct 9 2007
CHARLOTTE Aubrey has committed herself to helping improve the health and happiness of some of the most profoundly handicapped youngsters and adults through the use of movement and dance....
Oct 9 2007
The Echo’s Community Champion Awards aim to honour South Wales’ heroes and heroines. GREG TINDLE looks at the healthworkers...
Oct 9 2007
THE British Horse Society held its annual meeting at Aberglasney Garden, Carmarthenshire....
Oct 9 2007
A DEMOLITION contractor has been fined £1,000 plus £500 expenses after pleading guilty to destroying a bat roost....
Oct 9 2007
THE horse on which Kieren Fallon won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was named Dylan Thomas because of the owner’s wife’s fondness of famous writers, it emerged yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
KYLIE MINOGUE unveiled a new Marilyn Monroe-esque hair do and a figure-hugging black dress at the Q Awards yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
PRINCESS Anne was forced to abandon her helicopter in the grounds of a Welsh school yesterday afternoon after a fire alert....
Oct 9 2007
It might now be three days since New Zealand and Australia were knocked out of the World Cup, but that hasn’t stopped the outpouring of grief and anger from their fans, as Steffan Rhys discovers...
Oct 9 2007
TWO of rugby’s most instantly recognisable figures headed out of Wales with very different emotions yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
UNIONS and Assembly bosses are locked in a row which could give staff massive pay rises of up to 85pc – and leave taxpayers facing a huge bill....
Oct 9 2007
HELP is at hand for those suffering the effects of Multiple Sclerosis....
Oct 9 2007
FOUR South Wales restaurants are encouraging customers to fight hunger – by eating out this month....
Oct 9 2007
SHOP ’til you drop and bag yourself some bargains in a shopping evening in aid of charity....
Oct 9 2007
A BURGLAR walked into the flat of a partially-paralysed woman in broad daylight....
Oct 9 2007
TESCO has agreed to give the RSPCA £15 after the charity spent hours dealing with a venomous spider found in grapes bought at the supermarket....
Oct 9 2007
Former Mayor of Barry Dennys Tooze has died, aged 70...
Oct 9 2007
A HIGH-FLYING Slovakian judge will be in South Wales this week to strengthen links with lawyers....
Oct 9 2007
RESIDENTS who leave wheelie bins on pavements face £1,000 fines....
Oct 9 2007
DIRECT flights to the Big Apple return to Cardiff next month after holiday company Travelscope announced a New York package tour....
Oct 9 2007
AN investigation is underway after a man was found unconscious....
Oct 9 2007
DIAMOND couples celebrating their anniversaries the same time as the Queen are asked to come forward....
Oct 9 2007
BLACK History Month is to be celebrated with a day of festivities in a popular community centre....
Oct 9 2007
A PEDESTRIAN crossing will be built on a busy town centre roundabout....
Oct 9 2007
IT is the closest thing we have ever seen to a league table for local authorities....
Oct 9 2007
A FORMER computer novice has been named ebay seller of the year....
Oct 9 2007
ebay was founded in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar....
Oct 9 2007
YOUNG people are putting themselves and others at risk because they do not know when to turn off their MP3 players or stop texting, experts warned yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
A MAN’S love for his cats helped convince a coroner yesterday he did not kill himself....
Oct 9 2007
THESE intrepid trekkers certainly have something to smile about... they have just returned from a gruelling climb to the top of North Africa’s highest peak for charity....
Oct 9 2007
POLICE probing a late-night assault on a young man near a college today appealed for information....
Oct 9 2007
FIREFIGHTERS had to smash a car window to free a trapped toddler....
Oct 9 2007
A SECURITY guard who pretended he was too ill to work, illegally claimed more than £7,000 in benefits....
Oct 9 2007
WELSH rock bands scooped two accolades at the prestigious Q awards....
Oct 9 2007
SOUTH Wales athletes taking part in the Special Olympics found themselves caught in a killer typhoon....
Oct 9 2007
TRIBUTES have been paid to Wales’ top civil servant Sir Jon Shortridge who is retiring in April at the age of 61....
Oct 9 2007
A CAMPAIGN aimed at combating human rights abuses is coming to Cardiff....
Oct 9 2007
A CORONER’S officer today appealed for help in tracing relatives of a dead woman....
Oct 9 2007
A DRIVER has been fined for smoking in his work van – and picked up another ticking off for dropping the cigarette butt out the window....
Oct 9 2007
BT has unveiled plans to broaden the range of wireless broadband coverage in Cardiff city centre....
Oct 9 2007
UNION members at Cardiff council are this week joining an international fundraising effort to purchase sanitary products for women in Zimbabwe....
Oct 9 2007
THE Archbishop of Wales will open a homeless charity’s new headquarters....
Oct 9 2007
A WELSH lamb “equivalent of Parma ham” and fresh yoghurt drinks from Pembrokeshire, were among the quality products from Wales to make a big impression at the recent Speciality and Fine Food Fair in London....
Oct 9 2007
WITH a £3m investment in new whey processing facilities due for completion in 2008, and a clutch of awards, the Haverfordwest creamery at Merlin’s Bridge can be proud of its achievements over the past 12 months....
Oct 9 2007
WHEN wildlife watcher Iolo Williams was a young boy going out to search for birds’ nests or animals, he always had a copy of the Collins Complete British Wildlife in his back pocket....
Oct 9 2007
PATRICK HOLDEN, the director of the Soil Association, says Wales needs to start building a “more resilient food and farming system” for the future, to help avert a food shortage....
Oct 9 2007
AN overturned lorry sparked rush-hour chaos at a busy motorway junction....
Oct 9 2007
AN £8.7m fundraising campaign is being launched to refurbish Cardiff’s St David’s Cathedral, support retired Catholic priests and train volunteers....
Oct 9 2007
A SNAKE which sparked a police search after vanishing from its owner’s home was found in the garden, police said today....
Oct 9 2007
A MIDDLE-AGED man has appeared in court charged with soliciting women for prostitution....
Oct 9 2007
Former Mayor of Barry Dennys Tooze has died, aged 70...
Oct 9 2007
A DRIVER has been fined for smoking in his work van – and picked up another ticking off for dropping the cigarette butt out the window....
Oct 9 2007
POLICE were today quizzing a man arrested after a body was found in a car....
Oct 9 2007
It might now be three days since New Zealand and Australia were knocked out of the World Cup, but that hasn’t stopped the outpouring of grief and anger from their fans, as Steffan Rhys discovers...
Oct 9 2007
KYLIE MINOGUE unveiled a new Marilyn Monroe-esque hair do and a figure-hugging black dress at the Q Awards yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
PRINCESS Anne was forced to abandon her helicopter in the grounds of a Welsh school yesterday afternoon after a fire alert....
Oct 9 2007
THE horse on which Kieren Fallon won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was named Dylan Thomas because of the owner’s wife’s fondness of famous writers, it emerged yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
A DEMOLITION contractor has been fined £1,000 plus £500 expenses after pleading guilty to destroying a bat roost....
Oct 9 2007
THE jury trying an 18-year-old accused of killing four teenage girls is due to retire to consider its verdict today....
Oct 9 2007
BT has unveiled plans to broaden the range of wireless broadband coverage in Cardiff city centre....
Oct 9 2007
UNION members at Cardiff council are this week joining an international fundraising effort to purchase sanitary products for women in Zimbabwe....
Oct 9 2007
A DRIVER has been fined for smoking in his work van – and picked up another ticking off for dropping the cigarette butt out the window....
Oct 9 2007
A CORONER’S officer today appealed for help in tracing relatives of a dead woman....
Oct 9 2007
DETECTIVES probing the death of a man found dead in a car were today quizzing three people on suspicion of drugs offences....
Oct 9 2007
CHARLOTTE Aubrey has committed herself to helping improve the health and happiness of some of the most profoundly handicapped youngsters and adults through the use of movement and dance....
Oct 9 2007
The Echo’s Community Champion Awards aim to honour South Wales’ heroes and heroines. GREG TINDLE looks at the healthworkers...
Oct 9 2007
UNION members at Cardiff council are this week joining an international fundraising effort to purchase sanitary products for women in Zimbabwe....
Oct 9 2007
BT has unveiled plans to broaden the range of wireless broadband coverage in Cardiff city centre....
Oct 9 2007
A DIRECT flight from Cardiff International Airport to Jersey has been scrapped, an airline said today....
Oct 9 2007
A DRIVER has been fined for smoking in his work van – and picked up another ticking off for dropping the cigarette butt out the window....
Oct 9 2007
THERE were last night no further confirmed cases of meningitis at a school in Wales, health officials said....
Oct 9 2007
A MAN’S love for his cats helped convince a coroner yesterday he did not kill himself....
Oct 9 2007
YOUNG people are putting themselves and others at risk because they do not know when to turn off their MP3 players or stop texting, experts warned yesterday....
Oct 9 2007
THE easing of the export ban on Friday shows that Europe has “confidence in the Welsh farming industry”, according to MEP Eluned Morgan....
Oct 9 2007
RUSH-HOUR drivers suffered delays today after a crash on one of the main roads into Cardiff....
Oct 9 2007
CHARLOTTE Aubrey has committed herself to helping improve the health and happiness of some of the most profoundly handicapped youngsters and adults through the use of movement and dance....
Oct 9 2007
Professor Clive Granger...
Oct 9 2007
A WELSH scientist known as the chief architect of stem cell research was yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine....
Oct 9 2007
THE jury trying an 18-year-old accused of killing four teenage girls is due to retire to consider its verdict today....
Oct 9 2007
WORK will today resume at the gas terminal where a worker was killed when a maintenance barge suddenly collapsed....
Oct 9 2007
TWO of rugby’s most instantly recognisable figures headed out of Wales with very different emotions yesterday....
