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Nov 17 2007
A MAN who was shot in the stomach by a police marksman, following a siege at his house, was jailed yesterday....
Nov 17 2007
LAWYERS acting for school governors who banned a Sikh pupil from lessons because of her refusal to remove a religious wrist bangle are drawing up a response to legal representations made on her behalf....
Nov 17 2007
A MUSIC teacher was jailed yesterday after she was caught nearly five times over the drink-drive limit at lunchtime....
Nov 17 2007
ONE of Wales’ most successful entrepreneurs is fronting an audacious bid to acquire troubled bank Northern Rock....
Nov 17 2007
A MAN was last night charged with murdering Bangor student Sion Hardy who was was killed in the early hours of Thursday after a night out in Liver-pool....
Nov 17 2007
A FISHERMAN today paid tribute to paramedics who saved his life....
Nov 17 2007
SOME of Wales’ most vulnerable children are being failed by inadequate and patchy services when they need them most, the Western Mail can reveal today....
Nov 17 2007
HIS wife may have been in the audience watching his every move, but that didn’t stop Pulp Fiction star John Travolta puckering up to kiss screen legend Kirk Douglas on the lips....
Nov 17 2007
DEPUTY Minister for Regeneration Leighton Andrews addressed fundraisers from across Wales on Children in Need Day....
Nov 17 2007
A TREE-PLANTING ceremony is planned to mark an employment charity’s anniversary....
Nov 17 2007
A PROMINENT South Wales businessman is fronting a bid to run troubled bank Northern Rock....
Nov 17 2007
PLAID CYMRU faces a huge task to retain control of the only council it runs in Wales following the defection of one of its best known councillors....
Nov 17 2007
FOUR men armed with an iron bar forced their way into a city betting shop before stealing cash and damaging vehicles parked nearby....
Nov 17 2007
THE BBC is to launch a major inquiry following allegations that Wales is poorly served by its UK network news operation, the Western Mail can reveal today....
Nov 17 2007
PLAID Cymru was yesterday accused of endangering Wales’ chances of winning a Ministry of Defence training contract potentially worth up to £4bn....
Nov 17 2007
HOUSE prices will fall in Wales next year as a slower economy, stretched affordability and tighter lending conditions all take their toll, experts predicted yesterday....
Nov 17 2007
WALES’ “Valleywood” development faces fierce competition both at home and abroad, experts warned yesterday as rival Pinewood unveiled new expansion plans....
Nov 17 2007
A DOUBLE glazing installer threatened to slash a pub landlord across the face when he asked him to leave his bar....
Nov 17 2007
BARGOED council’s Christmas lights will be switched on in front of the police station in Hanbury Road on Saturday, December 1....
Nov 17 2007
X FACTOR contestant Rhydian Roberts had a surprised played to him on Real Radio....
Nov 17 2007
A RADIO station has hired a private eye to follow someone’s every move for a new competition....
Nov 17 2007
VICTIMS of crime have reacted with disbelief that a non-emergency telephone service is facing the axe....
Nov 17 2007
A CRACKDOWN on bullying will see victims, celebrities, politicians and experts unite to address the issue....
Nov 17 2007
PROGRESSIVE work by two midwives from Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust has won them awards from the Heads of Midwifery Advisory Group Wales....
Nov 17 2007
CARDIFF Bus has launched a stinging attack on proposals for a one-way scheme in St Mary Street and said it would only support a trial if a series of conditions were met....
Nov 17 2007
A NEW leisure lounge selling teas, coffees and snacks has opened at the revamped Caerphilly leisure centre....
Nov 17 2007
A CARPENTER who head-butted a man outside a nightclub while high on cocaine and alcohol has been spared jail....
Nov 17 2007
A STATE-of-the- art computer was stolen in a house burglary....
Nov 17 2007
OAKWOOD Theme Park is looking to adopt a charity and a school for 2008....
Nov 17 2007
FINGERS and toes are all being crossed in Senghenydd as residents wait to hear whether an application to The People’s Millions lottery handout has been successful....
Nov 17 2007
SMALL business leaders are calling on entrepreneurs to make sure they give themselves time off this Christmas....
Nov 17 2007
A LECTURER has returned to South Wales after spending two years doing voluntary work in Mozambique....
Nov 17 2007
AN exhibition of photographs which capture the widespread ways climate change is altering lives will end its tour of Wales at the Senedd....
Nov 17 2007
SCHOOL cleaner Ceri Howe’s life changed overnight when she became a millionaire....
Nov 17 2007
A SOLICITOR has won a top law society award for community work....
Nov 17 2007
WELSH Conservative AM Brynle Williams has led a delegation of farmers from Wales in a meeting with the Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones....
Nov 17 2007
POPULATION decline in Merthyr Tydfil since 2001 is less than half than previously believed....
Nov 17 2007
A SUPPLY teacher’s career is in tatters after she drove while five times over the alcohol limit....
Nov 17 2007
LLANTRISANT and Talbot Green were the latest communities to get a clean in the latest round of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s street care blitzes....
Nov 17 2007
PEOPLE across South Wales threw their efforts into fundraising for Children in Need, helping to raise a record-breaking total....
Nov 17 2007
THE Hospice of the Valleys is holding a number of events to help boost funds....
Nov 17 2007
FUNERAL directors are appealing for Christmas selection boxes to bring a smile to suffering South Wales’ children....
Nov 17 2007
A RANGE of Christmas gifts is going on sale at the Rhondda Heritage Park....
Nov 17 2007
PLANS which aim to address climate change have been welcomed....
Nov 17 2007
A JURY could decide the outcome of a former Welsh Big Brother contestant’s four-year legal battle against a tabloid newspaper....
Nov 17 2007
ABOUT one fifth of over-65s in Wales are still in the dark about the digital switchover, says a WRVS survey....
Nov 17 2007
AN artist, whose humble beginnings in a South Wales mining community catapulted him to international recognition, is being remembered with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque....
Nov 17 2007
A DRUGS dealer once sentenced to 10 years for supplying heroin has been jailed for dealing cannabis....
Nov 17 2007
DANCE fever has overtaken two schools in Cardiff which have a special link with Strictly Come Dancing star Gethin Jones....
Nov 17 2007
WHEN a council’s new multi-million-pound headquarters is in use. staff will be forbidden from eating hot food at their desks....
Nov 17 2007
DESPERATE summer flood victims face spending Christmas away from their homes – four months on from the devastation....
Nov 17 2007
BUSINESSMAN Paul Moyle is aiming to become the first Welshman to fly around the world in a light aircraft....
Nov 17 2007
FANS of troubled Amy Winehouse have been assured the singer will be coming to Cardiff....
Nov 17 2007
THE family of an elderly woman is being sought after she was found dead at her home....
Nov 17 2007
CRAIG Holman was just 10 when his family and friends noticed his skin turning yellow....
Nov 17 2007
A TEENAGER has been stalked by a pair of girls who tried to steal her handbag....
Nov 17 2007
VICTIMS of non-violent crimes want offenders to be punished but not always jailed, research has suggested....
Nov 17 2007
AN EVENT to create 15 hectares of new native woodland takes place next weekend....
Nov 17 2007
BEACH-LOVERS are getting together to remove concrete safety hazards from the shoreline at a South Wales resort....
Nov 17 2007
CONSERVATIVES have welcomed news that the Assembly Government’s decision to write off the Wales Millennium Centre’s £13m debt will not set a precedent....
Nov 17 2007
A NEW free service in Caerphilly is improving the quality of life and fitness for over-50s with a physical illness or disability....
Nov 17 2007
A SCHOOL Christmas craft fair is taking place next week....
Nov 17 2007
THE SHORTLIST for our Christmas card competition has been decided....
Nov 17 2007
A RESTAURANT in Cardiff Bay raised £2,500 for charity during Beaujolais Nouveau Day....
Nov 17 2007
YOUNG firefighter instructors Katie Allen and Thomas McCarthy, based at Caerphilly, have been praised for raising £700 for the Fire Service National Benevolent Fund....
Nov 17 2007
A BOOM in the Welsh tourist industry this autumn is being driven by internet-savvy holidaymakers with a taste for spontaneity, experts said yesterday....
Nov 17 2007
ROADS in rural Wales are 58% more dangerous on Sundays than on weekdays, startling new research reveals....
Nov 17 2007
WELSH figures are among the celebrated cast expressing their regrets in a new book for charity – the Book of Regrets. Here are their thoughts on “if only...”...
Nov 17 2007
SINGING star Katherine Jenkins performed at a church service yesterday attended by the Prince of Wales to celebrate the Army Air Corps’ Golden Jubilee....
Nov 17 2007
THE sixth annual True Taste awards have again recognised some of the best that the Welsh food and drinks industry has to offer....
Nov 17 2007
I’M A Celebrity stars Cerys Matthews and Marc Bannerman have been growing closer in the jungle....
Nov 17 2007
A MAN has appeared in court over an incident in which a South Wales father of four died....
Nov 17 2007
A HEAVILY-pregnant woman was cut from a taxi after it crashed on a busy roundabout....
Nov 17 2007
Now that Eurostar trains are dashing at 186mph from London St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel, is it time to reconsider how we in Wales travel to Paris? Rhodri Clark investigated travel from four regions of Wales to the French capital...
