Articles...
Dec 7 2007
WHALE watching is usually associated with the Antarctic, Canada or South Africa but it's become the latest thing to do in Swansea Bay....
Dec 7 2007
POLICE in South Wales have uncovered “considerable quantities” of heroin, crack, cocaine and cash and arrested 16 people after early morning raids on homes....
Dec 7 2007
A MAN convicted of killing of a pensioner during a fight was yesterday found guilty of assaulting the victim’s daughter in the same incident....
Dec 7 2007
A 36-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with attempted murder after a man was found unconscious in a street on Sunday morning....
Dec 7 2007
THE Bank of England bowed to mounting pressure yesterday and trimmed interest rates by 0.25%....
Dec 7 2007
ANYONE offered cheap designer perfume is being asked to contact detectives investigating a raid on a city pharmacy....
Dec 7 2007
CELEBRITY oddball David Gest has told Cerys Matthews she should call him if her fling with Marc Bannerman fails....
Dec 7 2007
A PROJECT to take a unique science discovery experience to South Wales schools has won the South Wales Echo Principality Give Me Five Award....
Dec 7 2007
THE refurbishment of a civic office building’s reception area is costing nearly £600,000....
Dec 7 2007
PROTESTS against one of the world’s most repressive regimes are to be held in Cardiff....
Dec 7 2007
WELSH Labour have selected their former assistant general- secretary Nick Smith to fight Blaenau Gwent at the next general election, the third Labour candidate in three years....
Dec 7 2007
THE school that has excluded a Sikh girl for wearing a steel bracelet crucial to her faith has been breaking race equality law for more than five years, we can reveal today....
Dec 7 2007
INTERNET users can now stroll around the castles and over the hills of Wales, chat with like-minded people from around the world and even sit on the roof of the Millennium Stadium – all without leaving the comfort of their computer screens....
Dec 7 2007
DIAMOND wedding couple Alma and Gerry Barnett didn’t realise the entertainer at their reception was a future star....
Dec 7 2007
MARGARET Hathway nearly didn’t reach her second birthday, let alone her 100th....
Dec 7 2007
ARE you looking for the freshest fish, the finest free-range turkey, special trimmings and stocking fillers?...
Dec 7 2007
THE work of volunteers has been celebrated at a premiere screening of a new DVD....
Dec 7 2007
IT MAY be the spectacular centrepiece of Swansea’s Christmas “Waterfront Wonderland”....
Dec 7 2007
THE fact that the Welsh language is afforded a lower status in the British Army than Nepali has been branded a “disgrace” by a leading Welsh MP....
Dec 7 2007
A GLIMMER of hope was offered to hard-pressed consumers yesterday as the Bank of England cut interest rates and opened the door to a pre-Christmas spending boom....
Dec 7 2007
A STAGGERING £45m could be saved by 10 local authorities in south-east Wales if they shared services, consultants have revealed....
Dec 7 2007
FORMER fuel protest leader and now Conservative AM Brynle Williams was at the centre of a row last night after it emerged that he has taken three weeks out of the National Assembly term to judge a Welsh cobs competition in Australia....
Dec 7 2007
A POLICE employee who has Down’s syndrome has reached an employment milestone....
Dec 7 2007
THE rain might have stopped the ice skating but there were no clouds inside the Echo’s Capital Kids Christmas Party....
Dec 7 2007
GREEN campaigners Envirowise are urging Welsh businesses to send “Happ-e Christmas” messages to customers electronically – rather than send cards by post....
Dec 7 2007
A NEW trust is to meet to decide how to spend £1.5m left to an area after fashion giant, Burberry, closed a factory....
Dec 7 2007
PROTESTS against one of the world’s most repressive regimes are to be held in Cardiff....
Dec 7 2007
FLOODING has caused the following road problems:...
Dec 7 2007
A CHILDREN’S shop has lost all its Christmas stock in flooding....
Dec 7 2007
ARE you looking for the freshest fish, the finest free-range turkey, special trimmings and stocking fillers?...
Dec 7 2007
ALCOHOL-RELATED deaths in Wales have more than doubled in 15 years, according to alarming new figures....
Dec 7 2007
A SENIOR police chief yesterday admitted his driving ban for speeding had brought roads policing into “a degree of disrepute”....
Dec 7 2007
A MAN accused of the horrific killing of a woman 11 years ago appeared in court yesterday charged with her murder....
Dec 7 2007
PLAID CYMRU outspent the other parties in May’s Assembly elections, the first time the party has topped the political spending league....
Dec 7 2007
CHRISTMAS comes but once a year – and in Wales’ drink-soaked town and city centres so does the M*A*S*H- style field hospital, the portable urinal and, now, the head-camera-wearing police officer....
Dec 7 2007
OFFICIALS at the South Wales-based Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency yesterday admitted sending personal details of more than 1,000 drivers to the wrong people by mistake in another government data security lapse....
Dec 7 2007
FORMER fuel protest leader and now Conservative AM Brynle Williams was at the centre of a row last night after it emerged that he has taken three weeks out of the National Assembly term to judge a Welsh cobs competition in Australia....
Dec 7 2007
GOVERNMENT plans to extend the period police can hold terror suspects without charge were described as “frightening” by a leading bishop last night....
Dec 7 2007
HUNDREDS of sprinting Santas will take to the streets of Cardiff this weekend – to raise cash for the British Heart Foundation....
Dec 7 2007
WALES is battling with the small principality of Liechtenstein in a bid to become the world’s first Fairtrade country....
Dec 7 2007
KILLER Jamie Pilcher, facing jail for the manslaughter of a frail grandfather, can today be exposed as a man with a history of violence....
Dec 7 2007
EXTRA land is to be made available for burials at Cardiff’s main cemetery to avoid running out of space in just six months’ time....
Dec 7 2007
AN inquest into a man who died after suffering a stab wound was taking place today....
Dec 7 2007
BED-BLOCKING delays in Cardiff are increasing and significant weaknesses in social care have been identified, financial watchdogs reveal....
Dec 7 2007
MORE than 60 houses and shops suffered flood damage as heavy winds and rain lashed South Wales....
Dec 7 2007
THE weather mayhem struck across the region....
Dec 7 2007
A HOSPITAL’S newly installed £1.5m MRI scanner means patients no longer have to travel miles to other hospitals or attend a mobile unit....
Dec 7 2007
POSTMASTERS set to lose their businesses in South Wales’ brutal branch cull also face missing out on their traditional Christmas bonus....
Dec 7 2007
A DRUG dealer who hid his stash of cocaine in his garage has been jailed for four years....
Dec 7 2007
DITCHING the car and hopping on a bus is a lot easier thanks to a £1.3m investment in one area of South Wales....
Dec 7 2007
INCREASING numbers of pupils are speaking Welsh at school yet more than half still cannot speak the language and numbers speaking it at home have fallen....
Dec 7 2007
SHORT-TERM pupil exclusions have increased in Wales and there are growing numbers of pupils with emotional problems, according to a new report....
Dec 7 2007
PLAID CYMRU outspent the other parties in May’s Assembly elections, the first time the party has topped the political spending league....
Dec 7 2007
ONLY a third of people really like turkey, according a survey carried out as shoppers stock up for Christmas. Some 31 per cent of festive shoppers in Cardiff told researchers for Makro they didn’t like the bird....
Dec 7 2007
DAVID Atwood was originally from Abertridwr near Caerphilly and served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Malaya, Cyprus, Suez and Germany....
Dec 7 2007
CARDIFF council today denied it was unprepared for the traffic chaos which followed a lorry hitting a bridge on a busy city road....
Dec 7 2007
A FATHER wept as he told police how his wife’s affair had led to him killing her....
Dec 7 2007
WALES’ highest-profile woman footballer has vowed to fight a ruling that has shattered her Olympic dream....
Dec 7 2007
A MALE voice choir is being hotly tipped to give Take That, Kylie Minogue and the Spice Girls a run for their money in a bid to top the festive charts....
Dec 7 2007
CITY estate agents were today predicting a brighter New Year thanks to the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates....
Dec 7 2007
A MAN accused of murdering his adulterous wife told police he “snapped” when she offered him money to start a new life without her, a court heard yesterday....
Dec 7 2007
THE Director of Public Prosecutions has denied racially discriminating against one of the country’s most senior female Asian prosecutors....
