Articles...
Dec 19 2007
A LORRY driver has been ordered to pay compensation for attacking a teenager who told him he looked like X Factor presenter Simon Cowell....
Dec 19 2007
THE Environment Agency will today deliver more than 200 newsletters to people living near a quarry used for dumping toxic waste....
Dec 19 2007
STRICTLY Come Dancing star Gethin Jones has revealed how he had to buy a disappointed fan a cup of tea to console her following his exit from the show....
Dec 19 2007
A RESIDENTS’ protest against plans for offices or a healthcare complex in a quiet area may have halted the development....
Dec 19 2007
A CHILDREN’S television legend has chosen lucky winners....
Dec 19 2007
OPPOSITION is building to plans for a 41-storey-high landmark development in Cardiff Bay....
Dec 19 2007
MORE than one in 10 of the foreign lorries stopped by a Welsh police force were found to have defective brakes....
Dec 19 2007
THE pension details of more than 6,500 people have gone missing from an HM Revenue and Customs office in Cardiff, it emerged yesterday....
Dec 19 2007
WALES’ biggest teaching union yesterday threatened strike action over pay....
Dec 19 2007
SCHOOLCHILDREN and parents were left terrified for nearly an hour as they were stranded aboard Cardiff’s biggest Christmas attraction....
Dec 19 2007
TV DESIGNER Anna Ryder-Richardson has spoken of her excitement about running her dream zoo in Wales....
Dec 19 2007
AS a movie about St Trinian’s – the infamous school for “young ladies” – is about to hit the big screen this Friday we lift the lid on the reality of 21st-century life at a boarding school in Wales....
Dec 19 2007
A JUDGE yesterday expressed frustration at what to do with a former golf professional who cannot stop jumping into the sea in apparent suicide attempts....
Dec 19 2007
ONE of the greatest powers of patronage enjoyed by political leaders, that of deciding who sits in the House of Lords, should be withdrawn immediately, a committee of MPs has concluded....
Dec 19 2007
ADULTS in Wales rate shopping as the number one way to tackle poverty in the developing world, research has shown....
Dec 19 2007
FLAMBOYANT Welsh interior designer Laurence Llewelyn- Bowen has admitted that his “toughest task” yet was renovating his own home....
Dec 19 2007
HEROIN worth £40,000 and destined for the streets of South Wales has been seized in a drugs raid....
Dec 19 2007
A PENSIONER accused of sending sexual text messages to a 13-year-old schoolgirl told police he couldn’t see the controls on his mobile phone properly....
Dec 19 2007
DOCTOR Who star David Tennant has laughed off speculation that he is planning to quit the show at the end of the next series in 2008....
Dec 19 2007
WELSH Liberal Democrats have hailed new UK party leader Nick Clegg, who scraped past Chris Huhne by the tightest of margins....
Dec 19 2007
THE first toes have been dipped in a new super pool in Cardiff....
Dec 19 2007
COUNCIL care home workers in the capital took more than one in every 10 days off due to sickness in the past financial year....
Dec 19 2007
A LORRY driver crashed into a bus after suffering a fatal heart attack at the wheel....
Dec 19 2007
THE Environment Agency will today deliver 200 newsletters to people living near a quarry used for dumping toxic waste....
Dec 19 2007
THE personal details of 6,500 pensioners were missing for UP TO A MONTH before anyone noticed, the Echo can reveal today....
Dec 19 2007
A MUM issued with a birth certificate wrongly claiming her 10-week-old son was a girl today demanded an inquiry to prevent similar mistakes....
Dec 19 2007
FOUR candidates have been selected by the Liberal Democrats in wards in the capital for next May’s local election....
Dec 19 2007
THE annual Nos Galan races have a new course for 2007....
Dec 19 2007
A JOBLESS man used handouts from his parents to go binge drinking....
Dec 19 2007
AN animal protection charity is appealing for information after a kitten was found dumped outside a water treatment works in Cardiff....
Dec 19 2007
THE Assembly Government will not stand for any further cuts in lottery funding as a result of the 2012 London Olympics, Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas said yesterday....
Dec 19 2007
A WELSH police force was yesterday told to apologise to the family of a 10-year-old schoolboy for the way it handled an investigation into his death from a rare illness....
Dec 19 2007
NICK CLEGG’S wife Miriam – a Nigella Lawson look-a-like – will face new levels of media scrutiny after her husband was elected leader of the Liberal Democrats....
Dec 19 2007
The Lib-Dem leadership almost ended in a photo finish yesterday, but as Political Editor Tomos Livingstone observed, the party picked the man who looked most comfortable in front of the cameras...
Dec 19 2007
NICK CLEGG scraped to victory in the Lib-Dem leadership contest yesterday, promising to reinvigorate the party and make it a serious player in British politics....
Dec 19 2007
LEMBIT OPIK was among the first to congratulate Nick Clegg yesterday, saying with relief that “the curse of Opik has been broken”....
Dec 19 2007
OUTLET shopping offers cheaper prices than major alternatives....
Dec 19 2007
MORE than three in four Welsh people think about reducing poverty with their shopping choices....
Dec 19 2007
ANIMAL lovers have been praised by a visiting politician....
Dec 19 2007
“Keep on drinking! Hair of the dog that bit me, and all that. Or a prairie oyster if you can keep it down!”...
Dec 19 2007
A PASSING driver came to the rescue of a grandmother and her two passengers when their car flipped on a mountain road....
Dec 19 2007
LUCY Owen has been replaced by former Thames Valley news co-host Andrea Benfield on the Wales Tonight bulletin....
Dec 19 2007
A BARN fire saw about 50 tonnes of hay go up in smoke....
Dec 19 2007
A NO smoking day in Cardiff has won a national award....
Dec 19 2007
JUST a few weeks ago, the First Battalion Welsh Guards were standing outside the House of Commons in their bearskins for the State Opening of Parliament....
Dec 19 2007
A MIDWIFE was dismissed from a Welsh hospital after reporting for work smelling of alcohol, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday....
Dec 19 2007
A MAN appeared in court yesterday charged with murdering a woman whose semi-naked body was found drowned in a river 11 years ago....
Dec 19 2007
THIS is the moment Doctor Who gets a kiss from Kylie Minogue....
Dec 19 2007
ADULTS in Wales rate shopping as the number one way to tackle poverty in the developing world, research has shown....
Dec 19 2007
WALES’ biggest teaching union yesterday threatened strike action over pay....
Dec 19 2007
THIS is the moment Doctor Who gets a kiss from Kylie Minogue....
Dec 19 2007
The Lib-Dem leadership almost ended in a photo finish yesterday, but as Political Editor Tomos Livingstone observed, the party picked the man who looked most comfortable in front of the cameras...
Dec 19 2007
For single soldiers, travelling the world may seem idyllic. But what about those with families? LAURA WRIGHT joins the Welsh Guards to find out....
Dec 19 2007
CHRISTMAS cooks are being warned not to wash their turkeys in water – as it could trigger food poisoning....
Dec 19 2007
A HOMELESSNESS charity is today appealing for help....
Dec 19 2007
POLICE in the Vale are reminding the public to lock their windows and doors and to stay safe in the run up to Christmas after a spate of thefts....
Dec 19 2007
A LORRY driver has been ordered to pay compensation for attacking a teenager who told him he looked like X Factor presenter Simon Cowell....
Dec 19 2007
Next few days crucial for teens badly burned in house explosion...
Dec 19 2007
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a fire which threatened the residents of a block of flats....
Dec 19 2007
FAMILIES living on new housing estates are being short-changed because the neighbourhoods lack a sense of identity and community plus provide inadequate play areas for children....
Dec 19 2007
A WELSH bishop has compared the plight of the poorest families in Wales to the poverty of Mary and Joseph in the Christmas story....
