Articles...
Jan 4 2008
AT the beginning of last year, Tracey Ricketts was a celebrity wannabe trying to get on television....
Jan 4 2008
NEARLY 100,000 people in Wales contacted Citizens Advice Bureaux in 2007 over debt problems....
Jan 4 2008
IT’S a tiny, sleepy city best known for its historic cathedral. But St Davids now has another claim to fame after being named as a new hotspot for fine dining....
Jan 4 2008
TWO people were being questioned by police last night on suspicion of murder after the discovery of a man’s body....
Jan 4 2008
A MAN who set fire to a carpet at his new council flat asked police to send him to jail, a court heard yesterday....
Jan 4 2008
THE plight of missing people in Wales was highlighted in a special service at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay....
Jan 4 2008
EXTRA cash targeted at improving the education of the poorest children could be the key to helping to combat child poverty, claims a Liberal Democrat AM....
Jan 4 2008
PARENTS who hover over their children throughout their adolescence are starting to interfere with their university lives and first graduate jobs, education experts warned yesterday....
Jan 4 2008
A RADIO DJ used his celebrity to groom two 14-year-olds he met on the internet, a court heard yesterday....
Jan 4 2008
THE best social networking site is not Facebook or MySpace but chat-friendly Bebo, according to a major report....
Jan 4 2008
SOARING energy costs will force pensioners to choose between “heating and eating”, a leading charity warned yesterday....
Jan 4 2008
A WELSH screenwriter’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility has propelled two former farmworkers’ cottages to TV “stardom”....
Jan 4 2008
A TENANT thanked Cardiff council for refurbishing his flat – by attempting to torch it two days after work was completed....
Jan 4 2008
FURIOUS customers of a Cardiff-based internet business are still waiting for their lost money to be refunded....
Jan 4 2008
A TURKISH man was today behind bars after admitting grooming vulnerable schoolgirls for sex....
Jan 4 2008
A FORMER Valleys councillor misused his position as a planning committee member to help his father, a tribunal has found....
Jan 4 2008
WAR veteran Bill Lee celebrated his 82nd birthday right where he wanted to be – at his wife’s side....
Jan 4 2008
A CULTURAL centre due to begin a major revamp in just three months has appointed a new chairman....
Jan 4 2008
SOME of the most important research being carried out in Wales in the search for a cure for cancer will go on show to the public....
Jan 4 2008
A WOMAN wrote the names of girls her partner had affairs with all over her body before throwing herself off a cliff, it emerged yesterday....
Jan 4 2008
LAURENCE Llewelyn-Bowen, pictured above, was last night among a group of celebrities to pledge support to the fire-ravaged Royal Marsden Hospital....
Jan 4 2008
A RARE palm, believed to be the only specimen in the UK outside Kew Gardens, has taken root in Wales....
Jan 4 2008
CUSTOMERS at a city post office were left a little shaken, but not stirred, when James Bond made an appearance....
Jan 4 2008
A CHRISTMAS credit card frenzy has left South Wales on the brink of a debt crisis in 2008....
Jan 4 2008
A WAITER at an Indian restaurant punched his chef after he made an offensive remark about his sister....
Jan 4 2008
RIDDING the workplace of all managers will help businesses in Wales become more productive and successful....
Jan 4 2008
ALMOST half of people believe that a sense of community in Welsh towns and cities will stop existing in the future, research has shown....
Jan 4 2008
A CONSERVATION expert says the rush to build new and more affordable homes might make the worrying decline in British mammals worse....
Jan 4 2008
NEW official figures show house prices across Wales continue to rise....
Jan 4 2008
MOTORISTS on one of Wales’ busiest roads have been told to expect delays for several weeks....
Jan 4 2008
A CYCLING club member whose son died following a collision with a car has criticised a former MP who suggested riders should be decapitated....
Jan 4 2008
A NEW BBC drama about four women affected by adultery will open up positive debate on the issues surrounding extra-marital affairs, experts said yesterday....
Jan 4 2008
A MAN accused of groping women as they walked home has entered no plea to seven charges of sexual assault....
Jan 4 2008
THREE teenagers were arrested after Cardiff's Welsh National War Memorial was vandalised yet again....
Jan 4 2008
TODAY is the anniversary of the death of legendary Echo cartoonist Gren....
Jan 4 2008
PENSIONER Marjorie Williams’ wish was to use her new mobility scooter on Porthcawl seafront on Christmas Day....
Jan 4 2008
STAFF could be just weeks away from occupying a council’s new multi-million-pound headquarters....
Jan 4 2008
POLICE have not yet named a man found at a block of flats with severe head injuries....
Jan 4 2008
NINE people have been arrested in connection with a New Year’s Day brawl that left an 18-year-old critically ill in hospital....
Jan 4 2008
AMERICA’S first ever novel was written by a South Wales adventurer – claims a new book....
Jan 4 2008
ONE of Cardiff’s longest-established businesses has moved to a new base, with its old home being redeveloped for housing....
Jan 4 2008
THE first American novel was penned by a Welshman, according to a new book....
Jan 4 2008
A SOUTH Wales company is reaping the reward of making environmental improvements after achieving annual savings of more than £30,000....
Jan 4 2008
A WOMAN who said she had six different birthdays claims she stole from shops because she was upset about the anniversary of her brother’s death....
Jan 4 2008
CARDIFF council’s leader has been named one of the most influential gay men in Britain....
Jan 4 2008
Superstores and independent retailers alike yesterday reported consumers were “panic buying” due to the threat of bad weather....
Jan 4 2008
AROUND 171,000 Welsh employees are working extra hours for no pay, says a TUC report published today....
Jan 4 2008
AS SNOW and bitter winds swept across large areas of Northern Britain yesterday, barely a snowflake fell in Wales....
Jan 4 2008
CONTROVERSIAL police chief Richard Brunstrom has defended his claim that Ecstasy is safer than aspirin....
Jan 4 2008
CASES of a vomiting bug currently sweeping Wales and England have doubled in a year, forcing hospitals across the nation to shut wards to new admissions and causing some surgery delays....
Jan 4 2008
MOUNTING economic pressures are stopping new mothers from staying at home to care for their children, a parents’ lobby group has warned....
Jan 4 2008
THE report (December 24) of a judge telling a young man “you have wasted your life drifting around taking short-term jobs and going to music festivals”, seems a biased and value-laden statement....
Jan 4 2008
A GIRL had to have more than 100 stitches in her legs after being savaged by a dog....
Jan 4 2008
A DAY for Darfur in Wales takes place tomorrow....
Jan 4 2008
WELSH workers are the second hardest-working in Britain – and miss out on an average of £4,452 a year by doing unpaid overtime....
Jan 4 2008
A SMALL-TIME drug dealer has been jailed for three years following a police raid....
Jan 4 2008
A FORMER Valleys councillor misused his position as a planning committee member to help his father, a tribunal has found....
Jan 4 2008
DRIVERS who received satellite navigation systems for Christmas are being directed along a main road where private cars are banned – or even into one-way traffic....
Jan 4 2008
WITH the cold weather making people turn the heat up at home, experts are reminding everyone about the dangers of deadly carbon monoxide poisoning....
Jan 4 2008
A SOUTH Wales council should learn later this month how much it will be fined after the death of a severely disabled young man in its care....
Jan 4 2008
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help families who are going through difficult times. The Home-Start project is looking for people with parenting skills with time to spare....
