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Jan 16 2008
WALES’ oldest independent department store, facing competition from out-of-town malls and citing problems caused by a controversial “bendy bus” scheme, has gone into administration....
Jan 16 2008
JURORS have convicted a man of beating a young woman unconscious and leaving her for dead near Cardiff city centre....
Jan 16 2008
GREEN pupils and staff at a Valleys primary school won £500 thanks to their recycling efforts....
Jan 16 2008
A DELIVERY driver claimed thousands of pounds in disability benefits at the same time as running his own transport firm....
Jan 16 2008
TWO CHILDREN whose pet dog has gone missing are still waiting for her safe return....
Jan 16 2008
A CONGREGATION has transformed themselves into an Arabic world of genies, lamps and magic carpets for a pantomime....
Jan 16 2008
WELSH police have taken a DNA sample from more than 250,000 people, including innocent people who have never been charged with any offence, new figures reveal....
Jan 16 2008
GORDON BROWN moved to shore up the position of his embattled Pensions Secretary last night, insisting he believed Peter Hain would escape serious punishment for his donations blunders....
Jan 16 2008
MORE heavy rain is set to drench Wales this week, bringing with it the prospect of further flooding and disruption....
Jan 16 2008
The past week has seen intensifying pressure on Peter Hain over his failure to declare £103,000 in donations. But, argues Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, his critics shouldn’t be so quick to judge...
Jan 16 2008
IN a story in Monday’s Echo about contaminated land in St Donat’s Road, Cardiff, we incorrectly quoted resident Gwendoline Baker as saying the street should have been bulldozed....
Jan 16 2008
SURPRISE funding helped a community nursing team hold a big party for children with special needs....
Jan 16 2008
A FURNITURE firm has been fined £7,500 for failing to carry out electrical repairs to ensure the safety of customers and staff....
Jan 16 2008
The couple: Maria Toner, 59, an estate agent manager and John Evans, 58, a business manager, of Whitchurch, Cardiff....
Jan 16 2008
PARENTS of children with dyslexia can go to a workshop to help them get the best out of their education....
Jan 16 2008
WALES is in danger of slipping further behind the rest of the UK under a Labour-led Assembly Government, Nick Bourne, right, has claimed....
Jan 16 2008
THE Welsh Assembly Government will use its reserves to ensure all councils across Wales receive an increase in funds of at least 2%....
Jan 16 2008
WALES may be facing a burial crisis, and it seems radical solutions are being investigated in some parts of the country....
Jan 16 2008
WALES’ biggest teaching union is considering balloting members on industrial action after ministers announced an effective “pay cut” for hundreds of thousands of school staff yesterday....
Jan 16 2008
A family-run Welsh B&B has been named one of the best in Europe. Darren Devine went to find out what makes it so special...
Jan 16 2008
YOU’VE heard of, and eaten, Caerphilly cheese, Parma ham and Cornish pasties. Now prepare for the Wrexham sausage....
Jan 16 2008
FORMER Welsh Olympic sprinter Colin Jackson was among the sporting stars who launched this year’s Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile yesterday....
Jan 16 2008
TWO CHILDREN whose pet dog has gone missing are still waiting for her safe return....
Jan 16 2008
A CONGREGATION has transformed themselves into an Arabic world of genies, lamps and magic carpets for a pantomime....
Jan 16 2008
TELEPHONES were blown off the walls in homes after lightning struck a telegraph pole....
Jan 16 2008
A DELIVERY driver claimed thousands of pounds in disability benefits at the same time as running his own transport firm....
Jan 16 2008
TRADING Standards officers are warning of a scam where cards are posted to householders telling of packages that don’t exist....
Jan 16 2008
A VOLUNTEERING scheme for young people has reached its 10,000-member milestone....
Jan 16 2008
TORCHWOOD star Eve Myles has revealed her pride for Cardiff ahead of the broadcast of the second series tonight....
Jan 16 2008
POLICE have issued an e-fit picture of a man suspected of grabbing a girl as she walked to school....
Jan 16 2008
WELSH Conservatives are calling for new measures to cut the number of plastic carrier bags....
Jan 16 2008
WORK is under way to improve the quality of life for tenants experiencing problems with anti-social behaviour....
Jan 16 2008
A TOWN centre was sealed off for the second time in a month today following the discovery of what are thought to be World War II bombs....
Jan 16 2008
A SACKED worker took revenge on his boss – by hitting him with an axe....
Jan 16 2008
ALMOST one in 10 people in Wales are on the national DNA database after a huge surge in the number of samples taken by the police, we can reveal....
Jan 16 2008
A BUILDER who overcharged the 94-year-old father of an MP by more than £5,000 has been told by a judge it will cost him nearly £30,000....
Jan 16 2008
THESE might look like photographs of a lovingly furnished family home....
Jan 16 2008
BRITAIN’S immigration chief has defended a decision – attacked as “atrocious barbarism” – to send a dying woman back to Africa, even though she can no longer access life-prolonging treatment....
Jan 16 2008
MORE heavy rain is set to drench Wales this week, bringing with it the prospect of further flooding and disruption....
Jan 16 2008
THE number of chartered surveyors reporting house price falls in Wales has reached levels last seen during the early 1990s house price crash, figures show today....
Jan 16 2008
A PENSIONER who kept 105 animals in squalid conditions narrowly escaped being sent to prison yesterday....
Jan 16 2008
A 45-YEAR-OLD carer was murdered by the man she was having a secret affair with, a court heard yesterday....
Jan 16 2008
THE Assembly Government yesterday announced an independent legal review of an internal investigation which cleared a manager of sexually harassing a member of his staff....
Jan 16 2008
AN ACTOR who says he was unfairly dismissed from a TV show made unacceptable comments to a colleague, a tribunal heard yesterday....
Jan 16 2008
Prosecutors this week lifted a temporary ban on the use of low copy number DNA forensic evidence in criminal investigations....
Jan 16 2008
SOME of Wales’ most picturesque coastlines could be under threat from erosion fuelled by climate change....
Jan 16 2008
THE concept of a treat is becoming obsolete among a generation of Welsh children because of the amount of junk food they eat, a survey published today reveals....
Jan 16 2008
PATIENTS may not be benefiting from better access to GPs despite the introduction of a new contract, a National Assembly committee has found....
Jan 16 2008
MORE than half of Wales’ newly-qualified physiotherapists have still not found a job despite graduating last year....
Jan 16 2008
THE developers behind a landmark apartment scheme on the sports village site in Cardiff Bay have cut back the height and number of homes planned in the wake of opposition....
Jan 16 2008
THREE cars were involved in a crash on a city road....
Jan 16 2008
CARDIFF-BASED retailer Peacocks will open up to 30 new stores this year despite a forecasted economic slump....
Jan 16 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to the Tesco service station in Aberdare last night....
Jan 16 2008
A JURY which heard a paralysed woman give evidence from her living room has continued to hear witness accounts of what allegedly happened to her sister in a city street....
Jan 16 2008
A CAR crashed into the central reservation of a busy commuter road at rush hour today....
Jan 16 2008
A MUM was murdered in her bed by the lover she used to smuggle in at night, a jury was told....
Jan 16 2008
FORMER athlete Colin Jackson will be going the extra mile for charity to support this year’s Sport Relief challenge....
Jan 16 2008
COUNCIL taxpayers are facing a “Hobson’s choice” of cuts in frontline services or higher bills despite extra funding from the Welsh Assembly Government....
Jan 16 2008
A SHOPLIFTER caught trying to steal from a supermarket squatted down and urinated and defecated on the floor....
Jan 16 2008
A WEALTHY South Wales family was arrested today in dawn swoops on six addresses across Britain....
Jan 16 2008
A NEW Year’s Eve reveller is alleged to have carried out a string of burglaries on a night out in Cardiff....
Jan 16 2008
YOUNG mums will be given the chance to make better lives for themselves and their children thanks to a new scheme....
Jan 16 2008
POLICE are appealing for help to find a 50-year- old missing Valleys woman....
Jan 16 2008
CARDIFF International Airport will avoid having to charge higher airport taxes under new EU regulations, it has been confirmed....
Jan 16 2008
A SCRAP metal business could be expanded in spite of fierce opposition....
Jan 16 2008
A SHOP manager beaten with the blunt end of an axe in a revenge attack by a sacked worker today said he still has nightmares about what happened....
Jan 16 2008
FUNDRAISERS are urging people to get sponsors to encourage them to keep their new year’s resolutions....
Jan 16 2008
CARDIFF’S new transport supremo has sparked criticism after suggesting that Severnside rivals Bristol would be happy for the Welsh capital to fail....
