Articles...
Jan 19 2008
POLICE investigating a woman’s disappearance have found a body on a beach....
Jan 19 2008
WELSH athletics legend Colin Jackson has admitted doing charity work helped him see the real world for the first time....
Jan 19 2008
PUPILS should be allowed to wear trainers as part of their school uniform....
Jan 19 2008
AN MP has called for energy companies to be investigated in the wake of the latest price hikes....
Jan 19 2008
DRIVERS are taking horrifying risks by travelling the length of Wales, completing a full day’s work and driving home the same day, an academic warned yesterday....
Jan 19 2008
PLAID Cymru last night announced its shortlist of six candidates for seats in the House of Lords....
Jan 19 2008
I F BARACK OBAMA fails to win the US presidential nomination, it’s likely he’d be more than welcome to pursue an alternative career in Welsh politics. According to a Western Mail poll of AMs, taken on the eve of today’s primaries in South Carolina and Nevada, the Illinois Democrat’s campaign has captured the politicians in Cardiff Bay....
Jan 19 2008
A TEACHER who was twice caught drink-driving was yesterday banned from the classroom for two years....
Jan 19 2008
THE push is on to win Fairtrade status for Merthyr Tydfil....
Jan 19 2008
THE parents of the only girl in Britain with a rare genetic condition are appealing to Echo readers to help them find a family home....
Jan 19 2008
IF the sky’s the limit for you, then a jobs fair at Cardiff International Airport may be just what you are looking for....
Jan 19 2008
Meet the Friends of Nant Fawr Community Woodland – people who keep a green lung going as a labour of love......
Jan 19 2008
If you go down to the woods today......
Jan 19 2008
SPECIAL needs pupils proudly showed First Minister Rhodri Morgan their school’s new £800,000 facilities....
Jan 19 2008
SINGER and entertainer Frank Hennessy and musical partner Dave Burns paid a special tribute at the funeral of veteran journalist and author John O’Sullivan....
Jan 19 2008
Embattled Welsh Secretary Peter Hain thought he was on familiar territory yesterday – until he was grilled by our chief reporter Martin Shipton...
Jan 19 2008
TOWER COLLIERY chairman Tyrone O’Sullivan has revealed how he had his phone lines bugged by MI5 while he led a workers’ buyout of the pit....
Jan 19 2008
CLAIMS Welsh Secretary Peter Hain could have broken ministerial rules by taking a six-figure donation from a trade union were rejected by Whitehall’s top civil servant yesterday....
Jan 19 2008
A DRIVER who caused the death of a young couple when his Mercedes coupe shunted them into the path of an oncoming vehicle told police he was the victim of a Masonic conspiracy, a court heard....
Jan 19 2008
PUPILS should be allowed to wear trainers as part of their school uniform, new guidelines aimed at preventing another “bangle row” said yesterday....
Jan 19 2008
JANUARY is on course to become the UK’s wettest on record, experts revealed yesterday, as householders across the nation were urged to prepare for flooding after 16 days’ continuous rain....
Jan 19 2008
PLAID Cymru Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas and the party’s Euro-MP Jill Evans will today meet nationalist ministers from elsewhere in Europe to discuss constitutional changes....
Jan 19 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan has unveiled his recipe for lifestyle change six months after he underwent heart surgery....
Jan 19 2008
WALES is missing out on millions of pounds a year in income because of a glut of “authentic” Welsh souvenirs manufactured in Asia, a trade body claimed yesterday....
Jan 19 2008
PATIENTS across Wales at risk of developing a chronic disease will be given the option to join a structured exercise programme....
Jan 19 2008
HIGH street retailers suffered an even worse Christmas than had been expected, figures revealed yesterday....
Jan 19 2008
WHEN teenager Rebekkah Jean Geor-Bond and her friends set off for Butlins, they were looking forward to two days of fun and games....
Jan 19 2008
ONE of the most popular South Wales branches on the Post Office’s hit list WILL definitely close, it has been revealed....
Jan 19 2008
AN asylum seeker who burned down a mosque could be allowed to stay in the UK because sending him home might endanger his life....
Jan 19 2008
WALK the sand dunes of the Sahara in a once-in-a-lifetime experience and help raise money for a cancer charity....
Jan 19 2008
THE suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning in Rhymney should serve as a warning to us all....
Jan 19 2008
THE son of a pensioner battered to death in her home is a convicted rapist with an interest in violence, a court heard yesterday....
Jan 19 2008
A SHIP held in port for six months with safety deficiencies has finally left South Wales....
Jan 19 2008
POSTMAN Grant Harrington is a true hero to customer Kay Lamborn....
Jan 19 2008
Deep mining for coal in Wales ends on Friday when Tower Colliery closes. Robin Turner tells the inspirational story of the 239 miners who defied pit closure plans and became mine owners...
Jan 19 2008
A WOMAN has died and her elderly mother is in hospital after falling victim to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in their Valleys home....
Jan 19 2008
SOUTH Wales was today braced for more flood warnings as high winds and rain lashed the region....
Jan 19 2008
GLAMOUR model and former bouncer Kelly Simpson, whose nickname is “Action Barbie”, has never been very ladylike....
Jan 19 2008
A MAN had to be cut free from his car by firefighters after crashing....
Jan 19 2008
TWO people were rescued from a car that crashed....
Jan 19 2008
A HOUSE fire is being treated as suspicious by police....
Jan 19 2008
WORLD record hurdler Colin Jackson today admitted charity work helped him see the real world for the first time....
Jan 19 2008
REDUNDANT supermarket secretaries claim they have been told to train the replacements who are taking over their jobs in India....
Jan 19 2008
WITH just weeks to go until the Six Nations returns to Cardiff, preparations at the Millennium Stadium are reaching fever pitch....
Jan 19 2008
A POLICE community support officer discovered a cannabis factory – next door to one he was already guarding....
Jan 19 2008
CARDIFF North MP Julie Morgan has put down an early day motion in the House of Commons supporting European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, which starts next week....
Jan 19 2008
WORK has been completed on access to a Victorian church....
Jan 19 2008
Nikki John Griffiths, 25, of Pennsylvania, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, was fined £50 for using threatening or abusive behaviour in Cardiff on Tuesday, December 18. Griffiths pleaded guilty to the offence and was ordered to pay £75 costs and a £15 victims surcharge....
Jan 19 2008
AN asylum seeker who burned down a mosque could be allowed to stay in the UK because sending him home might endanger his life....
Jan 19 2008
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy has been praised for the “cool and collected” way he raised the alarm when his mother collapsed....
Jan 19 2008
A MEETING between Remploy bosses, employees and politicians to secure the future of the doomed Treforest factory has been branded “disappointing”....
