Articles...
Jan 29 2008
A PENSIONER whose neighbours hadn’t seen him for around a week, was found dead in his home....
Jan 29 2008
FOR mum Samantha Davies, her home town is a “lovely place to come to” with her two-year-old son Harley....
Jan 29 2008
THE three men accused of the murder of a Welsh businessman will appear in court again next month, after the case against them was postponed for further investigation....
Jan 29 2008
A DEPRESSED agoraphobic hoarded DVDs and computer games his brother had stolen in a series of burglaries....
Jan 29 2008
SUPPORT has flooded in for volunteers striving to save a neglected piece of history....
Jan 29 2008
A POLICE officer killed a father-of-three by dangerous driving, a court heard yesterday....
Jan 29 2008
THE chief executive of the Welsh Language Board has come under fire for making 20 work trips to foreign countries in the past two years, it has emerged....
Jan 29 2008
A SCHOOLBOY without hearing in one ear for nine years was suddenly cured of his deafness when a cotton wool bud popped out of his ear....
Jan 29 2008
NEARLY £18m of housing benefit was overpaid to claimants in Wales last year, according to government figures....
Jan 29 2008
A REFERENDUM on a Welsh parliament is unlikely to occur before the next Assembly elections, new Welsh secretary Paul Murphy said yesterday....
Jan 29 2008
On the day 1812 is named as the worst year in British history, some of our leading historians give their verdicts on Wales’ annus horribilis. Steffan Rhys reports...
Jan 29 2008
GIVING young people free condoms in an attempt to cut teen pregnancy rates would encourage them to break the law, religious leaders said last night....
Jan 29 2008
THE most senior Army officer in Wales has returned to work after being cleared of wrongdoing in a row over the cost of an Indian restaurant meal....
Jan 29 2008
A CRAZE for posting clips of reckless driving on the internet could turn some Welsh roads into Le Mans-style race courses, it was warned yesterday....
Jan 29 2008
A CARE home worker was just months away from receiving a long service award when she was killed in a fire....
Jan 29 2008
THOUSANDS of people in Wales had their personal details lost when a Ministry of Defence laptop was stolen a fortnight ago....
Jan 29 2008
NEW Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy made his first visit to the National Assembly with a promise of Westminster and Senedd unity....
Jan 29 2008
A PRISON officer was killed when a car driven by an off-duty police officer pulled out in front of his high-speed motorbike, a court heard....
Jan 29 2008
NEARLY £18m of housing benefit was overpaid to claimants in Wales last year, according to government figures....
Jan 29 2008
ALMOST a fifth of our weekly household spending now goes towards household bills – more than double the equivalent amount from the 1950s....
Jan 29 2008
THE hunt is still on to find a panel of shopaholics to help make Cardiff one of the best shopping hotspots in the country....
Jan 29 2008
NEARLY £18m of housing benefit was overpaid to claimants in Wales last yearbecause of fraud or mistakes....
Jan 29 2008
A MOTHER-OF-TWO has won what bingo bosses yesterday claimed was the game’s biggest ever worldwide jackpot of £1.1m....
Jan 29 2008
A CONTINENTAL cafe owner is celebrating being allowed to serve alcohol but police fear it could lead to boozed-up builders....
Jan 29 2008
POLITICIANS have lost the art of rhetorical argument as they become more and more concerned about “not scoring an own goal”, according to an academic expert in political language....
Jan 29 2008
MORE THAN 37,500 people in Wales had their personal details lost when a Ministry of Defence laptop was stolen a fortnight ago, it emerged last night....
Jan 29 2008
JULIE CHRISTIE received a pre-Oscars boost yesterday when she won a top accolade at the Screen Actors Guild Awards....
Jan 29 2008
TEENAGERS are being encouraged to take a step towards becoming sports coaches this half-term....
Jan 29 2008
EX-WORKERS of a factory in the capital are to meet up for a reunion and are hoping a special guest will make a timely appearance....
Jan 29 2008
AN internationally-renowned female bodybuilder is hoping to head a Welsh team onto the world’s bodybuilding stage....
Jan 29 2008
A FORMER children’s home shut last summer is set to be turned back into a family home....
Jan 29 2008
BEVERLEY Parkhouse was probably suffocated with the duvet or pillow from her bed, a pathologist told jurors....
Jan 29 2008
EXCITED Cardiff City fans are hoping for a trip to Wembley after drawing Championship rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup fifth round....
Jan 29 2008
BRITAIN’S biggest bingo win has been scooped by a Valleys mum of two....
Jan 29 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a blaze at a flat today....
Jan 29 2008
A RE-OPENED supermarket has raised £500 for Velindre Cancer Care....
Jan 29 2008
PEOPLE with learning difficulties have been given help in increasing their confidence and skills at a workshop....
Jan 29 2008
SHOPLIFTERS who pinched two LCD TVs from a supermarket while driving a stolen car taken in a house burglary two days earlier are wanted by police....
Jan 29 2008
A MUM desperate to have a home where her disabled son can live in comfort has been overwhelmed by the support from Echo readers....
Jan 29 2008
A TEENAGER had her new £150 mobile phone taken while she swam in Cardiff Bay’s new pool....
Jan 29 2008
A PREGNANT woman was injured in a crash....
Jan 29 2008
WITH his diminutive frame and impish smile, Mal Clements – known as Clemo to friends and colleagues – was a well-known and much-loved stalwart of the Echo backroom team....
Jan 29 2008
POPULAR character Stan Rees has died aged 78....
Jan 29 2008
DISABLED workers are pleading with the new Work and Pensions Secretary to reconsider plans to close their factory....
Jan 29 2008
CASTELL Coch, the Gothic castle on the outskirts of Cardiff, is now closed for routine cleaning and essential maintenance....
Jan 29 2008
PARENTS pay more for childminding in Wales than anywhere else in Britain, according to startling research published today....
Jan 29 2008
A WELSH university launched the first degree in songwriting yesterday....
Jan 29 2008
THE tears of an 11-year-old boy led a Cardiff couple to spend their own money paying for a Ghanaian cancer sufferer’s treatment after she was removed from the UK....
