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Feb 6 2008
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Feb 6 2008
WELSH politicians are today calling on the Assembly Government to lower the voting age to 16....
Feb 6 2008
THE rules which prohibit MPs from being bugged should be extended to members of the devolved institutions, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has said....
Feb 6 2008
A MAN was due to appear in court today charged with murder....
Feb 6 2008
FIREFIGHTERS rescued post office customers and a family after they became trapped when a van caught fire in a Valleys street....
Feb 6 2008
A PAINTER and decorator has been found hanged at his home....
Feb 6 2008
A DRIVER was today recovering in hospital after being cut out of his vehicle by firefighters....
Feb 6 2008
AN off-duty paramedic helped saved four of her daughter’s friends after their car crashed....
Feb 6 2008
MEMBERS of the Women’s Royal Naval Service have been given cash....
Feb 6 2008
THE services of a council’s award-winning chief officer have been called on again by the Government....
Feb 6 2008
A PENSIONER wants to trace a miner’s family who gave her hospitality nearly 80 years ago....
Feb 6 2008
MINERS from Tower Colliery will attend their last event – fundraising for Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice....
Feb 6 2008
FRAUDSTERS are turning the capital into a card crime hot spot – with one fifth of the city’s residents having fallen victim to scams....
Feb 6 2008
DEMOCRATS and Republicans in more than 20 states voted yesterday to select the presidential candidate they hope will win the White House in November....
Feb 6 2008
THE Welsh Assembly Government yesterday moved a step closer to being able to pass its own legislation....
Feb 6 2008
DEVELOPERS planning a spectacular £1bn transformation of Swansea’s city centre yesterday revealed they are in talks with upmarket chain stores John Lewis and House of Fraser....
Feb 6 2008
POLICE yesterday urged young people to stay away from drugs after two deaths in the same area in a week....
Feb 6 2008
RUGBY will be used to tackle bad behaviour among teenagers at risk of offending under a scheme launched today....
Feb 6 2008
A MUM who leapt to safety from her blazing home said today: “I’m lucky to be alive.”...
Feb 6 2008
A FORMER policeman who had a heart attack after taking a pain- killing drug is taking legal action against its American manufacturer....
Feb 6 2008
THE old counties of Wales are wreaking havoc in the age of online commerce 12 years after the likes of Gwent and Dyfed were abolished, it was claimed yesterday....
Feb 6 2008
DEVOLUTION is “mature” enough for Wales and England to borrow more policies from each other, a leading Labour Minister said last night....
Feb 6 2008
VOTERS would be prepared to see a modest rise in council tax to pay for better policing, a survey carried out by Wales’ largest police authority suggests....
Feb 6 2008
TWO Assembly Members have called on other politicians to support lowering the voting age to 16....
Feb 6 2008
A MAN was due to appear in court today charged with murder....
Feb 6 2008
A DISABLED grandad is threatening to go on hunger strike in a protest against a post office closing....
Feb 6 2008
A GRANDMOTHER was astonished when a Christmas card with no house number, postcode and half a street name made its way to her from America....
Feb 6 2008
THE rules which prohibit MPs from being bugged should be extended to members of the devolved institutions, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has said....
Feb 6 2008
A MAN is due to appear before Caerphilly Magistrates this morning charged with murder....
Feb 6 2008
A GRANDMOTHER was astonished when a Christmas card with no house number, postcode and half a street name made its way to her from America....
Feb 6 2008
KERB-CRAWLERS will be told their number’s up, if they visit prostitutes in a city suburb....
Feb 6 2008
AN 86-year-old is heartbroken after a thief conned his way into her home and stole a gold pocket watch belonging to her late husband....
Feb 6 2008
AFTER being told he was in remission from prostate cancer, keen cyclist Keith Underdown decided it was time to take on a new challenge....
Feb 6 2008
HERITAGE Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas yesterday announced a £600,000 funding package as he invited bids to publish a Welsh-language daily newspaper....
Feb 6 2008
BBC Wales is planning to employ more, not fewer, journalists despite a well-publicised round of redundancies, its controller Menna Richards said yesterday....
Feb 6 2008
A FORMER Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism officer stole everyday items, including oven spray and a mop and bucket from a Welsh police station, a court heard yesterday....
Feb 6 2008
A SOUTH Wales ex-pat has admitted sealing his wife’s body in a steel drum after finding her naked and dead in their bed....
Feb 6 2008
NEARLY every child in the region fails to get the required amount of exercise....
Feb 6 2008
FOUR young children were found in a filthy, foul-smelling home living with pet rats and a large lizard and a mother who was so drunk she could hardly walk or talk, a jury was told....
Feb 6 2008
A SEARCH is on for a boy from South Wales who has been missing for 10 days....
Feb 6 2008
NEARLY every child in the region fails to get the required amount of exercise....
Feb 6 2008
A SOUTH Wales ex-pat has admitted sealing his wife’s body in a steel drum after finding her naked and dead in their bed....
Feb 6 2008
THE governors of a primary school whose head teacher was struck off the teaching register met yesterday to discuss his future....
Feb 6 2008
The couple: Nicola Clarke, 26, post office shop assistant, and Nathan Bindon, 27, telesales operator, of Pontprennau, Cardiff. They have been together seven years and have two children – Aaron, six, and Cae, three....
Feb 6 2008
A TREASURE trove of stolen jewellery has been recovered from a city house following a tip-off....
Feb 6 2008
WELSH rugby star Lee Byrne will be lending a hand to raise money for Cancer Care Cymru....
Feb 6 2008
HOTEL workers will be turning their hair purple to raise money for charity....
Feb 6 2008
A FAMILY say they are living in fear that a car will crash into their home or garden....
Feb 6 2008
A NEW cafe bar and live music venue is set to open in the city....
Feb 6 2008
A MOTHER whose six-year-old son was hit by a car on the way to a family picnic yesterday told how she will use a picture he drew hours before he died in her campaign to improve safety at the spot where he was killed....
Feb 6 2008
A WELSHMAN accused of murdering his wife and hiding her body for 23 years, yesterday admitted he’d covered up the death after claiming he found her strangled and shot in bed next to him....
Feb 6 2008
ANOTHER teenager has been found hanged in a South Wales community already reeling from a spate of young suspected suicides, it emerged yesterday....
Feb 6 2008
A MAN and a woman have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a South Wales church....
Feb 6 2008
ONE of Wales’ most prestigious private schools yesterday announced plans for what it claims will be the first fully-paid scholarship scheme in more than a century....
Feb 6 2008
A WELSH tourist told yesterday how he continued with his luxury cruise holiday despite being shot in the chest at point blank range by a Venezuelan street robber trying to steal his £7,000 Rolex watch....
Feb 6 2008
A ROYAL Salute will be fired into the Cardiff sky today as soldiers mark the Queen’s accession to the throne....
Feb 6 2008
WALES and England should share ideas to make both nations better, a South Wales MP has said....
Feb 6 2008
HELP is at hand for people battling stress, depression or anxiety in Bridgend....
Feb 6 2008
CAERPHILLY firefighters had to help rescue two teenage passengers from the wreck of a car after the vehicle crashed into a tree....
Feb 6 2008
A FOOTBALL club faces losing its main sponsor because its Welsh Premier League ambitions have been blocked by the local council....
Feb 6 2008
“I DON’T like myself, but hey who does?”...
Feb 6 2008
A VALLEYS council has earned praise following a joint review of its social services....
Feb 6 2008
MINERS and their families in South Wales are more than half a billion pounds better off as a result of its legal victory 10 years ago today, according to mining union Nacods....
Feb 6 2008
SOMEWHERE in the wilds of Anglesey is a family of rugby fans who don’t speak a word of English. Only Welsh. There must be. Why else did S4C show last week’s international at the same time as the Beeb’s main channel showed it, identical camerawork but commentary in Welsh, probably for those monoglot islanders....
Feb 6 2008
VILLAGERS using a popular village sports complex have been left exasperated by a series of break-ins....
Feb 6 2008
TWO men are being sought in connection with a bank robbery....
Feb 6 2008
ONE of Cardiff Bus veteran double-deckers is setting out on its longest journey – an 1,000-mile drive to the Czech Republic....
Feb 6 2008
A FORMER policeman who had a heart attack after taking a pain- killing drug is taking legal action against its American manufacturer....
