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Feb 13 2008
E.COLI butcher William Tudor encouraged staff suffering from stomach bugs and diarrhoea to continue preparing meat for school dinners, the public inquiry into the 2005 outbreak has heard....
Feb 13 2008
POLICE searching for missing grandmother Fran Rosser today found a body....
Feb 13 2008
WELSH 20-somethings are better at saving for a pension than their counterparts around the UK – but a third are still saving nothing at all, a new survey suggests....
Feb 13 2008
A CHEF who has spent the whole of his 25-year career in a Powys town was crowned National Chef of Wales yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
A RUSSIAN scholar will lead a fresh investigation into the origins of the Welsh language by looking as far afield as Romania and Turkey, it was announced yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
“MENTAL toughness” is as crucial as intelligence for passing exams, according to a new academic study pioneered in Wales....
Feb 13 2008
A COMPREHENSIVE school teacher has resigned after allegations he accidentally showed pornography to pupils during a lesson....
Feb 13 2008
A COUNCIL worker is preparing to take her skills to Africa....
Feb 13 2008
THE COUPLE: Recruitment account manager Eleanor Roper, 27, and company director Huw Taylor, 35, from Dinas Powys....
Feb 13 2008
PRINCESS Royal Trust Cardiff and Vale Carers Centre has relocated from its shared Canton premises to its own building in Cowbridge Road East....
Feb 13 2008
YOUR cute and cuddly animals will be appearing in the Echo for the rest of the week ahead of the Pet Idol 2008 final....
Feb 13 2008
THE Maloney family are getting set to take part in a charity walk to help make the dreams of children with cancer come true....
Feb 13 2008
PARENTS have been warned to be wary of bogus children’s modelling agencies....
Feb 13 2008
LOVERS in Wales are least likely to whisk their partner off on a Valentine’s break, according to research....
Feb 13 2008
A MULTI-MILLION-POUND council spending spree in Cardiff has been branded as spin by furious opposition parties....
Feb 13 2008
FORMER Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew (pictured) is to open Cardiff’s new international swimming pool at Cardiff Bay....
Feb 13 2008
SOUTH Wales Police’s top officer has raised fears about the force’s ability to respond to “unexpected major incidents” because of a £9m shortfall in its funding....
Feb 13 2008
A SMALL Welsh fishing town’s key role in aviation history is to be recalled in a new Hollywood movie....
Feb 13 2008
POLICE investigating a woman’s disappearance yesterday confirmed they had arrested a man and were searching woods near the spot she was last seen....
Feb 13 2008
BAD-TASTING and foul-smelling meat led one local authority to drop the butchers behind the E.coli outbreak as their main supplier of meat to schools....
Feb 13 2008
SERIOUS concerns about the butcher who caused Wales' worst ever E.coli outbreak were raised almost 10 years before the first child became ill, it emerged yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
TEENAGE graffiti vandals have been punished – by being made to clean up their own mess....
Feb 13 2008
THE Government has refused to ban a device to disperse yobs....
Feb 13 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to deal with a spate of suspicious fires last night....
Feb 13 2008
A POLICEMAN today sat in a car outside Fran Rosser’s beauty salon as fears for the 60-year-old grandmother’s safety grew....
Feb 13 2008
ONE of Cardiff’s oldest hotels which was closed after a disastrous fire will reopen in the spring – with a new name....
Feb 13 2008
NEARLY 4,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized from a Cardiff butcher’s shop....
Feb 13 2008
A 32-year-old car dealer is wanted in connection with the theft of more than £500,000 from his former partner....
Feb 13 2008
SOME 156 manufacturing workers in South Wales face redundancy as the Cameo Sofa Company announce it is to shift production from Treforest to Lithuania....
Feb 13 2008
ROYSTON Moore, the man accused of murdering his secret lover in her bed, is expected to give evidence at Cardiff Crown Court today....
Feb 13 2008
CARDIFF’S council leader is to snub a drinks party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Royal Mail’s Welsh language scheme – because of the Post Office’s closure plans....
Feb 13 2008
A DECISION on whether a popular pub can be demolished and turned into flats is likely to be made next month....
Feb 13 2008
CARDIFF City Supporters’ Club chief Vince Alm has been slashed across the face in a city centre knife attack....
Feb 13 2008
THE Tuesday outdoor market in Merthyr Tydfil will not be operating for around the next 10 weeks....
Feb 13 2008
PIE men from South Wales stormed London Fashion week to dish out pies, pasties and sausage rolls to skinny models....
Feb 13 2008
BRIDGEND Male Voice Choir is to host a Welsh night of music and song to help battle cancer in Wales....
Feb 13 2008
A COMPANY has smashed its fundraising target to help children with cerebral palsy....
Feb 13 2008
SOLICITOR Matthew Body is preparing to saddle up for a gruelling bike ride in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care....
Feb 13 2008
THE Government has refused to ban a device to disperse yobs....
Feb 13 2008
A POLICEMAN today sat in a car outside Fran Rosser’s beauty salon as fears for the 60-year-old grandmother’s safety grew....
Feb 13 2008
POLICE hunting for missing grandmother Fran Rosser today found a body....
Feb 13 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to deal with a spate of suspicious fires last night....
Feb 13 2008
POLICE looking for missing grandmother Fran Rosser today found a body on a patch of waste ground....
Feb 13 2008
A team at Environment Agency Wales has cut its car mileage by two thirds by treating the single-occupant car as the last resort....
Feb 13 2008
THERE was a time when Russians looked to the West for culinary influences – and all we gave them was McDonald’s....
Feb 13 2008
PUBLIC sector leaders have been urged to set better environmental examples as it emerged a top council officer last year claimed expenses for more than 100 business trips by car – and just one by train....
Feb 13 2008
WALES could have its own rainforest next to the M4 within the next few years....
Feb 13 2008
AN 83-year-old shopper was dragged to the ground in a mugging 50 yards from Merthyr Tydfil police station....
Feb 13 2008
BUSINESSWOMAN Alicia Bowry has won an all expenses-paid trip to Zambia, in recognition of her achievement with cosmetics company Avon....
Feb 13 2008
BUSINESSWOMAN Alicia Bowry has won an all expenses-paid trip to Zambia, in recognition of her achievement with cosmetics company Avon....
Feb 13 2008
THE police hunt for missing Valleys grandmother Fran Rosser today switched to a patch of woodland off an industrial estate....
Feb 13 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to deal with a spate of suspicious fires last night....
Feb 13 2008
DRUGS have been taken off the streets of the capital after further police raids for Operation Maximum Impact....
Feb 13 2008
COUNTRY legend Dolly Parton’s Cardiff show should go ahead even though American dates have been cancelled....
Feb 13 2008
BUSINESSWOMAN Alicia Bowry has won an all expenses-paid trip to Zambia, in recognition of her achievement with cosmetics company Avon....
Feb 13 2008
PARENTS will have a say in how support services in the city are run thanks to a new initiative....
Feb 13 2008
COUNTRY legend Dolly Parton’s Cardiff show should go ahead even though American dates have been cancelled....
Feb 13 2008
HOME owners are being invited to a free seminar discussing Energy Performance Certificates – required for every UK house....
Feb 13 2008
MORE pupils must be appointed as school governors in Wales, inspectors said yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
THE Government’s decision not to ban the controversial “Mosquito” device was last night greeted with approval by its creator....
Feb 13 2008
SPITTING and dropping chewing gum in public places could be banned under a local authority bylaw in one Welsh council area....
Feb 13 2008
TEACHERS won’t strike over the latest pay deal and most think it is fair, the leaders of one union said yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
RESPECTED former mayor and councillor Muriel Williams has died....
Feb 13 2008
BAD-TASTING and foul-smelling meat led one local authority to drop the butchers behind the E.coli outbreak as their main supplier of meat to schools....
Feb 13 2008
CONCERNS were being raised about the safety of meat supplied by the butcher at the heart of 2005’s deadly E.coli outbreak as early as 1996, it was revealed yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
POLITICIANS ambitious to succeed Rhodri Morgan must demonstrate the political skills of a US presidential candidate and abandon the “victim mentality” which has defined Welsh life, it was claimed yesterday....
Feb 13 2008
THE chief fire officer at Buckingham Palace was given a community order yesterday, after throttling his Welsh wife and threatening to kill her in a drunken rage....
Feb 13 2008
COCAINE with an estimated street value of £1.65m has been found washed up on a beach in Meirionnydd, it emerged yesterday....
