Articles...
Feb 15 2008
PARKING problems in a city suburb have caught the attention of AM Chris Franks....
Feb 15 2008
A REUNION of the 1st battalion Welch Regiment is to take place....
Feb 15 2008
POLICE seized more than 70 cans and bottles from youngsters in a crackdown on under- age drinking....
Feb 15 2008
AN experienced mechanic died after a car fell on top of him....
Feb 15 2008
THE Fergusons have been chosen as the family of the year at the capital’s Red Dragon Centre....
Feb 15 2008
A “SHIRLEY VALENTINE” who left her daughter home alone for six weeks was warned yesterday she could face prison after being found guilty of neglect....
Feb 15 2008
Must Labour swap mushy peas for guacamole? As the party gathers for its conference in Llandudno, David Williamson asks if the hopes and fears of the middle classes need to be welded into a party born in coalmines, steelworks and factories...
Feb 15 2008
Leighton Andrews, who will chair Labour’s new economic commission, is increasingly seen as a dark horse in the race to succeed Rhodri Morgan as First Minister. Political Editor Tomos Livingstone profiles his rapid rise...
Feb 15 2008
WELSH Labour last night launched a new economic commission designed to form the bedrock of its 2011 election manifesto, promising it would address “difficult questions” about the increasing threats from global competition....
Feb 15 2008
A FOREST adventure centre worker crashed into a tree and died on the way home from a bad day at work....
Feb 15 2008
THE Prince of Wales has urged the world to act against the ticking “doomsday clock” of climate change and adopt a “courageous and revolutionary” approach to combating the threat....
Feb 15 2008
THE University of Cardiff’s Institute of Genetics was honoured yesterday by the Queen in a ceremony attended by university chancellor Lord Kinnock, left....
Feb 15 2008
AN IMPORTED sheep tested positive for the bluetongue disease yesterday, the Welsh Assembly Government said....
Feb 15 2008
THE parents of a graduate who died in a plane crash in Thailand that also claimed the life of his girlfriend announced a charity walk in his memory yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
A MECHANIC died when he became trapped under the car he was fixing, an inquest heard yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
SEVERAL rubbish fires were tackled by crews in South Wales....
Feb 15 2008
SMALL business leaders in Wales have joined calls against the planned 2p a litre rise in fuel duty on April 1....
Feb 15 2008
THE jury in the trial of two businessmen who allegedly conned sports fans into buying faked autographs of their heroes was yesterday discharged....
Feb 15 2008
CARDIFF’S 13,900 council house tenants are facing an average £3.25 a week rise in their rents from April 1....
Feb 15 2008
REDEVELOPMENT plans for a community recreation area in Cardiff are to be unveiled next week....
Feb 15 2008
GORDON BROWN will travel to Wales this afternoon to set out the “moral imperative” behind his bid to lift thousands of families out of poverty....
Feb 15 2008
WALES should receive an extra £100m to balance the £1.7bn spent by the UK Government on bailing out the London Underground contractor Metronet, Plaid Cymru demanded yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
A 10-YEAR-OLD girl choked to death while eating her Sunday lunch despite her father’s desperate attempts to save her, an inquest heard yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
IT’S blessed with a couple of good pubs, some of Wales’ most beautiful scenery, and has one of the country’s most exclusive hotels on its doorstep....
Feb 15 2008
A MAN was today remanded in custody accused of murdering grandmother Fran Rosser....
Feb 15 2008
A SECTION of one of Cardiff’s busiest roads is to be closed overnight for two days next week for bridge repairs....
Feb 15 2008
A VIETNAMESE man has appeared in court in connection with the discovery of a £100,000 drugs stash....
Feb 15 2008
A WOMAN has been jailed for falsely accusing her estranged husband of rape....
Feb 15 2008
ON A SUNNY Valentine’s Day in 1948, childhood sweethearts Madge and Edgar George were married....
Feb 15 2008
A TERMINALLY ill man with mental health problems collapsed and died on a hospital ward....
Feb 15 2008
A SPEEDING driver smashed into dad Andros Lazarou’s car door as he strapped his son into the back seat....
Feb 15 2008
A 21-year-old man has been fined for allowing his dog to be dangerously out of control....
Feb 15 2008
NEWSREADER Sian Lloyd will be modelling in the George Thomas Hospice’s spring fashion show....
Feb 15 2008
AUTISTIC adults do not have enough support to meet their needs, a report has revealed....
Feb 15 2008
AN 86-YEAR-OLD woman was shoved to the ground and robbed of her handbag outside Tesco....
Feb 15 2008
A LEADING environmental scientist yesterday warned Wales needs to learn lessons from Canada’s mistakes before pressing ahead with plans to construct a barrage across the Severn Estuary....
Feb 15 2008
A WELSH MP has received a formal apology after a chief constable and his deputy launched a personal attack on him in a BBC documentary....
Feb 15 2008
TODAY the Western Mail can reveal the staggering scale of one train operator’s price rises since the rail industry was privatised in 1995....
Feb 15 2008
A COUNCIL asked to repair a “disastrous decline” in its child and family services was told last night lessons had been learned after the murder of a child....
Feb 15 2008
Percentage increases in First Great Western’s prices since privatisation in 1995...
Feb 15 2008
A WAR of words has broken out as the political parties gear up for May’s local authority elections....
Feb 15 2008
STRUGGLING families will have to enter a new Government “contract” to get them back to work – and could even get paid to do so, Gordon Brown will announce today....
Feb 15 2008
SMALL business leaders in Wales have joined calls against the planned 2p a litre rise in fuel duty on April 1....
Feb 15 2008
AN EXTRA entrance to Wales’ National Indoor Athletics Centre has opened....
Feb 15 2008
TWO in three Welsh ambulance staff think managers fail to be open and honest with them about changes in the service, according to a confidential survey....
Feb 15 2008
A SCHOOLBOY who underwent an emergency operation in the Gambia has been given the all-clear in HIV and hepatitis tests....
Feb 15 2008
A CONTROVERSIAL city store has finally opened – despite being refused a licence to sell alcohol....
Feb 15 2008
UPGRADES to the University Hospital of Wales’ MRI scanners are included in a £33m equipment boost for the Welsh NHS....
Feb 15 2008
CAMPAIGNERS were today claiming victory after plans to expand a scrap metal yard near a South Wales school were thrown out....
Feb 15 2008
A CARDIFF teacher was conned out of £30,000 by a man who spent her cash paying off his debts and buying lottery tickets....
Feb 15 2008
E.COLI butcher William Tudor is back on the streets after being released early from prison....
Feb 15 2008
A PACKED train was cancelled after a passenger, who appeared drunk, collapsed....
Feb 15 2008
BLUE Peter gardener Chris Collins has thrown his support behind a schools’ wheelbarrow planting competition to be held at the city’s premier horticultural show....
Feb 15 2008
SOME women get treated to a dozen red roses or a romantic meal on St Valentine’s Day....
Feb 15 2008
CARGO shipping is three times more damaging to the environment than previously thought, according to a UN report....
Feb 15 2008
MOTHERS who bring up their children at home should not be forced back to work and should instead be supported by the Government, researchers said yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
A SPORTS coach who carried out sex attacks on two teenage girls and filmed what he did on his mobile phone was jailed for five years yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
THE cult series Minder will return to our screens in the latest phase of the ‘80s television revival, it was revealed yesterday....
Feb 15 2008
A BOOK is set to be written about a craze started in South Wales for holding vinyl record sleeves in front of faces and taking photographs....
Feb 15 2008
ONE in six school places in Wales is unfilled, new figures have revealed....
