Articles...
Feb 23 2008
WELSH fans may be brimming with confidence ahead of today’s clash with Italy, but businesses have also geared up for a Grand Salami of their own....
Feb 23 2008
THIS is unbelievable, February with no rain. The exceptional weather at the beginning of the month has turned our gardening world into a new dimension....
Feb 23 2008
SUCCESSFUL applicants from among more than 700 young Welsh people who applied for just six trade apprenticeships have been let down by a lack of college training courses, it was claimed yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
BINMEN and street cleaners in Cardiff are enjoying a recycling overtime bonanza – with willing staff pocketing an average £3,123 extra a year....
Feb 23 2008
A CONVICTED paedophile who masterminded an arson attack on his own home to gain sympathy from a Crown Court judge, was jailed for 12 years yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
A RISING Welsh rugby star with a “glittering career” ahead of him was jailed for seven years yesterday for his part in a drugs conspiracy....
Feb 23 2008
BINMEN, street cleaners and other waste workers in Wales’s capital city have notched up £2m in overtime payments over a 20-month period....
Feb 23 2008
A truck directed into a North Wales farm track by sat-nav was due to be removed today, more than three days after it got jammed between hedgerows....
Feb 23 2008
A MAN was stabbed in the face with scissors and bound to a chair by his lodger, who then fled with his car, a court heard yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
A NARROW mountain lane has been damaged and turned into an “international playground” for 4x4s and satnav-guided lorries, angry villagers claimed yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
WELSH rugby international Alix Popham has become a father for the second time after his wife Jo gave birth to a baby girl, it was announced yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
THE leadership ambitions of individual Liberal Democrat AMs must not be allowed to thwart success in May’s council elections, Mike German warned yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
LIBERAL Democrats have called for an end to a loophole which means pensioners who access some home care services are discriminated against....
Feb 23 2008
A TEENAGER was found hanged shortly after telling his ex-girlfriend he was going to kill himself, an inquest into one of the latest youths to die in Bridgend’s apparent suicide cluster heard yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
THE Prince of Wales visited his new Welsh farmhouse yesterday and proclaimed progress on transforming it into a property fit for a future king was “splendid”....
Feb 23 2008
THE QUEEN and the Duke of Edinburgh are to officially open Swansea’s rebuilt leisure centre on March 7, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
THE WELSH wetlands are being used as a model to restore life to what was once the largest area of marsh in the Middle East that was drained and turned to dust by Saddam Hussein....
Feb 23 2008
THE word D-I-V-O-R-C-E more typically conjures the poignant Country and Western lament of Tammy Wynette than the mundane surroundings of a Welsh local government meeting....
Feb 23 2008
ACTRESS Catherine Zeta-Jones’s surprise visit to Wales has turned her normally quiet Mumbles home into one of the busiest spots in Wales....
Feb 23 2008
THE First Great Western London to Cardiff railway service has been branded WORST Great Western....
Feb 23 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan is urging residents to celebrate St David’s Day with free entry to castles in South Wales....
Feb 23 2008
YOU can’t accuse him of not walking the walk....
Feb 23 2008
A WELSH Assembly investigation into claims that a civil servant was sexually harassed was seriously flawed according to an internal report....
Feb 23 2008
A £20M refit of one of Cardiff’ landmark stores will go ahead....
Feb 23 2008
COUNCILLORS will visit the site where developers want to build a replacement homeless hostel....
Feb 23 2008
TWO of the tragic teenagers believed to have killed themselves in Bridgend had just been through relationship break-ups....
Feb 23 2008
SAMARITANS volunteers from across South Wales will be in Bridgend tonight trying to prevent more young suicides...
Feb 23 2008
A RUNAWAY South Wales TV presenter has solved the mystery of her court no-show – she’s stripping in Spain....
Feb 23 2008
A CLEAN-UP is set to take place in an area of Cardiff blighted by fly-tippers....
Feb 23 2008
PLAID AM Chris Franks has urged Health Minister Edwina Hart to tackle car parking charges at Llandough Hospital....
Feb 23 2008
A NEPHEW tied his terrified uncle to a chair, bound his hands, feet and mouth, smashed his phone and locked him in his pitch-black flat when they couldn’t agree what to watch on TV....
Feb 23 2008
THREE-TIMES married suspected killer Roystan Moore may be a philanderer but that doesn’t make him a murderer, jurors were told....
Feb 23 2008
ENVIRONMENT Agency officials today asked for help in tracing fly-tippers who dumped 23 barrels of chemicals at the roadside....
Feb 23 2008
A MAN accused of squirting superglue into his neighbour’s garage door has been cleared....
Feb 23 2008
HOUSEHOLDERS in Cardiff are set to face a tax rise averaging 81p a week for council and police services over the next year....
Feb 23 2008
ITALIANS living in Wales have been given nearly £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to record stories of those who emigrated since the 1950s....
Feb 23 2008
DECADES of films such as The Godfather have left us with an image of Italians as a nation with more than its fair share of dangerous and menacing gangsters....
Feb 23 2008
A LORRY DRIVER fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a car, killing its elderly driver, a court heard yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
THE projected cost of building the proposed M4 relief road in South Wales is rising with each passing month, experts warned yesterday....
Feb 23 2008
IT’S the city that never sleeps, and one of the most famous cities in the world but New York owes much of its heritage to Wales, according to a new leaflet produced to mark St David’s Day....
Feb 23 2008
A SHOPKEEPER has been prosecuted and fined after a worker sold alcohol to a 16 year old....
Feb 23 2008
A HOBBY magician lost his job as an insurance company manager after being caught performing a £20 children’s magic show – while he was on the sick....
Feb 23 2008
A MUM of two has fallen victim to cash card fraudsters....
Feb 23 2008
TWO South Wales paedophiles have vanished – but the police won’t tell the public their names....
Feb 23 2008
A PENSIONER died and his wife’s life was ruined by a bread delivery man who didn’t know he had an illness which could make him fall asleep behind the wheel....
Feb 23 2008
A STATUE of the comic Tommy Cooper was today set to be unveiled in Caerphilly by Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins....
Feb 23 2008
A HOTEL extension is to be built at a pub, despite objections from residents....
Feb 23 2008
A MUM claims shots were fired outside her home....
Feb 23 2008
A SEX fiend who repeatedly raped a vulnerable young girl he befriended in a cafe was today beginning a 12-year jail sentence....
Feb 23 2008
EVENTS marking the achievements of women are to be held....
Feb 23 2008
DANCERS are set to be shimmying and shaking like never before this weekend with a salsa marathon lasting six whole hours....
Feb 23 2008
IT’S enough to make even the most tolerant dinner party host tear their hair out....
Feb 23 2008
TO NATURE lovers, they are cute furry friends still haunted by the peril of dwindling numbers....
Feb 23 2008
A THEME park has been charged over a teenager’s death four years ago....
Feb 23 2008
A SCHOOLGIRL has carried on her late father’s rock legacy by jamming with one of his favourite bands....
Feb 23 2008
What did you order?...
Feb 23 2008
WHETHER it’s your heart, kidneys or even nerves which are troubling you – there’s bound to be a plant to help in the Cowbridge Physic Garden....
Feb 23 2008
CASTLE CHOCOLATESAddress: 52 Cardiff Road, Caerphilly.Opening hours: 8am until 5pm.Tel: 029 2088 2229...
Feb 23 2008
GIFTED pupils in Wales are being let down by a system which puts too much emphasis on vocational skills, education leaders warned last night....
