Articles...
Feb 27 2008
PRICE was the main factor for twice awarding E.coli butcher William Tudor the meat contract to supply hundreds of schools across the South Wales Valleys....
Feb 27 2008
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has admitted it gave the Western Mail misleading information over a detective criticised in a report....
Feb 27 2008
WALES' new Chief Inspector for Education and Training, Dr Bill Maxwell, said he was confident measures were in place to improve schools....
Feb 27 2008
THE mass migration of eastern Europeans to Wales is slowing down, with new figures showing a marked decline in the numbers moving here to work....
Feb 27 2008
PARENTS of primary schoolchildren were yesterday urged to do more to ensure they do not play truant or miss school as official figures revealed Wales has a worse attendance rate than England....
Feb 27 2008
A SECOND appeal for information has been made by police following the discovery of a man’s body in a Cardiff skip....
Feb 27 2008
A SCHOOL yesterday defended the decision of one of its teachers to get pupils to write “suicide” notes in class....
Feb 27 2008
THE Government last night condemned the release of a video that appears to show one of five Britons who have been held in Iraq for nine months....
Feb 27 2008
LONG-SUFFERING South Wales commuters furious that extra carriages for Welsh routes are being shifted to England today said: “They see us as second raters.”...
Feb 27 2008
CARDIFF City have been given the go-ahead to retain standing areas at Ninian Park for the 2008-2009 season....
Feb 27 2008
AN INVESTMENT of £32m of Welsh public money appeared to be in tatters last night as it emerged 10 rail coaches destined for the nation’s commuters will be moved to England....
Feb 27 2008
FORMER Welsh Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s nephew has left more than £4m to his family in his will....
Feb 27 2008
NHS Trusts in Wales are raking in nearly £4m a year by charging patients and visitors to park at hospitals....
Feb 27 2008
A DOG called Scooby was left needing life-saving surgery and 60 stitches after a savage attack by another dog....
Feb 27 2008
ART lovers keen to take home a rare sketch of singer Bryn Terfel are running out of time to enter a Welsh National Opera auction....
Feb 27 2008
A SCHOOL has come under fire for asking some of its youngest pupils to plan their own funeral as part of homework....
Feb 27 2008
POLICE officers were today due to be quizzed by pupils in the first live schools webchat....
Feb 27 2008
PATROLS have been stepped up and CCTV put in place in a South Wales park after vandals destroyed new artwork....
Feb 27 2008
THE mother of a young Bridgend suicide victim has criticised a school in which pupils were asked to write suicide notes as part of an English lesson....
Feb 27 2008
A WIDOW has criticised a council for banning flowers from a hall of remembrance....
Feb 27 2008
TEENAGERS charged with making Wales greener have travelled to the Continent on a fact-finding mission....
Feb 27 2008
BRITISH visitors to Wales’ cultural attractions have injected £120m into the country’s economy, Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas revealed yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
A GRANDFATHER who fell through an open trap door in a pub has accepted compensation of more than £3,000....
Feb 27 2008
MINISTERS yesterday sanctioned a wave of big new casinos – including one in Swansea – despite ditching the biggest “super- casino” over fears it would cause rising crime and increased addiction to gambling....
Feb 27 2008
A WOMAN who claims she suffered brain damage as a newborn baby 22 years ago following heart treatment at Bristol Royal Infirmary yesterday won her High Court action....
Feb 27 2008
THE gap between Wales’ best and worst performing schools has widened and around one in 10 schools are “clearly not doing well enough”, the nation’s education watchdog warned yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
SECRET recordings which police claim caught a pensioner confessing a murder to his pet cats were played to a jury for the first time yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
WELSH soldiers will tomorrow meet Zulu leader Chief Buthelezi – whose royal ancestors fought in the famous 1879 battle at Rorke’s Drift....
Feb 27 2008
HOPES that two South Wales bodyguards kidnapped last May in Iraq are still alive have been raised by a video released of one of his colleagues....
Feb 27 2008
WELSH Conservatives have accused the Wales Millennium Centre management of a “cavalier” approach to public spending....
Feb 27 2008
FITTINGLY for a pool that it is hoped will inspire a generation of Welsh world beaters, it opened with a record....
Feb 27 2008
A GANG of bogus police officers broke into the home of a frail 93-year-old and conned her out of £200....
Feb 27 2008
THE Sikh schoolgirl in the middle of a bracelet row will attend a different school while she awaits a High Court ruling....
Feb 27 2008
RECORD-breaker Tom Haffield said his sights were set on the Olympic trials in six weeks after breaking David Davies’ 400m medley Welsh record....
Feb 27 2008
AN ELECTRICAL fault has been blamed for a fire in a first-floor flat’s kitchen....
Feb 27 2008
AN official helping to block attempts to preserve a beauty spot used to take his children for walks there....
Feb 27 2008
YOUNG swimmers taking part in the gala opening of Cardiff International pool spared no praise for the centre....
Feb 27 2008
SIXTEEN Cardiff City supporters are facing football banning orders after being arrested before the Bluebirds clash with Sheffield Wednesday....
Feb 27 2008
HARD-UP Cardiff City has a £5m shortfall in its budget because of continuing uncertainty surrounding its legal battle with Langston, it was revealed today....
Feb 27 2008
A ZULU chief whose ancestors once fought the Welsh, will join soldiers celebrating St David’s Day....
Feb 27 2008
THREE hundred tyres, gas cylinders and four tons of other waste were removed from the coast road between Cardiff and Newport....
Feb 27 2008
SERIOUS long-standing complaints about E.coli butcher William Tudor were ignored as councils twice awarded him the contract to supply schools across South Wales....
Feb 27 2008
CONSUMERS in Wales face some of Britain’s highest increases in water bills, the industry regulator revealed yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
A CONMAN dressed as a woman in order to use stolen bank cards to withdraw cash, police said yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
CARDIFF City have been given the go-ahead to retain standing areas at Ninian Park for the 2008-2009 season....
Feb 27 2008
A STEELWORKER was beaten and robbed by a gang of hoodies in a “violent and unprovoked” attack for £35....
Feb 27 2008
A CAMPAIGN was launched to increase support for sufferers of asbestos-related disease....
Feb 27 2008
A SEX offender who touched a second child 17 years after committing an offence against another girl is being kept out of prison so he can be treated....
Feb 27 2008
TOURISTS will have a special St David’s Day treat this year when a new city tour is launched on the national day....
Feb 27 2008
THREE hundred tyres, gas cylinders and four tons of other waste were removed from the coast road between Cardiff and Newport....
Feb 27 2008
A GRANDFATHER who fell through an open trap door in a pub has accepted compensation of more than £3,000....
Feb 27 2008
MINISTERS yesterday sanctioned a wave of big new casinos – including one in Swansea – despite ditching the biggest “super- casino” over fears it would cause rising crime and increased addiction to gambling....
Feb 27 2008
BRITISH visitors to Wales’ cultural attractions have injected £120m into the country’s economy, Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas revealed yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
PENSIONER Norma Jones has vowed to catch up on her reading as she retires from her job of 40 years as a... librarian!...
Feb 27 2008
THE opposition Conservative group is calling for a freeze on council tax bills in Cardiff....
Feb 27 2008
A COMMUNITY hall has been boosted by a grant for refurbishments from an environmental fund....
Feb 27 2008
CARDIFF University wants to award an honorary fellowship to a deserving member of the public – and is asking for YOUR help....
Feb 27 2008
THE FUNERALS of two of the tragic teenagers believed to have killed themselves in Bridgend are to take place....
Feb 27 2008
THE Government must harness the supermarkets’ power if it is to tackle obesity, climate change and the nation’s growing rubbish mountain, a report claimed yesterday....
Feb 27 2008
A WOMAN who claims she suffered brain damage as a newborn baby 22 years ago following heart treatment at Bristol Royal Infirmary yesterday won her High Court action....
Feb 27 2008
TECHNOLOGY aimed at helping businesses use the Welsh language has been so successful it is being copied as far afield as China and Sri Lanka....
Feb 27 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan has been urged to use his visit to the Chinese city of Chongqing next week to champion human rights in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics....
