Articles...
Mar 1 2008
THE Government, business and unions were celebrating today after the US Air Force awarded a multi-billion pound contract to a US-European bid, which will help safeguard thousands of UK jobs....
Mar 1 2008
DAVID CAMERON today announced a Conservative policy review into the law-making powers of the Welsh Assembly....
Mar 1 2008
AN ALARMING brain drain can be exposed today – more than half of Wales’ graduates leave the nation to work elsewhere....
Mar 1 2008
A TEENAGER may be charged with the manslaughter of a father, a court heard yesterday....
Mar 1 2008
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy found hanging had drunk so much alcohol the night before his death that he was twice over the drink-drive limit....
Mar 1 2008
THERE was a time when Max Boyce’s image of Welsh rugby supporters paying their “weekly shilling for that January trip” was about as exotic as the away fixture got....
Mar 1 2008
A PLOT of land where eight terraced houses used to stand may be used for new residential development....
Mar 1 2008
SOUTH Wales has escaped unscathed despite being battered by high winds and rain....
Mar 1 2008
TAX officials are planning to close and downsize offices in South Wales but claim the move is not linked to previously announced job cuts....
Mar 1 2008
THE Wales Millennium Centre has hit back at criticism from the Welsh Conservatives over the way it dealt with a request under Freedom of Information Act....
Mar 1 2008
WAR has been declared on men who hit their partners by a top judge....
Mar 1 2008
OH, how the way Mother Nature can change even the habits of us seasoned gardeners....
Mar 1 2008
A KENYAN brought up in New Zealand who lives in England is cutting 250,000 daffodils every week on his Welsh farm....
Mar 1 2008
CONFIDENT Cardiff City Supporters’ Club chief Vince Alm has booked 70 coaches ahead of next Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Middlesbrough....
Mar 1 2008
SAMANTHA Jones used the leap year – and modern technology – to her advantage when she proposed to her boyfriend John Imray....
Mar 1 2008
PROSECUTORS are considering whether to bring more serious charges against the teenager accused of assaulting Nicholas Baty....
Mar 1 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan has set out his vision for changes to the health service in Wales....
Mar 1 2008
THE search for this year’s Miss Wales is hotting up, with the competition more likely to unearth a Welsh Wonder Woman....
Mar 1 2008
DISTRACTION burglars pretending to be police officers have been visiting homes preying on vulnerable targets....
Mar 1 2008
POLICE are appealing for information about a missing man....
Mar 1 2008
DETECTIVES in South Wales have been asked to help police digging for human remains at a Jersey care home....
Mar 1 2008
THE families of two men from South Wales held captive in Iraq for nine months have begged for their safe release....
Mar 1 2008
RESEARCHERS in North Wales have received worldwide recognition for their progress in the quest for the “perfect potato”....
Mar 1 2008
UNION leaders yesterday revealed the date on which teachers in Wales could take their first strike action in a generation over the issue of pay....
Mar 1 2008
POLICE who arrested a man accused of murdering his wife after they rowed over their pet dog, said he was “very, very calm and not upset”, a jury heard yesterday....
Mar 1 2008
OWAIN Glyndwr has been unveiled as the nation’s leading icon from Welsh history and Sir Anthony Hopkins is our favourite living Welsh person, according to a survey out today....
Mar 1 2008
WELSH Conservative leader Nick Bourne will today launch a strident attack on the coalition Assembly Government, accusing Labour of placing Wales in a “time warp” and branding Plaid their “lap dogs”....
Mar 1 2008
A PLAID Cymru politician has warned that the future of the Welsh constitution is at risk as a result of Conservative opposition to devolving housing powers to Wales....
Mar 1 2008
A POLLING organisation has apologised after one of its interviewers pronounced Plaid Cymru “Plaid Simroo”....
Mar 1 2008
IN HONOUR of St David’s Day, ITV is reminding viewers the first words ever heard in Coronation Street were uttered by a Welsh actress....
Mar 1 2008
ONE of Wales’ top business entrepreneurs, two Nobel Prize winners and the Lord Mayor of London were today honoured by First Minister Rhodri Morgan for their contribution to Wales’ promotion across the world....
Mar 1 2008
LABOUR AM Huw Lewis has called for St David’s Day to become a national holiday to celebrate “the working people of Wales”....
Mar 1 2008
IN yesterday’s report of Cardiff’s council tax rise, we used incorrect figures to calculate the rise in the total bill for next year....
Mar 1 2008
GREASE legend Olivia Newton-John has traced her Welsh roots back to her Cardiff great-grandmother....
Mar 1 2008
After 38 years at the Echo, outgoing political editor Phillip Nifield has seen many changes to the Cardiff skyline. Here’s a few of the revolutionary ideas which never quite made it beyond the drawing board......
Mar 1 2008
A CONTROVERSIAL journalist dubbed “a spokesman for terrorists” is to speak in Cardiff on Monday....
Mar 1 2008
A WEEK of events will celebrate International Women’s Day at the Butetown History and Arts Centre in Cardiff....
Mar 1 2008
SALES of upmarket Bentleys are accelerating faster in Cardiff than most other parts of the UK....
Mar 1 2008
COUNCILLORS are being asked to agree to waive parking charges for delegates attending a two-day conference in Merthyr Tydfil....
Mar 1 2008
THE NHS is to undergo an “industrial revolution” in Wales to improve patient care....
Mar 1 2008
S4C yesterday announced a major expansion of its children’s programming....
Mar 1 2008
SELF-PROCLAIMED Prince of Wales Owain Glyndr features on a new set of stamps celebrating the Royal Houses of the British Monarchy....
Mar 1 2008
Union officials at the DVLA in Swansea said most staff supported yesterday’s one-day strike over pay....
Mar 1 2008
A SENIOR BBC official has sought to neutralise concerns about the Corporation’s Welsh future, predicting that a process of “internal devolution” will make it even stronger....
Mar 1 2008
PLANS for 850 civil service job cuts around Wales were confirmed by the Government yesterday, prompting angry claims that attempts to foster economic growth in poorer areas were being undermined....
Mar 1 2008
A 19-YEAR-OLD was car-jacked and forced to withdraw £150 from his bank account after being threatened with a weapon....
Mar 1 2008
JUST like millions of devoted young daughters, Emma and Sophie will be giving their mum a Mother’s Day card they made at school....
Mar 1 2008
RUNNERS are limbering up to take part in the third annual Echo-British Military Fitness run....
Mar 1 2008
A PADDINGTON fan has spoken of how she stuck to the famous plea to “please look after this bear” when she found a special teddy left at a Welsh train station....
Mar 1 2008
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Dedwydd! Happy St David's Day to you from all of us at icWales!...
Mar 1 2008
A FORMER bank manager was jailed yesterday for stealing £160,000 from local church groups, a charity and a company....
Mar 1 2008
A PENSIONER who allegedly confessed a murder while talking to his pet cats also talked to his cutlery, a court was told yesterday....
