Articles...
Mar 7 2008
“MAMMA, I’m dying.” These were the words Mason Jones spoke to his mother as he was admitted to hospital....
Mar 7 2008
THE inflation busting pay-rise for AMs would reflect the increased workload in Cardiff Bay, Presiding Officer Dafydd Elis Thomas said yesterday....
Mar 7 2008
A SIX-LEGGED octopus found off the coast of Anglesey should be returned to the wild and not held as a “side-show freak”, an animal rights group said yesterday....
Mar 7 2008
ORGANISERS of the Royal Welsh Show are to improve parking at this summer’s event in a bid to avert a repeat of last year’s traffic chaos....
Mar 7 2008
POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about a 55-year-old man missing for more than a week....
Mar 7 2008
AN elderly woman had to be cut free from a car after a crash early today....
Mar 7 2008
A WOMAN was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation after a fire early today....
Mar 7 2008
A WELL-USED COMMUNITY centre is in line for a major facelift after it was awarded £43,000 funding....
Mar 7 2008
PEOPLE in Merthyr Tydfil are being urged to have a say in shaping their future health services....
Mar 7 2008
THE death of a man who was assaulted outside a gym is now being treated as murder....
Mar 7 2008
WORK is set to begin on reducing the risk of flooding in one area of the city....
Mar 7 2008
A COUNCIL planning official “made a mockery” of his own department, a watchdog said today....
Mar 7 2008
A VETERAN peace campaigner from South Wales may be forced to end her vigil outside a nuclear weapons base....
Mar 7 2008
A MOTORIST accused of trying to drive into a community support officer who had put a parking ticket on his car is on bail today after the charge was dropped....
Mar 7 2008
CHILDREN across South Wales dressed up as characters from their favourite books as part of World Book Day....
Mar 7 2008
Sharon Mills, the mother of Mason Jones, went to the E.coli public inquiry yesterday, determined to tell Wales that E.coli is not just a tummy ache. Her emotional evidence revealed the full horror of Mason’s illness and the helplessness she and partner Nathan Jones felt as they watched their son die. Health Editor Madeleine Brindley reports...
Mar 7 2008
LEARNING in schools is being disrupted to an unprecedented level by the increasing pressures pupils face outside the classroom, a conference will be told today....
Mar 7 2008
MORE than half of Welsh motorists admit there is a high chance they would fail their driving test if forced to take a re-sit....
Mar 7 2008
More pupils will be permanently barred from school unless mental health support services are improved, a survey of head teachers predicts....
Mar 7 2008
PAINT that could generate as much electricity as 50 wind farms is being developed by Welsh scientists....
Mar 7 2008
THE Assembly Government was last night accused of a cover-up after refusing to release letters between Peter Hain and First Minister Rhodri Morgan about the Assembly’s new lawmaking powers....
Mar 7 2008
A HUGE row erupted last night after an Assembly panel recommended an inflation-busting pay rise of 8.3% for its fellow AMs....
Mar 7 2008
A POLICE officer was yesterday cleared of assaulting a woman and performing a sex act in front of her two young children....
Mar 7 2008
A 13-ACRE plot of land for the new £43m Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan has been bought....
Mar 7 2008
HEROIN addicts’ families have painted portraits of their loved ones as part of a support network....
Mar 7 2008
A WELL-USED COMMUNITY centre is in line for a major facelift after it was awarded £43,000 funding....
Mar 7 2008
SCIENCE experts will be asked about the big issues at a “question time” event next Tuesday....
Mar 7 2008
FOUR Welsh soldiers today receive some of the most prestigious military honours given to members of the armed forces for their heroic efforts during the war in Iraq....
Mar 7 2008
TWO people were arrested yesterday after a stolen car was used in a ram raid on a supermarket....
Mar 7 2008
THE former manager of a doctors’ practice who stole more than £100,000 has been ordered to pay back an additional £250,000 or face three years in jail....
Mar 7 2008
A POSTMAN has been dismissed after failing to deliver up to 200 items of business mail....
Mar 7 2008
HARD work is clearly the secret to a long life as Edna Jones celebrates her 105th birthday....
Mar 7 2008
The ex-Royal Marines commando, who is now the boss of Cardiff call centre Conduit, is doing his bit for charity....
Mar 7 2008
A HOODED gunman today threatened to shoot a takeaway driver on a city estate....
Mar 7 2008
A WELSH MP who defied Lib-Dem instructions and voted for a referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty said last night he had had an “honest difference of opinion” with party leader Nick Clegg....
Mar 7 2008
A TORY government would treble the tax on alcopops in a bid to cut teenage binge-drinking, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne will announce today....
Mar 7 2008
WELSH Conservatives will highlight council tax rises as part of their local election campaign – but admitted they could not promise lower rates....
Mar 7 2008
HE may look scary but Neil Evans is no mean marine!...
Mar 7 2008
WELSH tourism will be the focus next week as a string of events are held to demonstrate its importance....
Mar 7 2008
THE Choose Fairtrade bus is to visit Cardiff Bay tomorrow....
Mar 7 2008
RHYDIAN Roberts wants to be the David Beckham of the music world....
Mar 7 2008
A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl has told a jury she was raped in the summer holidays by an older boy when a group of friends gathered in a field at night....
Mar 7 2008
A TEENAGE robber on a pink mountain bike stole money from a 21-year-old man....
Mar 7 2008
WELSH Conservatives yesterday defended their record on council tax as the party launched an advertising campaign ahead of May’s local authority elections....
Mar 7 2008
THE mother of film star Rufus Sewell has spoken of her reasons to put one of Wales’ best-known homes on the market....
Mar 7 2008
CONTROVERSIAL all-women short-lists for Westminster elections will be used until 2030, Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman announced yesterday – with a promise to focus on “winning the argument” rather than forcing local parties to adopt them....
Mar 7 2008
BARRIE James and his dog Diva will be showing what they can do in the Crufts arena this weekend....
Mar 7 2008
NOT one South Wales MP thought you – the people who elected them – should have a vote on whether Britain accepts new powers for Europe, the Echo can reveal today....
Mar 7 2008
CHILDREN as young as 19 months can understand basic jokes and comical behaviour, Welsh researchers have discovered....
Mar 7 2008
A SMALL army of Harry Potters accompanied Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi to school yesterday as schools across Wales celebrated World Book Day....
Mar 7 2008
EXCITED South Wales sports fans are gearing up for a grandstand weekend of crunch contests....
Mar 7 2008
SOLDIERS have been honoured for braving terrifying and difficult confrontations in Iraq....
Mar 7 2008
COUNCIL leader Rodney Berman has blamed rising crime figures on central Government withholding cash from South Wales Police....
Mar 7 2008
THREE current and eight former police officers will wait another year before being told whether they will face criminal charges arising out of Wales’ most notorious miscarriage of justice case....
Mar 7 2008
COUPLES in Wales are more likely to sleep in separate beds to get a good night’s sleep than anywhere else in Britain....