Articles...
Mar 13 2008
A GP who prescribed painkillers to a young boy with E.coli O157 today said he did not know there was an outbreak in the South Wales valleys....
Mar 13 2008
A SCHIZOPHRENIC who tried to poison his care worker’s drink was detained in hospital yesterday....
Mar 13 2008
NIA WYN’S real-life story of how she coped with the birth of her disabled son has made the Wales Book of the Year long-list....
Mar 13 2008
THE NHS will not appeal against the High Court’s decision to award one of the Bristol heart scandal children a seven-figure payout....
Mar 13 2008
TWO police officers are to be commended for their efforts in jailing a drug addict who tortured and killed a two-year-old girl....
Mar 13 2008
POLICE and trading standards officers are hoping to beat bogus callers by holding an awareness day next week....
Mar 13 2008
RUNNERS are preparing to get on their marks and see the sights of the city in the Cardiff Half Marathon....
Mar 13 2008
A FATHER yesterday denied murdering his own son during a brief hearing at Cardiff Crown Court....
Mar 13 2008
A SERIAL rapist was facing life imprisonment yesterday for subjecting a mother of three to a terrifying knifepoint sex ordeal....
Mar 13 2008
A MOTHER yesterday gave a graphic account of how the E.coli O157 bug devastated her entire family....
Mar 13 2008
A MAJOR rift is looming between Labour and Plaid Cymru over the setting up of a Yes campaign for the next devolution referendum....
Mar 13 2008
A TOWN mayor accused of falsely claiming thousands of pounds in benefits yesterday suspended himself from duty with immediate effect....
Mar 13 2008
A YOUNG girl was sent home from a South Wales hospital at the start of the E.coli outbreak despite suffering from the potentially lethal infection....
Mar 13 2008
A GLITTERING array of sporting and screen stars gathered in Cardiff last night to celebrate former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas’s 100th cap....
Mar 13 2008
THE BODY of police chief Michael Todd was discovered face down in the snow beside a half empty bottle of gin, sources said....
Mar 13 2008
CONCERNS have been raised over plans to remove trees to build an access road to Cardiff’s Bute Park....
Mar 13 2008
POLICE today asked for help in finding a Cardiff woman with dyed purple cropped hair and whose front top teeth are missing....
Mar 13 2008
THE Government has backed down in its court battle with pensions campaigners without apologising to victims....
Mar 13 2008
MORE than 1,100 Easter eggs have been collected by 20 companies for underprivileged and seriously ill children....
Mar 13 2008
FAMOUS Welsh women were questioned on their career and lives to help a children’s charity....
Mar 13 2008
IAN Case has pledged to kick the habit and stub out cigarettes as part of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water customer service’s Year of Healthy Living....
Mar 13 2008
THEY were a couple who gripped a generation both on and off screen....
Mar 13 2008
YOUNGSTERS at a city primary school are rubbish and proud of it....
Mar 13 2008
ANTI-DRUGS campaigners today welcomed the jailing of a women’s cocaine smuggling gang for a total of 19 years....
Mar 13 2008
A FATHER has denied murdering his son during a hearing at Cardiff Crown Court....
Mar 13 2008
THE Budget has been branded “boring” and “safe” by families in South Wales....
Mar 13 2008
YOUR good luck messages to the Welsh team......
Mar 13 2008
HOODIES slapped, punched and robbed a schoolboy on his way home....
Mar 13 2008
A VANDALISED war memorial will finally be restored to its former glory....
Mar 13 2008
Prince William will attend Saturday’s Grand Slam decider at the Millennium Stadium, it was confirmed yesterday....
Mar 13 2008
A SOUTH Wales county is a safer place to live, according to new figures....
Mar 13 2008
DAVID Tame is showing he is all heart by challenging himself to do a million press-ups in a year for the British Heart Foundation....
Mar 13 2008
CARDIFF City star Joe Ledley has revealed his secret for footballing success – his own curry recipe!...
Mar 13 2008
YOUNG people in Caerphilly county have been delivering information leaflets and posters across the area to raise awareness about domestic abuse....
Mar 13 2008
WEMBLEY mania among Cardiff City fans has resulted in a surge of interest in Bluebirds memorabilia....
Mar 13 2008
YOUNGSTERS keen to spend their Easter holidays at Uwic’s Dragon Camps should keep collecting Echo tokens....
Mar 13 2008
PRIMARY school classes in Wales are among the largest in the developed world....
Mar 13 2008
A 49-YEAR-OLD man was left with blood clots on his brain after being attacked on his doorstep....
Mar 13 2008
WALES must lead the world by example and confront the cataclysmic consequences of climate change, one of Britain’s most respected scientists said last night....
Mar 13 2008
THE impact of global financial turmoil will last longer than expected, Chancellor Alistair Darling admitted yesterday – casting doubt on Labour’s ability to call a general election next year....
Mar 13 2008
DEPUTY First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones yesterday announced £117.6m in funding for local transport schemes....
Mar 13 2008
FUNDING worth £1.5m will be allocated to setting up new gypsy traveller sites in Wales....
Mar 13 2008
A PENSIONER has been the victim of a distraction burglary....
Mar 13 2008
CARDIFF City’s legal team have pledged to show today that Sam Hammam is heavily involved with the mysterious creditor threatening the club’s future....
Mar 13 2008
A SERGEANT major accused of filming young girls undressing asked a colleague to dispose of boxes as police waited to question him, a court heard today....
Mar 13 2008
A MR Universe hopeful is back bodybuilding after almost severing his arm in a freak accident....
Mar 13 2008
TRIBUTES were paid today to the renowned classical composer, South Wales-born Alun Hoddinott who has died aged 78....
Mar 13 2008
ANXIOUS buyers waiting for luxury houses to be built by trouble-hit Meadgate Homes will see their properties completed, the Echo understands....
Mar 13 2008
THE First Minister has had to cancel a Cardiff engagement because he is suffering with a cold....
Mar 13 2008
THE controversial 8.3 per cent pay hike for Assembly Members has sparked anger towards the Cardiff Bay body among voters....
Mar 13 2008
A MAN became so obsessed with the legal system that he began stealing to find out what it was like to be a criminal....
Mar 13 2008
WHEN Sarah Cornelius’ son Joshua was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of just five, she was determined to make every day he had left an experience....
Mar 13 2008
EXTRA coach services linking Cardiff to London have been put on to meet rising customer demand....
Mar 13 2008
THE Welsh Blood Service will be making an appearance in Bargoed later this month and donors are being asked to make an effort to go along....
Mar 13 2008
THREE South Wales projects are in the running for the “property Oscars”....
Mar 13 2008
A BOY watched helplessly as his best friend slid down a hill on his skateboard and into the path of a car....
Mar 13 2008
FREE cycle training will be on offer for the over-nines this summer at the Road Safety Centre, at Briardene, North Road, Cardiff. Classes will be held from March 31 to April 4, July 21 to 25 and in August. For details call 029 2061 9907....
Mar 13 2008
ORGANISERS are predicting that this year’s Heads of the Valleys Spring Clean will be the biggest ever....
Mar 13 2008
SIMON Watts is off to Monaco thanks to his customer service skills....
Mar 13 2008
BABY’S NAME: Megan Skye Bolter....
Mar 13 2008
AN EASTER FEAST of historic events comes to Caerphilly Castle later this month....
Mar 13 2008
A PROGRAMME aiming to improve deprived communities must involve public sector bodies to progress its work, according to a politician....
Mar 13 2008
WHEN it comes to split sporting loyalties across the family dining table, rarely can the age-old red-versus-blue banter have been found in such lofty circles as it will be in the Millennium Stadium’s VIP box on Saturday....
Mar 13 2008
JONATHAN and Elsa Matthews like nothing better on a hot summer’s day than to take a dip in the swimming pool with their children....
Mar 13 2008
A PULPIT has been converted into a bar in one striking home....
Mar 13 2008
A THREE-WAY tax sting on drinkers, polluting cars and the oil industry was launched by Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday as he fought to stave off a recession and continue Labour’s social policies....
Mar 13 2008
THE number of people waiting for a kidney transplant in Wales has risen by 52% in the past six years....
Mar 13 2008
TRIBUTES were paid last night to eminent Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott who has died at the age of 78....
