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Mar 19 2008
FA Cup contenders Cardiff City were rescued from the brink of financial disaster today when a High Court judge rejected a bank’s pre-emptive bid to secure immediate repayment of up to £24 million....
Mar 19 2008
CARDIFF Bus has announced a rise in fares to avoid having to cut services....
Mar 19 2008
A REVIEW of the inspection regime at the abattoir which supplied E.coli butcher William Tudor has said officials did everything they could to improve conditions....
Mar 19 2008
A PEEPING Tom attached a mirror to the end of a piece of wood to spy on his next-door neighbour as she undressed, a court heard yesterday. ...
Mar 19 2008
THE funeral of police chief Michael Todd will be held this Friday near his family home, it was announced yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
THE world’s biggest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, completed its first commercial flight to Europe at Heathrow Airport yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
TWO motorists accused of causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving walked free from court yesterday. ...
Mar 19 2008
TWO burglars were jailed yesterday for the manslaughter of an elderly victim....
Mar 19 2008
THE demise of the traditional family threatens the education of a generation of children, teachers warned yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
SCHOOLCHILDREN were stopped by police yesterday as part of a crack down on truancy....
Mar 19 2008
THREE men were injured in a street robbery. The men were approached in Swansea’s Page Street after leaving a Costcutter supermarket at 3.10am....
Mar 19 2008
A 38-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with two armed robberies in Wales plus several similar hold ups across the UK....
Mar 19 2008
A WELSH expatriate who shot and strangled his wife before hiding her body in a back-garden oil drum for 23 years is beginning a 21-year sentence in an Australian jail....
Mar 19 2008
NEW ambulances capable of carrying patients weighing up to 50 stone will be introduced in Wales....
Mar 19 2008
THREE trade unions have accused Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells of “endangering people’s lives in Colombia” in comments he made to the Western Mail....
Mar 19 2008
THE first transfer of power from Westminster to the Assembly under the updated devolution settlement was approved by MPs yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
AROUND 50,000 Welsh children may be being denied access to their grandparents because of the breakdown of family relationships, new figures reveal....
Mar 19 2008
ENGLISH hospitals near the border are losing tens of millions of pounds because of anomalies in the way Wales and England pay for treatment, an NHS Trust chief executive said yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
SUPPORTERS of Lembit Opik threw a protective arm around the Lib-Dem MP yesterday after his ex-fiancee made a series of allegations about his private life....
Mar 19 2008
A PEEPING Tom attached a mirror to the end of a piece of wood to spy on a woman in his street as she undressed, a court heard....
Mar 19 2008
A COMMEMORATIVE bench dedicated to the memory of South Wales Valleys tourism leader Mick Payne has been unveiled....
Mar 19 2008
THREE robbers who stole cash from a security van delivering to a superstore cashpoint face a battle to conceal unique evidence....
Mar 19 2008
FAMILY breakdowns mean around 50,000 Welsh children may be denied access to their grandparents....
Mar 19 2008
PLAID AM Chris Franks is calling for a Welsh cricket team to play in the World Cup....
Mar 19 2008
NEW ambulances have been introduced to help transport obese patients....
Mar 19 2008
A JURY cleared a woman of causing a death crash by dangerous driving – but failed to tell her she was actually convicted of a lesser charge....
Mar 19 2008
A WOMAN who is paralysed from the neck down fears she will be forced to live in a nursing home because of funding cutbacks in her care....
Mar 19 2008
THE funeral of a student who died after his heater malfunctioned in his apartment is due to take place today....
Mar 19 2008
LABOUR MPs who campaigned locally against axing post offices have been urged to vote against their own Government today....
Mar 19 2008
A MAN has been jailed for two years for attacking a disabled smoker who did not hear his request to stub out his cigarette....
Mar 19 2008
ALL playgrounds in Cardiff are set to be given a 21st-Century facelift....
Mar 19 2008
WELSH soul star Duffy can emulate Amy Winehouse by breaking the elusive American market, music industry experts predicted yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
A NON-smoker was jailed for two years yesterday for attacking a “deaf and mute” man who refused to stub out a cigarette....
Mar 19 2008
FOOTBALL fans have smashed records at Ninian Park as 900 season tickets were sold in one day – weeks before Cardiff City’s Wembley date....
Mar 19 2008
SITCOM Gavin And Stacey has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award....
Mar 19 2008
A DRUNKEN boyfriend who damaged the windows of his girlfriend’s house has been given a conditional discharge....
Mar 19 2008
Jamie Dean Wilkes, 21, of Richmond Road, Roath, Cardiff, was given an 18-month community order after he pleaded guilty to stealing £105 of DVD box sets from Virgin Megastore and failing to surrender to bail....
Mar 19 2008
PLANS to build a controversial road through Cardiff’s Bute Park have been withdrawn for further consideration....
Mar 19 2008
“It’s disgusting. It’s just a birthday party. Fun used to be just fun. You had some friends round and that was it.”...
Mar 19 2008
A COMMEMORATIVE bench dedicated to the memory of South Wales Valleys tourism leader Mick Payne has been unveiled....
Mar 19 2008
A VETERAN councillor has resigned from the Labour Party after being deselected for May’s council election....
Mar 19 2008
THE grave-robbing dentist who stole tissue from corpses that was implanted into 15 South Wales patients has pleaded guilty....
Mar 19 2008
A JURY has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a 17-year-old youth accused of raping a girl in a field....
Mar 19 2008
FOOTBALL fans have smashed records at Ninian Park as 900 season tickets were sold in one day – weeks before Cardiff City’s Wembley date....
Mar 19 2008
THE labour of love at the heart of Wales’ Grand Slam success has been laid bare in a new documentary....
Mar 19 2008
EASTER fun hunters can look forward to an egg-stravaganza of family events around South Wales this year....
Mar 19 2008
JOBCENTRE civil servants across South Wales are on strike today....
Mar 19 2008
THE COUPLE: Cheryl Packwood, 45, a mental health nurse at Swansea Prison, and Wayne Purchase, 55, a volunteer coastguard, from Porthcawl....
Mar 19 2008
A VALLEYS community is being urged to have its say on the future of a vandalised former cemetery lodge....
Mar 19 2008
A MORTGAGE adviser stole from his boss after his partner left him struggling to bring up his son alone....
Mar 19 2008
GRAPPLING fans can try their hand at the sport....
Mar 19 2008
FANS travelling to the EDF Energy Cup double-header at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium this weekend are being advised to plan their journeys carefully....
Mar 19 2008
INSPECTORS charged with overseeing the abattoir which supplied E.coli butcher William Tudor were bullied and assaulted by its owners, it has been claimed....
Mar 19 2008
THE British Heart Foundation is calling for more volunteers in Cardiff to help in the fight against heart disease....
Mar 19 2008
A SOUTH Wales man has appeared in court charged with the armed robbery of an Essex post office....
Mar 19 2008
WELSH learners will be given a bigger and better welcome than ever before at the National Eisteddfod in the capital this summer....
Mar 19 2008
THE inquiry has heard further allegations about bad practice and potential fraud at JE Tudor & Son....
Mar 19 2008
PRICES are going up at Cardiff International Pool – less than three months after its grand opening....
Mar 19 2008
CONSULTANT cancer specialists will be swapping the hospital for a charity catwalk....
Mar 19 2008
AN explosive science lesson gave pupils food for thought....
Mar 19 2008
ADULTS who are changing their lives by learning new skills – and the employers who support them – will be honoured at an awards ceremony this year....
Mar 19 2008
INSPECTORS charged with overseeing the abattoir which supplied E.coli butcher William Tudor were “bullied” and “assaulted” by its owners, it was claimed yesterday....
Mar 19 2008
A TRAIN service which takes passengers from Rhondda Cynon Taf to the Welsh capital in 17 mins will be launched today....
Mar 19 2008
WALES’ Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones was branded “utterly irresponsible” yesterday after funding for Welsh rail schemes was slashed to almost nothing....
Mar 19 2008
IT is the 14,000-year-old version of a snow dome....
Mar 19 2008
MORE and more of us are doing our shopping on the internet these days, but how often do we remember to check out the sales online?...
Mar 19 2008
PARENTS are pressurising schools to sack teachers over disputes regarding their children, it emerged yesterday....
