Articles...
Mar 20 2008
THE death of cancer patient Ama Sumani will be on the conscience of this nation, according to the Archbishop of Wales....
Mar 20 2008
AN unlicensed speeding driver who wrecked a young woman’s life has been jailed for 12 months....
Mar 20 2008
CARDIFF’S top criminal judge continued his stand against domestic violence by getting tough on a man who beat up the mother of his children....
Mar 20 2008
SECURITY around a Valleys church is to be stepped up following two break-ins within a year....
Mar 20 2008
A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of man attacked in St Mary Street, Cardiff....
Mar 20 2008
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a dog trapped in a car which had rolled into the lake at Cyfarthfa Park, Merthyr Tydfil....
Mar 20 2008
CHILDREN staying at Women’s Aid refuges in South Wales will receive a special Easter treat thanks to a donation from a family baker....
Mar 20 2008
A DRINK-DRIVER told a court that he should have learned from his first mistake after being banned six years ago....
Mar 20 2008
A PAEDOPHILE was jailed for five and a half years after a judge told him he was a serious threat to all young girls....
Mar 20 2008
ARTIST John Packer has designed a new footbridge to link the communities surrounding Bargoed Woodland Park....
Mar 20 2008
HUNDREDS of excited Cardiff City fans queued up to meet some of the club’s young stars at the Echo roadshow....
Mar 20 2008
FROM posh restaurants to cheap chippies we are again looking for the best places to eat and drink in South Wales....
Mar 20 2008
A 20-YEAR-OLD killed himself after being threatened over money before his death, his inquest heard yesterday....
Mar 20 2008
A CORONER conducting inquests into the deaths of five young people in the Bridgend area yesterday called for a national suicide strategy....
Mar 20 2008
CARDIFF CITY Football Club was yesterday rescued from the brink of financial disaster after a High Court judge ruled that it would not have to repay immediately up to £24m to its creditors....
Mar 20 2008
A WELSH re-enactment society will be holding its 12th recreation of the American Civil War....
Mar 20 2008
MODERN technology is bringing South Wales’ industrial past to life....
Mar 20 2008
CANCER patient Anthony Jenkins was so happy with a course that helped him take back control of his life that he has become a volunteer helper....
Mar 20 2008
A BRIDGEND suicide victim was being threatened over money before his death....
Mar 20 2008
A YOUNG man was found hanging seven days after his girlfriend jilted him....
Mar 20 2008
ONE of 17 young people thought to have killed themselves in the same community was plagued by the death of his best friend, an inquest heard....
Mar 20 2008
AN inquest failed to establish why a young lorry driver hanged himself in his garage....
Mar 20 2008
ONE of 17 young people thought to have killed themselves in the same community was plagued by the death of his best friend, an inquest heard....
Mar 20 2008
MODERN technology is bringing South Wales’ industrial past to life....
Mar 20 2008
AN inquest failed to establish why a young lorry driver hanged himself in his garage....
Mar 20 2008
A YOUNG man was found hanging seven days after his girlfriend jilted him....
Mar 20 2008
SOUTH Wales Labour MPs this morning defended their decision not to back a Conservative plan to shelve post office closures....
Mar 20 2008
CAMPAIGNERS have hit out at South Wales Labour MPs after not one voted in favour of an amendment to save threatened post offices...
Mar 20 2008
A BRIDGEND suicide victim was being threatened over money before his death....
Mar 20 2008
RENOWNED war photographer Philip Jones Griffiths has died aged 72....
Mar 20 2008
A GHANAIAN woman deported from Wales while she was suffering from cancer has died, it was revealed last night ....
Mar 20 2008
A 70-YEAR mystery over the identity of a painting at a Welsh college has been resolved – after the artist’s relative tracked it down....
Mar 20 2008
Ieuan Wyn Jones is currently honing his vision for the future of Wales’ transport links. Responding to an article in yesterday’s Western Mail about rail funding, the Deputy First Minister and Minister for the Economy and Transport, writes of the green challenges ahead...
Mar 20 2008
MARKS & SPENCER pants have been voted the best on the high street, according to a leading consumer watchdog....
Mar 20 2008
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES grew up there, Dylan Thomas drank there and many of Wales’ rugby heroes had a relaxing post-Grand Slam day out there last Sunday....
Mar 20 2008
HUNDREDS of excited Cardiff City fans queued up to meet some of the club’s young stars at the Echo roadshow....
Mar 20 2008
TWO talented schoolchildren were given the honour of opening a surf shop after winning a competition to design its logo....
Mar 20 2008
“GIVE yourself up before we get to you” – that’s the message from police targeting people wanted on warrant who fail to appear in court....
Mar 20 2008
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help forge friendships with people with learning disabilities....
Mar 20 2008
FACE painting, an Easter egg hunt and a food fair will entertain visitors to Cardiff Bay over the bank holiday weekend....
Mar 20 2008
A 31-YEAR-OLD Pembrokeshire man who kicked a Falklands War veteran to death was jailed for six years at Swansea Crown Court yesterday ....
Mar 20 2008
HUNDREDS of cancer patients have been warned their test results might be wrong as another Welsh hospital yesterday admitted making mistakes in testing....
Mar 20 2008
A SERGEANT major was yesterday found guilty of taking indecent photographs and films of young girls while they stayed at an army camp....
Mar 20 2008
A MAN has died in a collision with a lorry at the site of one of the UK’s most powerful onshore wind farms, it was announced yesterday....
Mar 20 2008
THE first super-hospital for critically ill patients in Wales could be opened within the next five years....
Mar 20 2008
POLICE are still hunting a balaclava-clad trio who stole a stash of cash from a security van....
Mar 20 2008
SECURITY around a Valleys church is to be stepped up following two break-ins within a year....
Mar 20 2008
A FOOTBALL club has been left without kit, balls and memorabilia after a fire damaged its clubhouse....
Mar 20 2008
A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of man attacked in St Mary Street, Cardiff....
Mar 20 2008
SPORTS mad schoolchildren who want to spend their holidays at Uwic’s Dragon Camps should keep collecting Echo tokens....
Mar 20 2008
THEY have already pocketed thousands in free shares – and now staff at one Cardiff company are getting the UK’s top all-female pop group....
Mar 20 2008
YOUNG people have been helping established artists to create an art trail through Cardiff....
Mar 20 2008
ROCK gods Queen are set to play Cardiff in the autumn....
Mar 20 2008
CARDIFF City’s chairman Peter Ridsdale today spoke of his relief after the club was given a stay of execution in its court battle with creditor Langston....
Mar 20 2008
A DISUSED factory was badly damaged by a fire....
Mar 20 2008
MASON JONES’S mother revealed yesterday that learning the E.coli outbreak could have been avoided has made it harder to come to terms with her son’s death....
Mar 20 2008
VERYONE in Wales – whether they support Cardiff City or not – should breathe a sigh of relief that the High Court has found no reason to force the club to pay up £24m of its outstanding debt immediately....
Mar 20 2008
PROTESTERS against plans to replace a community pub with flats were today celebrating after a decision on the plans was deferred until after a site visit....
Mar 20 2008
ITS narrow winding roads and quaint stone cottages may not seem like a setting for pioneering development....
Mar 20 2008
WILLIAM Tudor’s right-hand man has insisted that his boss was a “good employer” and “fair”....
Mar 20 2008
A SOUTH Wales man accused of robbing a post office at gunpoint has been remanded in custody....
Mar 20 2008
THE mother of E.coli victim Mason Jones said today: “What happened to my son must never happen again.”...
Mar 20 2008
A 45-YEAR-OLD man was last night critically ill in hospital and three others were feared missing following a blaze at a disused hotel....
Mar 20 2008
HE WAS known throughout the world as “Bulldog Bill”....
Mar 20 2008
A POLICE force was yesterday accused of being unable to keep track of weapons handed in by the public for destruction, because of poor record keeping....
Mar 20 2008
FIVE years of fighting in Iraq have cost $US1 trillion and achieved very little, Plaid Cymru and the SNP said yesterday....
Mar 20 2008
COUNCILS will be able to run closure-threatened post offices, the Government confirmed yesterday....
Mar 20 2008
MANY maternity units closed temporarily last year and had to turn away women because they were full, figures have revealed....
