Articles...
Mar 31 2008
THE cost of private schooling has long been seen as the preserve of the wealthy willing to pay for the privilege of a place at the likes of Eton or Harrow....
Mar 31 2008
TWO teenaged girls who died in a head-on crash on one of Wales’ busiest roads were travelling in a sports car bought as an 18th birthday present, it emerged last night....
Mar 31 2008
PLAID leader Ieuan Wyn Jones has defended the nationalists’ role in Government....
Mar 31 2008
A LONG-STANDING magistrate is bowing out of the legal profession after more than a quarter of a century of service....
Mar 31 2008
A TOWN’S freemen will celebrate their status at a dinner in May....
Mar 31 2008
ONE of Caerphilly’s oldest buildings could be brought to life again with a little magic and miracles....
Mar 31 2008
A YOUNG band aiming to hit the big time have completed two new singles – to be released in the summer....
Mar 31 2008
SOUTH Wales businesses will learn more about saving the environment at a seminar next month....
Mar 31 2008
PAST Echo Champion Teacher Christine Smith is forging ahead with her efforts to help children....
Mar 31 2008
A FAMILY’S faith in the justice system has been shaken after a Cardiff businessman who changed tyres on a van involved in their son’s fatal crash walked free from court....
Mar 31 2008
CHILDREN walking to school should be safer thanks to a £190,000 Government grant....
Mar 31 2008
THE family of Marc Morgan say they will never come to terms with their loss....
Mar 31 2008
TRAFFIC ground to a halt on one of South Wales’ busiest roads when a car smashed into the central reservation....
Mar 31 2008
TRAVEL company National Express, travel partner to the FA Cup, is running a specially branded Cardiff City Journey of Honour coach to Wembley....
Mar 31 2008
WELSH patients are abusing free prescriptions by demanding medicines they could easily and cheaply buy over the counter....
Mar 31 2008
SUE James chose a career in nursing because the alternative as a policewoman meant pounding the beat in pouring rain....
Mar 31 2008
A CAMPAIGN to improve the lives of autistic adults in Wales is launched this week....
Mar 31 2008
EIGHT students have been taught skills so they can get jobs....
Mar 31 2008
AN 80-year-old pensioner had his winter fuel allowance snatched from his hand by his own grandson....
Mar 31 2008
A FEMALE pedestrian who was struck by a car is said to be in a critical but stable condition....
Mar 31 2008
ONE of Caerphilly’s oldest buildings could be brought to life again with a little magic and miracles....
Mar 31 2008
WHEN Andy Ollerenshaw popped out on a summer’s night to watch Chertsey play he never thought he would end up watching Cardiff City at Wembley....
Mar 31 2008
TRIBUTES have today been paid to teenage best friends who were killed in a car crash....
Mar 31 2008
THOUSANDS of seats at Cardiff City’s Wembley FA Cup semi-final match could be left empty – despite massive demand from Bluebirds fans....
Mar 31 2008
A MAN was killed when his car plunged 100ft from a seaside cliff....
Mar 31 2008
A CONSERVATION group is urging the Welsh Assembly not to accept a proposal to cull badgers in a bid to eradicate tuberculosis in cattle....
Mar 31 2008
ACADEMICS from across the world will be coming together at Cardiff University for a conference on helping Africa....
Mar 31 2008
FOR more than a year Colette White has been seeking answers surrounding the death of her son Matthew....
Mar 31 2008
THERE could be a revival of coal mining in Wales after a report into the issue was backed by unions and employers....
Mar 31 2008
A GROUP of former senior NHS executives has spoken of their fears that all patients living in North Wales who need specialist treatment could be forced to travel to South Wales....
Mar 31 2008
JUST 79 people have been issued with fines for breaking the smoking ban in Wales during its first year. The surprisingly low figure is revealed today on the eve of the first anniversary of the ban in Wales....
Mar 31 2008
A SCHEME which created a non-emergency number as an alternative to 999 has been saved by four councils after the Home Office pulled funding, it was confirmed today....
Mar 31 2008
LEMBIT OPIK has made late declarations for a series of payments made to him by a public relations firm, he confirmed yesterday....
Mar 31 2008
LIFE expectancy in Wales is around 80 years but in Ethiopia it is just 50 and this is one of the injustices that Welsh academics are to study today....
Mar 31 2008
A GROUP of green fingered schoolchildren will be heading for the Amazon Rainforest next year – if they can raise the funds to travel....
Mar 31 2008
YOUNG stars of the future shone at an event giving aspiring performers, directors and producers the chance to showcase their talent alongside their European counterparts....
Mar 31 2008
PLAID Cymru AM Chris Franks said his party is targeting Cardiff council seats in Riverside, Canton, Ely, Llanrumney and Fairwater on May 1....
Mar 31 2008
BRITAIN’S first professor of women’s history will be the main speaker at a United Nations conference in Cardiff....
Mar 31 2008
A TOWN’S freemen will celebrate their status at a dinner in May....
Mar 31 2008
A YOUNG band aiming to hit the big time have completed two new singles – to be released in the summer....
Mar 31 2008
A BAG of power tools were stolen from Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, on Friday night....
Mar 31 2008
MORE than 70 people have signed a petition against plans to build a house in a suburban garden....
Mar 31 2008
A FURIOUS row has broken out over plans to reopen part of Cardiff’s St Mary Street....
Mar 31 2008
Mohammed Amir, 28, of Plantagenet Street, Riverside, Cardiff, was fined £60 with £43 costs and a £15 victim surcharge after admitting failing to identify a driver suspected of driving through a red traffic light....
Mar 31 2008
A GROUP of Cardiff lawyers are hosting a conference advising organisations on the changes new legislation will bring....
Mar 31 2008
A missing waterproof jacket belonging to Michael Todd has been found near the spot where his body was discovered, it was confirmed last night....
Mar 31 2008
A MEMBER of the North Wales mountain rescue team involved in the search for police chief Michael Todd, said yesterday he “could have been saved” had they been called earlier....
Mar 31 2008
THE cost of property in Wales remained unchanged during March while prices across the border fell for the sixth month in a row, figures show today....
Mar 31 2008
A SUCCESSION of Plaid figures have expressed frustration at the convoluted system that must be followed before the Assembly can pass its own laws....
Mar 31 2008
COALITION partners Plaid Cymru and Labour were last night embroiled in a row over which party can lay claim to one of Welsh history’s most potent political movements....
Mar 31 2008
RURAL Affairs Minister Elin Jones told Plaid Cymru’s weekend spring conference it was time Wales had its own proper place at the table when the EU discussed farming matters....
Mar 31 2008
PATIENTS are demanding GPs write prescriptions for free head lice cream for their whole families, research has found....
Mar 31 2008
THEY brought us a culture of cafes and ice cream which remains a firm, everyday component of Welsh life....
Mar 31 2008
POLICE and community leaders have responded to messages that anti-social behaviour must be tackled....
Mar 31 2008
SPENDING a penny or two on a toilet could be the most invaluable money Anthony Hunt has spent....
Mar 31 2008
THREE protesters picketed a supermarket to campaign about the treatment of chickens....
Mar 31 2008
COUNCILS in South Wales are being urged to find better ways to measure performance and improve their risk assessments by the Auditor General....
Mar 31 2008
REGIONAL airports are charging travellers more than 11 per cent mark-up on currency....
Mar 31 2008
ACOUSTIC guitarists have the chance to open a show at St David’s Hall....
Mar 31 2008
Community leaders held a dinner in Cardiff to celebrate the appointment of the Government’s first Muslim minister....
Mar 31 2008
IT’S the pear-based sparkling drink that has long had a reputation as one of the naffest of beverages....
Mar 31 2008
WALES could rekindle its depleted mining heritage if the government backed clean coal technology, according to an industry expert....
Mar 31 2008
AN ANONYMOUS-LOOKING horsebox parked at the side of a busy road is an unlikely weapon in the ongoing battle against speeding motorists....
Mar 31 2008
THE first public debate to examine one of the most controversial Bills currently passing through the UK Houses of Parliament will be held next month....
Mar 31 2008
THE number of people with epilepsy in Wales who suffer seizures could be reduced if a new service is rolled out nationwide....
Mar 31 2008
AN ambulance man is carrying his three-year-old son up 886m Pen-y-Fan as he trains to trek to Everest base camp....
Mar 31 2008
PARKING fines are to be made fairer and easier to challenge thanks to a “new deal for drivers” from the Welsh Assembly Government....
Mar 31 2008
FANS of I’d Do Anything contestant Sarah Lark faced a nail-biting wait to learn their girl was safely through to next week’s show....
Mar 31 2008
A TEENAGER charged with murder was due in court again today....
Mar 31 2008
CHARLOTTE Church has vowed to take her baby daughter Ruby to work when she makes her TV comeback....
