Articles...
Apr 10 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan was shaken but unhurt today after the car he was travelling in was shunted from behind in a traffic pile up....
Apr 10 2008
A DRUG dealer has admitted possessing exploding ammunition banned by international law....
Apr 10 2008
WEATHER presenter Sian Lloyd has launched her autobiography, A Funny Kind of Love, detailing moving on from her failed engagement to Liberal Democrat politician Lembit Opik to marrying the love of her life....
Apr 10 2008
The corruption probe which led to the arrest of two Birmingham City Football Club executives is focusing on payments to a football agent and two players, the club said today....
Apr 10 2008
A LEADING consumer watchdog is warning energy customers in Wales could be paying as much as £47m too much for their gas and electricity....
Apr 10 2008
Bank of England policymakers cut interest rates to 5% today in the latest attempt to shore up the economy in the face of a deepening credit crisis....
Apr 10 2008
A taxi driver licensed to drive children to school despite having indecent assault convictions was jailed indefinitely today for sexual offences on a young girl....
Apr 10 2008
NEWPORT Wetlands will next week be declared Wales’ first urban national nature reserve....
Apr 10 2008
ALMOST 2,000 people are still waiting more than 14 weeks for vital diagnostic tests....
Apr 10 2008
THE family of a man who died after a car crash on the A465 at Neath yesterday paid tribute to a “devoted” father....
Apr 10 2008
A 46-YEAR-OLD man who died two days after a street attack was yesterday named as John Sully from Caerleon, near Newport....
Apr 10 2008
WELSH pupils are taking their first lessons in a new science and maths block which cost £3m....
Apr 10 2008
THE director of the Proms yesterday denied that the announcement of a Doctor Who-themed concert was a sign of “dumbing down”....
Apr 10 2008
BIRMINGHAM City managing director Karren Brady and co-owner David Sullivan were arrested yesterday by police investigating alleged corruption in English football....
Apr 10 2008
A ROW has erupted at the Assembly over a multi-million pound commitment to making one of South Wales’ most dangerous roads safer....
Apr 10 2008
A 46-YEAR-OLD man who died two days after a street attack was yesterday named as John Sully from Caerleon, near Newport....
Apr 10 2008
IT’S your last chance to nominate the restaurant, pub, takeaway or snack bar you think serves up a delicious experience for an award....
Apr 10 2008
CHILDREN are being invited to sharpen up their general knowledge for a brand new series of Mastermind Cymru....
Apr 10 2008
MORE than a third of people in Cardiff blame banks for rising card fraud and identity theft, according to researchers....
Apr 10 2008
THE mother of a man found hanged in Cardiff has made an emotional plea for the return of his beloved bike....
Apr 10 2008
A SUDANESE family living in Cardiff are appealing for the return of stolen jewellery handed down through their family for generations....
Apr 10 2008
THE Presiding Officer of the National Assembly has launched a strong attack on the British National Party as it puts forward more local election candidates than ever in Wales....
Apr 10 2008
MORRISONS stores throughout South Wales have launched their Charity of the Year 2008 partnership with the aim of helping to raise more than £1.5m for Help the Aged and ChildLine....
Apr 10 2008
BUSINESSMAN Tim Rich is jumping on his bike for charity in memory of his father – former Echo Editor Geoff Rich OBE, who helped set up the bike ride....
Apr 10 2008
CELEBRITIES, business people and councillors will become fundraising fugitives for a charity jail and bail....
Apr 10 2008
DR Who’s Tardis will be landing in the capital when a garden fit for a Timelord appears at the city’s answer to Chelsea....
Apr 10 2008
THE former clerk of the troubled Sully community council, who resigned claiming his character had been “besmirched”, is standing as an independent councillor for the village....
Apr 10 2008
TOMORROW could be D-Day for the closure-threatened St Donats Arts Centre in the Vale....
Apr 10 2008
A PLEA for people to be “horizontal heroes” and give blood has been made by the Welsh Blood service....
Apr 10 2008
BABY’S NAME: Samuel Thomas Phillip Worth...
Apr 10 2008
TWO sisters are driving a team of huskies 250km across the Arctic to help raise more than £10,000 for a cancer charity....
Apr 10 2008
BANKING giant HSBC last night reported a massive influx of inquiries from Welsh homeowners keen to take up its innovative fixed-rate mortgage deal....
Apr 10 2008
TORY leader David Cameron pulled out of a campaign visit to Wales yesterday for “personal reasons”....
Apr 10 2008
THE first organisation solely dedicated to aid recovery from depression is being launched in Wales tomorrow....
Apr 10 2008
THE only known nesting ospreys in Wales have laid their first egg of the season, it was announced yesterday....
Apr 10 2008
PLAID CYMRU yesterday formally launched its local government campaign with the promise of “lifting the dead hand of ‘business as usual’.”...
Apr 10 2008
NEW research today reveals what generations of mothers and housewives have known for decades – housework is good for you....
Apr 10 2008
YOUNG people in parts of rural Wales say they are too scared to get help for mental health problems....
Apr 10 2008
THE image of Wales’ councils as being full of old, grey-haired men has not changed in four years, despite a £1.6m “golden goodbye” scheme aimed at encouraging more diversity....
Apr 10 2008
CHRONIC asthmatic William Tindle who was hospitalised by the condition as a child is now stepping out to help others with the illness....
Apr 10 2008
KEEN runner Jeff Aston is continuing his record of running in all 27 London Marathons by taking part in Sunday’s race....
Apr 10 2008
SCHOOLGIRL Natalie Hanlon got on her bike to raise money for charity after her aunt had breast cancer....
Apr 10 2008
LESS than a year after the death of its founder, The Ed Evans Foundation will host its largest charity event....
Apr 10 2008
A FORMER security guard has denied claims he became a key player in a massive drugs ring after he found himself in financial trouble....
Apr 10 2008
PARENTS who fear their children could get hooked on drugs are being offered a lifeline by a national charity....
Apr 10 2008
THE “devastated” partner of a university lecturer found dead today paid tribute to the man he loved....
Apr 10 2008
A WOMAN has died in hospital after she apparently hanged herself following an argument with her boyfriend....
Apr 10 2008
A GREAT grandmother watched the entire Bluebirds semi-final with a broken wrist – after falling and breaking it just minutes before kick-off!...
Apr 10 2008
MEET Sion Lewis, the Cardiff City fan who today discovered that all eyes were on him as he watched the Bluebirds win at Wembley....
Apr 10 2008
THE father of Cardiff City’s FA Cup hero Joe Ledley has spoken of his pride following his son’s semi-final wonder goal....
Apr 10 2008
TRAINEE firefighters have been testing their skills in rescuing people from real-life situations....
Apr 10 2008
A FAMILY has paid tribute to one of Wales’ most famous bookmakers after he died in a car crash....
Apr 10 2008
A FORMER almshouse thought to date back to1600 is now a stunning family home that mixes the best of the past with the latest mod cons....
Apr 10 2008
INDEPENDENT candidates in Cardiff are hoping to do well in the May 1 council elections....
Apr 10 2008
IFOR Delme Bowen has taken pride in seeing the capital of Wales become “more Welsh” over the past 40 years....
Apr 10 2008
A BID is being made to transform Ebbw Vale into a leading theatre destination with the Assembly Government giving £40,000 of sponsorship money for a production of one of the world’s most acclaimed portrayals of the Iraq war....
Apr 10 2008
IN today’s cash rich, time poor society, teachers are complaining parents are too busy to toilet train their children....
Apr 10 2008
GAVIN & STACEY star Joanna Page says her success means she had no time for children... at the moment....
Apr 10 2008
CITY police say they have beaten a wave of crime that blighted city car parks last summer....
Apr 10 2008
ENGLISHMAN Stephen Terry, a chef who has worked alongside Marco Pierre White and Michel Roux and was Gordon Ramsay’s best man at his wedding, is this week bidding to represent Wales in the Great British Menu....
Apr 10 2008
HER work is seen in high streets all over the country and is widely recognised as the height of modern interior design chic....
Apr 10 2008
A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy ended up with severe facial blisters after three sunbed sessions on the same day at an unstaffed tanning shop....
Apr 10 2008
SHERELLE and Jarrod Matthews lived in two caravans about 100 miles apart for seven months while they built their dream home....
Apr 10 2008
THE Archbishop of Wales has declared the National Assembly’s law-making process “a mess” and in urgent need of reform....
Apr 10 2008
ONE of Wales’ leading technology entrepreneurs yesterday described his frustration that the Assembly Government had not taken forward his vision for how the nation’s economy could be transformed....
Apr 10 2008
A TEENAGER who fought with friends to save the life of a woman who apparently set out to hang herself has been left inconsolable by her death...
Apr 10 2008
A GULF War veteran will spend at least 15 years in jail after a court heard how he executed four members of his family....
Apr 10 2008
A RECORD number of HIV cases have been diagnosed in Wales over the past year – the highest rate since the start of the epidemic nearly 30 years ago....
Apr 10 2008
A PENSIONER foiled an attempted distraction burglary....
Apr 10 2008
COMMUNITY Safety Wardens in one South Wales county are doing their bit to help improve the area’s streets....
Apr 10 2008
A CITY-WIDE crime crackdown has resulted in a 40 per cent drop in robberies and 25 per cent drop in anti-social behaviour....
Apr 10 2008
A “RACIST” e-mail sent from a headteacher’s computer has prompted an investigation into her conduct....
Apr 10 2008
A WOMAN was threatened with a knife when robbers walked into her home as she watched TV....
Apr 10 2008
ASSEMBLY Members voted to formally oppose the Government’s Post Office closure programme....
Apr 10 2008
HABITAT’S Cardiff-born head of furniture design Bethan Gray has been chosen to come up with a new look for the National Eisteddfod chair....
Apr 10 2008
THE National Museum in Cardiff is set to be transformed into Wales’ first national art gallery under controversial new plans....
