Articles...
Apr 11 2008
ENGLISH cricket chiefs have confirmed that the new Swalec Stadium in Cardiff will host the opening Ashes Test in July next year....
Apr 11 2008
THE peaceful hilltop park where a young Dylan Thomas and pals stalked the border shrubs dressed as cowboys and indians is in line for a revamp....
Apr 11 2008
THE new TV series of Britain’s Got Talent begins this weekend and the search kicks off in Cardiff – the same place 2007’s winner Paul Potts was discovered last year....
Apr 11 2008
A TRAIL of destruction was left after a car crashed while being pursued by police....
Apr 11 2008
A RETIRED coach driver died from chronic alcohol abuse, an inquest heard....
Apr 11 2008
A CRIME-BUSTING project in the Vale of Glamorgan has won an Excellence Wales Award....
Apr 11 2008
THREE men have appeared in court charged with the unlawful killing of a contractor at a water pumping station....
Apr 11 2008
COULD a Welshman be responsible for ending the world, then the entire universe?...
Apr 11 2008
LICENCE fee funds may be needed to secure ITV Wales’ future as a public service broadcaster, communications regulator Ofcom said yesterday....
Apr 11 2008
A 93-YEAR-OLD driver walked away without a scratch when he reversed his Ford Fiesta into two Porsche cars....
Apr 11 2008
ENERGY companies will today try to head off the threat of a windfall tax on their profits with a promise to spend £225m extra on cutting domestic bills....
Apr 11 2008
AN ORPHANED otter cub is being reared in a specialist sanctuary after its mother was killed by a vehicle on a country lane....
Apr 11 2008
A SUSPECTED bomb has been uncovered at a controversial opencast mining site....
Apr 11 2008
A £200M data centre project for South Wales, creating 100 hi-tech jobs, has been confirmed....
Apr 11 2008
THE Royal Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show will be opened this year by a descendant of the Bute family....
Apr 11 2008
TEENAGE offenders are routinely strip-searched and transported with adult inmates at a South Wales prison despite calls for it to stop, it was revealed today....
Apr 11 2008
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has unveiled plans to open one of its biggest stores in Wales in a move creating 300 jobs....
Apr 11 2008
AN 88-year-old stroke victim has been left devastated after thieves posing as council workmen stole all her savings....
Apr 11 2008
A MUSIC magazine has honoured Bridgend band Bullet For My Valentine with two awards nominations....
Apr 11 2008
SOUTH Wales Police Authority has appointed a new assistant chief constable for the area....
Apr 11 2008
CROOKS posing as workmen struck again in Cardiff on Wednesday....
Apr 11 2008
A TRAIL of destruction was left after a car crashed several times following a police chase....
Apr 11 2008
PEOPLE from the capital spend five-and-a-half hours a year talking nonsense on the phone....
Apr 11 2008
TWO teenage boys were robbed at knifepoint in a city park....
Apr 11 2008
POLICE are searching for a 41-year-old man who has gone missing....
Apr 11 2008
TWO pensioner friends with a combined age of 137 are cycling hundreds of miles across American deserts to help raise money for a children’s charity....
Apr 11 2008
THE mum of a muscular dystrophy sufferer is making available specialist care equipment....
Apr 11 2008
AN EX-MINER was found with cuts and bruises caused when he apparently fell as he died, an inquest has ruled....
Apr 11 2008
A VILLAGE’S battle to stop lorries thundering through the community up to 40 times a day could finally come to an end next week....
Apr 11 2008
A RETIRED sailor died from years of working with asbestos, an inquest ruled....
Apr 11 2008
A THIRD of Cardiff residents believe a hangover is the worst part of a night out....
Apr 11 2008
A CARDIFF food market has featured in an Assembly DVD looking at ways to reduce some of the claimed effects on global warming....
Apr 11 2008
BUSINESSWOMAN Clare Morgan spends her days surrounded by plumbers and electricians – but in her free time she transforms herself into a beauty pageant star....
Apr 11 2008
THE bands Editors and Guillemots have been confirmed as the support acts for one of the biggest US rock bands during a major Cardiff gig....
Apr 11 2008
THE legendary deposit-losing Parliamentary candidate Captain Beany is once again entering the local council election fray next month....
Apr 11 2008
A NEW generation of nuclear power stations would be more dangerous and carry greater financial risks than their predecessors in Britain, according to a report published today....
Apr 11 2008
THE IT stereotype is that of a deskbound geek staring at his office computer 24/7....
Apr 11 2008
A CALL has been made for a radical shake-up of local government in Wales after it emerged that nearly 100 county councillors have been elected unopposed in next month’s elections....
Apr 11 2008
FOOTBALL club owner David Sullivan said he was “shocked” to have been arrested in relation to a corruption inquiry into English football....
Apr 11 2008
NATIONAL Assembly Presiding Officer Dafydd Elis-Thomas yesterday rejected claims by the Archbishop of Wales that devolution arrangements were a “mess”....
Apr 11 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan was shaken but unhurt yesterday after the car he was travelling in was hit from behind in a traffic pile-up....
Apr 11 2008
HOUSEHOLDERS across Wales are set to benefit after fresh impetus was injected into the property market by yesterday’s interest rate cut....
Apr 11 2008
LUXURY apartments in the £675m St David’s 2 shopping centre complex are set to go on sale....
Apr 11 2008
CLOSE friends of a man who was shot dead in a crazed attack have welcomed his killer’s sentence....
Apr 11 2008
WHEN Cardiff City were on their one and only FA Cup-winning run to date, Edith-Ann Lewis kept the Ninian Park faithful fed and watered....
Apr 11 2008
A FAN who remembers the 1927 FA Cup final is looking to have a reunion with his old team mates from the Cardiff Corinthians who later moved over to Cardiff City....
Apr 11 2008
A FREE conference billing Assembly Environment Minister Jane Davidson as its star speaker was cancelled – after organisers found they couldn’t even GIVE tickets away....
Apr 11 2008
THE Animal Welfare Network for Wales today welcomed £900,000 funding from the Welsh Assembly Government for pet welfare....
Apr 11 2008
A SPORTS fan hopes his discovery of an original recording of Abide With Me sung by nearly 100,000 fans at the 1927 FA Cup final will spur Cardiff City on to fresh Wembley glory....
Apr 11 2008
TRIBUTES are being paid to a 23-year-old woman who died after apparently hanging herself....
Apr 11 2008
BARRY-BORN weatherman Derek Brockway joined film fans outside the town’s Theatre Royal as the final scene in its history as a cinema was played out last night....
Apr 11 2008
THE daughter of Kenfig Hill- born former drugs baron Howard Marks has taken a swipe at what she says is Britain’s growing “surveillance society”....
Apr 11 2008
A MORTAR bomb was last night detonated by the Bomb Squad at a controversial opencast mining site....
Apr 11 2008
One of Plaid Cymru’s nominees for the House of Lords will today propose that an arm’s length Commission should be set up to allocate resources between the UK nations....
Apr 11 2008
ROYAL Mail has apologised after Welsh speakers calling a helpline reached a recorded announcement telling them in English they had dialled the wrong number....
Apr 11 2008
SERIOUS doubts have been raised about when – and even whether – Dafydd Wigley and two other Plaid Cymru nominees for seats in the House of Lords will be admitted to the upper chamber....
Apr 11 2008
GIVEN the snowy start we’ve had to April, it may come as some comfort to motorists that gritting lorries will now be controlled ... from outer space....
Apr 11 2008
JUNIOR doctors could go on strike before they have treated their first patient if plans to cut their pay and take away their free accommodation go ahead....
Apr 11 2008
ONCE considered the luxury of the rich and famous, cleaners are fast becoming the must-have accessory for households all over Wales....
Apr 11 2008
PARENTS of unruly youths who are given community service sentences should be made to the undergo punishment too, a senior Conservative frontbencher suggested last night....
Apr 11 2008
A TRAIL of destruction was left after a car crashed several times following a police chase....
Apr 11 2008
A DRUG dealer has admitted possessing exploding bullets banned by international law....
Apr 11 2008
RHODRI Morgan was left shaken up but uninjured after the car he was travelling in was hit from behind during a traffic pile up....
Apr 11 2008
The Cardiff branch of Unison has asked national officials for permission to ballot members for industrial action....
Apr 11 2008
A 93-year-old man has reversed his Ford Fiesta into two Porsche cars - causing an estimated £60,000 worth of damage and writing off one of the elite cars....
Apr 11 2008
THE threat of strike action is looming over the capital as council staff and managers clash in a showdown over sickness....
Apr 11 2008
BARRY-BORN weatherman Derek Brockway joined film fans outside the town’s Theatre Royal as the final scene in its history as a cinema was played out last night....
Apr 11 2008
“I’M a very lucky man,” says 95-year-old Frank Martin....
Apr 11 2008
THE Lord Mayor of Cardiff was among the guests at Flo Evans’100th birthday party in Cardiff....
Apr 11 2008
THE Army has reported a surge in new recruits from one of its career offices in the South Wales Valleys....
Apr 11 2008
THESE four people are carrying the torch for women, young people and ethnic minorities in council politics....
Apr 11 2008
A RETIRED sailor told his wife “You’ve set the house on fire!” moments before collapsing and dying from smoke inhalation, an inquest heard....
