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Apr 15 2008
A YOUNG mum was found hanged by her children just weeks after she moved into her new home....
Apr 15 2008
RENT will be scrapped for more than 100 traders at a struggling West Wales market until they move into a new market hall next year, it was decided yesterday...
Apr 15 2008
A MAN who was electrocuted while trying to steal from an electricity substation was named last night as Kirk Thompson....
Apr 15 2008
A TEENAGER has admitted making indecent photos of children and sexual activity with a 13-year-old he met on the internet....
Apr 15 2008
A CAT which survived a near fatal dose of poison has won an award from a leading animal charity....
Apr 15 2008
BOXING champion Joe Calzaghe is backing a family support charity’s national fundraising event....
Apr 15 2008
Are we facing the prospect of a gridlocked capital, asks DAVID JAMES in our second article on the issues dominating the race for City Hall...
Apr 15 2008
AGE Concern Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan has launched a new DVD and Audio CD about its services, available in 10 different languages....
Apr 15 2008
WELSH stars will be taking to the catwalk tomorrow to raise money for Cancer Care Cymru....
Apr 15 2008
A BUILDING project transforming the face of Cardiff has won a coveted prize....
Apr 15 2008
WAR veterans are to benefit from a scheme that helps them grow old at home....
Apr 15 2008
THE Soviet Union may have collapsed 17 years ago, but Wales has just elected its first Communist councillor for decades....
Apr 15 2008
A MURDERER who was jailed for life after battering his partner to death and leaving her corpse to rot in their home has died after serving less than a year of his sentence....
Apr 15 2008
ONE in 10 schools in Wales is now threatening to boycott the roll-out of a learning revolution for Wales’ youngest pupils because of a funding crisis....
Apr 15 2008
PLANS to revive the body that settles disputes between Westminster and the devolved administrations are being finalised by Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy in a round of shuttle diplomacy this week....
Apr 15 2008
WELSH scientists yesterday revealed that the “green, green grass” of Wales could help wean us off our dependence on petrochemical fuels in the next 10 years....
Apr 15 2008
A STUDENT on his way home from college was left traumatised after a teenager held what was believed to be a real gun to his head....
Apr 15 2008
THE Ecuador crash in which five young British girls died has brought back horrific memories for the mother of a Welsh student killed on her gap year....
Apr 15 2008
A MAN convicted of making a Nazi salute towards a black man “was not a racist”, it was claimed yesterday....
Apr 15 2008
A TEENAGER has admitted making indecent pictures of children and sexual activity with a 13-year-old he met on the internet....
Apr 15 2008
AT MORE than £72,000, it is worth three times the average annual salary in Wales today....
Apr 15 2008
THE Echo has tracked down five of the medals won by Cardiff City’s 1927 FA Cup-winning team....
Apr 15 2008
CAMPAIGNERS fighting for a statue of Cardiff City’s 1927 FA Cup winning captain Fred Keenor hope their efforts will get a massive boost from the side’s Wembley appearance next month....
Apr 15 2008
THE death penalty is being carried out across the world both publicly and secretly, according to figures released today by Amnesty International....
Apr 15 2008
YOUNG Welsh film-makers have had their film nominated for a Welsh Bafta alongside professional animators....
Apr 15 2008
A POTENTIALLY fatal strain of pneumonia affecting children, which is not covered by vaccines, is increasing exponentially in Wales and England, an expert has said....
Apr 15 2008
COMMUNITY life is taking a battering in towns and villages across Wales because so many clubs and halls are closing or being replaced by housing....
Apr 15 2008
PROPOSALS to cut the number of councils in Wales would not be met with blanket opposition across local government, a leading figure in the sector said yesterday....
Apr 15 2008
WALES’ Grand Slam hero Lee Byrne has been banned from driving for two months for failing to stop at a red traffic light....
Apr 15 2008
TWO 15-year-old girls have been frightened by a man who followed them in his car....
Apr 15 2008
FIREFIGHTERS came to the rescue of a teenager trapped on a river bank after dislocating his knee....
Apr 15 2008
IT WAS a horror moment when paramedic Dylan Parry arrived at the scene of a crash and realised his best friend was lying lifeless on the road....
Apr 15 2008
A CLEANER accused of trying to kill the pensioner who employed her has appeared before a High Court judge....
Apr 15 2008
REPORTS a rare bird of prey has been shot by thugs at Machen Quarry are being investigated by police....
Apr 15 2008
THE wife of a man who has been missing for more than a week has pleaded for information about his whereabouts....
Apr 15 2008
POLICE are closing the net on arsonists who destroyed a century-old sports facility in Llanbradach....
Apr 15 2008
NINE out of 10 people in Wales have no idea that biofuels will be added to their petrol from today, according to the YouGov survey, commissioned by Friends of the Earth....
Apr 15 2008
TWO out of three forecourt cars checked by trading standards officers were found to be dangerous....
Apr 15 2008
THE future looks bright for a small Valleys community thanks to the go-ahead of a multi-million-pound regeneration scheme....
Apr 15 2008
WE all know how good Wales’ hero Lee Byrne has been in scoring the vital points needed to help secure the superb Grand Slam....
Apr 15 2008
NEW measures to improve safety on pupils’ journeys to and from school will be announced later today....
Apr 15 2008
A STUDENT on his way home from college was left traumatised after a teenager held what was believed to be a real gun to his head....
Apr 15 2008
THE fit are being challenged to take part in an event next month....
Apr 15 2008
A BLUEBIRDS-SUPPORTING barber has seen demand for hairstyles featuring the club’s crest rocket ahead of the FA Cup Final....
Apr 15 2008
POLICE are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a pensioner who has been missing from his home since the weekend....
Apr 15 2008
CARS, buses and taxis could be banned from Cardiff’s retail heart under proposals being put forward by the council....
Apr 15 2008
BOSSES at Cardiff’s new flagship pool have moved to reassure parents after a 39-year-old man was charged with flashing at the £32m facility....
Apr 15 2008
OFFENDERS on probation will be working in the community to help reduce and stop the spread of grass fires....
Apr 15 2008
FANS of sci-fi series Doctor Who have flocked to Cardiff for years, keen to visit the shopping centres, monuments and museums featured in the programme....
Apr 15 2008
BOXING legend Joe Calzaghe is supporting the Home-Start charity’s national fundraising event....
Apr 15 2008
POLICE have appealed for information after a car crashed into a tree on the main Llantwit Major to Wick road....
Apr 15 2008
NINE out of 10 people in Wales have no idea that biofuels will be added to their petrol from today, according to the YouGov survey, commissioned by Friends of the Earth....
Apr 15 2008
POLICE are closing the net on arsonists who destroyed a century-old sports facility in Llanbradach....
Apr 15 2008
A ROYAL Marine from South Wales faces trial on assault charges....
Apr 15 2008
ILLEGAL anglers have been warned they face hefty fines if they continue to fish without a licence....
Apr 15 2008
A WOMAN suffered a black eye when she was dragged along the pavement while trying to cling on to her handbag being stolen by a mugger....
Apr 15 2008
THE wife of a man who has been missing for more than a week has pleaded for information about his whereabouts....
Apr 15 2008
A CLEANER accused of trying to kill the pensioner who employed her has appeared before a High Court judge....
Apr 15 2008
OPERA star Katherine Jenkins is gearing herself up for a bigger and better version of sellout show Viva La Diva with ballerina Darcey Bussell....
Apr 15 2008
GAVIN and Stacey may be today’s hit sitcom, but if it wasn’t for a Cardiff comedian, the series may never have reached our screens....
Apr 15 2008
THOUSANDS of council workers are threatening to walk out in a pay dispute....
Apr 15 2008
A MAN beaten up by burglars in his own home is recovering in hospital....
Apr 15 2008
BOOKMAKER John Lovell has died aged 69...
Apr 15 2008
POLICE looking for a 61-year-old man who has been missing from his home in Llwynypia, Rhondda, since Saturday morning have found a body in woodland....
Apr 15 2008
A MAN reported missing has been found hanging in woodland, police revealed today....
Apr 15 2008
CLASSICAL opera star Katherine Jenkins has revealed a more “religious” direction to her career on her forthcoming album....
Apr 15 2008
CONCERN is growing for a 61-year-old man who has been missing from his home in Llwynypia, Rhondda, since Saturday morning....
Apr 15 2008
RURAL Affairs Minister Elin Jones has protested to the UK Government about the decision to end funding for an organisation that has helped Welsh food exporters gain a foothold in overseas markets....
Apr 15 2008
A WELSH society founded in London in 1751 will present a rare medal to the Archbishop of Canterbury today....
Apr 15 2008
A MOTHER accused of manslaughter after her teenage daughter died from a heroin overdose admitted yesterday that 20 of her own friends had died in the same way....
Apr 15 2008
A PARAMEDIC has spoken of the moment he was faced with having to save the life of a family friend when he responded to a 999 call....
Apr 15 2008
ILLEGAL anglers have been warned they face hefty fines if they continue to fish without a licence....
Apr 15 2008
DETECTIVES were yesterday continuing their investigation after a suspicious package was left at a busy South Wales playing fields complex....
Apr 15 2008
SLOWLY, but very surely, something is occurring – sitcom Gavin and Stacey is becoming a nationwide obsession....
Apr 15 2008
AN INQUEST opened yesterday into the death of a young person in a county that has witnessed a spate of apparent suicides....
Apr 15 2008
AN EX-WALES footballer, who received a suspended sentence for driving with up to 10 pints of alcohol in his system, is to keep his job as a TV football pundit....
