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Apr 17 2008
WALES’ leading horticultural show could one day rival the scale and glamour of the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show, its organisers claimed last night...
Apr 17 2008
A BRAVE 19-year-old shop assistant slammed his till shut on a robber trying to snatch cash from his convenience store....
Apr 17 2008
A WOMAN appeared in court today charged with hiding a body of her dead newborn baby in the boot of her car....
Apr 17 2008
A WOMAN was due to appear in court today charged with concealing the birth of a baby....
Apr 17 2008
FORMER Welsh Office minister Rod Richards could face assault charges after allegedly punching a Conservative Party canvasser on the doorstep of his Cardiff home yesterday....
Apr 17 2008
FORMER Welsh Office minister Rod Richards was last night being held by police after he was involved in an altercation with Conservative Party canvassers at his home in Cardiff yesterday....
Apr 17 2008
AN AUCTION and disco is being held to raise money for the Marie Curie Hospice, Holme Towers in Penarth....
Apr 17 2008
A MAN has died after being hit by a South Wales train....
Apr 17 2008
INDEPENDENT retailers in Cardiff fear the ban on private cars in St Mary Street is killing business in the city’s arcades....
Apr 17 2008
CRIME is down by almost a quarter in Caerphilly, according to new figures....
Apr 17 2008
The Echo sympathises with Phil Bullen, and feels the Government is adding insult to injury by trying to make him pay up....
Apr 17 2008
A BURGLAR was identified by his ‘Made in Barry’ tattoo....
Apr 17 2008
A POSTMASTER forced to close his post office as part of nationwide cutbacks has been hit with a £50,000 cash demand from the National Assembly....
Apr 17 2008
AN INCREASING number of cases of a virus causing sickness and diarrhoea among patients and staff has been confirmed on a ward at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales....
Apr 17 2008
AN AUCTION and disco is being held to raise money for the Marie Curie Hospice, Holme Towers in Penarth....
Apr 17 2008
A MAN has died after being hit by a South Wales train....
Apr 17 2008
INDEPENDENT retailers in Cardiff fear the ban on private cars in St Mary Street is killing business in the city’s arcades....
Apr 17 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a two-car smash on the Heads of the Valleys road near Hirwaun today....
Apr 17 2008
CRIME is down by almost a quarter in Caerphilly, according to new figures....
Apr 17 2008
MEASURES meant to combat climate change could be hitting the nation’s home-building industry because they are being introduced in Wales five years before England....
Apr 17 2008
A PATRIOTIC number plate bearing the registration WEL 5H fetched £27,500 at auction yesterday – nearly 10 times the reserve price....
Apr 17 2008
A DECISION to invite a former junior minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government to host an evening at a miners’ welfare hall was last night criticised as an “insult to miners”....
Apr 17 2008
HIS cries of “That’s the way to do it!” were heard by both passers by and delighted audiences across the world, from the Aberystwyth seafront to Paris’ Champs Elysées....
Apr 17 2008
A NUMBER plate promoted by boxing star Joe Calzaghe has been snapped up for £34,400....
Apr 17 2008
ART inspired by schoolchildren is to grace Barry’s main shopping street....
Apr 17 2008
AN AUCTION and disco is being held to raise money for the Marie Curie Hospice, Holme Towers in Penarth....
Apr 17 2008
A MAN has died after being hit by a South Wales train....
Apr 17 2008
INDEPENDENT retailers in Cardiff fear the ban on private cars in St Mary Street is killing business in the city’s arcades....
Apr 17 2008
CRIME is down by almost a quarter in Caerphilly, according to new figures....
Apr 17 2008
The Echo sympathises with Phil Bullen, and feels the Government is adding insult to injury by trying to make him pay up....
Apr 17 2008
A BURGLAR was identified by his ‘Made in Barry’ tattoo....
Apr 17 2008
A POSTMASTER forced to close his post office as part of nationwide cutbacks has been hit with a £50,000 cash demand from the National Assembly....
Apr 17 2008
THE members of a child poverty expert panel to advise the Welsh Assembly Government have been named....
Apr 17 2008
THREE men have been arrested after police discovered a cannabis factory in a house in Penarth’s marina area....
Apr 17 2008
A TEAM of consultants has been appointed to suggest regeneration schemes for a South Wales town....
Apr 17 2008
CHILDREN are being given a helping hand to fight the flab, with a new course at a city school....
Apr 17 2008
A BLOOD donor session is being held on Friday, April 25, at Nelson Community Centre, on Bryncelyn Avenue, Caerphilly, between 10am and 6pm....
Apr 17 2008
FAMILIES can get creative at the “Art for Families” sessions held at Canton Library from Saturday, April 19, for four weeks....
Apr 17 2008
QUESTION: What do Barcelona’s flamboyant churches, farmers’ markets, coal and Cardiff’s new International Business Park have in common?...
Apr 17 2008
GOVERNMENT Chief Whip Geoff Hoon has been out and about on South Wales’ streets drumming up support for Labour’s campaign for the local elections on May 1....
Apr 17 2008
ENTER a team into a Dragon Boat race and help the Anthony Nolan Trust....
Apr 17 2008
YOUNG Britons are so out of touch with their culinary heritage, a quarter think laverbread is a loaf baked on hot volcanic rock....
Apr 17 2008
Health food shops have hit back at the controversial claims in the Danish study....
Apr 17 2008
HEALTHY people who take vitamin supplements were last night urged to be careful after research suggested they may do more harm than good....
Apr 17 2008
FIREFIGHTERS showed single mums the essentials of fire safety at a workshop....
Apr 17 2008
PROUD parents, students and a cluster of locals lined bridges and the river bank to watch a double victory for Cardiff University Rowing Club....
Apr 17 2008
DETECTIVES are appealing for information after a 46-year-old man was beaten up by burglars in his home....
Apr 17 2008
RHODRI Morgan will today say that despite talk of credit crunch and crises in the housing market, there is one good reason to be cheerful – the strong Euro....
Apr 17 2008
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan will this morning deny he runs a “giveaway government” with free prescriptions proving an expensive gimmick....
Apr 17 2008
It was a double delight for Cardiff University, who won both the ladies’ and men’s races....
Apr 17 2008
A TEN-YEAR-OLD boy died when he fell off the back of a moving lorry onto a busy road, police said yesterday....
Apr 17 2008
THE Oxford and Cambridge boat race it isn’t. . . not yet, anyway. The new annual Boat Race between Cardiff and Swansea Universities may not have attracted the worldwide TV audience or the thousands of Pimms-quaffing riverbank supporters of its more historic counterpart in London....
Apr 17 2008
TELEVISION presenter and engineering enthusiast Adam Hart-Davis has kicked off a new campaign to inspire the next generation of Welsh engineers....
Apr 17 2008
A BURGLAR was identified by his ‘Made in Barry’ tattoo....
Apr 17 2008
THREE teenagers have been caught trying to steal lead from the roof of an historic theatre....
Apr 17 2008
STUDENTS were today being asked their views on how the UK asylum system works....
Apr 17 2008
A POSTMASTER forced to close his post office as part of nationwide cutbacks has been hit with a £50,000 cash demand from the National Assembly....
Apr 17 2008
COLLEGES across South Wales suffered a day of disruption and cancelled classes yesterday as hundreds of lecturers went on strike....
Apr 17 2008
DOLPHINS and fishermen’s livelihoods are coming under threat from the upmarket taste for scallops, claims a conservationist....
Apr 17 2008
AMAZON’S gigantic new Swansea Bay distribution centre was opened yesterday and hailed as “a shot in the arm” for the Welsh economy....
Apr 17 2008
A BRIDE-TO-BE was outraged when she found she would have to share her special day with rock band Status Quo – and 15,000 fans....
Apr 17 2008
PEOPLE in Caerphilly throw away the equivalent of at least one portion of fruit and vegetables every day according to Waste Awareness Wales....
Apr 17 2008
SOUTH Wales local authorities have been given a share of thousands of pounds to ensure high standards of animal welfare....
Apr 17 2008
CATHERINE Farr, of Winchester Close, Barry, is the proud mum of baby Jake Farr, born at 5.27am on March 10 weighing 7lb 1oz....
Apr 17 2008
FOUR Cardiff City fans risked missing going to Wembley for next month’s FA Cup final after admitting being involved in post-match scenes of violence following the Bluebirds’ first game of the season....
Apr 17 2008
FORMER Welsh Secretary Peter Hain has spoken of his “surreal nightmare” as extraordinary evidence has emerged of a dirty tricks campaign to discredit his failed Labour deputy leadership campaign further....
Apr 17 2008
A MAN has died after being hit by a South Wales train....
Apr 17 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a two-vehicle crash on the Heads of the Valleys road today....
Apr 17 2008
WELSH mam Myfanwy Jones would cherish the chance to be reunited with former heavyweight boxing great Joe Bugner after 40 years....
Apr 17 2008
CRIME is down by almost a quarter in Caerphilly, new figures reveal....
Apr 17 2008
PUPILS and staff have been taking part in a culinary masterclass onboard a special ‘Cooking Bus’....
Apr 17 2008
DEPUTY First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones yesterday said a “wind of change” was sweeping through Wales, bringing scientists and entrepreneurs together....
Apr 17 2008
Computing giant Microsoft yesterday launched a Welsh language digital literacy initiative....
Apr 17 2008
A TRENDY sixties-built Lisvane house – the height of sophistication more than four decades ago – has been given a contemporary make-over to bring it into the 21st century....
Apr 17 2008
KEVIN McCloud must be turning in his loft conversion – Cyncoed has said “NO” to Grand Designs-style homes....
Apr 17 2008
A WOMAN was due to appear in court today charged with concealing the birth of a baby....
Apr 17 2008
CONTROVERSIAL Glastonbury Festival headliner US rapper Jay-Z has announced a date at Cardiff International Arena on Wednesday, July 16....
Apr 17 2008
COUNCIL workers in the capital are a step closer to strike action today as a dispute over measures to make it easier to sack employees on the sick escalates....
Apr 17 2008
A SIXTH man appeared in a South African court yesterday charged with murdering Fred Picton- Turbervill....
Apr 17 2008
The Tesco Computers for Schools scheme kicked off on March 3, 2008, and with four weeks left there is still plenty of time to start collecting to ensure your local school benefits from the latest equipment available....
Apr 17 2008
GETTING people off benefits and into work must be a key objective of a left-of-centre government, First Minister Rhodri Morgan will say today....
Apr 17 2008
Peter Hain said he had not so far been interviewed or contacted by police investigating the late declaration of donations to his deputy leadership campaign....
Apr 17 2008
OR a politician who spent much of his career opposing large parts of the New Labour agenda, perhaps the most surprising thing about Rhodri Morgan’s “legacy” speech this morning is how much of it will have London Blairites nodding enthusiastically....
Apr 17 2008
ABOUT 200 workers at one of Wales’ largest engineering projects were on strike yesterday after allegations of bullying at the site....
Apr 17 2008
A NEW agreement between the Arts Council of Wales and the British Council will be signed today, enabling the two organisations to further promote Welsh art abroad....
Apr 17 2008
OR a politician who spent much of his career opposing large parts of the New Labour agenda, perhaps the most surprising thing about Rhodri Morgan’s “legacy” speech this morning is how much of it will have London Blairites nodding enthusiastically....
Apr 17 2008
The number of crimes recorded by police in Caerphilly has dropped by almost a quarter – that’s equal to 5,858 fewer crimes within the last three years....
Apr 17 2008
ONE child under eight is being admitted to a Welsh hospital almost every month after drinking alcohol....
Apr 17 2008
COLLEGES across South Wales suffered a day of disruption and cancelled classes as hundreds of lecturers went on strike....
Apr 17 2008
A BURGLAR who broke into a 76-year-old widow’s bedroom then kicked and punched her unconscious, yesterday won a cut in his minimum jail term....
Apr 17 2008
THERE is “no special magic” to resolve disputes between Westminster and the devolved administrations, Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy said yesterday....
Apr 17 2008
THEIR football team has won promotion and their regional rugby team lifted the EDF cup....
Apr 17 2008
ABERTHAW Cement Works has been hailed as one of the best-performing plants in Western Europe by its parent company, the Lafarge Group....
Apr 17 2008
CRUCIAL work is getting under way to help prevent a recurrence of the flooding which devastated parts of Barry last summer....
Apr 17 2008
A FORMER miners’ institute will become a community hub this weekend after being brought back into public ownership....
Apr 17 2008
Mr Murphy will be in Hendredenny joining campaigners who want speed cushions to be replaced with more ‘considerate’ road safety measures. He will also be joined by local Labour candidates in Penyrheol ward along with local MP Wayne David and AM Jeff Cuthbert....
Apr 17 2008
CARDIFF University is the only university in Wales to be a member of the Russell Group of research intensive universities....
Apr 17 2008
ARE you inspired by Martin’s story or do you know someone just as worthy who has worked tirelessly for charity or the community?...
Apr 17 2008
MARTIN Harris doesn’t strive to follow his own dreams in life, he works to help others achieve them....
Apr 17 2008
WELSH mam Myfanwy Jones would cherish the chance to be reunited with former heavyweight boxing great Joe Bugner after 40 years....
Apr 17 2008
PORTSMOUTH football manager Harry Redknapp could be in court just 15 days before his side take on Cardiff City in the FA Cup final....
Apr 17 2008
THE children of Cardiff City’s FA Cup-winning captain Fred Keenor have sent a message of good luck to the Bluebirds’ players preparing to face Portsmouth in the final next month....
Apr 17 2008
A JEWELLERY firm has produced a luxury Sterling silver keyring to mark Cardiff City’s FA Cup final appearance....
Apr 17 2008
A MAN who went missing has been found....
