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Apr 18 2008
Welshman Joe Calzaghe has beaten Bernard Hopkins in Las Vegas....
Apr 18 2008
Round by round updates of the big fight...
Apr 18 2008
A teenager was today charged with the murder of a father who died after a month in a coma following a street attack....
Apr 18 2008
STEELMAKER Corus has announced plans to shed up nearly 300 jobs at its tinplate operation in Llanelli....
Apr 18 2008
A LANDMARK centrepiece of the city’s future super shopping centre has been lifted into place....
Apr 18 2008
NIALL Williams will be raising cash by rowing 100 kilometres this weekend – but he won’t be going anywhere near water....
Apr 18 2008
APRIL 23, 1927 – the day history was made....
Apr 18 2008
A MOTHER of two was left overdrawn and without a bank card after money was mistakenly paid into her account....
Apr 18 2008
A CARDIFF couple have admitted starving their dog to death....
Apr 18 2008
A MALE choir is hitting all the right notes thanks to a donation from Barclays....
Apr 18 2008
A DIVISIVE political row over how councillors are elected is about to be revived after a Liberal Democrat AM won an Assembly ballot to introduce his own lawmaking proposal....
Apr 18 2008
WELSH brewer Phil Parry has worked some magic on the drinks industry, despite talk of a worldwide economic downturn....
Apr 18 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 18 2008
A COUNCILLOR who received a payout of at least £16,000 for stepping down from his post four years ago is standing for re-election....
Apr 18 2008
NO matter how unusual or obscure a dietary requirement, it’s never a problem for delicatessen owner Gill Durbin....
Apr 18 2008
A MOTHER of two was left overdrawn and without a bank card after money was mistakenly paid into her account....
Apr 18 2008
A BUSINESSMAN has praised firefighters for saving his company after fire ripped through around 100 tonnes of cardboard and plastic which had been stored for recycling at a South Wales industrial estate....
Apr 18 2008
A CARDIFF couple have admitted starving their dog to death....
Apr 18 2008
TICKETS for Status Quo at Cyfarthfa Castle were due to go on sale today....
Apr 18 2008
A GOOD luck message has been sent to Territorial Army medics in Afghanistan....
Apr 18 2008
A MALE choir is hitting all the right notes thanks to a donation from Barclays....
Apr 18 2008
A COUPLE stole this £22,000 diamond solitaire ring in a daring daylight raid on a city jewellers....
Apr 18 2008
A DAD who plans to adopt Ghanaian cancer victim Ama Sumani’s orphaned children is to fly to the country to meet them for the first time....
Apr 18 2008
The new timetable begins next week at Rumney Community Centre, Llanstephan Road, Cardiff....
Apr 18 2008
A WOMAN accused of giving birth and hiding the body of her dead baby in a car boot will face court again in four weeks....
Apr 18 2008
TORY leader David Cameron yesterday laid out his plans for his party to break new ground in Wales in the local elections....
Apr 18 2008
A YOUNG musician is hoping to help Joe Calzaghe clinch another successive win this weekend....
Apr 18 2008
A MOTHER of two was left overdrawn and without a bank card after money was mistakenly paid into her account....
Apr 18 2008
A CARDIFF couple have admitted starving their dog to death....
Apr 18 2008
A MALE choir is hitting all the right notes thanks to a donation from Barclays....
Apr 18 2008
A VEHICLE recovery operator has been fined £17,000 and ordered to pay costs of more than £2,600....
Apr 18 2008
HUNDREDS of Cardiff City fans are signing a petition to get university officials to change an exam schedule so it doesn’t clash with the FA Cup final....
Apr 18 2008
AN Easter auction and raffle raised £550 for the Noah’s Ark Appeal....
Apr 18 2008
POLICE are appealing for information after the theft of medicines from a man in the Packet Pub, Bute Street, Butetown, Cardiff on April 14....
Apr 18 2008
TELEVISION presenter Melinda Messenger is urging youngsters to get toddling for children’s charity Barnardo’s Cymru’s Big Toddle 2008....
Apr 18 2008
A NEW milestone in Cardiff’s multi-million pound shopping future was reached early today....
Apr 18 2008
STREWTH! Two classical music-loving Aussies have flown from Down Under for the 25th annual Menuhin Competition....
Apr 18 2008
THE victim of a former Government minister’s “clip round the ear” today kept a dignified silence over the incident....
Apr 18 2008
A FORMER Reliance security guard accused of being involved in a £800,000 drugs conspiracy while he was on sick leave told police the “top man” behind it was nothing more than an acquaintance to him....
Apr 18 2008
A MOTHER has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her 16-year-old daughter, by failing to call an ambulance when the teenager collapsed from a heroin overdose....
Apr 18 2008
AN UNREPENTANT Rod Richards last night opened up on the doorstep fracas which landed him in a police cell for 18 hours....
Apr 18 2008
ANOTHER house-based cannabis factory has been found in South Wales, police said yesterday....
Apr 18 2008
A HARD-HITTING new film is driving home the real impact of arson....
Apr 18 2008
A FORMER soldier found guilty of inciting two internet chatroom users to help him kidnap children he planned to sexually abuse, was yesterday jailed indefinitely....
Apr 18 2008
A YOUNG boy peeping expectantly out of a window or sitting excitedly in a toy car – the images from a bygone era capture what could have been any child from the early 1950s....
Apr 18 2008
THE much talked about Bristol Channel fast ferry link between South Wales and the West Country has taken a big leap forward....
Apr 18 2008
ALL public sector salaries should be subject to scrutiny and comparison, the representative body for Welsh councils said last night....
Apr 18 2008
A MOTHER has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her 16-year-old daughter, by failing to call an ambulance when the teenager collapsed from a heroin overdose....
Apr 18 2008
ANOTHER house-based cannabis factory has been found in South Wales, police said yesterday....
Apr 18 2008
NO matter how unusual or obscure a dietary requirement, it’s never a problem for delicatessen owner Gill Durbin....
Apr 18 2008
LIVES are being put at risk by the theft of central heating boilers from vacant council properties, police say....
Apr 18 2008
A PROJECT to make science fun for disadvantaged children has won the South Wales Echo-Principality Give Me Five Award....
Apr 18 2008
GIGANTIC billboards which cascade down entire sides of multi-storey hotels are a status symbol afforded only to those who have crossed over into the realm of the superstars....
Apr 18 2008
IN the first case of its kind, Tesco was prosecuted for knowingly allowing shopping trolleys to be dumped in a river and fined £30,000....
Apr 18 2008
FURIOUS residents are calling on a supermarket giant to act to stop shopping trolleys from being dumped in their neighbourhood....
Apr 18 2008
HOMEOWNERS in Canton are campaigning against their local pub being given a late licence....
Apr 18 2008
A JUNIOR member of Rhodri Morgan’s administration is to speak at an anti-monarchy conference in the Senedd building....
Apr 18 2008
IT'S a town that over the years has lost many of the assets with which it was once synonymous. Wrexham Lager, Ruabon brick and the town’s historic ironworks have all gone. Is Wales’ oldest football league club now to suffer the same fate? Darren Devine reports....
Apr 18 2008
A RARE Rolls-Royce bought by a Welsh MP for almost £1,400 in the 1900s is expected to sell in auction for close to £1m....
Apr 18 2008
THE mother of a 10-year-old boy fatally injured falling off the back of a moving lorry, has spoken poignantly of her son’s last moments....
Apr 18 2008
THE Welsh Affairs Select Committee is to travel to the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Bilbao to learn about globalisation....
Apr 18 2008
RESIDENTS in a Welsh village have hit back at claims that a bridge, and the parking it offers visitors, is the key to its survival....
Apr 18 2008
WELSH police forces have spent more than £3.2m housing prisoners in stations because prisons are overcrowded, it emerged yesterday....
Apr 18 2008
SOUTH Wales Police says no prosecutions will be brought over a rottweiler attack that left a four-year-old girl in hospital needing 20 stitches....
Apr 18 2008
THE future of Llanishen reservoir today lies in the hands of a judge at Cardiff County Court....
Apr 18 2008
THE blooms were in abundance as the fourth annual Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Spring Flower Show got under way in Cardiff Castle today....
Apr 18 2008
HOUSES built on toxic land in Cardiff will NOT be demolished, the Echo can reveal today....
Apr 18 2008
THE Doctor Who exhibition has been put firmly on the map in Cardiff thanks to new brown tourist signs....
Apr 18 2008
A BRAVE 19-year-old shop assistant slammed his till shut on a robber trying to snatch cash from his convenience store....
Apr 18 2008
CHILDREN are aiming to get into the Guinness Book of Records for taking part in the World’s Biggest Lesson....
Apr 18 2008
A FORMER Reliance security guard accused of being involved in an £800,000 drugs conspiracy while he was on sick leave told police the “top man” behind it was nothing more than an acquaintance....
Apr 18 2008
A MALE choir is hitting all the right notes thanks to a donation from Barclays....
Apr 18 2008
A GOOD luck message has been sent to Territorial Army medics in Afghanistan....
Apr 18 2008
A DAD who plans to adopt Ghanaian cancer victim Ama Sumani’s orphaned children is to fly to the country to meet them for the first time....
Apr 18 2008
POLICE are investigating after a car was found on fire on a mountain last night. The Ford Escort was blazing on top on Eglwysilan mountain – above Abertridwr and Pontypridd – and was put out by Caerphilly firefighters at about 8pm....
Apr 18 2008
IF you would like to nominate a business that goes beyond the call of duty for its customers, send your suggestions for the May award, together with your name and phone number, to: Jessica Flynn, South Wales Echo, Thomson House, Havelock Street, Cardiff, CF10 1XR or e-mail jessica.flynn@mediawales.co.uk before Thursday, May 8....
Apr 18 2008
The new timetable begins next week at Rumney Community Centre, Llanstephan Road, Cardiff....
Apr 18 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were today clearing up after the second major fire in Barry within 12 hours....
Apr 18 2008
THE South Wales Echo has teamed up with Cardiff City to offer one lucky reader the chance to go down in history by appearing in the promotional video for City’s official FA Cup single, Bluebirds Flying High!, written by James Fox (right)...
