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Apr 22 2008
Goodyear has recently announced the launch of its 2008 Playground Appeal – an annual campaign which aims to raise awareness of the need for safe play in the UK....
Apr 22 2008
A FORMER scout master who committed acts of gross indecency and indecent assault on young boys and girls walked free from court today....
Apr 22 2008
CLOSE relatives of the only Cardiff City captain ever to lift the FA Cup are hoping to be among the Wembley final crowd next month....
Apr 22 2008
RUGBY stars turned property developers, Stephen Jones and Dwayne Peel, will find out this week whether their plans to convert an historic building into a restaurant will be approved....
Apr 22 2008
PRINCE Charles is to visit staff and volunteers at the National Trust owned Bodnant Garden in North Wales on April 25....
Apr 22 2008
PLAID has agreed a sale of its Cardiff headquarters....
Apr 22 2008
A RUGBY player has died nearly three weeks after falling from a roof....
Apr 22 2008
DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of an Indonesian woman have arrested a man on suspicion of murder....
Apr 22 2008
A LONER convicted of murdering a Harrods shop assistant found in a shallow grave has won a five-year cut in his sentence....
Apr 22 2008
A DRIVER who died in the wreckage of his burning car has been identified as Shane Lyndon Jones....
Apr 22 2008
A WELSH holidaymaker has died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a Cornish hotel which recently underwent a £1.1m facelift....
Apr 22 2008
NURSES could be set to reject attempts to change the law to introduce an opt-out system for organ donation....
Apr 22 2008
SHOPPERS held a minute’s silence yesterday for the young supermarket worker found hanged in Bridgend at the weekend....
Apr 22 2008
SOUTH Wales Police Authority yesterday finalised its policing priorities for the next year....
Apr 22 2008
FORMER deputy prime minister John Prescott is to visit Cardiff to promote his headline-grabbing autobiography....
Apr 22 2008
PET owners in South Wales are being urged to keep their dogs off their beds by one of the country’s leading veterinary surgeons....
Apr 22 2008
WHEN sailor John Cleal promised to marry his sweetheart he would not have known it was a promise he could not keep....
Apr 22 2008
A PORTHCAWL woman has died after a fire broke out at her flat....
Apr 22 2008
TWO large lime trees on Cardiff’s Cowbridge Road East and Neville Road are so rotten they must be cut down this week....
Apr 22 2008
CRADLING their newborn son in their arms, Lisa and William Callaway kissed him goodbye....
Apr 22 2008
A MULTI-MILLION pound business which started as a timber merchants and ironmongers in Court Street, Tonypandy, is having a change of face....
Apr 22 2008
RESIDENTS of a South Wales county will this week be asked to choose their favourite pictures of the area which will then be exhibited in Europe this summer and appear in a souvenir booklet....
Apr 22 2008
THE College Ystrad Mynach rugby team are at the top of the fashion stakes after a donation by the Army....
Apr 22 2008
NEIGHBOURS and friends of a 47-year-old woman who died after being attacked in her home have paid tribute to a ‘gentle lady.’...
Apr 22 2008
THE body of a popular teenager found dead in the Bridgend county area was discovered by his sister, according to neighbours....
Apr 22 2008
FORMER council leader Russell Goodway has ruled himself out of seeking the Labour group leadership in Cardiff after May 1....
Apr 22 2008
PLAID has agreed a sale on its Cardiff headquarters....
Apr 22 2008
WELSH-SPEAKING parents in Cardiff have accused Plaid Cymru of “treason” over the party’s stance on a controversy affecting a Welsh-medium primary school....
Apr 22 2008
VICTIMS of crime have expressed increasing satisfaction with the police, according to a new report....
Apr 22 2008
SHOPPERS will be entertained with live performances as they shop....
Apr 22 2008
JOE Calzaghe’s stressed mum was so upset when her son was knocked down fighting Bernard Hopkins she took a Valium to relax, she has revealed....
Apr 22 2008
PROPOSED redundancies at a Valleys school have been shelved following protests from angry pupils....
Apr 22 2008
IT SHOULD be the dictionary definition of swift justice....
Apr 22 2008
DETECTIVES battling the spate of robberies in Roath and Cathays set a city record for 18 video ID parades in one day last Sunday....
Apr 22 2008
PET owners in Wales are being urged to keep their dogs off their duvets over fears that they may not be man’s best friend after all....
Apr 22 2008
FANS have been pleading for a third series of the Bafta-winning television show Gavin and Stacey....
Apr 22 2008
WALES made history when the world’s first Commissioner for Older People began work yesterday....
Apr 22 2008
A TOWN mayor was warned yesterday he could be jailed after he admitted refereeing football matches while claiming disability benefits reserved for people in need of round-the-clock care....
Apr 22 2008
POLICE investigating the 21-year-old murder of a private detective who was about to expose police corruption have made six arrests, it emerged yesterday....
Apr 22 2008
THE Rhymney Valley will add another string to its tourist bow this summer when the much anticipated Winding House museum opens. It will tell the story of Caerphilly county from Celtic and Roman times to the present day....
Apr 22 2008
TWELVE cyclists rode into Cardiff’s Oval Basin at the end of their gruelling 254-mile bike ride across Wales....
Apr 22 2008
A FATHER who has lost six members of his family to cancer and has watched his wife and son go through treatment for the disease is raising money for charity....
Apr 22 2008
University of Glamorgan lecturer Dr Ursula Masson has died aged 62....
Apr 22 2008
A TEENAGER who once found herself homeless has set off on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Africa to help others....
Apr 22 2008
RESPECTED surgeon John Ball has died aged 73....
Apr 22 2008
A FORMER X Factor hopeful has again avoided being locked up for his part in a “happy slap” attack....
Apr 22 2008
A TELEVISION drama crew filmed a love scene in the Senedd without the permission of the National Assembly, it was revealed yesterday....
Apr 22 2008
THREE pupils were arrested outside a school following a mass protest over proposed staff cuts....
Apr 22 2008
CALLS for a third series of hit television show Gavin and Stacey have escalated in the wake of its Bafta success....
Apr 22 2008
YOUNG people from South Wales are to meet the actor Kevin Spacey when they showcase their film at an awards ceremony next week....
Apr 22 2008
BLUE Peter presenter Gethin Jones is preparing to host a weekly radio show....
Apr 22 2008
A SPEEDING charge has been dropped in court after a man claimed his brother was driving his car....
Apr 22 2008
THOUSANDS of lessons will be cancelled and at least 100 schools in Wales closed on Thursday as teachers take part in their first national strike in 21 years....
Apr 22 2008
HEN Plaid Cymru took both the Rhondda National Assembly seat and control of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council (RCT) in 1999, we were told the party had finally made the historic breakthrough it had been longing for in the Valleys....
Apr 22 2008
A WORLDWIDE search has been launched to find an academic to take up a leading role in public health....
Apr 22 2008
If Hillary Clinton wins today in Pennsylvania her dream to be president will live on. But, as DAVID WILLIAMSON writes, a comeback could throw her party into crisis....
Apr 22 2008
MORE than 100 wild brown trout were left floating dead along 5km of river after a pollution incident....
Apr 22 2008
A CAMPAIGN to reduce the number of matches played at a popular sporting venue has been met with opposition by sporting groups....
Apr 22 2008
A BOGUS council worker is believed to be operating in the area of Graig, Pontypridd....
Apr 22 2008
CARERS are being invited to join a simple scheme that protects the people they look after if there is an accident or sudden illness....
Apr 22 2008
SOUTH Wales Police Authority has donated £1,000 to the Royal Humane Society....
Apr 22 2008
SCHOOL pupils have shown their support for a greener Vale of Glamorgan by recycling 14.1 tonnes of old Yellow Pages directories....
Apr 22 2008
WELSH rugby WAG and mother-of-two turned sports presenter, Jo Popham, is showing her support for the Children’s Hospice in Wales’ annual fundraising campaign, Ty Hafan Day, and is encouraging others to follow her lead....
Apr 22 2008
A FARMER’S wife chops off the heads of her husband’s prize cows, then arranges them one by one on the pipes of an organ....
Apr 22 2008
A GRASS verge survey is under way, encouraging members of the public to spot and record roadside flora....
Apr 22 2008
A GANG ringleader who terrorised a community came close to being jailed after breaching an anti-social behaviour order for the FOURTH time....
Apr 22 2008
IT’S a sign of the times, showing the names of the dentists practising at a surgery....
Apr 22 2008
LIBERAL Democrat MP Lembit Opik is to marry his Cheeky Girl girlfriend, it was disclosed yesterday....
Apr 22 2008
ACTOR David Morrissey appeared on set alongside David Tennant as the pair filmed the next Doctor Who Christmas special....
Apr 22 2008
WALES is making a bid to extend its borders with a larger fisheries zone, making more of the seas around our coastline under the authority of the Assembly Government....
Apr 22 2008
THE Church is stepping in to help people out of their credit crunch debt problems....
Apr 22 2008
A YOUNG woman who died in a road accident has been named as Kaylee Goddard....
Apr 22 2008
WELSH Liberal Democrat leader Mike German has called for an overhaul of drug and prison policy....
Apr 22 2008
THE first national teachers’ strike in 21 years looks set to disrupt lessons in hundreds of schools in South Wales this week....
Apr 22 2008
GRAND Slam hero Ryan Jones returned to his rugby roots to congratulate up and coming players....
Apr 22 2008
SHADOW Chancellor George Osborne was today visiting Cardiff as part of the Tories local government campaign....
Apr 22 2008
THERE is no rift between England and Wales on whether to raise the school leaving age to 18, UK Schools Minister Ed Balls insisted yesterday. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is keen to use the idea as a key dividing line with David Cameron’s Conservatives at the next general election. But the change, due to come into force in 2013, applies only to England....
Apr 22 2008
GORDON BROWN last night told Labour MPs he would “sort out” the controversy the impact his tax changes have had on the lowest paid before the pre-Budget report in the autumn....
Apr 22 2008
UNTIL four years ago, Plaid Cymru ran Rhondda Cynon Taf Council, the second biggest local authority in Wales....
Apr 22 2008
Nearly 50,000 polling cards are being reprinted at a cost of £8,000 after a version was distributed without the date of next month’s election on them....
Apr 22 2008
THE trial of eight care home workers charged with the ill-treatment and wilful neglect of a patient who later died was due to begin today....
Apr 22 2008
The Government is today accused of failing poor families and pensioners over fuel poverty amid calls for urgent action to tackle the problem....
Apr 22 2008
As part of our series on the ward battles that could determine who leads Cardiff after May 1, today the Echo looks at Riverside, Canton, Fairwater and Ely......
Apr 22 2008
A NEW 2008 bus guide has launched to make it easier to commute in Caerphilly....
Apr 22 2008
THE role played by Neighbourhood Watch schemes across the Vale of Glamorgan will be highlighted when the organisation holds its annual meeting this Thursday at Barry’s Civic Offices from 7pm. For more information contact Stacey Evans on 01446 709817....
Apr 22 2008
AN RAF flight lieutenant has raised nearly £2,000 for charity after she completed the London Marathon in five hours....
Apr 22 2008
CARDIFF-BASED developer Lovell has won major contracts which will see new homes and a community centre built....
Apr 22 2008
A CCTV camera has been set up in a busy Barry street in a bid to crack down on anti-social behaviour and crime....
Apr 22 2008
A BID to encourage youngsters to work with police and the community to fight crime has been launched at Llantwit Major Comprehensive School....
Apr 22 2008
THE role played by Neighbourhood Watch schemes across the Vale of Glamorgan will be highlighted when the organisation holds its annual meeting this Thursday at Barry’s Civic Offices from 7pm. For more information contact Stacey Evans on 01446 709817....
Apr 22 2008
OPPOSITION parties in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) have a monumental fight on their hands to wrest control of the authority from Labour....
Apr 22 2008
PROPOSED redundancies at a Valleys school have been shelved following protests from angry pupils....
Apr 22 2008
A CCTV camera has been set up in a busy Barry street in a bid to crack down on anti-social behaviour and crime....
Apr 22 2008
CARDIFF-BASED developer Lovell has won major contracts which will see new homes and a community centre built....
Apr 22 2008
A NEW 2008 bus guide has launched to make it easier to commute in Caerphilly....
Apr 22 2008
AN RAF flight lieutenant has raised nearly £2,000 for charity after she completed the London Marathon in five hours....
Apr 22 2008
IT SHOULD be the dictionary definition of swift justice....
Apr 22 2008
BAKER Greggs is bringing back its popular family fun run to raise money for children with cancer....
Apr 22 2008
A £20M plan to turn the former Barry Dock into a marina is set to be sanctioned by council leaders tomorrow....
Apr 22 2008
PUPILS from schools in the Vale of Glamorgan will be competing to design the most inventive flying object in a nationwide contest organised by Wales Millennium Centre....
Apr 22 2008
FINAL preparations are being made for six weeks of celebrations to mark the centenary of one of South Wales’ finest churches....
Apr 22 2008
A SOUTH Wales Liverpool fan was so moved by the plight of a fellow supporter dying of cancer that he made a giant flag to “bring a smile to his face”....
Apr 22 2008
CLOSE relatives of the only Cardiff City captain ever to lift the FA Cup are hoping to be among the Wembley crowd cheering the Bluebirds to victory next month....
Apr 22 2008
A PLACE at Wembley on May 17 is at stake today – for a team of schoolboys from the capital....
