Articles...
May 3 2008
Wales woke to a new era of widespread local government coalition today after a seismic shift in the political map which left the Labour Party reeling....
May 3 2008
IT was the moment Montgomeryshire Division Two goalkeeper Steve Goodwin joined an elite club....
May 3 2008
LABOUR was humiliated in the local elections, keeping overall control of just two councils in Wales – no more than the Conservatives....
May 3 2008
Matt Withers was in Barry to meet the jubilant Conservative leader Matt Withers was in Barry to meet the jubilant Conservative leader...
May 3 2008
DAVID CAMERON warned his jubilant Tory troops yesterday that the general election was not yet in the bag, despite sweeping gains in local elections across Wales and England....
May 3 2008
A VICTORIAN country house regarded by experts as one of Wales’s most historic mansions has gone up for sale for £500,000....
May 3 2008
SHIPS continuing the tradition of pleasure cruises from Penarth pier have been modified against terrorist attack....
May 3 2008
JOB seekers are urged to be on the alert after a woman advertising for work on the internet was contacted by a “pharmaceutical company”....
May 3 2008
VOLUNTEERS are wanted to guide visitors around Porthcawl RNLI lifeboat station....
May 3 2008
A FORCE of 500 volunteers is being recruited to undertake 7,500 random acts of kindness this weekend....
May 3 2008
BROADCASTER Roy Noble OBE will give a talk and cut the ribbon at the official opening of new retirement flats on Thursday....
May 3 2008
HOTEL rooms across Cardiff have sold out because of an invasion of rugby league fans....
May 3 2008
HOLLYWOOD actor Kevin Spacey has commended youngsters on their film-making....
May 3 2008
POLICE officers in South Wales are appealing for information after an alleged assault outside a high street store....
May 3 2008
A POETRY anthology inspired by its author’s battle against Parkinson’s disease is about to go on sale....
May 3 2008
SCIENCE charity workers from South Wales have been interviewed live on Croatian breakfast television....
May 3 2008
RESIDENTS who have to take their wheelie bins through their homes once a week for collection have been told to put up with the “minor inconvenience”....
May 3 2008
POLICE have arrested more than 500 drug dealers, burglars and car thieves as part of a two-day blitz to crack down on crime....
May 3 2008
WELSH LABOUR were butchered at the ballot box yesterday, losing 122 councillors and control of six county halls in a catastrophic first electoral test for Prime Minister Gordon Brown....
May 3 2008
THE WIFE of the soldier killed in a paragliding accident is being comforted at her family home in Wales....
May 3 2008
ECCENTRIC aviator Maurice Kirk is set to continue with his airborne adventures despite his brush with the US authorities....
May 3 2008
CRIME is one of those issues we can all be united on....
May 3 2008
A MAN has been jailed for a vicious attack in a pub toilet....
May 3 2008
A PORTSMOUTH fan is hoping to give FA Cup final tickets to four lucky Cardiff City supporters....
May 3 2008
BLUEBIRDS fan Steve Maddern is facing Wembley heartache after £400 of FA Cup final tickets went missing in the post....
May 3 2008
FORMER Wales Under-21 goalkeeper Mark Kendall has died aged 49 after a short illness....
May 3 2008
HOLIDAYMAKERS at Cardiff International Airport were flying high before they took off yesterday....
May 3 2008
AFTER a busy few weeks buying tickets and decorating their houses in preparation for the big day, Cardiff City fans can finally relax with a pint and look forward to their team’s FA Cup final appearance....
May 3 2008
THE gap between the best and the worst schools in Wales is getting wider, Education Minister Jane Hutt warned yesterday ....
May 3 2008
ECCENTRIC aviator Maurice Kirk is set to continue with his airborne adventures after being released by the US authorities....
May 3 2008
A CONMAN who operated under 13 different aliases and three different dates of birth fleeced an Aberdare garage of £10,000....
May 3 2008
BUILDING sand castles, eating fish and chips and going for a stroll on the beach may not be most people’s idea of a school day, but for some lucky pupils it was just that....
May 3 2008
A TAXI driver has been praised for chasing a robber who attacked a pensioner....
May 3 2008
A SPATE of incidents in which animals have been shot with airgun pellets has sparked a public appeal for help to track down the people responsible....
May 3 2008
TWO ships which carry thousands of day trippers every year from Welsh piers and docks have been modified in case terrorists try to attack them....
May 3 2008
The Celtic Manor Resort’s luxurious five-star hotel opened in 1999. It is owned by millionaire businessman Terry Matthews....
May 3 2008
A LEADING child protection expert is calling for a full review of the investigation by Portuguese police into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann....
May 3 2008
GRAND DESIGNS presenter Kevin McCloud has condemned the design of the luxurious Celtic Manor hotel. The architecture guru named the five-star resort hotel, situated on the M4 near Newport, as the one building in Britain he would like to demolish....
May 3 2008
A MAN was given a suspended sentence yesterday for a bomb hoax which cost the company running the South Hook Liquified Natural Gas terminal in Pembrokeshire £1m....
May 3 2008
RON Davies had a double cause for celebration as he topped the poll in his council ward while his wife got elected in the seat next door. The former Welsh Secretary and his Independent running mate Colin Hobbs won two of the four seats in Bedwas and Machen, Caerphilly, while Mr Davies’ wife Lynne Hughes became a Plaid Cymru councillor in St James....
May 3 2008
A VALLEYS council has become the first in Wales to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to recover £10,000 profit made from an illegal waste crushing operation....
May 3 2008
As controversy continues to rage over the cost of the 2012 London Olympics, TOMOS LIVINGSTONE asks what the Games could do for South Wales...
May 3 2008
THE cream of Cardiff turned out to strut their stuff on the catwalk when fashion presenter Gok Wan arrived in the city....
May 3 2008
REGULAR patrols could be brought in to solve the problem of straying animals in the Valleys....
May 3 2008
WELSH rugby star Mike Phillips and Miss Wales Kelly Pesticcio have launched the hunt for the spectacle wearer of the year....
May 3 2008
EDUCATION Minister Jane Hutt yesterday gave a stark description of the challenges facing children in schools across Wales....
May 3 2008
AN EXILED politician and trade union leader from Colombia who was the victim of an assassination attempt has appealed to the UK Government to end its military support for the South American country’s regime....
May 3 2008
A BEACH hut with views over Cardigan Bay was sold at auction yesterday for its guide price of £70,000....
May 3 2008
A WOUNDED Gordon Brown admitted he would have to go back to the drawing board after Labour’s worst set of council election results in a generation....
May 3 2008
A TEENAGE peeping tom will be locked up after being found guilty of raping a middle-aged woman in her own home....
May 3 2008
THE number of women arrested for being drunk and disorderly in the Gwent Police area has increased nearly seven-fold in the last five years....
May 3 2008
A MAN wearing handcuffs had to be freed by Caerphilly firefighters after he walked into the station off Pontygwindy Road....
May 3 2008
BUS services in Cardiff are changing to make way for the demolition of terminus buildings at Central Station....
May 3 2008
KEITH CHARLES HYDE of the Liberal Democrats secured 1,778 votes and the fourth seat for the party in the Pentwyn ward of Cardiff....
May 3 2008
THE leaders of the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are expected to discuss the possibility of an alliance on Cardiff Council in the coming days....
May 3 2008
GLYN Roberts this week begins life as a Cynon Valley councillor....
May 3 2008
PLAID leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said the loss of overall control in Gwynedd had sent the party an important message – but came against a backdrop of success throughout the nation....
May 3 2008
FIRST MINISTER Rhodri Morgan yesterday blamed Labour’s string of council defeats on a new generation of protest voter....
May 3 2008
PLAID CYMRU president Dafydd Iwan blamed the loss of his Gwynedd County Council seat on “rumour and innuendo” circulated by political opponents....
May 3 2008
T’S fashionable to suggest that all politics is local, but Gordon Brown is unlikely to take much comfort from that suggestion this morning....
May 3 2008
Labour’s loss of Blaenau Gwent Council was the latest blow suffered by the party since the late Peter Law won a stunning general election victory exactly three years ago....
