Articles...
May 8 2008
THE economy has received a major boost after the Ministry of Defence yesterday awarded a £6bn contract for a new generation of rapid response military vehicles to a Welsh-based company....
May 8 2008
A CATALOGUE of failings has been identified into the mental health services offered to two patients who went on to murder....
May 8 2008
FA CUP mania swept through Cardiff once again as more than 3,000 lucky Bluebirds fans were given the chance to get their hands on the world-famous trophy....
May 8 2008
FAMILY and friends of a young father-to-be found hanging in Bridgend county have paid tribute to a “very ordinary, lovely boy from a lovely family”....
May 8 2008
A CARDIFF teacher working in Welsh-speaking Patagonia has today spoken of the drama after a volcano erupted and caked the region in a blanket of ash....
May 8 2008
MADONNA has announced she is to kick off her world tour in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium....
May 8 2008
AN Aircraft’s structural problems caused a crash which killed two people, an investigation has concluded....
May 8 2008
WELSH rugby stars, past and present, have helped Velindre Cancer Centre Fundraising launch its new look....
May 8 2008
A MAN was taken to hospital after firefighters used a ladder to rescue him from a fire in a flat....
May 8 2008
GRASS fires ripped through fields and mountainsides throughout South Wales overnight....
May 8 2008
THE orphaned children of Ghanaian cancer victim Ama Sumani are to visit the home of the couple who plan to adopt them in South Wales....
May 8 2008
THE mine shaft at Tower Colliery will be permanently sealed next week before the last workers leave the site....
May 8 2008
HUNDREDS of fans queued up to meet Cardiff City star Robbie Fowler yesterday as he helped promote James Fox’s anthem Bluebirds Flying High at a city megastore....
May 8 2008
A BLUE mist is set to envelop the capital as Cardiff pins its colours to the mast ahead of the Bluebird’s Wembley showdown....
May 8 2008
THE Assembly Government has pledged to “respond fully” to a report which has called for an investigation into the state of school toilets....
May 8 2008
A ZOOLOGY expert at a Welsh university has urged caution following a plan by British scientists to manufacture an “alien invasion” to kill off Japanese knotweed....
May 8 2008
SWANSEA-BASED South West Wales AM Peter Black is to pit his wits against former world chess champion Boris Spassky later this month....
May 8 2008
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into South Wales Police and allegations they failed to investigate rape claims by a woman who refused to let the case drop....
May 8 2008
A HEAD teacher has been arrested for a second time following new allegations against him under the Sexual Offences Act....
May 8 2008
THE controversial terminal and pipeline bringing LNG (liquefied natural gas) into and across Wales has been judged one of the best sustainable transport projects of the last 12 months....
May 8 2008
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save threatened common land and village greens throughout Wales....
May 8 2008
A 25-YEAR-OLD woman has been banned from visiting Cardiff at night after using threatening behaviour....
May 8 2008
CARDIFF-born police chief Meredydd Hughes is being tipped to take over from Michael Todd, the head of the Greater Manchester Force who was found dead on Snowdon....
May 8 2008
POLICE are continuing their crackdown on illegal off-road riders and vehicle crime in the Valleys....
May 8 2008
THIS morning I chanced yet again upon what I consider to be one of the saddest of window displays....
May 8 2008
HEADTEACHERS are understandably furious about the paltry amount of extra funding announced for Wales’ schools new Foundation Phase....
May 8 2008
WHAT is it with our elected Government, that it cannot see what anyone with any common sense can see in relation to the breakdown of family life?...
May 8 2008
A TEENAGER yesterday explained to a jury how he came to be arrested for murder just weeks after leaving a city school with 13 GCSEs....
May 8 2008
VOLUNTEERS are wanted to help families needing support....
May 8 2008
ORGANISATIONS including the Royal Mail and the Bank of England will soon have to treat the Welsh and English languages equally....
May 8 2008
MADONNA has today announced she is to kick off her world tour at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium....
May 8 2008
TWO historical monuments have been moved to form part of a new general hospital....
May 8 2008
A SPECIAL surgery on plans to protect a series of vital conservation areas will be held next week....
May 8 2008
THIS Friday’s charity duck race organised by Gwent Police in Cwmbran in aid of Ty Hafan has been cancelled....
May 8 2008
NOT enough blind people are using library services in South Wales, according to the Institute for the Blind....
May 8 2008
SARAH Cornelius should be celebrating her son Joshua’s 17th birthday today but instead she will be reflecting on the 10 years since his death from abdominal cancer at the age of seven....
May 8 2008
TRADITIONAL skills are being taught at weekend events....
May 8 2008
STUDENTS at a South Wales arts school had the chance to work with professionals when two members of the cast of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers paid them a visit....
May 8 2008
THE search is on for male singers and dancers to be part of a Take That tribute show....
May 8 2008
SICK hedgehogs will benefit from a special garden open day....
May 8 2008
CHILDREN’S hospice Ty Hafan has been given more than £6,500 to help towards its costs....
May 8 2008
CRUCIAL work to help prevent a repeat of the flooding which devastated parts of Barry last summer has been delayed....
May 8 2008
GRASS fires ripped through fields and mountainsides throughout South Wales overnight....
May 8 2008
THE mine shaft at Tower Colliery will be permanently sealed next week before the last workers leave the site....
May 8 2008
PACKAGE holidays have finally shaken off their tacky association with crowded Spanish beaches and gone upmarket, according to new statistics....
May 8 2008
A CHAIN of stores is to become the first to get tough on the scourge of binge and underage drinking by demanding ID from anyone buying alcohol who looks under 30....
May 8 2008
EVERY organisation which receives public funds must join the battle against child poverty, the chairman of a group launched to hold the Assembly Government to account declared yesterday....
May 8 2008
David Cameron says he’s learning lessons from recent Welsh history in handling his loose-cannon new mayor of London, Boris Johnson....
May 8 2008
A YOUNG man found hanged in Bridgend was to become a father in six weeks, it has emerged....
May 8 2008
A WOMAN threw a brick through her mother’s window in an argument over money....
May 8 2008
BUSINESS leaders, hoteliers and local authorities today united to urge organisers of Cardiff’s lucrative Millennium Magic weekend to keep it in the capital....
May 8 2008
PLANS for a major overhaul of the driving test do not go far enough, according to the mother of a girl who was one of four Welsh teenagers killed in a crash in 2006....
May 8 2008
A FUNDING boost of £5m for a planned transformation of early-years education in Wales was yesterday denounced by head teachers as “wholly inadequate”....
May 8 2008
A FOUNDATION phase-style outdoor learning project has already been taking place in Swansea. . . in the woodlands of Gower....
May 8 2008
A TEENAGER accused of killing his lover’s husband told a court he was punched first during a confrontation....
May 8 2008
THE idea of having a referendum on full law-making powers for the National Assembly on the same day as the next Assembly election in 2011 has been ruled out, it has been confirmed....
May 8 2008
A STRUCTURAL failure cause a light aircraft to crash, killing two men, an investigation has found....
May 8 2008
THE Grand Canyon’s magnificent panoramas are never more stunning than when enjoyed from the air....
May 8 2008
FEARS were raised for the health of the residents of Wales’ only outpost last night, as a blanket of ash exerted a stranglehold on Patagonia....
May 8 2008
WELSH Liberal Democrat leader Mike German finally named the day yesterday and announced he would be stepping down in October....
May 8 2008
THE controversial city schools reorganisation could be make or break for Cardiff Liberal Democrats’ hopes of forming a coalition to run the city....
May 8 2008
FOOD prices rose by an inflation-busting 4.7% last month compared to a year ago as retailers passed on soaring commodity costs, figures revealed yesterday....
May 8 2008
THE health of Wales’ workforce is the focus of a major conference being held today....
May 8 2008
JOIN us for the build-up to City’s big game by visiting our roadshow which starts on Monday....
May 8 2008
A SOUTH Wales restaurant is offering customers the chance to see if they can make a tasty masterpiece from salad....
May 8 2008
SPEEDING motorists were caught red- handed thanks to a crackdown by neighbourhood police....
May 8 2008
HEAD teachers have described a £5m boost for the primary school teaching shake-up as “a pittance”....
May 8 2008
A WORLDWIDE malt crisis combined with a tax increase and rising fuel costs have been blamed for inflating the cost of beer....
May 8 2008
CHILDREN’S hospice Ty Hafan has been given more than £6,500 to help towards its costs....
May 8 2008
CRUCIAL work to help prevent a repeat of the flooding which devastated parts of Barry last summer has been delayed....
