Articles...
Jun 12 2008
A LANDLORD who has been trying to change the image of his pub fears he may be forced to call time on his business after a bid to offer late entertainment was thwarted....
Jun 12 2008
Katie to speak at international level...
Jun 12 2008
HELP us to give the unsung heroes of your community the recognition they deserve....
Jun 12 2008
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save a phone box on a Barry housing estate....
Jun 12 2008
HE once said he considered himself a poet first and a musician second, but a different side of Bob Dylan’s artistic talent will go on display and sale in Wales next weekend....
Jun 12 2008
A £50M sewerage system is threatening people’s health as lakes of effluence are discharged into the community, it has been claimed....
Jun 12 2008
IT WAS built in the year Elizabeth I became Queen, and the legendary WG Grace once played cricket on its lawn....
Jun 12 2008
A HEROIC father of three has spoken of how he tackled a would-be robber who doused a village post office in petrol and threatened to burn it....
Jun 12 2008
A YOUNGSTER has been picked to champion children’s rights for Unicef....
Jun 12 2008
A THRILL-SEEKING dinner lady has proved the sky’s the limit by parachuting 10,000ft from a plane for the first time at the age of 69....
Jun 12 2008
THREE delivery drivers have appeared in court charged with stealing goods they were meant to transport....
Jun 12 2008
A RESCUE crew has continued its efforts to save a Jack Russell pup trapped in a deserted Valleys mine shaft since Friday....
Jun 12 2008
A YOUNG scaffolder says he was punched, kicked and stamped on, on the night his friend was allegedly beaten to death at a railway station....
Jun 12 2008
SOUTH Wales’ Chinese community has raised more than £12,000 for victims of last month’s devastating earthquake....
Jun 12 2008
EVERYONE knows about Guide Dogs for the Blind – but have you ever come across Hearing Dogs for Deaf People?...
Jun 12 2008
A COLLECTION of limited-edition graphics by iconic folk singer Bob Dylan will premier in Cardiff....
Jun 12 2008
MORE police will be getting on their bikes to crack crime in the Vale....
Jun 12 2008
FORMER Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones will swap sequins and sticky-back plastic for treacherous tornadoes and 80ft waves as part of a new television series about deadly weather....
Jun 12 2008
A COUPLE invited to 10 Downing Street to discuss the problems carers face were forced to cancel the high-profile meeting because no one was available to look after their severely disabled son....
Jun 12 2008
Plans to compensate terror suspects who are lawfully held but not charged would make “legal nonsense”, human rights lawyers claimed....
Jun 12 2008
ONE of Wales’ best-known beer brands is going smooth for the first time in its 50-year history....
Jun 12 2008
RHYS Harris spent two months in an airtight bubble in an attempt to save his life but now he’s back playing rugby and tucking into his favourite meal of roast chicken after fighting a rare genetic disease....
Jun 12 2008
A BUS company has been told to clean up its act for providing “dreadful” and “unacceptable” services to passengers in South Wales....
Jun 12 2008
CARDIFF-BORN presenter Gethin Jones is swapping sequins and sticky-backed plastic for treacherous tornadoes and 80ft waves as part of a new TV series about deadly weather....
Jun 12 2008
CARDIFF Council leader Rodney Berman has expressed “deep concern” at the comments of Assembly Presiding Officer Dafydd Elis-Thomas calling for AMs to boycott a meeting with the Israeli ambassador....
Jun 12 2008
THE capital’s total value of housing has been ranked at an astonishing £28.52bn in a new survey published today....
Jun 12 2008
LIVES could be put at risk by a critical shortage of firefighters that could see the South Wales brigade lose up to 13% of its full-time manpower, union officials claim....
Jun 12 2008
STAFF at Wales’ first specialist tutorial college say they are proving every day that small classes, passionate teaching and good resources are the key to success in education....
Jun 12 2008
The educational headlines have been made this week by two policies – in Wales by the problems of the much- vaunted Foundation Phase, which very sensibly is going to be extended by one year to get it right....
Jun 12 2008
An award-winning science company has partnered up with leading scientists to bring the mysteries of gravity to life for secondary schools....
Jun 12 2008
CHURCH bosses have denied carrying out an inadequate investigation into allegations that a gay employee was bullied because of his sexuality....
Jun 12 2008
ARMED police officers were called to a school yesterday after pupils spotted a man carrying a rifle....
Jun 12 2008
ASSEMBLY Presiding Officer Dafydd Elis-Thomas was last night accused of “juvenile gesture politics” after boycotting a meeting with Israel’s ambassador to the UK and inviting other AMs to do the same....
Jun 12 2008
THEY are five strongly-worded missives recorded on the decks of a liner making its leisurely way back from New Zealand....
Jun 12 2008
CARDIFF University’s Vice Chancellor David Grant is to speak on innovation in the UK at an American conference on science and technology this week....
Jun 12 2008
Play gives teens a chance to talk...
Jun 12 2008
Teens set to have a Ball with maths...
Jun 12 2008
WELSH students can now broaden their learning horizons abroad thanks to formal agreements between European governments....
Jun 12 2008
TWO out of three buses running in some parts of the South Wales Valleys were late, left early or failed to arrive at all, a public inquiry has heard....
Jun 12 2008
PART of the M4 had to be closed off after a lorry trailer caught fire....
Jun 12 2008
PETROL station staff have today appealed for calm as a new strike looms....
Jun 12 2008
PLANS to build a £15bn power-generating barrage across the River Severn are too expensive, a report has said....
Jun 12 2008
THE Assembly Government’s fight against climate change is being hampered by the lack of devolved energy policy powers, a leading environmentalist has claimed....
Jun 12 2008
EIGHT people who plotted to flood Aberystwyth with heroin have been jailed for more than 30 years....
Jun 12 2008
S4C’s new children’s service Cyw has the potential to help safeguard the future of the Welsh language, the broadcaster’s chairman John Walter Jones, says today. Writing in the channel’s annual report, Mr Jones says Cyw, launched in two weeks’ time, “must succeed”....
Jun 12 2008
LABOUR AMs yesterday refused to back a Lib-Dem bid for the Assembly to gain the power to decide how councillors are elected, despite being given a free vote....
Jun 12 2008
WALES’ largest fire service is suffering a shortage of firefighters amid a “recruitment freeze”, a union has claimed....
Jun 12 2008
WALES has been largely ignored by the BBC national news since the onset of devolution, according to a damning report by the corporation’s governing body....
Jun 12 2008
PLANS for a new £13.7m mental health unit for children and teenagers in North Wales have been approved....
Jun 12 2008
HE WAS once voted the “sexiest man in jeans” on Japanese television and is one of the Far East country’s most popular green activists....
Jun 12 2008
A MOTHER died from undetected complications after an emergency caesarean section....
Jun 12 2008
MORE than 80% of Cardiff drivers have had accidents abroad or have fallen foul of foreign motoring rules, new research has found....
Jun 12 2008
ITS industrial port may hardly be the most exotic of cruise ship destinations....
Jun 12 2008
THIS month marks 25 years since the closure of South Wales’ most famous mine....
Jun 12 2008
PLANS to create a major new retail development in the Valleys have been thrown into jeopardy as a result of the global credit crunch....
Jun 12 2008
CHILDREN are to take to the woods to let their imaginations run free in a story-telling project....
Jun 12 2008
ONE of Wales’ best-known beer brands is going smooth for the first time in its 50-year history....
Jun 12 2008
PEOPLE caught drinking in alcohol exclusion zones in Barry, Penarth, Llantwit Major and Cowbridge could be fined up to £500, police have warned....
Jun 12 2008
A BUSINESSMAN whose postmistress mother stole £35,000 from the Royal Mail has backed calls for the urgent reopening of her former village post office....
Jun 12 2008
Combating poverty in general is a major pre-occupation for any government, but tackling poverty among children commands a particularly high priority....
Jun 12 2008
Activity action plan hailed a success...
Jun 12 2008
AN office has been transformed into a classroom for teachers....
Jun 12 2008
A SPECIALIST music course has been created to capitalise on Wales’ tradition of producing choral singers....
Jun 12 2008
GREAT-GRANDMOTHER Joan Gallagher knows a thing or two about community spirit....
