South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) back issues from February 2008:
It's a super Cat.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... We test drive the ...
Butcher's invitation.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A BUTCHER has been asked to contribute to an inquiry into the e.coli outbreak over which he was jailed. Officials have invited WilliamTudor to comment on evidence against him ...
Priestess fights for woodland.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A DRUID High Priestess has branded controversial plans to blast a limestone quarry in an area of woodland in South Wales a "disgrace". Druid Wynter Sylph says the Wenvoe Quarry scheme would ...
Clegg call to town.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... NEW Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has urged Bridgend people to "stick together" to reduce youth suicides. The newparty head ...
PUPIL'S NEAR MISS IN STORM DRAMA; Tile fell from classroom ceiling onto child's chair.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jean Parry HUNDREDS of pupils were sent home as severe weather closed a Valleys school. The headteacher took the decision to close Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Bargod, in Gilfach, Bargoed and send around 200 children home after rain brought a ceiling tile crashing ...
'Secret army' of dogs given stamp of recognition.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... SIX new stamps have been produced by the Royal Mail - paying tribute to Britain's canine heroes. The stamps mark a century of police dogs working Britain's beats and feature a range of four-legged friends, including sheepdogs, mountain rescuers, guide dogs, assistance dogs, ...
Disappointment over decision but work goes on for defence scheme; Organisers confident despite blow to plans for 5,000 jobs.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Peter Collins PLANS for a Defence Training Academy at St Athan are still on track despite a blow to the project by the Ministry of Defence. The man in charge of the scheme, which would have brought thousands of jobs to South Wales, today welcomed an ...
Investigation into misuse of A&E units.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE number of patients who use A&E departments unnecessarily is to be investigated by the Assembly Government. Health Minister Edwina Hart has launched a probe into misuse of casualty units at Welsh hospitals. She has asked for figures to be collected on patients who ...
Flights are on the up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... REGIONAL airline Eastern Airways is boosting its flights from Cardiff International Airport to Newcastle this summer. The operator is increasing services from the capital to two to three flights every weekday from April 7. ...
It's a Speedy delivery as baby Tomos arrives in car back seat; Mother gives birth alone in the family people carrier.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Laura Wright A PREGNANT mum gave birth to her baby in the back seat of the family car as her husband ran for help, because they couldn't find the maternity ward. Little Tomos Charles, now nicknamed Speedy because of his sudden arrival, couldn't wait for his ...
E.coli: butcher may be forced to respond.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE butcher jailed for causing the e.coli outbreak has been invited to comment on evidence against him that has been submitted to a public inquiry. But WilliamTudor has so far failed to respond to the request, according to inquiry officials. In a statement issued ...
BB's Lisa devastated by court's decision.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... FORMER Big Brother contestant Lisa Jeynes today said she was "devastated" after losing her appeal against a judge's decision to throw out her libel action. The model from Teaseal Avenue, Penarth, has nowbeen left with a bill of more than pounds 30,000 after having to pay the ...
AA's driving school move to create jobs.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... MORE than 100 jobs will be created in South Wales when the AA Driving School moves its operation to Cardiff this year. The AA has announced plans to move its entire driving school operation from its Broadmead Bristol office to its flagship building at St Patrick's House in ...
Court appearance over mother's death.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE case of a man charged with causing the death of a South Wales mum in a car crash has been adjourned. Andrew Acton, 28, stood before Preston Crown Court yesterday, charged with causing the death of ...
Firefighters rescue man from blaze.(News)(Medical condition overview)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A MAN was rescued from a burning house in Barry today. Firefighters using breathing apparatus broke their way in through the front door of the terraced house in Dobbins Road, Barry, at 4am. The hallway of the vacant and unfurnished property was on fire while the rest ...
Engineering works.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... TRAIN passengers in South Wales are being warned to allow extra time for their journeys this weekend due to engineering work. The works ...
Checks as ferry is forced aground; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... SHIPPING experts were today set to investigate the condition of a ferry which has run aground at Blackpool during high winds. A total of 14 people were airlifted to safety from the Riverdance, a roll-on roll-off vessel, in a rescue operation which included the coastguard, the ...
Man accused over robbery; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A 29-YEAR-OLD man who was extradited from Morocco and charged in connection with the pounds 53m Securitas robbery, was remanded in custody when he appeared in court today. ...
Raid suspect held abroad; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A BRITON is in police custody today after he was extradited from Morocco to face questioning in connection with the UK's biggest cash robbery. The suspect is being ...
Briton faces raid charge; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A BRITON extradited from Morocco has been charged in connection with the pounds 53mSecuritas raid and will appear at Maidstone Magistrates' Court today, Kent police said. ...
Driver injured in train crash; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A TRAIN driver was seriously injured when he became trapped in his cabin after hitting a footbridge today. An engineering works tipper truck had struck the bridge, ...
Baby hearing to continue; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A COURT hearing continues today to decide if a newborn baby reunited with his teenage mother by a judge will be taken away again. The healthy baby was born to the ...
IT'S A MAD, MAD WORLD... 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... 300-YEAR-OLD SHOPPING LIST A Chinese shopping list written 300 years ago has been found stuffed inside an 18th-Century vase. The discovery was made at Fairfax House in York which is closed to the public every January for cleaning. The vase has been in the elegant Georgian house since it ...
BT customers get free weekend calls; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... TELECOMS giant BT today announced it was slashing prices to give millions of customers free weekend calls. The firm said that from today all of its 14.8 million customers will no longer ...
Rights ruling for prisoners is due; 5 minute NATIONAL news round-up.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A PANEL of appeal judges could affect the sentences of thousands of prisoners today when it rules on a Government challenge to a High Court decision. The panel, headed by the Lord ...
Secrets of the rainforest comes to Butetown.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... YOUNGSTERS have created a magical world through dance, costumes and story-telling. The pupils from Mount Stuart Primary in Cardiff, have staged their performance of The Secret Rainforest of Butetown yesterday after two weeks of workshops. Pupils worked with Patua ...
Jailed for robbing his own grandad; Heroin addict threatened pensioner with a knife.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Ben Glaze A MAN who robbed his own grandfather, holding a seven-inch blade to the pensioner's throat, was today behind bars. Heroin addict David Dicks, 23, took the meat knife to 75-year-old Islwyn Thomas' neck demanding money for drugs and saying he would ...
Prince at Cardiff pupils' theatre debut.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A SCHOOL show proved to be a right royal performance when the Prince of Wales was among the guests. Pupils from Michaelston Community College in Cardiff this week staged a production of the play, "A Singer from The Desert Came" by Jamila Gavin in front of Prince Charles and The ...
First class news.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... POST offices in South Wales have received a boost with the news the Post Office has retained a contract to check passport applications and send them to the Identity and Passport Service. A two-year contract, with ...
Ex-pat denies killing wife and hiding body in a 44-gallon drum; Former city bus driver told family that she had run off.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: David James A SOUTH Wales ex-pat killed his wife and kept her remains in a metal drum for 23 years, a court heard. The trial of Cardiff-born Fred Boyle, 58, opened spectacularly yesterday in Victoria Supreme Court, Australia. The former Cardiff bus ...
'Despicable' crime.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A BRIDGEND AM has branded the theft of a 999 ambulance as "despicable". Carwyn Jones was speaking after joy riders stole and later abandoned an ambulance in the Cefn Glas area of the ...
A truly great Briton.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... SIR Martin Evans has been recognised as a Great Briton in the 2007 Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards. The professor of mammalian genetics at Cardiff University won the Science and ...
Three Cardiff buses part of our heritage.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THREE Cardiff Buses are being put out to pasture after stalwart service on the city's roads. Cardiff Transport Preservation Group was thrilled when Cardiff Bus engineering director Andrew Hoseason presented them with three vehicles to add to their collection of old buses dating ...
Historic transmission site decision needed.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE litter-strewn Vale of Glamorgan site where Marconi made the world's first radio transmission across water should either be tided up by the Welsh Assembly Government or handed over to the Vale of Glamorgan Council, according to ...
Street's new look.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A REGENERATION scheme is planned in Cathays, Cardiff. The Pentyrch Street project is part of the Neighbourhood Renewal Schemes Programme, which ...
Disability swim club.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A NEW swimming club for young people with disabilities is set to make a splash this weekend. Cardiff's Lord Mayor, Councillor Gill Bird, will open the ...
New hospitals for mentally ill will be ready by 2011; Whitchurch site will be closed and sold to developers.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Greg Tindle Health Correspondent A pounds 120 Mproject to create two new hospitals for mental health patients has been given the go-ahead. The schemesat Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff and Llandough Hospital, Penarth, are part of the biggest overhaul ofmental ...
RELIC OF THE EDWARDIAN ERA THOUGHT TO BE LAST REMAINING IN BRITAIN.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE present Whitchurch Hospital was built in 1904 and was one of 90 psychiatric hospitals created at the same time across the UK, all designed along the same lines. It is believed Whitchurch is the last one remaining. These asylums such as Whitchurch were generally created on ...
Hospitals built at same time.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE two new hospitals will both be built at the same time and for in-patients currently housed in Whitchurch Hospital. They will be for adults only with the special HarveyJones Unit for teenagers, which is attached to the hospital, relocated to Bridgend. The new Whitchurch ...
Councils hire extra middle managers.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... LOCAL authorities in Wales have defended the increase in middle managers earning more than pounds 50,000 a year. The TaxPayers' Alliance claims that across the UK nine times as many workers are on pounds 50,000 packages as 10 years ago, although in Wales the rise is much lower. ...
Morrisons' thanks for raising money.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... STAFF at the Morrisons supermarket, in Barry, are celebrating after raising pounds 3,036 for the company's charity of the year, Asthma UK. Tony Ware, the Barry store's general manager, ...
Leader calls for action on suicides; Clegg stops off in town with message.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Gareth Rogers NEW Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has urged the community of Bridgend to "stick together" to reduce youth suicides. After stopping off in the town during a flying visit to South Wales yesterday, the party leader said: "Young people and older ...
traffic watch; How to avoid roadworks.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... SATURDAY will be a chilly, bright day with top temperatures of 5C. On Sunday, temperatures will reach 9C but there will be heavy rain and wind speeds of 29mph. There are a number of roadworks to look out for this weekend. The M4 in Newport is closed during the night ...
Primary school closes after stormy problem.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jean Parry ABOUT 200 children were sent home from a South Wales school after severe weather battered their buildings. In one temporary classroom at Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg, Gilfach, Bargoed, a heavy ceiling tile crashed onto a chair where a small child had been ...
Traffic chaos in centre of Caerphilly.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... TRAFFIC had to be diverted around Caerphilly town centre after an elderly driver is thought to have collapsed at the wheel of his car which then hit a wall. The accident, near the Visitor Centre, ...
'Unfair' to sack chat woman.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... A BOSS used a webcamto spy on a mobile phone shop manager to catch her chatting to friends and ignoring customers, a tribinal heard. Retail manager Gemma Walker, 23, was sacked after claims she continued to use internet instant messaging service MSN despite several warnings from ...
Welsh guide on sale.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE Welsh language edition of the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales is now on the shelves of bookstores. Gwyddoniadur Cymru yr Academi ...
Minister tells parents to start storytelling.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... EDUCATION Minister Jane Hutt is calling on parents to help spark their children's imagination by telling them stories. The minister visited Kitchener Primary School in Riverside, Cardiff, to mark National Storytelling Week. The national campaign is organised ...
'Victorians' public loos were better than today's' Council criticised over lack of loos.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Phillip Nifield Political & Business Editor PUBLIC toilets in Cardiff have received a panning - with demands for them to be dramatically improved. Sue Cunningham, of Cyncoed, who set up All Mod Cons to campaign for better loos, said the city's public toilet ...
Your view.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... "I think the toilets are OK generally. I don't use them that often but I would have no worries using them if I had to. I normally find them quite clean and tidy." Dennis Morgan, 89, retired, from Nelson "It is very rare that I do use them because I try to avoid them ....
Movie fans have prizes in their sights.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... YOUNG movie fans from across South Wales are in line for top awards. Groups from across the area have been shortlisted for the Zoom Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards 2008. Sponsored by the Film Agency for Wales, the competition is running as part of Wales' ...
Confession was not 'concocted' Beverley trial - witness quizzed.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Ben Glaze A JOYRIDER and burglarwho says anaccused killer confessed to murdering his secret lover has been forced to denymaking up the claims in order to net a pounds 20,000 reward. Darren George was giving evidence at the trial of Royston Moore, on trial for ...
Your big chance to put out some fires.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... SOUTH Wales Fire Service is encouraging men and women to sign up for the retained duty system. Starting on Monday, a roadshow will be touring the area urging people to become part-time ...
'Cannabis is part of a wider crime problem' Skunk links to global network.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: David James THE spate of cannabis factories found in Cardiff is part of organised crime networks spanning the globe, Cardiff's top police officer said today. Chief Superintendent Josh Jones spoke exclusively tothe Echo tourge people in the city to make it "a ...
Lisa 'devastated' after losing appeal; Big Brother contestant left with pounds 30,000 bill after libel action fails.(Features)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jessica Flynn Community Affairs Correspondent FORMER Big Brother contestant Lisa Jeynes today said she was "devastated" after losing her appeal against a judge's decision to throw out her libel action. The model from Teaseal Avenue, Penarth, has now been left ...
E.coli butcher fails to respond to request; Invitation to contribute to inquiry.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Abby Alford Chief Reporter BUTCHER WilliamTudor has been asked to contribute to the public inquiry into the e.coli outbreak he was jailed for starting. Officials have invited him to comment on evidence against him that has already been submitted. ...
Beware the bogus 'water board' caller.(Features)
Feb 01, 2008 ... RESIDENTS should be extra vigilant about bogus callers this winter. The Consumer Council for Water is advising people to be especially wary of those claiming to be from water boards as these no longer exist. A true ...
Floods of dialogue.(Features)
Feb 01, 2008 ... PLANS for preventing future floods will be discussed today. Flood Risk ...
Purr-fect start to Pet Idol 2008! Prize pooch and top cat entries flooding in South Wales ECHO Pet idal TESCO extra.(Features)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Laura Wright PICTURES of South Wales' perfect pets have been flooding in for the Echo's Pet Idol 2008 competition. We have been inundated with entries for cuddly kitties and adorable pups but we are still looking for more. So if you think your pet ...
out & about.(Features)
Feb 01, 2008 ... VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help out with a beach clean up. Staff from the Nike store at Bridgend Designer Outlet will be collecting litter from Ogmore by Sea from 10am on Monday, February 11. They have "adopted" the beach under a scheme run by the Marine Conservation ...
'What state would we have been in without their help?' Elderly crash pair's praise for young football rescuers.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jessica Flynn Community Affairs Correspondent A COUPLE who were rescued from their crashed car have thanked the footballers who came to their aid. Margaret and Glyndwr Richards, right, from Ogmore-by-Sea were driving through Lewistown, near Bridgend, when ...
Climate change 'is so important'.(News)
Feb 01, 2008 ... FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan has described climate change as the "most important challenge facing humanity." Speaking alongside European Commission vice-president Margot Wallstrom on her first visit to Wales, Mr Morgan also described sex trafficking as the modern slave trade. ...
South Wales WE SAY...: A new era for care of patients.(Leaders)
Feb 01, 2008 ... FOR decades the hospital accommodation for psychiatric patients in Cardiff has been bordering on scandalous. Hundreds of people have been cared for in facilities that should have been demolished years ago. Whit church Hospital was built in 1904 - a time when people ...
Letter: View points - God bless all my wonderful cancer staff.(Letters)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: S Fishburn LAST July I was diagnosed with liver cancer and then in September (over the phone) with lung cancer. After an emotional rollercoaster of being scared, frustrated and angry at having to wait for further test results from MRI scans, Pet scans, CT ...
Letter: View points - Billions for bank but not for us.(Letters)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Byline: Ron Lewis ABRACADABRA! At the click of his fingers, phoney magician Gordon Brown plucks pounds 25bn from the taxpayers' hat to help shareholders and investors of a private company, Northern Rock. Yet apparently he is not clever enough to pluck a few million (by ...