Recently added articles from Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales):
Father's tribute after final conviction for son's death; Man is given four years in jail for manslaughter.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Byline: Darren Devine THE father of a Welsh student killed after a brawl outside a nightclub, yesterday said his family can now achieve "closure" after the last man involved in his death was sentenced to four years. Richard Faustino, 22, admitted the manslaughter of ...
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No, Ben, this is the best job in the world - sun, sand and swimming with (non-biting) sharks in the Maldives.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Byline: Robin Turner BEN SOUTHALL is today less than 24 hours into the so-called "best job in the world" - looking after balmy, palm-fringed Hamilton Island off Queensland, Australia. But the Western Mail has tracked down a Welshman with an even better occupation. ...
Flood warning for South Wales; wales newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... A FLOOD warning has been issued for South Wales today as the heatwave triggers heavy downpours. The Environment Agency and Met Office are warning homeowners, businesses and drivers that heavy thundery rain could ...
AMs with an appetite are given pounds 30.65 a day on a plate; Campaigners hit out at claims for almost pounds 50,000 in a single year.
Jul 02, 2009 ... ASSEMBLY Members munched their way through nearly pounds 50,000 worth of food at taxpayers' expense in a year, it has emerged. Last night campaigners called for the tax-free perk that allows them to claim pounds 30.65 a day when away from their main home to be scrapped. ...
Two arrested after sports shop raid; wales newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... TWO men, aged 27 and 23, have been arrested following a ram raid on a sports shop in Port Talbot. A stolen grey Ford Focus was used to smash ...
Affordable homes 'on target' wales newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... WALES is half way to meeting its target of creating an additional 6,500 affordable homes, Jocelyn Davies AM, Deputy Minister for Housing, has announced. The number of homes delivered by housing associations over the past two years is 3,252, ...
Hospital stay for accused mother; wales newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... A MOTHER accused of killing her four-year-old child was yesterday ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act. Zoey David, 34, was said to be suffering from acute psychotic illness. She faced just one charge - that she murdered Zowy-Anne David ...
The summer break can't come soon enough for under-fire PM; The political row over public spending is getting angrier and more absurd by the day, reports Political Editor Tomos Livingstone.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Byline: Tomos Livingstone THE increasingly fractious spending debate between Labour and the Tories is putting it rather politely. It's more like a political cage-fight, with the victor only declared when the opponent is beaten to such a pulp he can't continue. ...
Mandelson and Osborne at each other's throats as row over spending turns ugly.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Byline: Tomos Livingstone LABOUR and the Conservatives traded accusations of "deceit" yesterday as the bitter row over public spending cuts intensified. The parties are at loggerheads over the state of public finances, and whether the other is being honest about the ...
As cases of swine flu surge, experts warn deaths are inevitable.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Byline: Madeleine Brindley THE number of cases of swine flu in the UK is doubling every seven days, Health Minister Edwina Hart said last night. There are now 30 laboratory-confirmed cases in Wales and a further eight clinically-presumed cases - last week there were ...
New trunks for old trees.
Jul 02, 2009 ... GAVIN HOGG was worried his garden was becoming a jungle so he turned it into a herd of elephants. The hedge outside his kitchen window had grown wild when the 49-year-old took it to task. With a hedge-trimmer, shears and even a pair of scissors he carefully carved ...
Girl and boy victims of train explosion; world newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... TWO children have died after suffering severe burns in an explosion that followed a train derailment in northern Italy, bringing the death toll to 16, officials said yesterday. A three-year-old girl died in a hospital in Rome, said hospital official Marco Magheri. A two-year-old ...
Sham marriage charges for vicar; uk newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... A VICAR was yesterday charged with offences relating to a large-scale sham marriage ring involving illegal immigrants. The Reverend Alex Brown, 60, was charged with conspiring to facilitate unlawful entry and with solemnising a marriage according to the rites of the Church of ...
Sir Alan faces delay over his peerage; uk newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... SIR Alan Sugar's peerage may be delayed after a member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission raised concerns over a sex discrimination case in which he has been named, it was reported last night. The Apprentice star was offered a peerage when he was named as the ...
Post Office sell-off 'jostled' into touch; uk newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... PART-PRIVATISATION of the Royal Mail will not go ahead as planned because of the depressed state of the economy, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson announced yesterday. He told the House of Lords there was "no prospect" of the sale going ahead in the current economic ...
Brady 'last hope' for Moors Murder victim's mother.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Byline: Pat Hurst ; Kim Pilling MOORS murderer Ian Brady is the last hope in finding the grave of his victim Keith Bennett, as police admitted defeat yesterday. And, as previously unseen photographs taken by Brady of Myra Hindley close to the burial sites of the ...
TV 'battleaxe' Mollie Sugden, 86, dies.
Jul 02, 2009 ... THE Are You Being Served? actress Mollie Sugden died yesterday after a long illness. The Yorkshire-born 86-year-old died in the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford - with her twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, at her bedside. The comedy actress - who met her ...
Elephant tramples workers to death; world newsbulletin.
Jul 02, 2009 ... AN angry domestic elephant trampled three rubber plantation workers to death in southern Thailand. Police Lieutenant Somjit Ma-ou said the female elephant attacked a 44-year-old man as he was working in a rubber plantation this morning. He said: "It then wandered into ...