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UK26 Sept 2024
Met Office issues UK yellow weather warning — but what is it?
Heavy rain, strong winds, and lightning are forecast in some areas, with power cuts predicted in extreme cases
Business News
PM’s energy plan does not help families with rising inflation – Drakeford
Wales’ First Minister welcomed the ‘certainty’ the move would provide people in the short term.
8 Sept 2022
Politics
Mark Drakeford serves free school meals to primary school children
Wales’ First Minister said he hoped the scheme would help hard-pressed families survive the winter.
7 Sept 2022
Politics
Drakeford: Relationship with Welsh Secretary off to reasonable start
Sir Robert Buckland has kept his role in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Liz Truss.
7 Sept 2022
Politics
Free school meals roll-out to primary school children in Wales begins
Children aged between four and five who are starting school will be offered the meals from this month onwards.
7 Sept 2022
UK6 Sept 2022
Husband tells of ‘shock’ at wife’s death after eating Pret wrap
Celia Marsh collapsed after eating a Pret a Manger super-veg rainbow flatbread, which was supposedly dairy-free but contained traces of milk protein
Crime
Inquest into death of mother-of-five after eating Pret wrap to begin
Celia Marsh died after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread at Pret a Manger, which was supposedly dairy-free but contained traces of milk protein.
6 Sept 2022
Politics
Mark Drakeford urges Liz Truss to ‘save millions from hardship’
Welsh MPs and Senedd members reacted to the nomination of the new Conservative leader.
5 Sept 2022
Environment
Heavy rain and thunderstorms to return after 36,000 lightning strikes recorded
Up to 80mm of rain could fall within three hours on Monday.
5 Sept 2022
Crime
Riot accused only there to pay respects to drugs death teenager, court hears
Kye Dennis helped buy one of the cars torched during a riot in Swansea last year.
31 Aug 2022
Crime
Man in court over murder of ‘proud’ mother-of-three
Andrew Simon Jenkins was remanded in custody after appearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday.
31 Aug 2022
UK
Tribute to ‘proud daughter and mother’ as man charged with her murder
Susan Moore was discovered at a property in Cwmbran and later died in hospital.
30 Aug 2022
Crime
Swansea riot accused ‘bought £250 car for use in anti-social behaviour’
The jury has been shown footage of cars being set alight, police attacked and residents intimidated during the violence in May last year.
30 Aug 2022
UK
Man charged with murdering his elderly mother
Margaret Joyce Griffiths, 87, has been described as a ‘much-loved’ and ‘active member of the community’.
30 Aug 2022
Crime
Man handed life term for killing teenager after she refused to have sex
Lewis Haines, 31, strangled Lily Sullivan, 18, after meeting her in a nightclub in Pembroke in December.
26 Aug 2022
UK
Wales football fans record charity World Cup song
We’ve Got The Red Well will help the Gol Cymru children’s charity.
26 Aug 2022
Politics
Young Welsh footballer scores top GCSE grades
Evie Norris, who got her first cap against Scotland in July, has achieved 11 A*s and three As.
25 Aug 2022
UK
Murder of 71-year-old woman outside her home a ‘completely avoidable tragedy’
Police were called multiple times over the weekend to a disturbance on Tanycoed Road.
24 Aug 2022
Crime
Three people found guilty of modern slavery offences
Normunds Freibergs, 40, and his accomplices Jacobus Stankevicius, 59, and Ruta Stankeviciene, 57, were found guilty following a trial.
24 Aug 2022
Crime
Three men plead guilty over Swansea riot
The trio had been due to stand trial at the city’s crown court.
23 Aug 2022
Crime
Man murdered teenage girl after she rebuffed his sexual advances, judge rules
Lewis Haines, 31, killed 18-year-old Lily Sullivan after the pair met at a nightclub in Pembroke, west Wales, in December last year.
23 Aug 2022