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Duffy and Paul Potts ride US charts
4/7/2008 - Welsh soul singer and song writer Duffy and Britan's Got Talent winner Paul Potts are riding high in in the US charts. Duffy's Rockview album sold 27,000 copies in a week and is at number 18. Paul Potts's One Chance...

Cardiff City pre-season games
4/7/2008 - Saturday 12 July 2008 Merthyr Tydfil (A) 2.00pm Saturday 12 July 2008 Carmarthen Town (A) 2.00pm Wednesday 16 July 2008 University of Dublin (A) 7.00pm Saturday 19 July 2008 Vitoria de Setubal (A) 10:30am Saturday 19 ...

New date for deporting Nigerian family
4/7/2008 - The Home office is pressing ahead with plans to deport a Nigerian family from Cardiff with a pregnant mother and sick child. They were removed from a flight back to Nigeria yesterday just as it was about to take off. T...

Aber company fights killer illness
4/7/2008 - A spin-off company of Aberystwyth University has been awarded a major contract to help treat a killer cancer. Visualisation specialists See3D are to develop sophisticated computer-generated models that will help doctor...

Scarlets wait for Aussie coaches
4/7/2008 - Llanelli Scarlets expect world class Australian coaches John Muggleton and Brad Harrington to join the squad within the next week. Defence specialist Muggleton and fitness chief Harrington had been due early this week ...

Cardiff coastal path complete
4/7/2008 - The final link of the Cardiff Bay Barrage Coastal Path opens on July 10, linking Cardiff Bay and Penarth and bringing a new experience for pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users The final link runs from the Environ...

Ashes for deaf cricketers at Colwyn Bay
4/7/2008 - Colwyn Bay Cricket Club hosts an England v Australia Ashes Test match for deaf cricketers from July 13 to 15. The Ashes series will comprise Tests at Southport and in Colwyn Bay, a Twenty20 match at Colwyn Bay and fou...

Nye Bevan medical unit opens
4/7/2008 - Aneurin Bevan is to have a new medical practise unit named after him to celebrate NHS 60th anniversary The School of Health Science at Swansea University is naming a new set of practise rooms the Aneurin Bevan Suite. ...

Most famous Welshman of his time - and still relevant
4/7/2008 - Robert Owen, father of the Co-operative and Trade Union movements and one of the most famous Welshmen of his time, is celebrated in an exhibition opening in Conwy tomorrow (Saturday). Owen's legacy is still relevant to...

Cheaper energy for Anglesey homes
4/7/2008 - A new phase of a project to help Anglesey homeowners slash energy bills is launched next week. The Here to Help Insulation Scheme, a partnership between the Isle of Anglesey County Council and British Gas, has already ...

Swans striker moves to Bristol Rovers
4/7/2008 - Striker Darryl Duffy is hoping to fire himself back onto centre stage with Bristol Rovers after being transferred from Swansea City yesterday for 100,000 pounds. The the 24-year-old says he is determined to get his car...

900k drugs haul in Carmarthenshire
4/7/2008 - Dyfed Powys Police have discovered five cannabis factories in properties in the Carmarthenshire area. They have seized 1500 cannabis plants with a potential street value of £900,000. Seven people have been arrested on...

Two survive Newport crash landing
4/7/2008 - Two men from Usk had a lucky escape when their light aircraft made a crash landing in a field next to a road in Whitson, Newport, and the plane caught fire. It happened at about 11 this morning (Friday) and the men w...

Go solar in Flintshire
4/7/2008 - Flintshire County Council is one of the first local authorities in the UK to introduce a grant for solar hot water systems. The Council will provide a top up grant of 400 pounds to 20 private Flintshire households who ...

Wales 7s strong for World Cup
4/7/2008 - Wales Sevens Coach Gareth Baber has named a strong squad for the Hanover Sevens from July 12 to 13 in a bid to win entry to the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai next March. Wales are seeded second for the final European...

Millions to help slower Welsh children
4/7/2008 - A 7.5m pound programme for early years and schools in Wales to improve basic skills levels has today been announced by Deputy Minister for Skills, John Griffiths. The minister said: "We want to see a country where ever...

Pregnant mum and family escape deportation
3/7/2008 - A pregnant Nigerian woman and her husband and sick daughter have escaped being deported after protests in Wales. Kemi Ayinde, aged 24, of Cathedral Road, Cardiff, and her Nigerian husband Taiwo Salami and their 18 mo...

Counterfeit cash warning
3/7/2008 - Counterfeit notes are circulating in the Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Abergele and Rhyl areas. The forged notes, described as being of good quality, have been passed at fast food outlets and petrol stations. The offenders ha...

New Welsh buildings must be green
3/7/2008 - New buildings in Wales will be expected to raise their sustainability standards and include renewable and low carbon energy technologies, such as solar panels and combined heat and power, as part of tough new planning pol...

Danny Abse wins Wales book of the year
3/7/2008 - Poet Dannie Abse has won the ten thousand pounds Wales Book of the Year 2008 for his book The Presence, a journal of his grief after his wife died in a car accident. The book is also a portrait of a marriage which last...

Bates flies UK flag in Wales tennis tourney
3/7/2008 - Former Wimbledon champion Jeremy Bates bids to win the Elemis Invitational Trophy as top tennis action returns to South Wales next week at the Celtic Manor Resort in the Usk Valley. Bates, a former Wimbledon champion ...

Legionella risk at Welsh nursing homes
3/7/2008 - Three quarters of Welsh nursing homes inspected by the Health and Safety Executive had problems which had to be corrrected. Legionella risk and the correct use of bedrails were the main recurring areas of concern. Legi...

Surgery for Swansea players
3/7/2008 - Swansea City players Angel Rangel and Jason Scotland will undergo surgery before the new Championship campaign kicks off. Defender Rangel was due to have a hernia operation in London today, while Scotland will fly to G...

Teenagers hurt in tent fire
3/7/2008 - Two teenage girls are in hospital following a fire in a tent near Trefriw. North Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called to Llyn Cowlyd in the Carneddau at 16.08 on Wednesday following reports from the Ambulance Serv...

Drugs worth 360k seized
3/7/2008 - Drugs worth more than 360,000 have been seized by a neighbourhood team in Alway, North Wales, in 9 months And Alway Neighbourhood Policing Team warned drug dealers there is no place for them to hide after a successful...

Put a name to Penarth Pier
3/7/2008 - Exciting plans are underway for the future of the pavilion on Penarth's popular pier. The plans are the brainchild of Penarth Arts & Crafts Limited (PACL) - the group who run the Washington Gallery on Stanwell Road in Pen...

Welsh miners get 697m compo
2/7/2008 - Compensation paid out to former miners in Wales has reached 697 million pounds.s. Following a meeting of the National monitoring group yesterday , where the progress of compensation on a national and regional level was...

Wales denied Olympic gold
2/7/2008 - Wales is losing out to other parts of the UK, especially London and the South East, in securing contracts for the 2012 Olympics. New research by the Liberal Democrats raised in Parliament today by Jenny Willott MP has ...

Don't deport pregnant mum and family, says Cardiff
2/7/2008 - Cardiff Council have asked the UK Home Secretary to reconsider her decision to deport a Nigerian family who have been living in Cardiff for the past year and were due to be forcibly removed from the country today. The...

Sailing school criticised
2/7/2008 - Holyhead coastguard have criticised a group of sailing instructors and students after one of their inflatables capsized in winds of force 5 in a flooding tide. The 20 students and three instructors were from the Nation...

Eirian umpires at Wimbledpn
2/7/2008 - Cardiff University student Eirian Jones is umpiring at Wimbledon this week for the eleventh year running. Eirian said: "Some days, the atmosphere on Centre Court is akin to a cauldron and it can be difficult to dismis...

Tribute to Isle's famous four
2/7/2008 - Anglesey's most famous brothers will be honoured at a ceremony on Friday this week. The four Morris brothers (Morrisiaid Mon) were scholars with a gift for literature, study and writing during the 18th century. The his...

Million surf the Swansea net
2/7/2008 - Almost two million users are surfing in the virtual world of Swansea, new figures have shown. Swansea Council's award-winning website http://www.swansea.gov.uk and its user-friendly pages have encouraged more than 1.8...

Anglesey to keep historic slipway
2/7/2008 - Gwynedd and Anglesey Councils have reached an agreement to transfer ownership of the Moel y Don slipway. Its proposed sale elsewhere roused strong public feelings. Ownership of the slipway, near the site of an histori...