Powys County, Wales News

PUPILS at a Chepstow primary school have leapt into the 21st century as their school has become an official iPad training academy.

Swansea Bay hopes to be in the running for the UK City of Culture 2017, with the shortlist of contenders expected to be announced.

RRA Architects made the final round of the RIBA design competition in 2010, and with the winning design being watered down to meet a tighter A 3.5m budget, the Hereford firm hopes the council will reconsider its bid.

AN AMMAN Valley teen carrying a bag of cannabis claimed he 'panicked' when the car in which he was travelling was stopped by police, Llanelli magistrates heard.

VICTORIA closed the gap at the top of the Swansea Bowls League first division after winning at Morriston United, while leaders BSC Landore were suffering their second successive defeat at home to Dyfatty.

A LORRY driver was taken to hospital after his vehicle overturned, spilling part of its concrete load on to a busy junction.

When 73-year-old David Thomas read that local history project, Swansea Your Story, wanted people to scour their cupboards and attics for photographs of the city back in the day he knew he could go one better.

Members of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh will be among the 5,000 troops to go in the latest round of defence cuts.

TWO people have admitted their part in the huge Fforestfach tyre fire which brought chaos to the city for a month.

A MAN has been jailed for 10 months for causing the death of a Llangennech step-father by dangerous driving.

Internet firms are to meet ministers at No 10 amid calls for more to be done to block images of child sex abuse and to stop children viewing pornography.

The recently-retired chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society and a champion of uplands farming were honoured by the Farmers' Union of Wales during the union's annual general meeting in Aberystwyth today .

AN emergency ambulance took more than seven hours to respond to a life-threatening incident in North Wales during heavy snow.

Osprey sightings in Powys are soaring two years after the birds starting breeding there again following a 400-year hiatus, wildlife experts say.

Staff at the nearby hotel said the lorry had turned off the A470 and was heading towards Machynlleth when it overturned onto its side.

THE Mayor of Neath Port Talbot confessed to having a tear in her eye when she recently visited an exhibition.

AN ambulance turned up to a blazing house owned by an elderly couple, before the fire crews, it has been claimed.

THE trial of three people alleged to be responsible for a fire which brought disruption to Swansea is due to begin.

Unlikely star of BBC Three's The Call Centre, George Varkos was due to embark on his first date in a long while on Saturday night - after hoards got in touch with the Enterprise Park-based Saving Britain Money.

THE Killers have headlined festivals for years, but they reckon it's still the band's biggest challenge after their dazzling show at Isle Of Wight.