Powys County, Wales News

Martin Phillips, who grew up in Swansea, gives us an insight to what it was like in Malmo, Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Ben Sweet works in the depths and darkness of the London Dungeon is "much better than working in the real world". While most of us are stuck behind desks in nine to five jobs at the office, Ben Sweet works in the depths and darkness of the London Dungeon.

Talking place across two days at venues around the city centre it features the current cream of the Welsh music crop.

The UK has been holding out for a Eurovision hero for a long time and this year hopes rest on Wales' Bonnie Tyler with her song Believe in Me.

The man accused of murdering April Jones told police he had a "mental block" about what happened to her body, a jury has heard.

People are being warned to keep off a popular lake after a farm vehicle overturned, spilling 400 litres of a chemical into a nearby drainage ditch.

The Morriston Orpheus Choir will be performing at the attraction, with soprano Iona Jones, a graduate of London's Guildhall School of Music, who is also a founder member and current tutor of the National Youth Choir of Wales.

A COUPLE who were assaulted in the street in a homophobic attack have spoken of the lasting effects of the attack.

ARTISTS and makers from Powys will showcase their work in the centre of Hayon- Wye as part of this year's Fair on the Square event running over the bank holiday weekend.

The UK government's Water Bill is to give business, charity and public sector customers a choice of water suppliers, ending the current monopoly.

The multi-million pound boulevard scheme at the main eastern entrance to Swansea has provoked some expected gripes and groans over traffic queues while the work is done.

Officially, they were men from Swansea and surrounding towns including Neath and Port Talbot who made up the 14th , The Welsh Regiment, part of the Welsh 38th Division during World War I. And the 1,200-strong "Swansea Pals" battalion found itself in one of the deadliest battles of the war, Mametz Wood, in which almost 100 of them were killed and ... (more)

CONFIRMED : A second man has been arrested in relation to today's stabbings, and the suspect taken away in an ambulance with a police escort.

Mark Bridger allegedly abducted the five-year-old in his left-hand drive blue Land Rover Discovery from outside her home in Machynlleth where she was playing with friends The pink bicycle the five-year-old was riding the night she went missing from outside her home in October last year was also shown to the jury.

Public Health Wales warn against complacency as figures in measles epidemic area and in Gwent, where there are increasing concerns about the disease, rise.

ASKING Scott Gibbs what it takes to stand tall in a Lions Test series is akin to quizzing Tiger Woods about the requirements for triumphing in a golf major, or inviting Roger Federer to hold court on how to win a tennis Grand Slam title.

A 23-year-old woman made a second preliminary court appearance today charged with murdering a man who was stabbed in Swansea at the weekend.

Arriva Trains Wales has made changes to its timetable thanks to the re-doubling of the track between Swansea and Llanelli.

Elsewhere, up to two inches of snow fell in Princetown in Dartmoor, Devon and Rhayader in Powys, mid Wales last night as temperatures plummeted.

The man accused of murdering April Jones had viewed and downloaded Facebook photos of the five-year-old in the days before she disappeared, a jury has heard.