Vale of Glamorgan County, Wales News

The winner of the race to succeed Rhodri Morgan as leader of Labour in Wales and first minister in the Welsh assembly will be announced later.

A CHEMICAL produced in Wales is being used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world to identify smuggled stashes of cocaine.

A WEALTHY aristocrat who bought fine wines and gifts after taking 1.6m from a family charity intended to aid Bosnian orphans was given a two-year suspended sentence yesterday.

RUMOURS of a Subway restaurant opening in Penarth town centre have been denied by a spokesman for the fast food chain.

A CAREER drug dealer has been put out of business by police after 20 years of damaging communities.

A former nurse who turned to the world of alternative medicine was accused at the High Court today of being responsible for the death of her "soulmate" partner.

Carwyn Jones is odds-on favourite for post that would make him party's big hitter in power if Tories form next government Carwyn Jones, centre, campaigns in Ebbw Vale.

CONCERNED parents held a candlelit vigil to voice their concerns over a controversial education shake-up. At a public meeting last night, MP Julie Morgan joined residents at the Ararat Church Centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff, expressing their thoughts and feelings about Cardiff council's proposed reorganisation of schools in the area.

The young couple start a new life in Barry in the third series of the BBC comedy.

A PAEDOPHILE pensioner - convicted after his wife posed as a 14-year-old girl in an internet chatroom to trap him - was a foster father accused of sexually abusing one of the children in his care, it emerged yesterday.

ILLEGAL and stolen bikes which have become the bane of residents' lives were reduced to nothing more than scrap metal.

HE'S travelled in the Tardis with David Tennant, held a quivering Kylie Minogue in his arms, and now for his next quest Colum Regan is helping a Crazy Chick find her angry side.

A PILOT scheme which gives soldiers, sailors and airmen free entry to leisure and sport centres in the Vale of Glamorgan is set to be expanded - even though only nine armed services personnel took advantage of the offer in six months.

A cleaner who tried to kill her 77-year-old employer with a hammer after stealing her store card has been jailed for 15 years.

THE death of a tenant in a fire might have been avoided if the landlord had observed simple rules, a court heard.

From the Clinical Pharmacology Unit , University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Wales Heart Research Institute , University of Cardiff, The Heath, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

Two 17-year-old sixth formers killed in a crash which has left another boy critically ill have been named.

A TEENAGE girl described today how she saw a hospital doctor "feel himself up" while on her way to school.

Friends of two 17-year-old boys killed in a car crash paid tribute today to the "mischief-making" teenagers.

Concerns: James Hadley, who owns Lextan salon in Barry, south Wales, has admitted five health and safety charges Concerns were raised about an unmanned tanning salon four months before a 14-year-old girl was badly burned on one of the sunbeds, a court heard today.