Wales, United Kingdom News

COURSES to encourage team-bonding among disadvantaged young people are being rolled out across North Wales.

AN ELDERLY woman had a lucky escape after a wheat-filled warming bag burned its way into her bed in the early hours.

THOUSANDS more homes will be built across Monmouthshire, pending the outcome of talks in County Hall next week.

DEDICATED Gwent public service workers haven't let the snow stop their work during the past few days with one Torfaen carer trudging through six inch deep snow for half an hour in order to visit a patient.

A Pembroke Dock man who took his stepfathera s van without permission and then set fire to it has been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for two years.

The accident brought the death toll to six in the last 24 hours after a motorway crash last night in which three men were killed.

A FORMER pub landlord who once weighed more than 61 stone is celebrating the start of 2010 as a new man.

Colleagues of a Shropshire police officer who was found hanged over the Christmas break today said they were "deeply saddened" by his death.

Hannah Jones, 16, is pictured with Pat Nicholls and store manager Andrew Jeffares at Somerfield in Gwersyllt near Wrexham A TEENAGER from Chester who battled back from a stroke and a brain tumour has raised more than 56,000 to fund more research into the disease.

Concern is growing for the safety of a man who was last seen in Llandudno on December 1. Alastair Richard Leveson, 40, had been living at the Beach House Hotel, Llandudno, for the past year, but is originally from the Manchester area.

Hilda Thomas celebrates her 100th birthday at Hillbury with the mayor and mayoress of Wrexham, Cllr Arwel Gwynn Jones and Mair Jones; her niece Margaret Job; her sister Mabel Edwards, 92, and Mildred Heyward, back right, manager of the home A WREXHAM woman with a lifelong love of singing had good reason to hit the high notes as she celebrated her ...

DEFECTIVE equipment, slips, trips and 'stretching' are among the reasons schools paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation to teachers, parents and pupils.

A five-year-old boy died after an accident on a child's motorcycle, police said today.

WALES now has a higher profile at Liverpool John Lennon Airport after the installation of an illuminated panel extolling the benefits of doing business in the principality.

A 19-year-old youth appeared before a special court today accused of stabbing to death another man.

EARLIER this month a pensioner suffered serious burns and one of his dogs died in a house fire in Flint.

IT IS a terrible time to go from Nazareth to Bethlehem - not because of the pilgrims, but the snow.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death following a snowball fight.

A Texan whose wedding band flew off as he grabbed his wind-blown hat while atop a castle tower in Wales has the ring back.

A MAN who admitted killing his partner's brother at a Flintshire wedding party has been jailed for four years.