Whitchurch, Wales News

A 40m for junction six? - Pigs would fly first!' 1:00pm Monday 14th December 2009 By David Connop Price "PIGS would fly" before A 40million is spent improving junction six of the M3, according to one of the council leaders quizzed over plans for Basingstoke and Deane.

THE family of a Welsh Guard who was severely injured in Afghanistan are to stage a night of entertainment in aid of soldiers and their families.

FOOTBALL referee Robert Clarke will be drinking a toast to good health this Christmas Eve - a year to the day he was told he had cancer.

A CAREER criminal has been jailed indefinitely for his part in a 104,000 smash-and-grab bank raid.

Searching for images for their Christmas cards led Glamorgan Archives staff to uncover some surprising festive facts about days of yesteryear - when an orange was a real treat and soldiers adorned greetings cards, says ANWEN NEWMAN SOMBRE scenes of troops in the trenches might be the last thing you'd expect to find on the front of a Christmas card.

A woman cyclist suffered a head injury today after her bike collided with a car in Whitchurch.

RESIDENTS will tonight get the first of two chances to quiz the top men in charge of local services and plans for the future of the borough.

The Prince of Wales told soldiers of the Welsh Guards today of his enormous pride in their work during a difficult tour of Afghanistan.

DONNA Hannah had to go through a parent's worst nightmare - watching her son lose his fight with a brain tumour.

BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Shaheen Jafargholi took to the stage last night to help light up a Cardiff suburb for Christmas.

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.

Organisers were celebrating today after the BBC's Children in Need appeal raised more than A 20 million.

DIVISIONS in a community are being caused by plans to close two primary schools and reduce the pupil intake at a successful high school, angry parents say.

FAITH groups in Wales dismissed an atheist advertising campaign as "ludicrous" yesterday after a giant billboard was erected in the Welsh capital.

PETER Bray has definite ideas about who should pay for long-term care after experiencing the complex system first hand.

Two men behind an international drug smuggling ring have been jailed for a total of 18 years and four months after police found millions of pounds worth of cocaine in the boot of a car.

DORIS Thompson has survived Nazi bombings, won the football sweeps and worked until she was 80 - and now she has celebrated her 100th birthday.

TWO sisters who got married three weeks apart have celebrated a double golden wedding anniversary.

South Wales Police has revealed it has been reviewing 28 unsolved murders dating back as far the start of World War II.

DRIVERS were wrongly issued with fines after experimental parking controls were found not to be valid.