South Wales Echo
ARMY:‘WE FAILED TEENAGE TROOPER JACK’
A TEENAGE soldier found hanged in his barracks having been under stress faced an “impossible working environment”, his family have said. Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment Trooper Jack Burnell-Williams, 18, was found dead at Hyde Park Barracks in...
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MAN MADE THREATS TO ‘STAB, CUT AND SLICE’ STUDENTS
A MASKED man wearing a fedora filmed himself making vile threats against students at a Welsh college and said he would “cut, stab and slice” people at the institution. He posted the video to YouTube, which was seen by members of the college who were...
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PLAN TO TACKLE KNIVES IN SCHOOLS
HELP for staff confronted by pupils bringing knives and other weapons into schools, or suspected of doing so, is being rolled out in a new national initiative. The scheme, announced by the Welsh Government, follows the jailing of a pupil who stabbed...
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Prize nod for children’s author is twice as nice
A CHARTERED accountant-turned author has become the first writer to be shortlisted for two different books by the Waterstones children’s book prize. Welsh writer and illustrator Huw Aaron, from Swansea, but now living in Cardiff, has been nominated...
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Tourism upside for new topsy-turvy attraction!
A “SIGNIFICANT” tourist attraction has been given approval by Cardiff Council for a year-long stay. Cardiff Council has approved plans to allow land for a 12-month sitting of an “upside down house” at 2 Churchill Way in the city centre. The upside...
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BODY FOUND ‘COVERED IN CARDBOARD BOXES’
A WELL-KNOWN drag queen was seen on CCTV walking into a car park area in Cardiff city centre with a man before he was later found dead and covered up with cardboard boxes. Darren Meah-Moore, 39, was found in a lane close to Windsor Place and Park Lane...
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Pair raided convenience store after robbing taxi
TWO men went on a crime spree which saw them robbing a taxi driver of his cab and using it to burgle a shop before making bystanders “run for their lives”. A judge said quite what made the men behave in the way they did has never been properly...
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Disruption to key city road for up to a year
WORK will take place on one of the busiest streets in Cardiff city centre and is expected to take a year as Castle Street undergoes major construction. Work to make the current temporary road layout and cycleway along the road permanent will begin....
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Code-breaker coin will net winner golden prize
A COIN will form part of a nationwide code-breaking challenge, with the eventual chance for competition entrants to win a gold bar. The £5 denomination coin includes numbers, letters, and symbols that can be used to uncover layers of secrets, riddles...
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Flood-prone homes set to be demolished
A ROW of houses in South Wales is so prone to flooding that a council is set to demolish them. Fifteen homes at Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl are expected to be bulldozed after being bought by Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) County Borough Council. It comes...
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Cardiff bars shut as owner enters administration
REVOLUTION bars owner The Revel Collective has closed 21 venues – including two in Cardiff – with the loss of 591 jobs after appointing administrators, who have announced a sale securing other parts of the business. FTI Consulting have been brought in...
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Not-so-sweet surprise in store for vape shop
A VAPE shop which often marketed itself as a sweet shop has been forced to close after it was caught selling vapes and tobacco products to children, a local council has confirmed. Vape Zone in Abercynon was closed with immediate effect last Wednesday...
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BRAZEN GANG BEHIND BARS
A CRIMINAL gang who boasted of their extravagant lifestyle are behind bars after a major police operation in Cardiff. They were filmed cooking crack cocaine, handling large sums of cash and took pictures with a rented Lamborghini. Eight people have...
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‘I MISS HER EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY’
A CYCLIST was killed after she was hit by a driver who failed to see her as he travelled at 68mph. Her 10-year-old son was left without a mother and her family described a “hole in their family that will never be filled”. Lucy John, 35, was riding her...
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DOZENS OF DOGS KEPT IN FILTHY CONDITIONS AT HOUSE
A PUPPY farm with almost 40 dogs kept in filthy conditions was discovered at a three-bedroom semidetached house, a court has heard. The condition of the property, which was covered in faeces and urine, left police officers and local authority workers...
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POLICE IN NEW BID TO SOLVE 1979 CABBIE’S MURDER
POLICE have renewed their appeal for information into the unsolved murder of taxi driver John “Jack” Armstrong – a killing that has haunted South Wales for more than four decades. Jack, a Cardiff taxi driver and family man, was murdered in October...
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Snooker ace’s son following in his dad’s footsteps
MARK Williams’ 12-year-old son has qualified for the U18s European Snooker Championship six years early – as he continues to follow in the three-time world champion’s footsteps. Joel Williams is quickly rising through snooker’s youth ranks and will...
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TEACHER’S SEX ACT VIDEO SHAME
A PRIMARY school teacher has been convicted of inciting a teenage girl to engage in sexual activity and to watch a sexual act. He was found not guilty of sexually assaulting the teenager and not guilty of a count of causing her to engage in sexual...
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WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT CITY PARK
THE body of a woman has been recovered from a park in Cardiff. There was an emergency response near Roath Park lake yesterday morning. South Wales Police confirmed the body of a woman has been recovered. The force says there are no suspicious...
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FAMILY LEFT DEVASTATED AFTER BLAZE RUINS HOME
A FAMILY has been left devastated after a fire tore through their home in the early hours of yesterday morning. Matthew Buckler, his wife and their four children woke up just after midnight to an exploded electric scooter which he says has completely...
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DONOR-ROW WASTE FIRM FINED £40K
A CONTROVERSIAL recycling firm which donated £200,000 to a leadership campaign of a former First Minister has been fined £40,000 for a breach of an environmental permit. The company has also been ordered to pay almost £30,000 in court...
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TEACHER ACCUSED OF SEX ASSAULT
A PRIMARY school teacher sexually assaulted a teenage girl while he was working as a teacher at a primary school in St Mellons, Cardiff, a court has been told. Cardiff Crown Court yesterday heard how Johnathan Morgan, 35, had “taken a shine” to the...
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SHOPS SHUT DOWN IN ILLEGAL CIGS AND VAPES BLITZ
TWO shops in Cardiff have been forced to close after a series of test purchases revealed they had been selling illegal tobacco and vapes. The tests, carried out by the council and South Wales Police, have led to the closures of Vape Zone in Adamsdown...
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TRIBUTES AS ‘BELOVED’ MUM DIES AFTER COLLISION
A LOVING mum-of-four has died after being involved in a serious collision on a major valleys road, police have confirmed. A total of five people were taken to hospital following a crash between a car and a van on the A4119 bypass at Williamstown, near...
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EX-SCHOOL WORKER FOUND WITH INDECENT IMAGES
A RETIRED teaching assistant was found in possession of images depicting child abuse but when interviewed by police he claimed the images were not indecent. He was also found to have distributed the images to others. David Wood, 69, was visited by...
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ONE DEAD IN NEW YEAR’S EVE FIRE TRAGEDY
A PERSON has been found dead following a house fire in a village in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Emergency services were called to reports of a blaze at a home in Glenboi near Mountain Ash shortly before 2am yesterday. Firefighters tried to control the blaze...
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THIEF’S £15,000 ROLEX ROBBERY
POLICE are investigating after a man was robbed of cash and his £15,000 Rolex watch while walking home from a convivence store. The 40-year-old man was robbed after leaving the the Family Shopper in Merthyr Dyfan Road, Barry, near the bus stop close...
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MAN DIES ON BOXING DAY AFTER CITY ‘ASSAULT’
A CARDIFF fish and chip shop has fed more than 1,000 people on Boxing Day after a remarkable community-led operation that saw meals delivered across the city to hospitals, emergency services and people experiencing homelessness. Whitchurch-based...
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DRUG DEALER WITH TASTE FOR THE HIGH LIFE CAUGHT RED-HANDED
A BARRY drug dealer carried out a blatant drugs transaction while completely unaware that a team of detectives were already watching him from outside his home. Police had been monitoring Jacob Kennedy, 20, at his flat in Nant Talwg Way, Barry, on...
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I’VE BEEN SCAMMED... BY WOMAN I THOUGHT WAS A FRIEND
CHRISTMAS is a time for giving and goodwill and for Helen Morse there’s just one gift she’d like to receive this year. She wants former friend Charlotte Blackwell, 31, to repay the £12,682 she scammed from her and three other women, who handed over the...
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MURDERED BY TEENS IN RACIST ATTACK
TWO teenage boys have been found guilty of murdering a loving husband and father who was stabbed to the heart with a kitchen knife. He was delivering shopping to his mother’s house and was returning to his car when he was set upon by the teenagers and...
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VIOLENT MAN RAPED HIS EX AFTER LOCKING HER IN HOUSE
“I AM still, even now, in shock that he did it. He must have no human feelings. There is nothing about him that is redeemable.” These are the words of Helen Carson, who endured horrific physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her ex-partner, who...
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DEAD MOUSE AND DROPPINGS AT CITY TAKEAWAY
TWO Cardiff takeaways were deemed to be an “imminent risk to pubic health” after inspections identified serious food hygiene concerns at the businesses. Widespread rodent infestations, poor cleanliness and serious failings in food safety management...
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‘YOU TOOK HIS LIFE AND LEFT HIM TO DIE ALONE’
A FATHER-OF-THREE was punched by a former boxer and “left for dead” as he bled to death on a kitchen floor as his intoxicated killer fled the scene. The 12-year-old daughter of the victim said her “heart has been broken into a million pieces”. Thomas...
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TWO HURT AS DANGER DRIVER FLED COPS IN CITY PURSUIT
A MAN has admitted dangerous driving after being involved in a police chase which ended in a serious crash. Two men were taken to hospital after a pursuit ended in a collision near a key roundabout in Cardiff. Ely roundabout was closed on the...
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RAPIST ‘DIED AFTER SERIES OF FAILINGS AT PRISON’
A RAPIST died after a series of failings by a prison. John Warry was serving a 12-year sentence for the horrific sexual abuse of a toddler. The 73-year-old, from Barry, died in September, 2022, at HMP Stafford, a jail for sex offenders. A prisons...
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FATAL BLAZE PROBE ‘TO BEGIN’
WORK is continuing at the scene of an explosion and house fire which killed two people in a village in south Wales. Emergency services were called to reports of an explosion and fire in the garden of a property in Heol Fawr, Nelson shortly after 6pm on...
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HALFPENNY’S BACK IN THE BLUE & BLACK!
LEIGH Halfpenny will make his first Cardiff appearance in over a decade after he was named in the Blue and Blacks’ starting side to face Ulster tonight (8pm). The former Wales full-back joined his old club at the start of the season, with the Test...
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GRAN ‘LEFT DISGUSTED’ AS ATTACKER SPARED JAIL
A GRANDMOTHER who said she thought she was “going to die” when she was brutally attacked by a pregnant woman at a funeral wake has told how she is “disgusted” by her attacker’s sentence. Belinda Stickland, 65, was paying her respects at a friend’s...
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‘THIS PLACE IS LITERALLY CRUMBLING’
TEMPORARY accommodation and additional business rates relief are two areas that are among more than £350,000 worth of budget cuts this year in Merthyr Tydfil. Budget reduction proposals for 2025-26 of £354,000 have been approved and include a cut of...
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CITY SET FOR SALA CASE SHOWDOWN
CARDIFF City yesterday released a strongly-worded statement on the eve of a landmark court hearing in France, where the club will seek €120.2m (around £105m) in damages from FC Nantes over the tragic death of Emiliano Sala. Today marks a seismic...
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BULLDOZER DRIVEN INTO PUB
A MAN has been arrested after a bulldozer was driven into a village pub in what’s thought to be a “targeted” incident, police said. There was a large emergency services presence at the scene of the incident near the New Inn pub in Smiths Avenue,...
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‘I WANT TO GO BACKTO PRISON’
A TIKTOK prankster launched an unprovoked and ferocious attack on a man in a shop after he began smashing up the store and shouting: “I wanted to go back to prison”. He punched and bit his victim after becoming intoxicated following his release from...
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ALL CHANGE!
HUGE changes to Cardiff Central railway station have been given approval. The redevelopment, confirmed today, will mean increased capacity, easier movement around the station and better accessibility for those with reduced mobility, as well as...
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DRIVER RACED THROUGH CARDIFF AT 120MPH
A DRIVER led police on a 120mph chase during which he rammed a police car and performed doughnuts on a football field, a court has heard. Kallum Mills led police on three separate pursuits over a six-month period which saw him racing through...
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SCANDAL-HIT HOSPITAL ‘NIGHTMARE’
A 77-YEAR-OLD emphysema patient shivering after a heating failure. An 80-year-old in his final hours, wet from the dripping ceiling of a pigeoninfested tunnel. A despairing staff member who says working at Wales’ biggest hospital has become “an...
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‘I HAD SOME PERSON KICK ME IN THE HEAD’
DARREN Davis was sleeping rough on the streets in Cardiff when a passerby decided to casually kick him in the head for no apparent reason. It’s something the care leaver said he has got used to being homeless. Taken into care aged 14, Darren, now 39,...
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TWINS LEFT PAL FOR DEAD IN POOL OF BLOOD
TWIN brothers viciously attacked their friend and “left him for dead” after repeatedly inflicting blows with their fists and feet until he lay in a pool of blood on the floor. After the assault they told their victim: “This is what you f ****** get...
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MAN THREW SHOES AT POLICE DURING RIOT
A MAN pushed a police officer and threw his footwear at another as tensions escalated during the rioting which broke out in Ely two years ago. McKenzie Danks was spared an immediate jail term for his role in the day of disorder in the Cardiff...
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A RAIL-LY GOOD IDEA!
RAIL passengers will soon be able to benefit from a series of new train services that will see trains run later into the night and earlier in the morning. The changes, set to come into place in mid-December, will also see more trains operating on...
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WOMAN HID EVIDENCE OVER BODY IN GARDEN
A WOMAN has admitted perverting the course of justice in relation to the alleged murder of a woman who was found with stab wounds to her neck and chest in her estranged husband’s garden. A charge of preventing a lawful and decent burial will not be...
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‘MUCH-LOVED’ FATHER DIES AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR
A “ONE-OF-A-KIND father” has died after being hit by a car. Michael Griffiths suffered fatal injuries in a collision on October 22 in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf. Police said the 45-year-old, who lived in the area, was hit at 5.50pm on Heol-Y-Sarn...
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CITY KICK OFF FOR EURO 2028
CARDIFF’S Principality Stadium will host the opening game of Euro 2028, it has been officially confirmed. The Welsh capital will be the venue for six tournament matches in total, including a last 16 tie and a quarterfinal knockout fixture The...
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FIRMS TELL OF HOSTEL ‘FEARS’
SEVERAL businesses close to the former Ibis Hotel in Cardiff said their staff no longer feel safe, after the local authority started using the building as a homeless hostel. Cardiff Council, which acquired the former hotel on Tyndall Street close to...
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MAN STABBED IN CITY PARK
A MAN is in hospital after an early-hours stabbing in a Cardiff park. Police said the “serious assault” took place at around 5.30am yesterday in Llandaff Fields. “A 55-year-old man is in hospital with stab wounds described as nonlife-threatening,”...
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GROOMER ‘CATFISHED’ TEEN GIRLS ONLINE
A PREDATORY paedophile “catfished” young girls by pretending to be a teenager in order to gain indecent images of them engaging in sexual activity. He would then distribute the images to other paedophiles over social media, and used the images to...
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POLICE FACE ACTION OVER DEATH CRASH
SIX officers from Gwent Police are to face disciplinary proceedings over their handling of missing person reports following a crash in Cardiff which left three young people dead. Driver Rafel Jeanne-Actie, 24, and passengers Darcy Ross and Eve Smith,...
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TRADER’S THREAT TO ‘SMASH HOUSE IN’
A ROGUE trader and his accomplice have been jailed for defrauding vulnerable customers by carrying out substandard work at highly inflated prices, intimidating victims who questioned the quality or cost of the work and attempting to pervert the course...
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DRUG GANG JAILED FOR 26 YEARS
AN ORGANISED crime gang that transported kilos of cocaine into Wales was discovered after the police cracked encrypted messages advertising the sale of class A drugs. Reece Dennington, 23, Corrie Morgan, 28, Kyle Morris, 38, and John Jenkins, 22, were...
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THUG FILMED HIS BRUTAL ATTACKS ON SEX WORKER
A SEX worker was raped by a client multiple times after he strangled her until she became unconscious and filmed the act in order to “humiliate and degrade” her. The victim said she wanted to “rip her skin off” after being raped as her attacker left...
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PEDESTRIAN SERIOUSLY INJURED BY E-BIKE
POLICE are appealing for information after an e-bike rider seriously injured a pedestrian in a crash before riding off from the scene. The incident happened on Penlline Road in the Whitchurch area of Cardiff. According to police, the rider “struck a...
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DEFEND YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW.
Plans for licensed premises in your neighbourhood could be hidden from view if new government proposals for secret alcohol licensing notices get the green light.
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MIGRANT ATTACKED WOMAN UNDER BRIDGE
AN ASYLUM seeker visiting Cardiff followed a young woman out of a club before strangling and sexually assaulting her under a city centre bridge, a court heard. The victim was walking home from a night out in the early hours of the morning on May 12...
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SET FOR LIFT OFF!
A NEW operator of the Principality Stadium roof top attraction have been confirmed in a deal between the WRU and Gwynedd-based Zip World. The roof walk, stadium drop and flyer elements of the attraction, will reopen to the public tomorrow under its...
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BIKES STOLEN AT ‘KNIFEPOINT’
POLICE are investigating reports of bikes reportedly being stolen at knifepoint. Police say one incident happened at Cogan railway station near Penarth town centre earlier this month. It followed similar incidents having occurred at the popular...
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FIFTH PERSON IN COURT AFTER MAN’S DEATH
A FIFTH person has been charged as part of a South Wales Police murder investigation following the death of a 22-year-old in Pontypridd. Liam Woolford died in Rhydyfelin after police were called to a disturbance at Poets Corner just before 1am on...
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JURY TOLD OF FRANTIC ‘SHE’S DEAD’ 999 CALL
A DESPERATE 999 call made moments after Joanne Penney was shot and killed has been heard by the jury as the trial of several people accused of her murder resumed yesterday. Miss Penney was shot in the chest at close range when she opened the front...
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