Bridgend County, Wales News

Cath Haywood didn't know she was having a heart attack. When her arm began to ache, she put it down over-enthusiastic ball throwing her springer spaniel demanded at least 50 lobs during their hour-long walks.

Waves batter the harbour wall on November 22, 2009 in Porthcawl, Wales. As fresh gale force winds and heavy rain sweeps across the UK, a major rescue operation is continuing after severe weather conditions caused flooding cutting off villages and towns in England's Lake District.

A TEACHER charged with making and possessing indecent images of children will stand trial.

A fire at a flat near Bridgend was started deliberately, say detectives. Police said a fire was set at the front door of the property at Hafan Deg, Pencoed, between 2130 and 2155 GMT on Tuesday.

A DRIVER hit a teenager on an unlit dual carriageway, an inquest has heard. Adam Terence Knight, 16, was hit by a silver Peugeot 206 being driven by Chantelle Lavercombe along the A4063 Sarn bypass in the early hours of Sunday, August 12, 2007.

COUPLES will be entitled to two free cycles of IVF on the NHS in Wales, Health Minister Edwina Hart announced last night.

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

A hospital doctor appeared in court today accused of repeatedly performing a sex act on himself in front of secondary school pupils on their way to class.

A SWANSEA man accused of murdering his wife will go on trial in the city on January 12.

Fox News : A woman who trapped her pedophile husband by posing as a teenage girl on the internet has been praised by a children's charity, Sky News reported.

A FORMER South Wales comprehensive school teacher was found dead in the sea just hours after her family reported her missing.

A suspicious wife caught her pensioner husband chatting up girls for internet sex by posing online as a teenager, a court has heard.

Emily Woodrow meets the incredible people strutting their stuff to prove life can be even better after cancer HERE are the amazing models set to cause a stir on the catwalk at the Breast Cancer Care Cymru fashion show.

A commemorative napkin celebrating the first ever Welsh rugby victory over the All Blacks in 1905 has been discovered by archivists packing to move home.

ELECTRONICS giant Sony has launched an investigation after blundering Welsh camcorder repair staff recorded their lurid sex chat - and sent it to a customer.

In the birth of the National Theatre of Wales, we might just be seeing the death of the individual as the key driving-force in our theatre Yesterday, I attended the launch of National Theatre Wales, an event that opens a dynamic new chapter in British theatrical life.

BRAVE police officers saved the life of a woman who was about to throw herself off a 200ft cliff.

HOLLYWOOD actor Michael Sheen is coming home to Wales to act as creative director for the nation's new National Theatre.

A play about teenage suicide in Bridgend is among the works due to be performed in National Theatre Wales's inaugural year, it was announced today.

WELSH Labour leadership contender Carwyn Jones yesterday promised to increase spending on schools by an extra 1% a year until it matches the amount spent per pupil in England.