Vale of Glamorgan County, Wales News

MISCARRIAGE of justice victim Ellis Sherwood has been awarded 1.4m in compensation because of a stroke he suffered after being released from prison.

DONNING a protective suit and plunging your hands into a hive of angry bees may not be everyone's idea of fun.

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

STEP into the kitchen at Lambeth Palace and you might just be greeted by the smell of freshly- baked ginger biscuits.

POLICE hope a dumped car will help them catch the robbers who made off with more than A 10,000 from a security guard in Newport last month.

An alleged Bristol rape victim told a jury she did not know her attacker was a murderer until he sexually brutalised her.

PEOPLE are being invited to have a dig at Crawley as a man who thinks the town's not so famous history still rocks plans to open its first ever archaeology course.

A PONTYPOOL woman was jailed yesterday after dragging another woman to the ground by her hair and kicking her in the face more than a dozen times.

A woman, who suffered serious injuries after a crash which killed her brother, had to have emergency surgery to save her baby, police have confirmed.

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

ICONIC landmarks from across Cardiff have been immortalised in a new Monopoly board game.

IT WAS once such an integral part of rail travel that it formed the backdrop for film scenes from Get Carter to The 39 Steps.

The main threat to British soldiers in Afghanistan comes not from suicide bombers or gunfire but from improvised explosive devices .

A 58-year-old schizophrenic who harassed ITV1 Wales news presenter Justina Simpson for two years was given a six week suspended prison sentence today.

Children who use buses to travel to school are being handed a behaviour code which allows head teachers the power to punish those who misbehave.

CUTS to the probation service will lead to a rise in crime, an AM and former probation officer warned last night.

MORE than 4,300 innocent people have been added to the DNA database by Welsh police forces since a European court ruling that the practice was illegal, according to new figures.

THE quality of school buses could be set back 10 years if a new system for auctioning contracts to the lowest bidder is extended across Wales, experienced professionals have warned.

CARDIFF'S top police officer fears yobs will try to hijack Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night celebrations as an excuse for anti-social behaviour.

TRIATHLETE Helen Jenkins has urged the Welsh Assembly Government to do more to prevent teenage girls from smoking.