Aberystwyth, United Kingdom News

AN ex-Welsh international footballer has set his sights on a Phd after graduating from university with a first class honours degree.

TWO men will appear in Swansea Crown Court accused of breaking into a Llanbadarn Fawr house to attack a man inside.Richard Marc Jones, of Nithsdale House, Queens Avenue, Aberyst-wyth, and Ian James Pickles, of Flat 2, 27 North Parade, Aberystwyth, are both accused of breaking into 6 Padarn Terrace on 11 June to as-sault the occupier of the ...

TOWN councillors have expressed their delight after hearing that a national store is coming to Aberystwyth town centre creating a potential 35 jobs.

A BOW Street woman was one of five victims who had 1,700 fraudu-lently withdrawn from their bank ac-counts, after falling victim to a 'skim-ming device' at a cash machine.Samantha Gittins, 32, of Bow Street discovered that fraudsters had with-drawn 130 from her Nationwide account - using banks in Henley-on-Thames and London - leaving her short of ...

Some have already been there for a week, preparing for the festival which starts today.

A statue of Buddha built for a musical turned out to be so big that a partition wall had to be taken down to get it out of the door.

AN Aberystwyth doorman has re-ceived hospital treatment after suf-fering serious head injuries while attempting to assist police.

A WOMAN who is lucky to be alive after a collision with a train in Fairbourne is leading the call for crossing barriers.Eileen Lawrance from Fairbourne was hit by a train on the crossing six weeks ago and, following a sec-ond crash on the line last week, she is calling for Network Rail to im-prove the crossing before someone is killed.A car was ...

Two men have been charged with theft after a handbag was stolen from a woman in Aberaeron.

On the 40th anniversary of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales, Tomos Livingstone talks to the event's organiser, the Earl of Snowdon HOW do you organise the Investiture of the Prince of Wales? The Earl of Snowdon, the last man to be given that duty, certainly had the credentials.

Before his investiture at Caernarfon Castle on July 1, 1969, Prince Charles talked openly to Western Mail reporter Graham Samuel.

Doing well in Cambridge interviews isn't always a matter of giving the right answers to the questions asked - but more a matter of showing your interviewers how you think.

Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Housing Thursday 25th June 2009 - 11:01am Homelessness team put Aberystwyth on the map Aberystwyth's profile was raised at a ceremony in London recently.

TWO new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Wales, including a three-year old boy who attended a nursery in Ceredigion.

British researchers have discovered a secret weapon to help combat global climate change: the humble garlic.

FIVE men, including one from Abergele, have peddled their way from one end of Wales to the other in the name of charity.

A landscape artist and illustrator from Croesgoch is drawing on inspiration from both sides of the Landsker line for a summer exhibition in Tenby.

SOME of Wales' most treasured historic sites will turn to ruin unless urgent action is taken to halt climate change, experts have warned in one of their starkest warnings yet on global warming.

Children In Conflict draws together work by eight internationally renowned artists and looks at the ways in which children can become caught up in conflicts created by the adult world.

Ceredigiona TMs Welsh Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams has this week had a meeting with Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick MP and officials from the Driving Standards Agency on the ongoing concerns over the lack of provision of the new motorcycle test in Ceredigion.