Bridgend, England News

Two former Welsh Conservative candidates have defected to UKIP, amid signs that the anti-European party is enjoying a surge of support in Wales.

Plans for major changes to the way some specialist hospital care is delivered in south Wales will be unveiled later.

Buy this photo COLOURFUL: Lauren Welch, Christine Smith, Tracey Welch, Karen Evans at the back and Mike Nash and Maureen Powell, front who took part in the canal walk Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with 48,000 women getting it in Britain each year.

Six furry felines have been found with their mum at Parc Prison in Bridgend, the feline fugitives have now been handed over to Bridgend Cats Protection It's a strange tail, six tiny feline fugitives have been found nesting with their mum in the most unlikely of places, inside a prison truck at Parc Prison in Bridgend.

Merthyr's Prince Charles Hospital and the Princess of Wales in Bridgend are likely to be put forward to keep specialist services in the South Wales shake-up The Royal Glamorgan Hospital is likely to be "downgraded" and lose its consultant-led Accident and Emergency unit in a controversial hospital shakeup, WalesOnline understands Senior NHS sources ... (more)

There are calls for a major shake up of accident and emergency services in south Wales to be abandoned due to the crisis in demand.

The search is under way for the 2013 Wales Book of the Year Award winner with the announcement of the shortlist in an online broadcast.

Jean Humphreys explains how her husband Teifion Humphreys' funeral and financial planning helped her put everything he wanted in place for his death When Teifion Humphreys was told he had only three months left after a rapidly advancing cancer began destroying his health he planned his final days with his wife of 44 years in meticulous detail.

Hundreds of children across Wales will be taking part in celebrations next week to mark the fifth anniversary of a project to plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales.

Two new test drilling plans have been drawn up by the company behind exploration plans which sparked a storm of protest last year.

The officer who arrested Mark Bridger for the alleged abduction and murder of April Jones will also be among today's witnesses.

Alcoholic given life in jail for deaths of family members Lee-Anna Shiers, Bailey Allen, Skye Allen, Liam Timbrell and Charlie Timbrell On this week's Blakey's Bootroom, Cardiff City legend Nathan Blake and the boys dish out the end-of-season awards after a remarkable season District3 on their UK tour and what they've been up to since appearing on ... (more)

Hundreds of children across Wales will be taking part in celebrations next week to mark the fifth anniversary of a project to plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales.

They lived in the same house but a century apart - now one Welsh engineer to hoping to take a pit carpenter's dream and make it fly.

Rising costs of leisure time fun outstripping consumer price inflation over the past year and last decade, Halifax Spare Time Spending study finds The Scarlets were outscored by four second-half tries to one, with the second Treviso touchdown from flanker Manoa Vosawai astonishingly coming when they had two players in the sin-bin. As the Wales ... (more)

Mr Lewis, from Neath, joined the force in 1987, and began his career walking the beat in Porthcawl before rising through the ranks and filling a number of posts - both uniform and CID - in Swansea, Bridgend, Neath and Port Talbot, and Cardiff, and latterly in force headquarters.

A jury took just 20 minutes to unanimously clear a cyclist of raping a teenage girl at knifepoint on a secluded path.

Bridgend council revoked The Prince of Wales' licence after a damning police dossier revealed a string of assaults, including a glassing and pool cue attack A 45-year-old man from Maesteg died following a collision on Thursday afternoon on the A465 at Resolven, near Neath Twenty-two-year old teaching assistant Nikki Casey won her title at the Miss ... (more)

CRUELTY against animals is on the rise in Wales with the level of criminal convictions trebling in some parts of the country.

A large gorse fire at the side of the M4 in Stormy Down - between Pyle and Bridgend - is making driving conditions difficult for motorists travelling in both directions between junctions 36 and 37.