Caerphilly, United Kingdom News

PEOPLE in Swansea could have their council tax bills frozen as part of budget proposals by the city's council.

GRIEVING families say they are heartbroken after Caerphilly council removed chippings, flower pots, lanterns and other tributes from graves at Bedwellty Cemetery.

SCREEN televisions, tablet computers, yo-yos and thousands of pounds worth of cash and cheques were given away by Welsh councils as competition prizes last year.

RESIDENTS living in Caerphilly council houses will face a rent increase of four per cent from April 2012, equivalent to an extra A 2.89 a week.

The Youth Work Excellence Awards, organised by the Welsh Government, recognise the valuable contribution youth workers make to their communities and young people.

Immigration checks revealed that a 25-year-old Indian man was working in breach of the conditions of his visa, while a 28-year-old Indian man had stayed in the country after his visa expired.

A GWENT police detective constable told a jury yesterday she interviewed a murder trial witness in the proper way without putting any pressure on her.

A FORMER school cleaner and caretaker died as a result of exposure to asbestos throughout her career, a court heard yesterday.

The legendary Status Quo are scheduled to comes to Swansea this summer to headline an August Bank Holiday weekend of music.

A Livestock / Arable / Equestrian Farm with a modern bungalow residence of cavity block under a slate roof, subject to an agricultural occupancy condition, with potential for enlargement.

FROM the likes of Barbara Windsor and Rolf Harris to Coldplay and the Manic Street Preachers, Blackwood Miners' Institute has hosted some of the biggest names in music and entertainment over the last 20 years.

A CAERPHILLY woman has been awarded A 120,000 to further research on the ground-breaking work on how hearts can repair themselves after a heart attack.

THE girlfriend of a man accused of murder told a court yesterday she was concerned for his safety when he went to do a drug deal.

Wales rugby international Adam Jones opened the shop for the St David's Foundation Hospice Care which is a charity that looks after terminally ill people in their own homes in the Gwent area.

Mark Drakeford reflects on the Ely Hospital scandal and how the subsequent inquiry changed the care of people with learning disabilities WHEN scandal broke at Ely Hospital, in Cardiff, in August 1967, the building was already more than 100 years old.

A SCHOOLGIRL left with crippling stomach problems three years after a luxury holiday in Egypt has been told she may never fully recover.

FALKLANDS hero Simon Weston has dismissed Argentina's claim to the South Atlantic islands as tensions soared to the highest level seen since the 1982 war.

EMERGENCY ambulance response times in Gwent were among the poorest in Wales in December, as a new system of measuring performance was introduced.

An elderly man, stopped for not wearing a seatbelt, was chased by police who broke a window and dragged him from his car Link to this video An elderly driver has received damages after police officers smashed his car window following a chase that began when he was challenged over not wearing a seatbelt.

LOCALS spoke of their disappointment that a Gwent parliamentary seat, once held by the Labour leader, could vanish under new proposals.