Pontypridd, United Kingdom News

CLASSIC cars will be ready to roll on Saturday for the "Butty Bay Run" to Porthcawl.

THREE women were cut from their car after a smash in the South Wales Valleys. Firefighters used heavy cutting gear to free the trio after their vehicle crashed into another car on Penrhiwceiber Road, Mountain Ash, just after 8.30pm yesterday, according to South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.

A SOUTH Wales firefighter has told how finding a nest of chicks burnt alive led him to chase a fire-starting youth for three miles on foot.

HE once claimed to be A Boy From Nowhere. But Tom Jones' heart has always been in Wales.

A UNIVERSITY student has been jailed for six years for signing for a parcel of drugs worth up to 70,000. Nigerian-born Adeyinka Kyeyemi Bamikefa was caught in a "sting" operation by an undercover officer and admitted conspiracy to import illegal drugs.

'My daughter seems to have fewer rights than other kids' A MUM claims her special needs daughter was stopped from going to school - after she dropped out for being bullied.

Earlier in the day Welsh Secretary Peter Hain took part in a midday remembrance service at the event in Cardiff's Coopers Field, while Pontypridd and Bridgend also marked the occasion.

A PARAMEDIC had his jaw fractured by an unhappy patient he was trying to help. Timothy Edwards was hurt when he and colleague Carla Young were called to a house at Abernathy Close, St Mellons, prosecutor Bob Hawkins told Cardiff Crown Court.

A RUNAWAY mum who fled to Malaga, leaving her teenage daughters with just 40 to live on for five days, has been warned she faces jail next month unless she shows a "dramatic change in attitude". In April, the 38-year-old, who can't be named because of a court order imposed to protect her children, was handed a suspended sentence order for ...

AMBULANCE workers are heading off to a deprived region of Africa to help set up an emergency medical service.

CARDIFF Central MP Jenny Willott claimed nearly 1,800 for a four poster-bed, mattress and surrounding curtains on her expenses, it emerged last night.

A MONUMENTAL error made by House of Commons officials made it appear Rhodri Morgan had been paid more than 16,000 of taxpayers' money after a claim made by his MP wife Julie.

SINGER Connie Fisher, pictured, has donated two tickets for the Sound of Music to Maesteg Hospital Fete.

VETERAN Labour MP Kim Howells yesterday launched a blistering attack on the party's high-profile younger generation.

RESIDENTS had a lucky escape when fire tore through a block of flats in the early hours of this morning.

PROP forward Gareth Edwards will lead Llanharan for an amazing seventh consecutive season next year, with centre David Atkins as his deputy.

Tom Jones is three quarters English. Photo: GETTY The singer was born Thomas Woodward in Pontypridd on June 7, 1940, and boasts of growing up as a "proud, proud Welshman". He changed his name to Jones before finding fame.

A BIG jump in house sales has been revealed by a Welsh estate agency. Darlows said sales rose 34.2 per cent in May across South Wales.

FIFTEEN patients were evacuated from Ystrad Mynach Hospital after a flash flood engulfed a ward, kitchen and physiotherapy centre.

Up to 100 homes were evacuated after flooding in Rhondda Cynon Taf last night. Fifteen people were looked after in a community centre at Rhydfelin, near Pontypridd, after three culverts were overwhelmed following torrential rain.