A retired North Wales nurse has been denied vital treatment in England because a Welsh health body will not pay for it.

Drug crime in Wales rose 11% over the past year, according to Home Office figures released yesterday.

A Carmarthenshire businessman jailed for his part in conning a charity for disabled children out of thousands of pounds has won the first stage of his battle to reduce his sentence.

The “substandard” services for the one in four people in Wales who have a mental health problem were exposed yesterday.

A review is under way into the case of a man jailed for torturing his stepdaughter to death after neighbours had alerted the authorities.

North West Wales has been named as the country’s drug death capital. A shocking report found Gwynedd and Anglesey had the highest rate of deaths per population in Wales last year, with eight out of 100,000 killed by drugs.

An investigation has been launched into the sudden death of an 86-year-old man at a nursing home in Pembrokeshire.

A permanent night shelter for homeless people in Wrexham is a step closer.  Campaigners said a temporary 10-bed shelter which opened for several months last year, including at Christmas, showed that it was needed.

A series of reviews and new public consultations on plans to change NHS services in mid and north Wales have been announced by the health minister.

A Swansea man died after suffering a schizophrenic attack at his parents’ house. Swansea coroner Philip Rogers returned a narrative verdict on Paul Evans, of Clas-yr- Onnen, Waunarlwydd.