A group of teenagers from three of Cardiff’s inner city areas are to challenge business leaders to employ more people from their areas.

A serving Dyfed-Powys Police officer has admitted a charge of possessing an indecent image of a child. Mark James Bretherick, 33, from Forden, near Welshpool, admitted before Swansea Crown Court downloading the image from the internet.

Police are launching patrols in the south Wales valleys during the Rugby World Cup to allow them to respond quickly to domestic violence.

Ths NHS in Wales paid out more than £1m a week in compensation to victims of medical blunders. Details of NHS trust accounts, released under the Freedom of Information Act by the Welsh Assembly Government, indicate that more than £53m in clinical negligence payments have been made in the last financial year.

Patients are regularly waiting more than 50 minutes in ambulances outside south east Wales accident and emergency units, BBC Wales has revealed. In February, there were delays at two hospitals because of a high volume of 999 calls and a shortage of beds.

Heroin users are nearly twice as likely to live in former coalfields areas than anywhere else in Wales, research shows. The study reveals 2.8 people per thousand in the valleys had asked for treatment for heroin use compared with 1.5 per thousand in the rest of Wales.

Welsh Health Minister Edwina Hart has pledged to review the funding of independent hospices. During a visit to Nightingale Hospice in Wrexham, Ms Hart said she was keen for a “closer relationship” with the hospice movement across the country.

A drive to recruit thousands more childcare workers and classroom assistants in Wales has got under way. Children’s minister Jane Hutt said current staff would also be helped to improve skills and qualifications.

A council whose social services department is the subject of “serious concerns” is considering £2,000 “golden hellos” to tempt experienced social workers to join.

A man was given an Asbo after he faked drug overdoses to stay in hospital, government fraud investigators say. Mark Smith, 33, from Newtown, Powys, is banned from hospitals except in a real emergency or with written permission.