Six classrooms suffered smoke damage after an arson at a school for children with special needs in Gwynedd. Firefighters were called to Ysgol Pendalar, Caernarfon at 2026 BST on Friday. Pupils are due to move into a new school building in the autumn.
 

A row over funding has broken out over planned new services for the Children’s Hospital for Wales in Cardiff. Cardiff Local Health Board (LHB) has announced it cannot not pay its £1.1m share of expected annual running costs.

An evangelist accused of hiding behind his church respectability to abuse children yesterday told a jury that he had done nothing wrong.

A family have criticised a hospital after a man who had already been badly beaten was attacked by a delusional patient. Alcoholic Joseph Nicolas Williams, had been admitted to hospital after being assaulted during a night of drinking with friends.

A boy caught a strain of MRSA in hospital and died a month after suffering a head injury when he jumped off steps at school, a court has heard.

An 84-year-old widow stepped off a window ledge and fell to her death three weeks after moving to a residential home, an inquest has heard. Iris Hill moved to Parkside House in Penarth, south Wales, in November 2006 from her home in the Vale of Glamorgan.

A funding row has broken out over the Children’s Hospital of Wales as Cardiff health chiefs say they cannot afford to give it priority over other services. As Cardiff Local Health Board discusses the issue, the Noah’s Ark Appeal – which has raised £10m for the hospital – voiced its “disgust”.

A woman who was violently abused and forced by her former partner to lie down in a dog basket has said she hopes her ordeal will help other women.

The completion of the Children’s Hospital for Wales was thrown into jeopardy last night as an NHS organisation pulled the plug on its support.

Almost £300m was spent on special educational needs in Wales last year, but it is unclear whether the money was put to best use, the auditor general for Wales warned yesterday.