A babysitter has been jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for sexually assaulting a three-year-old in his care and an attack on a woman the night before. Darren Rose, 21, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, admitted the separate attacks on the woman and the toddler.

Welsh targets to eradicate child poverty will not be met without more money from Westminster, a leading children’s charity has warned. Labour had pledged that child poverty would be wiped out by 2020, but Barnardos Cymru said it had serious doubts that would happen.

As the mental Health Bill begins its passage through the House of Commons, BMA Cymru Wales warns that the Bill will not deliver for Welsh patients. Welsh psychiatrist, Dr Sian McIver said: “We believe that unless the Lords’ amendments are kept, the Bill will have a severe impact on mental health in Wales.

A film made by teenagers in Wales will be used in schools to warn against the dangers of drinking and anti-social behaviour. The film, Consequences, was acted and produced by young people from Neath and Ystalyfera and is set in and around Neath Port Talbot.

A grandmother foiled cannabis-growing crooks after spotting what she thought were ordinary POT plants dumped near her home. Pensioner Christine Leaver thought a local garden centre had been burgled when she found more than 40 pots containing green-leafed plants dumped amid nettles near her Cardiff home.

Further funding should be made available for childcare in Wales in an effort to reduce child poverty, a Labour MP said today. Chris Bryant (Rhondda) said: “One of the first duties of government is to try to tackle the inequalities between rich and poor.”

Cardiff council has slapped a secrecy ban on parents knowing which city schools have excluded pupils for drugs offences. A decision by the authority’s top lawyer Kate Berry NOT to release the information to the Echo – even though it has done previously – has been condemned as a cover-up.

South Wales student Carl Wakely told today how he missed America’s university massacre…thanks to an e-mail. The relieved Cardiff-born golfer only had two and a half weeks left at Virginia’s Tech University before Monday’s tragedy unfolded on his campus.

The Welsh NHS is continuing to get into debt, with managers forecasting a £33m overspend for the last 12 months, according to research by BBC Wales. The debt was calculated from a survey of all Welsh NHS Trusts, local health boards and Health Commission Wales.

Doctors are calling on the next Welsh Assembly Government to put public health at the heart of their policies. The British Medical Association Cymru’s manifesto calls for a long list of improvements to people’s everyday health.