A Vietnamese man recruited to cultivate cannabis plants with a street value of more than £36,000 at a house in Newport was jailed for two years. Asylum seeker Khan Van Nguyen, 24, of no fixed abode, was recruited at a London hotel and sent to cultivate cannabis plants at a rented house in Newport.

Social workers are looking for a family to adopt five young brothers and sisters because they are desperate to keep them together. The children, all aged under seven, were put up for adoption by Coventry City Council amid concerns they were being neglected and left to fend for themselves, said senior councillor John Blundell.

A man has been charged with the rape of a 74-year-old woman at her home in Wrexham. Keith Sharp, 33, from the north east of England but currently of no fixed abode, is charged with the alleged attack which took place on Tuesday.

Health workers in Swansea have been banned from smoking in public in their work clothes.The measure has come into force following the April 2 ban on lighting up in enclosed places.

More than half the people in Wales believe there is a lack of affordable homes for rent. Community Housing Cymru, which represents housing associations in Wales, launched a three-month campaign to promote its work and raise awareness of social housing.

A father charged with the murder of his six-year-old son was found dead in an apparent suicide in his prison cell today. The Home Office said Dafydd Field appeared to have electrocuted himself at HMP Lewes, East Sussex, early this morning.

A grandmother left mentally and physically scarred after being glassed in the eye after a wedding has asked why her attacker is still employed by Swansea Council.

Plaid Cymru pledged yesterday to “save the health service”. The party’s health manifesto promised to “stop the hospital closure programme in its tracks”, despite Labour’s claim that Plaid was scaremongering voters.

Anti-social behaviour was yesterday blamed for the closure of a Welsh magistrates’ court. Residents living in the shadow of Blackwood’s court building last night welcomed the decision after putting up with years of drunken behaviour and bad language from “gangs” of defendants.

Church discrimination against women and gay people must end, the Archbishop of Wales has said in his Easter message. The Anglican church in Wales’ leader warned the church has become a place where gay people feel marginalised and women do not have equality with men.