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.

Accountant Sarah Cole, whose two children now aged seven and four both attended full-time nursery, said they never showed any ill effects. As the main breadwinner Mrs Cole, who lives in Penarth, returned to work when her son Gregory was 12 weeks old.

A retired Welsh headteacher, once falsely accused of assaulting a pupil, recalled her nightmare yesterday after new laws were introduced to protect teachers. Marje Evans said new laws giving teachers greater powers to break up fights, confiscate mobile phones and discipline pupils outside school, may not stop people like herself ending up in court.

A Home Office scheme to help victims of domestic violence through the courts process has been launched in Wrexham. Up to 60 women at high risk of abuse are set to be counselled each year in the first such project in north Wales.

Swansea City Council has scooped a national award for being Frank about the challenges and rewards of working in social care. The local authority has won a prestigious Public Sector Personnel Managers’ Association Award in the category Best Recruitment Advert in Social Care.

A 20-year-old man who had sex with a girl of 10 was yesterday spared jail after a High Court judge agreed his victim looked older. Mr Justice Roderick Evans, one of Wales’ most senior judges, said he understood why Liam Edgecombe, of Haverfordwest, thought the girl was 16.

Friends of domestic violence victims in Gwent are being urged to report offences in a new advertising campaign running throughout April.

A Church of England Bishop has denied unlawfully discriminating against a homosexual man who was turned down for the post of youth worker within his diocese.

Hundreds of schoolchildren in Carmarthenshire are taking part in a study to look at possible future health problems. The University of Wales College of Medicine and Uwic are looking at signs of cardiovascular risk among those aged 12 to 14.

More than a third of the 36 major NHS bodies in Wales have failed to make acceptable progress towards ensuring race equality, according to a new report. In its report, the Commission for Racial Equality names eight Local Health Boards and four NHS Trusts that have failed to show ‘due regard’ to the issue, and a further two LHBs that have only partially shown due regard.