Protestors against a new Gwent centre for former drink and drug addicts say their fight against the plans is continuing. Caerphilly county borough council’s cabinet decided this month that the proposal would go ahead.

New cancer drugs proven to prolong life have been refused to patients in the latest row over medical funding. The drug Nexavar will not be available on the NHS in Wales, even though research has found it can extend patients’ lives. There are few other effective treatment options available to people with advanced kidney cancer.

A Screaming three-year- old Swansea girl was tied to her heroin addict dad with a safety strap as he shot up in a city centre toilet.Thirty-one-year-old Peter Walsh pleaded guilty to child neglect at Swansea magistrates court yesterday.

Campaigners are calling for all young girls to be given a cervical cancer vaccine by the end of the next school year.

A great-grandmother faces blindness because the NHS will not pay for a sight-saving drug. Lillian Driscoll has already spent her savings paying for a series of injections, but she may need more treatment to prevent her eyesight deteriorating further.

The battle over whether council houses should remain in local authority ownership has led to allegations of blatant misrepresentation as tenants vote on the issue in Wales’ second city. Mick Bennett, the director of Community Housing Cymru, the umbrella body for housing associations, said he was appalled at claims made in leaflets distributed in Swansea.

Out-of-hours doctors in Wales can now access patients’ health records online. It is hoped the initiative, developed by Informing Healthcare, will improve the care patients receive outside of normal working hours.

A nurse who said she abhorred violence wept yesterday as she was cleared of orchestrating a “mass brawl” by a pack of Wolves fans in London’s West End. CCTV footage allegedly captured Claire Evans, 38, who lives in Cwmbran, “encouraging and directing” up to 20 fellow football supporters to charge a small group of pub-goers.

A database of knife crime is to be set up by the Home Office in the wake of a series of horrific murders. Home Secretary John Reid announced the move yesterday amid rising concern about knife attacks and teenagers carrying weapons.

The NHS in Wales has added at least another £17m to its massive debt in the past year, Wales on Sunday has learned. The figure – set to be revealed when Wales’ 14 NHS Trusts publish their end-of-financial-year figures at the end of the month – means the true scale of debt across the Welsh NHS is likely to be approaching £130m.