Three teenagers have been banned from entering shops and hanging around in groups in Cheshire as part of five-year Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).

A special meeting of all the agencies that deal with youth issues may be held in Cardigan in a bid to resolve current problems of anti-social behaviour in the town.

Overweight babies are being treated at obesity clinics in Wales as an unprecedented ‘epidemic’ grips our children. Ten years ago, it was almost unheard of for children to visit their doctor because of weight problems.

All local authorities in Wales are being contacted about criminal record checks on school employees after news that some check had been missed in Powys schools.

An Ammanford doctors’ surgery is at the centre of a massive fraud probe. The Guardian has learned that the London-based NHS Counter Fraud and Security team has been called in to investigate the alleged disappearance of a six-figure sum from the Margaret Street Practice.

A hospice chief has hit out at Wrexham Local Health Board over its approach to funding discussions. In a radio debate, John Savage, executive director of Nightingale House, said the board is refusing to enter into constructive dialogue with the independently-run hospice.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly member for Brecon and Radnorshire, Kirsty Williams, has expressed her concern after problems emerged with the way Powys County Council vet people working with children.

One of Wrexham’s remaining two residential care homes is set to close in March, 2007. Residents and staff at Llys Madoc, Plas Madoc, have been told they are to be moved out, although they will remain in local authority care and employment, but the closure is dependent on all residents being found new accommodation in time.

Police in Wrexham have closed and sealed a flat associated with class A drug use and anti-social behaviour. Wrexham Magistrates granted a three month closure order on the house in Y Wern in Caia Park, Wrexham, following an application by North Wales Police.

An appeal to allow a nursing home to be used by people with mental health problems has been permitted, even though hundreds of people protested against it.