Community health centres across Wales are closing because of a lack of funding, BBC Wales has learned. Many of Wales’ 29 healthy living centres, set up to tackle social and health inequalities, have closed and the others face an uncertain future.

Brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer patients will be available in Wales before the end of summer, Welsh Assembly Health Minister Brian Gibbons said yesterday.

Wales’ ambulance service was plunged into fresh crisis yesterday as an inquiry was launched into the death of a patient who needed eight 999 calls to get him to hospital.

Up to 6,488 working days were lost at Flintshire County Council in November and December, according to figures released by the authority.

People in Wales waiting for NHS surgery to treat obesity are dying before their operations take place due to a lack of funding, a surgeon has claimed. Junk food addicts like 32-stone Jemma Butler, 24, from Swansea, are being told they are not yet big enough or ill enough to have bariatric surgery.

A Gwent man who walked into a police station to confess to sexual abuse of a child after pressure from the victim’s relatives was jailed for four years. Michael Adams, 60, was also told he would remain on the sex offenders register and be banned from working with children indefinitely and would also be on extended licence following his release from prison.

Campaigners fighting the proposed closure of a residential home in Crynant, near Neath, claim it has been “deliberately run down”. Neath Port Talbot Council said the Glyndulais home, which currently has 15 residents with 17 beds spare, did not meet “modern standards”.

Paedophile Derek Williams is at war with hundreds of his neighbours who want the pervert booted out of his home. In a massive backlash since being spared jail for downloading 180 images of child porn, more than 400 people on his estate and beyond have signed a petition calling on council chiefs to evict him from his council house.

Police are called into Welsh schools at least 16 times every day in term time to deal with reported crimes, we can reveal. And in the past year, they have included serious allegations of rape, indecent assault, grievous bodily harm and possession of weapons and drugs.

A new campaign from the Care Council for Wales has been launched to help promote a better understanding and appreciation of the social care profession in Wales and the services they provide.