An NSPCC training booklet to help Welsh sports coaches spot child abuse has been branded a “joke” for testing them on whether it is acceptable for parents to have sex with their kids.

Former Wales rugby captain Scott Quinnell has claimed a controversial treatment which includes exercises with bean bags has cured his dyslexia. In a documentary to be shown on BBC Wales on Tuesday, the former Llanelli and British Lions No 8 is shown undertaking the Dore programme.

Lives will be at risk when ambulance crews’ paid meal breaks are axed next month, unions have warned. In another blow to Wales’ crisis-hit ambulance service, some 1,700 paramedics and control room staff could refuse to respond to calls during break times in protest at the shake-up beginning on March 1.

The ex-wife of a Port Talbot businessman jailed for brutally assaulting her in the middle of a road has called on victims of domestic violence not to suffer in silence. Colin Evans drove his car into the back of his then estranged wife Cerri’s vehicle before launching a horrifying attack on her.

Swansea Drugs Project is calling for rooms to be provided for addicts to inject themselves in, to lessen the risk to the public.The idea was floated as police reported a good response to their appeal for information about a needle-wielding drug user who stabbed a city car park attendant.

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.