Council staff in Swansea will meet next week to decide whether to take industrial action in a row over fair pay.

A woman who had been the victim of domestic violence has been cleared of murdering her long-term partner. Wendy Ellis, 40, denied murdering former soldier William McAuley, 38, at the couple’s home in Blaenau Ffestiniog, on April 10th this year.

A retired North Wales nurse has been denied vital treatment in England because a Welsh health body will not pay for it.

Drug crime in Wales rose 11% over the past year, according to Home Office figures released yesterday.

A review is under way into the case of a man jailed for torturing his stepdaughter to death after neighbours had alerted the authorities.

A Carmarthenshire businessman jailed for his part in conning a charity for disabled children out of thousands of pounds has won the first stage of his battle to reduce his sentence.

The “substandard” services for the one in four people in Wales who have a mental health problem were exposed yesterday.

North West Wales has been named as the country’s drug death capital. A shocking report found Gwynedd and Anglesey had the highest rate of deaths per population in Wales last year, with eight out of 100,000 killed by drugs.

An investigation has been launched into the sudden death of an 86-year-old man at a nursing home in Pembrokeshire.

A permanent night shelter for homeless people in Wrexham is a step closer.  Campaigners said a temporary 10-bed shelter which opened for several months last year, including at Christmas, showed that it was needed.