A driver blacked out at the wheel in a diabetic attack and killed a district nurse walking on the pavement, a court heard yesterday. Nurse Suzanne Meredith, 54, died instantly and her lecturer husband Julian was seriously injured in the freak crash.

A pensioner once dubbed the “original neighbour from hell” by a judge, plans to appeal against her prison sentence, her daughter said yesterday. Dorothy Evans, 81, was jailed for six months at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday for one count of harassment and six breaches of her anti-social behaviour order.

A predatory sex attacker who carried out a horrifying assault on a three-year-old girl was jailed indefinitely today. Darren Rose, 21, of Duke Street, Abertillery, South Wales, was caught by police when his DNA matched that under the fingernails of a woman who scratched his face when he attacked her the previous night.

A babysitter has been jailed at Cardiff Crown Court for sexually assaulting a three-year-old in his care and an attack on a woman the night before. Darren Rose, 21, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, admitted the separate attacks on the woman and the toddler.

Further funding should be made available for childcare in Wales in an effort to reduce child poverty, a Labour MP said today. Chris Bryant (Rhondda) said: “One of the first duties of government is to try to tackle the inequalities between rich and poor.”

Cardiff council has slapped a secrecy ban on parents knowing which city schools have excluded pupils for drugs offences. A decision by the authority’s top lawyer Kate Berry NOT to release the information to the Echo – even though it has done previously – has been condemned as a cover-up.

South Wales student Carl Wakely told today how he missed America’s university massacre…thanks to an e-mail. The relieved Cardiff-born golfer only had two and a half weeks left at Virginia’s Tech University before Monday’s tragedy unfolded on his campus.

A film made by teenagers in Wales will be used in schools to warn against the dangers of drinking and anti-social behaviour. The film, Consequences, was acted and produced by young people from Neath and Ystalyfera and is set in and around Neath Port Talbot.

A grandmother foiled cannabis-growing crooks after spotting what she thought were ordinary POT plants dumped near her home. Pensioner Christine Leaver thought a local garden centre had been burgled when she found more than 40 pots containing green-leafed plants dumped amid nettles near her Cardiff home.

Volunteer ambulance crews are being used to take sick patients to hospital in a bid to reduce delays. A number of St John Cymru employees and volunteers have been drafted in by the Welsh Ambulance Service to answer urgent calls from GPs who request an ambulance to take a patient to hospital.