Ambulances held together with sticky tape, fire engines taking critically ill patients to hospital and a patient dead after calling 999 eight times for an ambulance. This is not the type of service any one of us would expect from an ambulance service in the developed world.

Thousands of heart attack patients will be denied lifesaving support to rebuild their lives because of a lack of funding. At least eight cardiac rehabilitation projects around Wales are due to close because funding has run out. Services provided by another three will be drastically cut back.

An internet paedophile spared jail after a request by the Home Secretary to use prison sparingly was today imprisoned for eight months.

An anti-social behaviour hotline has been jammed with more than three times the usual number of callers. Around 3,000 people dialled Cardiff’s 101 non-emergency line over the weekend, instead of the typical 800.

On Thursday, 15 March, a Care Council for Wales Conduct Committee decided on the case of a social worker employed by Reed Health in the Bridgend area who was alleged to have breached the Codes of Practice for Social Care Workers.

Finance Minister Sue Essex suggested the Assembly Government was flexible on the role of private finance initiatives today. She faced questions in the chamber about why there had been fewer PFI projects in Wales than in England under Labour.

A teenage girl told a court yesterday how she was raped by a pub regular, after they swapped mobile phone numbers. Craig Davies, 26, and the school girl exchanged text messages when he invited her to a party.

Faith schools in Wales will close as society becomes increasingly secular, a leading Catholic cleric warned yesterday. Canon Bob Reardon, Vicar General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff, said falling birth rates and numbers of people leaving Christian churches of all denominations meant some closures were inevitable.

Three men who spent years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murder will have to pay for their prison board and lodgings, Law Lords have ruled. Brothers Vincent and Michael Hickey of Birmingham, spent 18 years in jail for paperboy Carl Bridgewater’s murder.

A paedophile who avoided jail after the Home Secretary requested judges use prison sparingly, has been jailed for failing to register as a sex offender.