Dirty water bottles used by children are a breeding ground for bugs and harmful bacteria, public health experts warned last night. Welsh schoolchildren are piloting a scheme to wash bottles each day after a study found high levels of bacteria in bottles and water machines at three schools.

The Swansea Prison officer at the centre of a row over an alleged relationship with a former inmate has quit.The woman had been suspended since the middle of last month while officers investigated what they called an “inappropriate relationship”.

Police have lost track of 13 registered sex offenders in Wales, the Home Office has said. Home Office figures obtained by the Welsh Conservatives showed that police had lost track of five offenders in both the North Wales and South Wales force areas, two in Dyfed Powys and one in Gwent, at the end of last month.

Police have lost track of 13 registered sex offenders in Wales, the Home Office said today. Home Office figures obtained by the Welsh Conservatives showed that police had lost track of five offenders in both the North Wales and South Wales force areas, two in Dyfed Powys and one in Gwent, at the end of last month.

Breast cancer patients in Wales are not receiving the support they need to help them cope with the potentially lethal illness. Women have also spoken about the frustration and agony of having to wait to start treatment.

The former chairman of the NSPCC in Wales Dr Jim Davies has died, aged 84. He chaired the children’s charity in Wales for 13 years before his retirement in 2002.

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.