A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff Crown Court. He was convicted last month of 6 counts of illegal money lending. Robert Welch 57, from Cardiff, pleaded guilty to all of the charges brought against him. Councillor Judith Woodman, Cardiff Council Executive Member ...
A metal roofing company has been prosecuted for safety failings after a Cardiff worker suffered a serious wrist injury while operating production line machinery. Darren Gillard, 46, from Splott, was employed by Euro Clad Ltd to make metal roof panels at the company’s Wentloog factory. On 19 April 2010 he was operating a machine that ...
A landlord who exploited his tenants was sentenced to a 12 month prison sentence at Swansea Crown Court today, after pleading guilty to six offences including illegal money lending and dishonestly claiming benefits payments in the names of his tenants. Derrick Desmond Morgan from Britton Ferry, a landlord of 23 properties in the local area ...
Energy giant, RWE npower and contractor AMEC Group Ltd must pay a total of £510,000 after a maintenance worker fell to his death at a South Wales power station. The firms were sentenced over the incident that saw agency worker Christopher Booker from St Athan, fall around 12 metres through an unprotected opening in a ...
Cardiff Council, in partnership with the Friends of Insole Court Heritage Interpretation Project, today celebrate a successful first year since the building was reopened to the public with a festive gathering of friends and associates. Insole Court has been under local authority ownership since 1932, and is now a thriving community hall, which boasts an ...
CommunityCardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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