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12,000 tonnes of stone used to fill massive 40ft sinkhole in Merthyr Tydfil
The engineer in charge of filling the 40ft deep sinkhole in Wales has revealed the giant scale of the task.
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Network Rail fined £3.75m for safety failures in deaths of two track workers
Gareth Delbridge and Michael ‘Spike’ Lewis died after being hit by a train near Port Talbot in July 2019
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North Wales fire chief suspended over anti-gay social media post
A deputy fire chief has been suspended from his £122,000-a-year role over an ’anti-gay’ social media post.
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14-year-old girl found guilty of attempted murder of teachers and pupil at Welsh school
The week-long trial at Swansea Crown Court heard there was a "serious episode of violence" at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford on 24 April last year.
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Nearly 90% of violent and sexual crimes in England and Wales go unsolved
About 89% of such crimes closed without a suspect being caught or charged in the year to June 2024
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Bitcoin miner sues over £600m ’lost in landfill’ dispute
A man trying to recover a Bitcoin hard drive in a landfill site which he says is now worth about £600m is "seeking to bribe the council", it has been claimed in court.
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MPs back landmark bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales
Terminally ill adults with less than six months to live will be given right to die under proposed legislation
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Ten people rescued after landslides in North Wales as ’multi-hazard weather event’ strikes the UK
A number of weather warnings are in place across the weekend, with the Met Office predicting travel disruption, flooding and wind gusts of up to 70mph in some areas.
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Two men who ran a people-smuggling ring from a car wash in Caerphilly plead guilty
Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, had previously denied all five counts but pleaded guilty to all charges on the tenth day of their trial.
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Caerphilly: Schoolgirl and pensioner critically injured after van crashes into Christmas shoppers
Emergency services were called to the crash on Castle Street, near Castle Court Shopping Centre, Caerphilly, Wales at around 3pm
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Nigel Farage and the UK populist right seek to capitalize on Trump’s win to gain momentum
Reform UK leader to give speech in Wales while US election result was also celebrated by Tommy Robinson
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Woman who abducted and sexually assaulted girl, 14, jailed
Pearce admitted grooming, abduction and sexual activity with a child in September 2022 and she was ordered not to contact the girl.
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Two trains collide in Wales, leaving one dead and 15 injured
Crash in Powys occurred on single-track section near passing loop, with one train apparently unable to stop
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Investigation launched after death of four-month-old baby boy under ‘unexplained’ circumstances
The death of a four-month-old baby in a village is being treated as ‘unexplained.’
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Thames Water seeks to stay afloat by renegotiating loan agreements, according to a source
Utility struggling with £15bn debts books November high court dates in effort to extend ‘liquidity runway’
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Welsh teenager jailed for assaulting trans woman and sharing terrorist documents
Alex Edwards, 19, sentenced to five years and four months in jail as judge says he has ‘entrenched mindset of hatred’
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Over 2,000 prisoners released within a week under early release program
The prison population in England and Wales has dropped by 2,188 in a week following the mass early release of offenders to deal with overcrowding.
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MPs approve cuts to the winter fuel payment
MPs have backed plans to massively scale back winter fuel support for pensioners – despite a significant chunk of the Labour benches refusing to lend their support.
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Minister confirms steps to prevent domestic abuse prisoners from being released early tomorrow
About 1,700 prisoners will be released early on Tuesday to try to alleviate overcrowded prisons in England and Wales.
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Water companies in England and Wales lost over 1 trillion liters due to leaks last year
Hundreds of millions of litres were wasted every day, with Thames Water revealed as the worst offender
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Mum faked child’s terminal cancer to scam charity named after boy, 3, who died of disease
A heartless mother faked her own child’s cancer diagnosis to pocket thousands of pounds from charity.
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Repossession claims in England and Wales at highest in five years
Both bank and landlord cases rise but remain below pre-Covid levels, despite tough cycle of interest rate rises
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Huge number of weapons, drugs and phones found in prisons crisis
Concerns have been raised about the performance of dozens of prisons in England and Wales as there has been a large increase in the number of weapons, drugs and phones seized
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Chilling tale of gran who vanished into thin air before eerie note appeared
SCRATCHED into an old wooden bench, a cryptic message warns "justice awaits" those responsible for Trevaline Evans' disappearance.The gran, 52, had le
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Charles' Spice Girls 'flirting' 'inspired' William's Taylor Swift 'dad dancing'
KING Charles' infamous encounter with the Spice Girls will have gone some way to inspire Prince William's dad dancing at last week's Taylor Swift conc