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Merthyr Town’s football ground will be re-named ‘The Cigg-e Stadium’ after the club agreed a sponsorship deal with the electronic cigarette firm. The Martyrs have signed a three-year deal with the company, which is based in Cardiff and has just opened a new store in Merthyr. It means the club’s Penydarren Park home will be called the The Cigg-e Stadium …

ITV Cymru Wales has confirmed it is moving to a new headquarters in Cardiff Bay. Following the green light for BBC Cymru Wales to move to a new headquarters from its current home at Llandaff, ITV Cymru Wales – which considered a number of location options in the capital –  has struck a deal to take the whole of the …

Television company ITV Cymru Wales announced today it is planning to move its headquarters from Culverhouse Cross to the heard of Cardiff Bay. The new studio will be next to the National Assembly building and should be completed by June next year. The premises will house all of ITV Cymru Wales’ news, programmes and production facilities and around 110 staff, …

Police are continuing their murder investigation after a six-week-old baby boy died following an alleged assault. The boy, named locally yesterday as Alfie, died in hospital on Tuesday afternoon after four nights in hospital. Alfie lived with his mum Donna Sullock in Fairwater, Cardiff, but was allegedly assaulted at an address in Nelson. Gwent police officers received a call to …

AN initiative which will help support the commercialisation of business ideas in Wales has been launched. Community interest company Innovation Business Integrated Service (Ibis) has been developed by veteran Swansea- based entrepreneur and inventor Ben Bendien. Based on a successful US model, Ibis, whose website will go live next month, will assess business ideas through a team of experienced honorary …

A mother-of-four, who cheated the benefits system of almost £87,000 over four years, has escaped a prison sentence. Sharon Helen Cotter, 44, claimed the cash between May 2008 and June 2012 after failing to tell the authorities that she was living with her partner. Cotter, of Sir Ivor Place, Dinas Powys, admitted three counts of benefit fraud and appeared at …

A Cardiff Student Union has come under fire for allowing a poster, advertising  a Freshers’ Week event, to include an offensive comment about the rape of  a woman. Cardiff Met Student Union was promoting its night “TNT” on Twitter with a poster which included the picture of a person with “I was raping a woman last night and she cried” …

The fight to restore Llanishen Reservoir has made front page news in the US after a Cardiff councillor confronted the energy giant which owns the beauty spot. Labour’s Phil Bale travelled 3,400 miles to the US at his own expense to take the decade-long campaign to the doorstep of the reservoir’s owners, PPL. Arriving at New York’s JFK earlier this …

Law firm NewLaw Solicitors has hired Rhiannon Cambrook-Woods as its head of fast track claims. She will be responsible for managing more than 20,000 client referrals per year and a team of more than 240 people across the firm’s Cardiff, Bristol and Basingstoke offices. Based at the firm’s Cardiff office Ms Cambrook-Woods will be responsible for streamlining work processes across …

Ten years ago they stormed Britain with fake jewellery, flammable tracksuits, filthy lyrics and bellows of, “You knows it!” But despite being written off as a novelty act, rappers Goldie Lookin Chain are still together, recording and touring. The decade saw the band: * Have a host of hits including a number three in the singles chart with Guns Don’t …