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My Bloody Valentine have been unveiled as the latest headliner for Festival No.6. The award-winning festival held in North Wales will now see the indie icons join a bill that includes Manic Street Preachers, Chic and James Blake. The performance will be their only England and Wales festival date this year. The boutique gathering, which launched in 2012, brings together …

A father-of-two has been jailed for five years after coming to Cardiff for sex with a schoolgirl he groomed on her Blackberry phone. The victim was just 14 when Robert Lankshear, 40, first contacted the teenager at her home in Bridgend after she posted her details on the Blackberry messaging service. Last year, not long after her 15th birthday, he …

Rarely, if ever, has a fixtures announcement been so eagerly anticipated by Cardiff City fans. Today, Bluebirds supporters finally found out the name of the team they will face first on their return to the big time. While West Ham United may not have been the most mouth-watering fixture the Bluebirds could have been given, August 17 cannot come soon …

Every August excited football fans pack their sun shades and flip-flops away and return to the terraces full of hope that the new season will be more productive than the last. Whether the season’s start has followed a promotion, relegation, mid-table finish or play-off heartache, each one seems to kick off in a sunny haze of optimism. But with Premier …

A 19-year-old man arrested on suspicion of two sex offences against young girls in Cardiff has been released on police bail. Police said the man’s bail conditions mean he is not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 16, but advised young people to “stay with friends when out and about”. The man was …

Forget Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, there’s a new duo in town. The Best Kept Secret is a new story based on the adventures of Sherlock and Watson. Bafta-nominated Mark Catley picks up the story of Holmes’ confrontation with his nemesis Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous books. The play opens three …

Arts Editor Karen Price met up with Connie Fisher and Tim Rhys-Evans yesterday at St David’s Hall to talk about the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition which is taking place this week in Cardiff. Connie and Tim present a BBC Two programme of highlights from the opening round of the competition searching for the next international opera star. …

One of Wales’ leading divorce  lawyers who regularly looks  into the affairs of the rich and  famous was born and brought  up in Aberdare to a working  class background. Melanie Hamer’s grandfathers  were both coalminers whose  families had moved to the area,  and her parents both worked  for the local authority, her father as a painter and decorator  and her …

Law firm HardingEvans has made a significant investment in its criminal law team with the appointment of two new senior solicitors. Craig Bond, originally from Cardiff, worked for the Crown Prosecution Service for a number of years as a senior prosecutor where he earned a reputation for prosecuting hi-tech crime. Since then he has gone on to become one of …

A child chorister who grew up to become a multi-million-pound fraudster has been jailed for four years, as the court revealed a large amount of cash is still missing. Gareth Child, 38, withdrew £200,000 in cash from banks in Cardiff over just two weeks in 2010 – and a judge at Cardiff Crown Court said Child is now the only …