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Rihanna plays in Cardiff at the Millennium Stadium for the first date of her Diamonds Tour on Monday, June 10. The singer, one of the world’s biggest pop stars and the most ‘liked’ artist on Facebook, with over 70 million likes, will play a mixture of her greatest hits, as well as songs from her latest album ‘Unapologetic’. For last …

A nurse told colleagues she would “put a pillow” over a patient’s head if he pressed his help button again, a professional hearing has been told. The moment allegedly took place during a morning handover on the Ystwyth Ward of Aberystwyth’s Bronglais Hospital. Healthcare support worker Gillian Pugh told the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise hearing that …

One of Wales’ wealthiest men has just become £170m richer – after selling a 15% stake in the Moneysupermarket.com price comparison website he helped set up 14 years ago. Internet millionaire Simon Nixon, 45, is getting rid of 80 million shares in the first major disposal of his stock since the price comparison website floated in 2007. It is the …

Matthew Tvrdon will face sentencing this afternoon for his hit-and-run rampage in Cardiff, last October, after admitting the manslaughter of a mum-of-three and seven counts of attempted murder in a total of 34 charges. Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of the moment they caught hit-and-run killer Matthew Tvrdon . During the rampage, mum-of-three Karina Menzies tragically lost her life. …

THE biggest sporting event in Wales this year starts in Cardiff today with organisers confident of it providing a significant boost for the economy. The world’s top eight cricket teams are competing for the ICC Champions Trophy, with the home of Glamorgan Cricket Club in Cardiff one of the tournament’s three venues Glamorgan’s chief executive, Alan Hamer, said: “We are …

TV star Stephen Fry has revealed how he attempted to commit suicide last year with a lethal cocktail of pills and vodka – and it was a question from a 12-year-old Welsh boy that prompted the stunning revelation. Fry delivered the bombshell that he tried to take his own life during an interview with Richard Herring as part of the …

Rihanna will perform at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium on Monday June 10, and tens of thousands of people will descend on Cardiff to watch the pop princess kick off the UK leg of her Diamonds tour. The singer, one of the world’s biggest pop stars and the most ‘liked’ artist on Facebook, with over 70 million likes, will play a …

There are some things you should never tamper with: the culinary combination of cheese and pineapple, the kaftan of Demis Roussos and Mike Leigh’s ‘Seventie’70s social satire Abigail’s Party. Famously screened as a BBC Play For Today in 1977, the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, this ruthlessly accurate and painfully funny observation of the pretensions of suburbia comedy became …

Cardiff hit-and-run killer Matthew Tvrdon is to be sentenced today after prosecutors accepted his guilty pleas to 32 charges. As families of the victims gathered at Cardiff Crown Court this morning, the 31 year old appeared on a video link to admit killing mum-of-three Karina Menzies and attacking 17 other people in a 30-minute rampage during the school run on …

Police first received calls about a possible hit-and-run at around 3.30pm on the afternoon of Friday October 19, 2012, after Tvrdon left the West End Social Club. It later emerged that these calls were about Tvrdon’s first victims – a woman and two children who were hit as they walked near the junction of Crossways Road and Cowbridge Road West …