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Cardiff cabbies reacted furiously today after seeing annual licence fees hiked to £313 – more than taxi drivers in London pay. The increase was voted for by Cardiff Council’s Public Protection Committee at County Hall in front of dozens of angry drivers in the public gallery. Cardiff’s Hackney carriage drivers currently pay £230 annually but a review by the council’s …

A teenage murderer killed a 45-year-old man during a row about a Lionel Richie song played at his grandfather’s funeral. Corey Thomas was given a life sentence yesterday with a minimum term of 10 years and 10 months after a court heard he stabbed Andrew Male 18 times with a kitchen knife. Cardiff Crown Court was told the pair had …

A new £2m pet hospital will be named after a married philanthropists whose donation pushed the fundraising total over the halfway mark. The PDSA Pet Hospital Appeal is raising funds to replace the charity’s current Bute Street hospital in Cardiff by the end of the year. It comes after the hospital – which makes more than 50,000 treatments a year …

Hundreds of furious Cardiff cabbies have objected to a council proposal to almost double their annual licence fees. A Cardiff council committee will today decide whether to rubber-stamp an increase in the annual hackney carriage vehicle renewal fee from £230 to £435. Under the plans, which were first approved by councillors in April, the private hire vehicles renewal charge will …

Cardiff Devils are moving in the right direction and aim to break even next season after losing almost £200,000 over the past two years, their management has said. The ice hockey club’s accounts show that for the year to February 28, it lost £44,657, compared with a £149,904 loss in the previous year. Turnover increased 37% to £556,989, thanks largely …

Revised plans have been submitted for a £60m Cardiff Bay flats and hotel development, which had been stalled by the global financial crisis. Developers behind the Bayscape scheme want to increase the number of apartments and commercial space, as well as build the hotel in a later phase. If approved by Cardiff council, the number of apartments will increase from …

A street thief who picked female pensioners as his victims was stopped in his tracks by another woman shopper who saw him fleeing with a handbag. Have-a-go-heroine Andrea Colwill bravely made a grab for heroin addict Lee Anthony Rees as he tried to escape down city centre Queen Street, Cardiff Crown Court heard. She was unaware that around the corner …

A devastated couple have a fortnight to find a new wedding venue – after Cardiff’s Grade II listed Coal Exchange was suddenly shut over safety concerns. Cardiff council said the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service had served a prohibition notice which deemed parts of the building as not safe and posed a risk to the public because there were …

Home hero Tai Woffinden took the lead of the World Speedway Championship during an action-packed British Grand Prix at the Millennium Stadium but minutes later lost it following an almighty crash. The Briton had been a point behind Russian sensation Emil Sayfutdinov after four of the 12 rounds but the scores at the end of three rides each had seen …

Women’s Institute (WI) members have begun their fight to re-ignite Britain’s struggling High Street. The organisation says town centres are the hub of communities up and down the country – but they are being threatened due to the continued rise of internet shopping and reductions in consumer spending. Every year the organisation picks an issue for its 210,000 members to …