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A businessman faces a lengthy prison sentence after been found guilty of being part of a £7m money laundering operation. Gareth Child, 38, of Caerphilly Road, Cardiff, once a Llandaff child chorister and a former civil servant, had denied being involved in sending vast sums of cash to banks abroad and had been on bail pending the outcome of his …

Roller derby team Tiger Bay Brawlers have triumphed in Europe, winning second place in their first-ever tournament. The Cardiff-based team narrowly missed out to the Berlin Bombshells in the final bout of 2013: A Skate Odyssey, which was held in Belgium. Brawler Allie Brock told WalesOnline the team are delighted with the stellar result from their first tournament. Speaking to …

Improving the M4 could be a step nearer as Carwyn Jones revealed he had been told that borrowing powers for the Welsh Government may be included in a Westminster Bill announced last week. Business leaders and motorists’ groups have called for a relief road to be build south of the existing motorway to alleviate bottlenecks at the Brynglas tunnels in …

Today programme host John Humphrys triumphed at the Sony Awards tonight, landing the radio journalism award after his grilling of George Entwistle led to the BBC director-general quitting hours later. The 69-year-old Radio 4 presenter savaged Entwistle over his handling of the fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal and the bumbling performance led to him resigning as DG after just …

Heather Joyce tonight survived a backbench Labour rebellion to keep her job as the leader of Cardiff council, but the deputy leader post hangs in the balance. Coun Joyce was re-elected leader of the Cardiff Labour group meaning she keeps her £52,000 job as the head of Wales’ biggest local authority. Labour’s 46 councillors voted in a secret ballot at …

Cerys Matthews confirmed the success of her switch from music star to top DJ by being named the UK’s best music radio broadcaster at the Sony Awards. The former Catatonia singer was given the prize at the radio industry awards for her show on 6 Music. Cardiff-born Cerys dedicated her win to the BBC, saying: “Despite all the backlash and …

A letter dropped onto my doormat that was neither a bill nor junk mail. This was most unusual and entirely welcome. Most of the communications I receive come by impersonal e-mail, which offer none of the joy and little of the excitement of receiving a “proper” letter. The  “proper” letter came in an expensive envelope and the author had addressed …

The mother of an ex-soldier who died after suffering from depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder says the army should have done more to help her son. Linda Chamberlain watched her only son, Robert, change from a “fit and healthy” teenager who had always dreamed of joining the army into an alcoholic who, she said, drank to escape memories of …

Giant seagulls are moving in to Welsh towns – and feeding on the eggs and chicks of nuisance gulls. Great black-backed gulls – up to twice the size of the gulls we normally see in towns – are the top predators at sea colonies in the wild. Now some are breeding on urban roofs, surrounded by the ready meals in …

Some of Wales’ most notorious killers might never have been brought to justice under new government rules for keeping DNA, experts have warned. The Home Office is in the process of destroying six million samples in a move that has been labelled “impossible to understand” by one victims’ charity. They are all expected to be disposed of by the end …