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A jewellery store robber who was caught after detectives found his DNA on his dumped “Del Boy style” coat has been jailed for five years. Anthony Gafoor was identified by forensic evidence found in the sheepskin coat he wore during the heist at jewellers J G M Thomas in which he hospitalised the shop’s owner. The 48-year-old, from Butetown, Cardiff, …

Serious criticisms have been made of the way the Crown Prosecution Service approached the disclosure of evidence in Wales’ most serious police corruption trial. The trial of eight police officers and two civilians charged with perverting the course of justice during the notorious Lynette White murder investigation collapsed in December 2011. Three men had been wrongly jailed for the 1988 …

Actress and presenter Lynda Bellingham has been diagnosed with cancer. The 65-year-old, well-known for her roles on Loose Women and in the Oxo TV adverts, has been forced to postpone a theatre tour of Kay Mellor’s A Passionate Woman while she undergoes treatment. She was due on stage at Cardiff’s New Theatre in February next year, but this morning the …

Cardiff singer-songwriter Chris Ridgeway is hoping his song Bluebirds Are Blue will be adopted by fans of the Premier League team, as they embark on their first season in the top flight for decades. Chris, who is the father of former CCFC midfielder Joe Ledley’s partner Ruby, was inspired to write this song for Ledley after his then team lost …

A life-changing Lotto Rollover jackpot of more than £6m has yet to be claimed by one lucky ticket holder in South Wales. National Lottery say the whopping £6,053,028 prize, drawn on Saturday, June 29, is currently the highest unclaimed amount in the UK. Players are being urged to check and double-check their tickets for the chance to claim the huge …

A jewellery store robber who was caught after detectives found his DNA on his dumped “Del Boy-style” coat has been jailed for five years. Anthony Gafoor was identified by forensic evidence found in the sheepskin coat he wore during the heist at jewellers J G M Thomas in which he hospitalised the shop’s owner. The 48-year-old, from Butetown, carried out …

Passengers on the Swansea to London line would be facing years of delays and travel on substitute buses if the line’s forthcoming electrification followed tradition. Weekend after weekend, lines would shut for a swarm of orange-clad rail workers to install masts and electricity cables. With 17,000 new masts required along 235 miles of railway, the work – and the disruption …

A century-old rugby club which has produced 10 Welsh internationals in the past 60 years faces being cast into the sporting wilderness, despite the objections of British Lions hero Jamie Roberts. Cardiff Medicals RFC has been the representative club of students studying medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, nursing and other healthcare degrees in Cardiff for more than 100 years. But alongside Cardiff …

A teacher passed out in a taxi, a student saved from hypothermia and a French foreign exchange student glassed were among those helped at a world-first alcohol treatment centre. The trial of the treatment centre, which has been running in Cardiff city centre since October, has been hailed a success after reducing the number of binge drinkers attending hospital AE …

The mum of a Cardiff woman being held without charge in a Dominican Republic jail has flown out to the country to be by her daughter’s side. Last month, mum-of-two Nicole Reyes, 37, told WalesOnline she had thought of committing suicide “many times” since being jailed more than a year ago following the death of her husband, Jorge. Nicole was …