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Cardiff council has been accused of spending more than £26m of taxpayers’ money over the past five years to ‘buy the silence’ of ex-staff. Council leader Heather Joyce said since Labour came to power in May last year the authority had spent about £4m on 230 non-schools ‘compromise agreements’. This is on top of the tens of millions of pounds …

Close to £900,000 of Cardiff taxpayers’ money has been spent defending a much-loved city beauty spot from being turned into a housing estate by a US energy company. Cardiff council ran up the £868,136 bill fighting repeated attempts by Western Power Distribution (WPD) to build hundreds of homes at Llanishen Reservoir. The vast majority of the public cash – £827,778 …

Roads in Ceredigion and Torfaen have today emerged as the safest and Powys as the most dangerous in Wales, according to latest accident casualty figures. The statistics published by the Department for Transport show that overall road deaths in the UK fell by 8% on 2011 figures to 1,754 in 2012. In Wales in 2012, there was a much bigger …

A new Welsh comedy series that it’s hoped could match the huge success of Mrs Brown’s Boys will premiere online today, you can watch it by clicking here. The Committee Meeting set in a valleys’ workingmen’s club features the talents of comics Chris Corcoran and Elis James. Originally conceived by TV and radio presenter Corcoran as a way of staging …

Richard Hawley has  revealed he has Shirley Bassey to thank for his forthcoming appearance on one of the new  albums from the Manic Street Preachers. The former member of  Pulp and The Longpigs,  now a successful solo musician, met Manics’ frontman James Dean Bradfield after they both contributed  songs to Dame Shirley Bassey’s 2009 album, The Performance. “James just rang …

Geraint Thomas earned his place in Tour de France folklore with an heroic ride on stage three today – albeit at the very back of the peloton. The former track cycling world champion and double Olympic gold medalist may have set off in dead last place but it was the fact he was there at all which amazed those watching. …

The full story of how campaigners based in Wales played a major role in ending whites-only rule in South Africa is to be told by the man who spent two decades leading the struggle against racism. Solicitor Hanef Bhamjee, who was born in South Africa and came to Cardiff in 1972, has been commissioned by leading Welsh publishers Seren to …

Leon Britton starts his 12th season as a Swansea City player today confident that summer surgery has restored him to full working order. Britton has racked up over 430 appearances since first joining Swansea from West Ham on loan way back in December 2002. The 30-year-old midfielder has played in every season since for Swansea, despite a short interlude at …

One of the biggest ever  commercial office developments in  Wales, which  will serve as a  new  headquarters for motor insurance group Admiral in  Cardiff, is on track for  completion next year. The 245,000sq ft building in the centre of  Cardiff, which is been developed by Stoford with  Robert McAlpine as the  led  contract, has reached  its highest point. Over the …

The phrase ‘bon viveur’ was tailor-made for Felix Dennis. I use the past tense as until he was 53 years old the multi-millionaire publishing magnate turned poet and environmentalist lived the high life in every sense; leaving a jet-setting vapour trail of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in his wake. The reformed playboy almost died due to his many …