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6 days ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Elliot Jessett |Ellie Gosley
One family's life savings were left in ruins after hiring a builder for a home improvement projectA 'snoring builder' was the first sign a family's dream home improvement project was turning into a living nightmare. Tracy Daly and Robert Cannon have two young children and live with Tracey's mum, Elaine Obrien.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley |Mia O'Hare
Fern Britton has been on a weight loss journey over the past few months and has shown off the results after changing just one thingFern Britton has attributed her remarkable weight loss transformation to a single factor. The former This Morning presenter, 67, has flaunted her slender figure after confessing she was "terrified" about being naked with her new partner last year. Fern has always been candid about her weight, having fluctuated between a size 22 and a size 12.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley |Bruce Sinclair
A planning application for two extra holiday cottages at a Pembrokeshire farm has been approvedA pigsty is to be transformed into holiday lets on a farm after a planning application has been approved.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley
The Welsh Government funding will be used for over 20 projects designed to help alleviate the risk of flooding in areas of Rhondda Cynon TafOver £4m worth of funding has been allocated to schemes in Rhondda Cynon Taf that will alleviate the risk of flooding. The money, which has been allocated to the council by two Welsh Government programmes, will be used towards 26 separate projects over 2025/26.
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1 week ago | 
mirror.co.uk | Monica Charsley |Ellie Gosley
Cherie and Sean James, from Wales, thought they were going to die after a blaze erupted at their hotel in Turkey - they were trapped in their room for several hours until help arrivedA British couple have recalled the moment their room went "scarily dark" as a fire ripped through their hotel before they feared that they were never "going to see daylight again". Cherie and Sean James, from Aberbeeg, Wales, were trapped in the room of their five-star resort in Marmaris, Turkey.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley
A dead dachshund has been found in a shocking condition near a residential street. The upsetting discovery was made by a member of the public in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil. The dog was found on the grassy area at the bottom of Upper Elizabeth Street at around 4.15pm on Tuesday, April 8. The body of the female chocolate dapple dachshund, believed to be around two years old, was "clearly emaciated", said the RSPCA which is appealing for information about the incident.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley |Twm Owen
Monmouthshire's roads are in such a dire state that the council has had to invent a new category on its alert system. Typically councils use the acronym RAG - red, amber, green - to colour code risks and priorities. However, the man responsible for Monmouthshire's road network said it's in such a poor state that it has added black to the system, renaming it BRAG.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley
Jayden Greening is described by his mum as "cheeky, mischievous, with the best smile in the world". The 8-year-old is also the "best big brother" to his younger sisters, Isabelle, seven, and Daisy-May, four. However, while Jayden was born healthy, his family started to realise something wasn't quite right when his sister had started to overtake him in many aspects of his mobility. By age three, little Jayden still hadn't taken his first steps.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley
A Welsh couple have been left traumatised after a fire broke out at their hotel in Turkey, leaving them trapped in a room filling with smoke several hours. Cherie and Sean Jones, who are from Aberbeeg near Abertillery, were awoken by screams in the early hours of the morning on Friday, April 4, while they were staying at a five-star hotel in the resort of Marmaris.
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1 week ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Ellie Gosley
Thousands of runners took to the streets of Newport on Sunday as the annual marathon returned. Starting on Newport’s vibrant riverfront, the 26.2-mile course is one of the flattest in Europe and has been going since 2018. This year's ABP Newport Marathon Festival event was expected to be the biggest yet, after it expanded into a running festival, consisting of a marathon, half marathon, 10K as well as junior races. Over 10,000 registered to take part in Sunday's races.
