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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 Ridiculously proud to be the crime and court reporter on my hometown newspaper, the South Wales Evening Post. Biscuits, tea, and Neath RFC.
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A man accused of plotting with a neighbour to get a hitman to kill his estranged wife has opted not to give evidence at his trial - as has the neighbour he is alleged to have come to the agreement with. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Dyfed Drug and Alcohol Services could be on the move from Llanelli town centre to the former Ty’r Nant council offices at Parc Trostre retail park. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

My front page for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A man has gone on trial accused of plotting with a neighbour to pay a hitman to murder his estranged wife.

A 41-year-old inmate at HMP Swansea has died while on remand awaiting sentencing. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

An uncle and nephew on trial at Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe for the murder of 27-year-old Joshua Norman in the Hafod area of the city have exercised their right not to give evidence. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A bus driver who was using a van to run an unlicensed taxi business on the side crashed into a teenage pedestrian causing horrific leg injuries, a court has heard. As a result of Jarrad Wicks' driving the boy had to have part of his leg amputated. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A man has gone on trial of accused of plotting with a neighbour to arrange the murder of his estranged wife. Paul Lewis is said to have given Dominique Saunders ÂŁ1,500 to pay for a contract killer to carry out the hit. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

U2 guitarist The Edge has become an Irish citizen 62 years after moving to the country in step he said was “long overdue”. (By Rory Carroll for @theguardian.com) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

For decades, Columbian crime gangs have used children to carry out killings. The teenagers are seen as “cheap, easily replaceable labor” (By @lucasagustin.bsky.social for @elpais.com) english.elpais.com/internationa...

A coroner has taken the highly unusual step of writing to the First Minister following an inquest into the death of an 89-year-old woman who fell and broke her leg in a Merthyr care home and had to lie on the floor for 14 hours until an ambulance arrived. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Those for whom a legal anorak is more than just a way of keeping dry on the walk to court may like to know that at Merthyr Tydfil Crown we have a trial where the defence barristers are giving opening statements to the jury as well the prosecution barrister.

NEW: Trump breaks own ceasefire by dropping f-bomb

A child sex offender was caught after his DNA was found on the nickers of his young victim, a court has heard. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A 20-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following an assault at the New Lodge social club in Gorseinon. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

An irregular reminder that I'm a trustee of Ymddiried: Media Grants Cymru. In the 1980s, global sales of SuperTed created an income for S4C, and a Trust was formed to grant cash to people working/training in media. **We have money** Apply here: ymddiried.cymru

Detectives investigating allegations of sexual abuse at the Coed Glas children’s centre in Abergavenny / Y Fenni during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s have charged two men with a total of 45 offences. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Courts will be provided with “open justice champions” to help the public observe proceedings, the chair of a judicial transparency board has Mr Justice Nicklin has said. (By Charlie Moloney for @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social) www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/courts-...

If you are the boss of a Midlands-based organised crime group which is missing one of its “pool cars”, the vehicle is currently in the possession of the drugs squad in Llanelli. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A pensioner was caught with enough heroin for 700 street deals, a court has heard. A judge said it was clear the 70-year-old was running a "widespread and financially-thriving business" from his Merthyr home. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

We asked all 22 councils in Cymru / Wales whether they are planning to introduce a visitor levy. It’s striking how little interest there is in God’s Own while the mayors of cities like Liverpool, London, and Birmingham are asking for the powers to introduce it. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

Police in Portugal have arrested six people - reportedly including a senior police officer - suspected of belonging to a far-right seeking to create an armed militia, and have seized firearms and explosives (Via @reuters.com) www.reuters.com/world/portug...

This is really interesting ➡️ Inside the world of British “preppers”. (By Zoe Williams for @theguardian.com) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

That thing where you’re taking a Sunday morning trip to the tip and see someone who looks a bit like somebody you know and you stare and you stare at them and then realise it’s one of our periwigged friends from Swansea Crown without the wig and by then you’ve been staring at them for far too long.

Sunday morning be like…

Authorities in at least three states have arrested individuals for allegedly impersonating ICE officers (Via @cnn.com) edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

Continually rebuilding his only friend until it likes him... I haven't seen a person go to these lengths to get affirmation since I drank a bottle of vinegar during Freshers week.

A woman was pushed to the ground and robbed of her handbag in a late-night attack on a Llanelli street. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Employees of a firm that provided workers to pick grapes for champagne have gone on trial for human trafficking in a case that has become known in France as “the grape harvest of shame”. (By Angelique Chrisafis for @theguardian.com) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit. Do join us…

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

There’s an increased police presence around Singleton Park In Swansea / Abertawe after a series of reports in recent weeks of a man exposing himself. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A daughter heard her mother being stamped to death after an intruder activated the video doorbell on her mum’s house, a court has heard. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Latest on the plans to redevelop St Helen’s rugby and cricket ground on Swansea / Abertawe seafront into a new home for the Ospreys. Let’s hope the final designs are a little more inspired than these images suggest. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

A holiday flight from Cardiff / Caerdydd to Lanzarote was escorted to its destination by Portuguese fighters after a “bomb threat” note was found in the aircraft’s toilets. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Those for whom a legal anorak is more than just a way of keeping dry on the walk to court may like to know that the Police (Property) Act 1897 is currently being discussed at Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe.

100?! What is it with these techbros?

📺 Hugh Bonneville is set to reprise his role as Ian Fletcher for a new sitcom focusing on next year’s World Cup - Twenty Twenty Six. (Via Radio Times) www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/tw...

There may come a day when the BBC puts on air one of the other 29,999 headteachers currently estimated to be working in UK schools, but that day is not today

A man who "cannot take no for an answer" smashed his way into a woman's house and threatened to "batter" her, a court has heard. He then took his victim's car and told her he would only return the keys if she did not tell the police. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Two people from Bristol have been charged as part of a “complex” investigation into the shooting of a 15-year-old boy at a property in the Pontprennau area of Cardiff / Caerdydd. They are due in court this morning. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Oh my. I can’t stop rewatching. The stuff of courtroom nightmares. (H/T @timmorton2.bsky.social)

The remains of 33-year-old psychiatrist Shayne Eves Colaco who disappeared while walking in Eryri in 2012 have been discovered in a gully on Pen yr Ole Wen. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...