Wales Updates: News from every corner of Wales

• Newport man who bit off ear jailed again for assault Andrew MacNamee, 42, has been jailed for 17 months for assaulting a woman in Newport, following a 2018 prison term for biting off a man’s ear.
• Driver banned after drifting by Thornwell primary school A 21-year-old man from Chepstow has been banned from driving for a year and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work. Officers had seen him drifting around…
• Sex offender who stayed in home with children is jailed Andrew Watkins, 41, spent two nights a week at his partner’s home with her two children there, despite being banned from staying in a house with anyone under…
• Two jailed for Pontypridd and Caerphilly arson attacks Yasin Hussain and Adam Taylor-Morris have each been jailed for nine years and nine months after admitting three counts of arson with intent to endanger life.
• Nearly 13,000 illegal cigarettes seized in Newport Police and Trading Standards seized 12,920 illegal cigarettes and 4.5kg of hand-rolled tobacco during a joint operation in Newport city centre. A shop has been closed for three…

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