Wales Gets £27bn Budget to Support Public Services
Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford unveils Draft Budget 2026-27, providing more than £27bn for public services with health receiving the largest allocation at £12.4bn.
Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford unveils Draft Budget 2026-27, providing more than £27bn for public services with health receiving the largest allocation at £12.4bn.
Shaun Lloyd, 39, with 149 previous offences, has been jailed for two years after stealing a quad bike from a 74-year-old woman's farm in Rhuddlan, leaving her feeling scared and on edge in her own home.
Curtis Lewis, 28, sentenced to six months after being caught with two kitchen knives on Lower Dock Street.
Matthew Williams, 34, assaulted his partner and five police officers in violent spree across North and South Wales, receiving 24-month suspended sentence at Caernarfon Crown Court.
A 49-year-old married man from Bristol has been jailed after grooming what he believed to be a 14-year-old girl online and booking a hotel room stocked with alcohol, sex toys and condoms before being caught by a paedophile hunter group.
Richard Skelly, who once earned £140,000 a year as a construction manager, has been jailed for 33 months after admitting supplying heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine in Merthyr Tydfil.
Kallum Hopkins, 21, from Newport was caught driving at 115mph in a 50mph zone on the M48 in Chepstow and has been banned from driving for 100 days.
Daniel Prosser, 22, from Oakdale, sentenced to 22 months after repeatedly contacting his victim despite court order banning contact.
Clare Thomas, 58, from Barry, has been sentenced to 146 days in prison after admitting to having a kitchen knife at Barry police station on August 6. It was her second similar offence.
Brandon Williams broke into an elderly woman's home twice, stealing cash and later a van with work tools, leaving his victim feeling unsafe in her own home.
Robert Bailey, 34, stole over £310 worth of goods from M&S and B&M while serving a suspended sentence for previous shoplifting offences.
Blaenau Gwent schools will introduce new guidance restricting mobile phone use after concerns about their impact on pupil behaviour and learning.