Wales Air Ambulance

Rochelle Francis in a straw hat and sunglasses and Lee Roblin in a cap and basketball vest smiling on a terrace high above the Danube in Budapest
Swansea

SWANSEA: Couple trade the sauna for sand dunes on 100km Sahara trek for Wales Air Ambulance

Rochelle Francis and Lee Roblin fly out this weekend. Their lift home, if it comes to that, might be a…

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Kit Peters
A grey Hyundai SUV with its front against a damaged brick wall and railings on Coity Road, Bridgend
Bridgend

BRIDGEND: Woman, 47, dies and man, 61, arrested on suspicion of murder after Coity Road crash

Police say the 47-year-old driver's injuries were not caused by the crash. A 61-year-old man is in custody after an…

Gethin Jones with his arm around Zac Thomas, who wears a red Wales top with ZAC on the chest, in Swansea city centre
Autism

SWANSEA: British judo champion Zac, 14, wanted to quit when his mum was diagnosed with cancer

He was the only Welsh child picked to go to Japan with the British judo squad, and he spends Christmas…

Three female firefighters in red fire trousers standing on moorland with yellow fire beaters over their shoulders, Cathryn Moore on the left
Child of Wales Awards

LLANDOVERY: Firefighter Cathryn, 19, got thank-you cards from her swimming pupils after the wildfires

She was six when a visit to the fire station showed her women could do the job. On Friday night…

Cian Evans, 11, in an orange top, raising both arms at the National Trust Pen y Fan 886m summit marker
baby loss

PONTARDAWE: Crash survivor Cian, 11, plans to walk up Pen y Fan 10 times in 24 hours

He was two when a crash killed his mum and unborn sister. On Friday night, his fundraising for the people…

Macsen, Leah in a helmet and pink jacket, and John Jenkins smiling beside the summit marker on Pen y Fan
Child of Wales Awards

NEATH: Dad ran 27 miles to Pen y Fan, carried his daughter to the top, then ran home

His wife thought it was “absolutely horrendous”. On Friday night it won John Jenkins a Child of Wales award.

Brad Griffiths, a bearded man in glasses and a white T-shirt, standing at a front door wearing a pink patterned prosthetic right arm
Amputee

AMPUTATION: ‘I didn’t want to leave the house’: the crash survivor a new Morriston course got living again

Former soldier Brad Griffiths lost his right arm in a three-lorry crash near Whitland. A new online course for amputees…

A smiling man with short grey hair in a pink short-sleeved shirt, seated at a table on a beach at dusk with fairy lights in the trees behind him
Amcanu

BURRY PORT: Tributes to Amcanu boss Owain Davies, 55, killed in Swiss Alps plane crash

The managing director of the Burry Port engineering firm was a passenger in a light aircraft that came down near…

Ann and Bernard Williams kneeling in their garden with a large Wales Air Ambulance cheque for £1,220, with their son's rescue dog Kipper lying in front and fundraising manager Mike May alongside
fundraising

NO PRESENTS PLEASE: 60 years of marriage, 115 guests, and £1,220 for the air ambulance

Ann and Bernard Williams from Llandeloy asked everyone at their diamond wedding party to donate to the Wales Air Ambulance…

Emma Kinnear with her daughter Gracie holding a Child of Wales certificate and her son Chester at the Wales Air Ambulance base
Child of Wales Awards

CHILD OF WALES: Doctors told her mum she might be paralysed. Gracie, seven, has now raised £65,000 for the crew who saved her

Gracie Kinnear was met by Wales Air Ambulance medics after a road collision left her with a collapsed lung, internal…

Four South Wales Police vehicles parked across a road junction in Gorseinon
Gorseinon

GORSEINON: Roads closed for more than six hours as police deal with serious incident

Police say a significant presence remains at Pen Cae Crwn Road after an incident on Thursday lunchtime — with ambulance…