Wales

Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Olivia Breen has been named captain of Team Wales for Glasgow 2026. The 29-year-old will lead the team of 115 athletes out at what is her fourth Commonwealth Games. She won gold in the T38 100m in Birmingham 2022, having won a bronze medal in …

But the chairman of Northop Hall community council, John Gollege, said some had asked him for the Welsh name to be adopted for the village. “We’re trying to display and encourage the Welsh heritage of the village,” he said. “It is not a name change. The name will remain Northop …

His dad played full-back for the Wales rugby team, but Caio Ifans opted for the round-ball game. Ifans, who has just agreed a first professional contract at Swansea City, is the son of Garan Evans, the former Scarlets and Wales player who won four Wales caps and played at the …

The saliva test, called Endotest, is already being used in a pilot NHS study, while Endosure – the gut electrical signal test – is part of a clinical study at the Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospital Trust. Women fast for six to eight hours beforehand and then drink water for 45 …

James and Robins have worked together for more than a decade – firstly on XFM and now for the BBC – but have been friends for much longer. “It’s quite an interesting thing to observe because it’s obviously a very natural interaction for Welsh people,” said Robins, from Bristol. “I …

“The walker who made the awful discovery said the dog’s legs were trapped underneath a big rock, like the rock had been positioned there to hold the body in place,” Walters added. The younger dog was only four to five months old and had no obvious injuries. She is not …

Ddydd Gwener 3 Gorffennaf fe gauodd Ysgol St Gerard’s ym Mangor ei drysau yn sgil cynnydd mewn costau. Mae dwy ysgol arall wedi cau yng Nghymru hefyd yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf – Oakleigh yn Abertawe a St Clare ym Mhorthcawl – y ddwy yn eiddo i’r un cwmni. Dywedodd …

Yn siarad â Cymru Fyw mae un o’r gweithwyr, Miranda, yn rhoi hanes y siop: “Fe agorodd Evans Fish & Chips yn Flagstaff yn 2020 yn ystod pandemig COVID-19, yn ble roedd Primo’s Deli’n arfer bod, ar ochr ddeheuol downtown Flagstaff. “Roedd Primo’n le hynod o boblogaidd ac yn enwog …

Dywedodd y corff sy’n gyfrifol am ofalu am fuddiannau cwsmeriaid fod yn rhaid i gwmnïau dŵr ddangos eu bod yn gwario’u harian mewn ffordd gyfrifol. “Y gwir yw mae pobl eisoes yn talu rhagor,” meddai Rhodri Williams, aelod o fwrdd Cyngor Defnyddwyr Dŵr. “Y cwestiwn mawr dwi’n credu yw odi’r …

Dywedodd Ifor Lloyd, sydd wedi bod yn aelod o’r gymdeithas ers degau o flynyddoedd, fod y newyddion yn “siom i ni gyd”. Roedd y bridiwr enwog o Bennant yng Ngheredigion yn edrych ymlaen. Wrth siarad â Cymru Fyw dywedodd: “Mae unrhyw ddathliad yn achlysur i’w gefnogi – mae’n rhaid bod …

Dywedodd Deborah Rees fod y broses o baru ci yn cael ei chynllunio’n ofalus er mwyn sicrhau bod pob ci yn addas ar gyfer ffordd o fyw ac anghenion ei berchennog newydd, gan ystyried personoliaeth, maint a chyflymder pob ci. Meddai: “Mae’r ci yn gallu newid bywyd rhywun yn llwyr. …

The New Saints head coach Craig Harrison says his side will be looking to make the most of being at home in the second leg of their Champions League qualifier. Welsh champions Saints face Sabah of Azerbaijan in the first qualifying round with the first leg in Baku on 7 …

Jenkins completed his takeover of the club – previously owned by the supports’ trust – in February 2024. He previously told a fans forum he will have invested £3m of his own money by the end of the last campaign. But in his two years in control, County have finished …

Heartbroken pupils and parents were left in tears as they were told their 700-year-old school will close for good. The devastating news about Ruthin School in Denbighshire was delivered the day before children broke up for summer. A number of independent school – sometimes called private schools – have been …

Following the shooting Huntley and Mills-Smith fled from Cardiff, but were later arrested. Mills-Smith’s mother Donna James, 51, from Llanishen, and his girlfriend Laura John, 23, from Rhiwbina, had assisted him following the shooting, helping him to travel to London. Molly Cooper, 34, from Leicester, helped Gordon in his drug …

Mary Smith of New South Law, which acted on the landowners’ behalf, said her clients had been “vindicated”. She added the case would have implications for other communities affected by infrastructure projects from energy schemes to road-building in future. “Your home is your sanctuary. That sanctuary has been disrupted over …

Glamorgan now know that any further defeats could seriously damage their hopes of reaching the last eight. Kellaway, however, remains confident they can respond when they host table-toppers Northamptonshire on Wednesday. Fourth-placed Glamorgan trail Gloucestershire and Worcestershire – who are second and third respectively – by four points in the …

Some parts of the different versions of the article were different. All three said: “Growth cannot be ordered from the top down. It can only be nurtured from the bottom up.” In Scotland, Burnham wrote that meant “backing energy, shipbuilding, manufacturing and public services”. In Wales this was “steel, ports, …

Tip Toe followed Davies’ award-winning series It’s a Sin, about friends living in London during the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s. Starring pop star Olly Alexander, the show became an instant hit, with sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust also reporting a surge in HIV testing after its launch. It …

Mae Cyngor Sir Gâr wedi methu cydymffurfio â safonau’r iaith gyda’u penderfyniad i gau Ysgol Gynradd Llansteffan, yn ôl Comisiynydd y Gymraeg. Cafodd ymchwiliad ei gynnal ar ôl i Gymdeithas yr Iaith honni nad yw’r cyngor wedi ystyried effaith y cynnig yn llawn ar yr iaith Gymraeg, gan gynnwys addysg …