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The council in Anglesey is considering selling off nine public toilets as a measure to cut costs. The authority has put out an advert with a list of those earmarked for potential closure.

A judge at Caernarfon has questioned the reduced harshness of sentences given out to two Welsh men following last month’s riots in England. Merfyn Hughes commented after charges against two Wrexham teenagers held in custody for six weeks were reduced.

“It’s an enormous intrusion into the rural scene across these wide open spaces,” said Michael Rolt of the Open Spaces Society of a controversial foot-and-mouth fence which the Welsh Government has refused continued planning permission.

An Assembly Member said he believed Caernarfon magistrates should have been tougher on a Bangor man who incited people to riot on Facebook.

Welsh police are still aiding colleagues in London a full month after riots happened there. South Wales Police have two units, 27 officers each, working in the English capital this week.

A Swansea fraudster has absconded from prison and police want to find him "swiftly".

Both South Wales and North Wales police forces have sent officers to London to help tackle violence after consecutive nights of unrest. South Wales Police have sent 54 officers from two public service units while North Wales Police would not give specific numbers for its deployment.

South Wales crews had to neutralise a potential hazard when a gas cylinder was discovered amongst a fire.

A gang who went across North Wales stealing cigarettes and alcohol from small shops have been sent to prison.

Councils in Wales have been hit by a huge rise in metal thefts which are costing already under-strain council coffers thousands of pounds. For example between 2007/08 and 2010/11 Caerphilly has seen the cost of metal thefts jump from £1,025 to £129,766.

Those against plans to scrap police authorities and replace them with elected police and crime commissioners cited the evidence of high crime levels in Gwent.

Claims are that prisons in Wales are becoming ‘colleges of crime’ due to the increase in young offenders in certain areas. Merthyr Tydfil youths are more likely to be imprisoned than those living in Manchester and inner-city areas of London such as Hackney, Southwark and Lambeth.