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Leighton Mark Williams, who has links in the Caerphilly area, left Prescoed prison without permission on Sunday (December 2).

Newport Crown Court heard how a man was robbed and hurt in a Caldicot pub toilet.

The police force helicopter needs to be saved – that is the pledge from those battling in the Dyfed-Powys police commissioner election.

The road to Cefn Gorwydd was closed for most of the day recently and local train services were suspended following a tanker gas leak at Llanwrtyd Wells.

A member of staff at Murch Post Office in Dinas Powys was threatened with a handgun. The incident occurred at about 10am on Friday. Det Insp Jason Redrup of Barry CID said it was rare for an armed robbery to happen in the area.

Recorded crime in Wales has fallen between 2003 and 2012. As at March 31, 2003 the total incidents logged in Wales were 294,780 – by June 30, 2012 this had decreased to 186,624.

Approximately one in six speed cameras are digital in Wales, it has been revealed this week. Cameras using photographic film that is digital operate for longer; while Wales has 144 standard film cameras and 27 digital ones.

A Newport driver said he was speeding because he urgently needed to get to a toilet.

A village post office was robbed by two men in Gwynedd.

Transport police are working with Gwent Police to target a metal theft hot spot in south Wales.

A Welsh vehicle crime scheme has seen thefts from motor vehicles fall by 6.5 per cent so far in 2012.

A six per cent fall in crime was recorded by North Wales Police (NWP). Since April 2012 the force’s own performance figures show that as well as overall crime dropping, there were steady reductions across a range of offences.