Controversial businessman Sean Reilly left customers thousands out of pocket after their machinery orders didn't turn up. Then one decided to get on a plane from Amsterdam and confront him at the Royal Welsh Show. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

When we caught a rogue employer in a sting, his direct sales career looked over. Yet he turned up in a new office that exploited people using the same playbook. Questions for regulators and clients like ScottishPower that keep working with these people. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A watchdog has forced a youth club to close for six weeks after we revealed a rapist had got a job there despite a warning in a background check. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

This is an extraordinary safeguarding failure. A YMCA youth club hired a woman despite her DBS certificate stating she was under investigation for raping a 17-year-old girl. She continued working there until she was found guilty and remanded in custody. walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Reform's highest-profile politician in Wales spread a false cancer claim and recruited people into a multi-level marketing scheme. Before her current stint as an MS, Laura Anne Jones made wildly misleading and pseudoscientific claims to promote a business model in which...

No one should be dying like this in the 21st century. Gareth Johnson, a beloved dad-of-three, died aged 41 at the University Hospital of Wales after he’d been moved out of the critical care unit because of building work on the dilapidated site. walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Staff at embattled pharmacy chain Jhoots are owed months of pay "We've just finished our 11th week out of operation due to no stock being delivered in eight weeks and no pharmacist for five weeks," said one employee "We must remain on premises or are threatened with disciplinary action."

He flew a drone over my house, watched my every move and made me feel like a prisoner www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A mum is suing Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board for £10million over negligence during childbirth that left her son severely disabled with cerebral palsy and lifelong care needs. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Five officers at Parc prison have been sacked, two resigned while under investigation, and one has received a final warning after a scandal over texts gloating about beating inmates www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Investigators brought into crisis-hit Hafan y Coed mental health unit www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/...

An interesting employment tribunal The woman who quit her job running Bute Park over a bullying row has lost her case against Cardiff council. The judge slammed the council for “clear deficiencies” but they did not amount to constructive dismissal. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

In her #FOJ25 keynote, @jodieginsberg.bsky.social of Comittee to Protect Journalists highlights recent coverage from @conorgogarty.bsky.social about a zombie site pretending to be "unapologetically Welsh" news. Nice local flavour in a very international issue. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A fire service investigation report identifies the cause of the Treforest industrial estate explosion as a faulty calendar press machine. Govt has issued warning that the product is unsafe. The explosion claimed the life of much-loved Danielle Evans. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

This is the kind of journalism we need, not the stirring of hatred, but real investigations.

There's been a serious lack of transparency after whistleblower allegations at Wales' biggest hospital. Earlier this year we reported claims that strangers had been invited into University Hospital of Wales operating theatres...

The friendly NHS worker whose smile hid evil desires www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

School worker took £1,000 from dying woman's account www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

BBC security manager fired after claims he spent 12 hours trawling CCTV for kitchen mess culprit www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

All but one of the six vape shops on a Swansea street sold us illegal vapes and cigarettes. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Keir Starmer once represented this man. His name is Michael O'Brien, and he spent 11 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit. The then-barrister won Michael a £300k payout over police misconduct. At that time, Michael thought Starmer was 'a very compassionate man'...

This is the supposedly "state of the art" office of 1,600 DWP staff in south Wales. For the second time in weeks, big sheets of glass have fallen from the upper floors' window walls. Staff say the office is "a disaster" and they feel unsafe going in. Story walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Officials are “exploring” potential e-scooter trials for Wales. Cardiff and Swansea councils have expressed an interest. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

The woman who ran Bute Park was allegedly asked by council bosses to delete emails in which she made claims of bullying. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

36 jobs are at risk at a rail overhaul firm owned by Transport for Wales. Staff are said to be furious amid claims TfW — itself owned by the Welsh Government — is to blame for the struggles of Cardiff-based Pullman Rail.

Horse-riding instructor Guy Simmonds threw away his phone days before he was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a girl. He also said he “either burned or threw away” the mattress that he is accused of abusing her on. Latest from the trial here www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

The judge in this case said the two-year delay between arrest and charge was "lamentable, unconscionable and inexplicable", adding: "I question what more the CPS could have had, in terms of evidence." www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Exclusive: Here's the moment Welsh mining tycoon David Lewis 'assaulted' a solicitor. The millionaire pushed and held Robert Davies MBE against a window, allegedly causing a permanent scar, but a prosecution has been controversially dropped. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

This five-bedroom house on a busy Cardiff shopping street, Cowbridge Road East, has been a rotting eyesore for years. Its owners are worth millions. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

David Lewis, the tycoon behind the controversial Ffos y Fran opencast coal mine, accepted a caution for ABH against a solicitor Lewis was then prosecuted because he didn't comply with the conditions of the caution — only for the case to be dropped...

The former manager of Bute Park is suing Cardiff council for allegedly failing to deal with "bullying" by a tenant cafe owner. www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/foo...

Concerns have been raised over the choice of subcontractor for a major conservation project at Castell Coch. SSH Conservation Ltd – which last month changed its name to AAT (2025) Ltd – recently fell into administration owing more than £1.25m...

Michael O’Brien is taking the UK Government to court over a £37k “bed and board” deduction from his compensation for 11 years of wrongful imprisonment. He calls it “insult added to injury” www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Cardiff council managers accused of harassing and ‘surveilling’ women www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

‘I’ve made thousands touting Oasis tickets and I don’t feel guilty’ www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/mus...

A man was caught sexually abusing horses at the Welsh stables where he volunteered. The court heard Corey Coleman, 26, had likely been interfering with the stallions for 'many months'. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A Welsh Labour councillor has admitted saying: "What are we going to do about all the black people coming to Briton Ferry?" Councillor Susan Davies told me "it wasn't intended against the blacks as such" and "I deeply regret the way it came out".

We've been investigating "dangerously misleading" adverts for expensive health supplements fronted by a Cardiff GP. The case not only raises questions over the GP's integrity but also the regulatory weakness that has enabled his activities. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

A new "events area" that cost £1.4million has a weight restriction that makes it unsuitable for big events. The site was developed by Merthyr council with funding from the Welsh Government. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

It took a complaint to the information commissioner's office and then an internal review before South Wales Police complied (partially) with our Freedom of Information request for this story. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

These are pictures from inside University Hospital of Wales, provided by a whistleblower who says chronic leaks and water damage have become a "considerable risk" to patients and staff.

A man whose companies laundered vast sums of money in the UK appears to have started a new life thousands of miles away. New Zealand authorities are assessing whether Gregory Candy-Wallace should be barred from running businesses after we informed them he’d been operating there.

'Bullying at Wales' biggest hospital left me on brink' www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Exclusive: Authorities were repeatedly warned about the views and behaviour of Alexander Dighton before he went on a violent rampage at a police station. One family member said: “It’s a systematic failure… Prevent referrals are not preventing attacks.” www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

I've been speaking to a mum who spent her life savings to protect her child from her sex offender ex-husband. She's appalled by the wording of new legislation that was supposed to prevent others experiencing the same nightmare. 🧵

Ex-Tory MP Katie Wallis, formerly known as Jamie Wallis, is accused of harassing ex-wife Rebecca Wallis. I was at Cardiff Magistrates' Court today as the trial of the former Bridgend MP was opened.

A pretty novel form of psychic damage is losing your news media job, having your entire portfolio of work wiped from the Internet, only for it to then be resurrected without your consent to promote an AI slop factory scam! Find out more about this headache here 👇

Lots of National Wales staff (including myself) were approached by Pakistani bloggers last year who had captured the expired website domain name. They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.

Remember the National? The short-lived news service for Wales closed in 2022, but last month the title was "relaunched" at the same web address, declaring itself: "Independent. Trusted. Unapologetically Welsh." That tagline, and everything else about the site, was a sham...

Earlier this year a police inspector was granted anonymity after he committed gross misconduct by instigating a relationship with a sex worker and then "abandoning" her without paying. We have successfully challenged the anonymity order and can now name the former officer. 🧵