VIKING RAID: A metal detectorist, formerly from Pontypridd, convicted of stealing a £3 million Viking treasure hoard has now been handed an extra five years in jail for failing to pay back more than £600,000.

Layton Davies was jailed in 2019 for failing to declare the collection of buried 1,100-year-old treasure and selling a large number of items. Davis dug it up on Herefordshire farmland in June 2015.

YOUTH FESTIVAL: Newport in south Wales has been chosen to host Urdd Gobaith Cymru in 2027, which is the first time the youth festival has visited the city. The Urdd is one of Europe’s largest touring festivals. 

Newport City Councillor Emma Stowell-Corten said: “We are very excited to be bringing one of the country’s biggest annual events, and one of Europe’s biggest youth events, to the city for the first time. 

WAITING PRIORITY: First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan told BBC Radio today that her government’s priority for the NHS in Wales will be to cut waiting lists.

The First Minister said new Health Secretary Jeremy Miles, appointed in a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, will be supported by all Welsh ministers in tackling NHS problems.

Ms Morgan made the pledge after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned NHS England is in a “critical condition” and must “reform or die.”

COLD CASE: A 73-year-old man has been given a supervision order for the rape of a young girl in the 1970s.

Denis Coles was 26 when he raped an 11-year-old girl in Cardiff in 1977 and his crime went unsolved until the police reopened the case in 2019 using new DNA techniques.

Coles lives in a care home in Rumney, Cardiff, and was deemed unfit at an earlier trial, but a jury found that he did the act in a “trial of the facts.”