One of the world's leading centres for climate-change science will be created in Ceredigion, it was announced yesterday. Funding cuts put the former plant breeding station at Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, under threat of closure 18 months ago.

By Steffan Rhys AN EXPLOSION which left four teenage girls critically ill in hospital for several weekswas caused by the "excessive use of a large number of aerosol deodorants", an official inquiry will announce today.

A VICAR has been charged with possessing indecent pictures of children, police said. Church in Wales vicar the Rev Richard Hart, 59, of Beguildy, Knight on, Powys, was suspended from duties after his arrest in January. He will appear at Brecon Magistrates' Court later this month.

TWO schoolboys have been reprimanded after apparently exploding a home-made bomb created from instructions downloaded from the internet. Residents in the village of Pontyates, between Carmarthen and Llanelli, reportedly heard a loud explosion in the early hours of the morning one day last week.

By TOM BODDEN Welsh Affairs Correspondent MAJOR rail engineering works continued to affect North Wales travellers on west coast routes yesterday.