Gwent Police said the body found in water between Blackwood and Pontllanfraith was that of missing pensioner Eirwen Jones.

Mrs Jones, 69, went missing from her home in Blackwood on Thursday, 22 May.

Her body was found on Saturday, 7 June. Police are not treating her death as suspicious.

Fishermen in sea drama

A fishing boat had a lucky when it lost all power and started to drift into shipping lanes off the west Wales coast.

At one point the crew of the Pieterje prepared to abandon ship when they saw another vessel bearing down on them in heavy seas on Monday night.

A spokesman for Milford Haven Coastguard said the fishing boat fired flares to warn off the ship and activated a mayday signal.

As the boat continued to drift towards the coastline a rescue helicopter was put on standby to save the crew.

Coastguards broadcast alerts to warn passing shipping warning of the danger and maintain a security cordon around the vessel.

Another trawler was eventually able to tow the fishing boat safely back to Milford Haven.

Extra cash to drain mine

A council has agreed to find an extra �50,000 to help complete the task of draining millions of gallons of acidic water out of a mountain.

Anglesey council voted in favour of recommending that council provide the extra funding after hearing that Parys Mountain, near Amlwch, contained nearly five times more water than first thought.

The project to drain the old copper mine has already cost �235,000.

Head of Property Services, Mike Barton, said: "Water levels have dropped during pumping, but slower than originally anticipated.

"To date, approximately 150,000 cubic metres of water have been pumped out of the mountain."

Pigeons culled at hospital

A mass cull of pigeons is taking place at a south Wales hospital to stop the birds landing on the roof.

Officials at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, have put up cages on the roof to trap the pigeons - before taking them away to be humanely culled.

A spokesman for the Gwent Healthcare Trust said: "It is being done because we are having problems with birds nesting in certain part of the hospital.

"We have involved the RSPB."

The hospital has a license from Defra - the Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - to cull the pigeons.

Four rescued in dinghy drama

Two men and two young children were saved by a lifeboat off the north Wales coast.

Help was summoned after their shouts and cries for help in a drifting dinghy were heard off Anglesey on Saturday.

The drama took place off Porth Dafarch, near Holyhead, where their broken-down dinghy was in danger of being swept on to rocks.

The vessel was towed to shore by Trearddur Bay inshore lifeboat.

A seven-year-old child, believed to be suffering from hypothermia, was taken to hospital as a precaution.

Two men aboard - one of them the father of the girl and of the five-year-old boy - were unharmed. The four were believed to be from Chester.

New appeal after fatal crash

South Wales Police have made a fresh appeal for witnesses after a fatal head-on collision between a lorry and a car.

The crash between a Scania tipper lorry and a Ford Escort motor car happened at 0650 BST on Tuesday on the A465 between Swansea Road and Baverstocks Hotel, Merthyr.

Steven Dinwoodie, 24, from nearby Hirwaun, died as a result of the collision and a passenger remains in hospital in a serious condition.

Officers are anxious to trace anyone who may have seen the car overtaking a line of vehicles prior to the collision.