Wales' biggest hospital loses running water as staff say 'this place is beyond'

A leak in the theatres department of University Hospital of Wales

A crisis-hit hospital's running water was disrupted twice in around 48 hours while sewage was understood to have been leaking into a waiting room. The incidents happened last week at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales amid chronic structural problems at the dilapidated site.

After staff told WalesOnline the hospital had completely lost its water supply last Wednesday, we repeatedly pressed Cardiff and Vale University Health Board for a statement – but its first two responses failed to acknowledge there had been any issue at all that day.

It was only when we sent the health board clear evidence of the supply failure that it admitted what had happened. For the biggest stories in Wales first, sign up to our daily