TONGAN coach Jim Love largely blamed South African touch judge Mark Lawrence for the fact his side had a player sent off and two sin-binned against Wales on Saturday and suffered a high penalty count. Lawrence was the referee Love claims cost his New
A GWENT animal sanctuary is bracing itself for another flood of abandoned pets this Christmas. All Creatures Great and Small, in Church Farm, Llanfrechfa, is home to more than 400 abandoned or abused domestic and wild animals and its manager Viv Harris
NEWPORT County were today dreaming of going into the FA Cup third round draw with the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool. Their reward if they beat Blackpool at home in their first round replay a week today is a home tie against fellow Dr Martens
AN experimental Newport team romped to victory over an inexperienced Uruguay side at Rodney Parade on Sunday, with scrum half Dale Burn scoring a hat-trick of tries. And in the process a number of Newport youngsters took the opportunity to show that the
HUNTS are unlikely to return to Monmouth- shire immediately despite the lifting of a ban imposed because of foot-and-mouth disease. Controls have been in place since February when foot-and-mouth disease was discovered. The National Assembly said it will
EDUCATION minister Jane Davidson opened an information shop for young people in Newport. The Newport Info Shop at 133 Commercial Street, Newport, is the first to be opened under the national, corporate image established by Canllaw Online. Ms Davidson
GWENT people dug deep into their pockets and organised a variety of fun events for the BBC Children in Need appeal - and the totals raised were still being counted this morning . The many events throughout Gwent included a line of pennies created by Crownbridge
THE families of two men convicted of a grisly double murder have vowed to fight on to prove their innocence after a major blow to their campaign. After a three-year review of submissions from solicitors for Michael Attwooll and John Roden, the pair will
CAR crash victim Sarah Dumayne, who once enjoyed life to the full, told today how she has become shy and paranoid after almost losing her life. The Gwent teenager lay in a deep coma after her accident in August but a week later defied medical odds and
AN experimental Newport team romped to victory over an inexperienced Uruguay side at Rodney Parade on Sunday, with scrum half Dale Burn scoring a hat-trick of tries. And in the process a number of Newport youngsters took the opportunity to show that the
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a Newport man died and his teenage passenger was injured in a weekend car crash. Michael Lee O'Reilly, aged 21, from Old Barn, St Julians, died after the red Renault 21 he was driving was in collision with a stationary
COLOUR and ceremony overcame the cold mistiness of the day as Gunner Abraham Evans, a hero of Rorke's Drift was honoured on his own soil. Royal British Legion and other ex-service standards including those of the South Wales Borderers dipped smartly as
A NEWPORT boxing club coach last night vowed to round up youngsters who threw stones at his minibus and deliver them to the police himself. Roger Williams, leading coach at St Joseph's Amateur Boxing Club, in Pill, and the club's Press officer, Roy Chambers
ABERGAVENNY outdid even England's 134-0 record international victory over Romania on Saturday when they finished just one short of 150 points with a 149-3 away victory over struggling Garndiffaith in Welsh League Division Three East. Amazingly, a Gareth
MORE than 2,000 shoppers so far are backing protests by two New-port superstores who say bus lanes are hitting their trade. Sainsbury's and Iceland have united in protest against the lanes at Shaftesbury and Chepstow Road. The moves are worrying for a
A CLASH of the Titans, similar to the Lennox Lewis versus Hasim Rahman bout seemed in order when Pontypool's Byron Hayward lined up to face Blackwood's Martin Jones. Billed as the 'Battle of the Fly Halves' Hayward stormed to a unanimous points victory
TO many, Newport County's heroic draw with Second Division Blackpool was a surprise - but to the Exiles fans it was not. As Newport quite often seem to lose games against sides on their own level while they cause surprises against higher placed teams.
