A VALLEYS town has been handed a massive boost for car parking after clinching a funding package worth a quarter of a million pounds. Brynmawr was given the money from the Welsh Assembly Government's local regeneration fund and will be used to provide
PONTYPOOL went top of the Welsh First Division for the first time since November and put themselves in the promotion play-offs driving seat with a complete 56-6 demolition of Tondu at Pontypool Park last night. It was a display worthy of title-winners
A NEW school is a step closer to being built on a former waste tip in Newport. Councillors in the city voted yesterday in favour of a replacement for the run-down Durham Road Schools in the city being built on the former landfill site at the Glebelands
THE Benson & Hedges Interna-tional Open begins at The De Vere Belfry in just over a weeks time and, for Bradley Dredge, it represents the beginning of a tough month. It precedes the Volvo PGA Championship at Wentworth, the Victor Chandler British
VISITORS to Newport's indoor market will be able to view and buy the work of over 25 artists when the third Art in the Market takes place in May. First held in 2001, the popularity of Art in the Market is now firmly established with artists of all levels
IT started as a hobby - but now Peter Davies has turned his passion for bric-a-brac into a thriving business, as photographer MIKE LEWIS and reporter HENRY KILLWORTH discovered. Tucked away in the town of Abergavenny is a small but interesting shop dedicated
MOURNERS flocked yesterday to pay their last respects to an Ebbw Vale man tragically killed in France, and brought Cardiff's Grangetown to a standstill. Friends and family from all over Cardiff and Ebbw Vale had come to remember Arron Powell, "a man of
THE song says that everybody needs good neighbours and Julia Crosbie proves the point. In fact, she has won an award for tirelessly working to improve community life on the estate where she lives. Mrs Crosbie (pictured with fellow resident Rob O'Connor
PART of a road which residents have labelled "a death trap" is set to be closed to traffic, after almost a decade of campaigning. The residents of Gordon Road in Blackwood, who have campaigned for the closure of a road connecting them to the Highfields
A BABY who was plunged into a scalding bath by her teenage father lost all the skin on her left foot, a judge was told. At Gloucester crown court, Ross Simmonds, 19, pleaded guilty to cruelty to his 20-month-old daughter, Chloe, by ill-treatment or neglect
DANNY Gabbidon admits he is 'gutted' to be missing Cardiff City's play-off second-leg showdown with Stoke City at Ninian Park tonight (7.45pm). The Panteg-born Welsh international defender's ankle injury has kept him out for the past three weeks - and
TRADERS in Pontypool's ailing town centre are celebrating news its on-going regeneration is to get a a boost. A £556,000 grant - a slice of £5m available for projects throughout Wales from the National Assembly - will go to an independent development
FANS and friends of tragic Feeder drummer Jon Lee, who died in January, have raised more than £4,000 for the Noah's Ark Appeal, his family have revealed today. The Newport-born rock star was found hanging at his Miami home on January 7 by his Brazilian
A PENSIONER had a lucky escape when his car ploughed off the road and crashed into a garden. Mike McCarthy, 82, was driving in Greenwillows Road, Cwmbran, yesterday when his Ford Sierra left the road and crashed, stopping just a few feet from Sandra Sweeting's
PONTYPOOL coach Steve Jones has praised his team for putting the club on the brink of rejoining the big boys of Welsh rugby. Once mighty Pooler are within touching distance of taking the First Division title. If they clinch it they will go into a play-off
CWMBRAN remain on course to win their first trophy in ten years after clinching a place in the League of Wales Cup final with a comfortable 3-0 win at Leckwith Stadium in Cardiff last night. Only European-bound Caersws, 3-1 aggregate winners over TNS
THERE were tears and anger at Newport's full council meeting yesterday as it descended into heckling and abuse. And the cause was the latest twist to the story of how families across Gwent are facing up to the fact that their loved ones may be buried
