A DISUSED factory in Blackwood is being converted into a salesroom for buying and hiring stretch limousines. Local businessman Colin Price is in the process of moving from his premises in Pengam to the former Remploy factory unit on Bloomfield Road, Cefn
THE EX-WIFE of a remand prisoner found hanging in his cell claims he would still be alive if her local police station had passed his suicidal letters to the prison service. Mandy Tranter, 36, of Ysguborwen, Tredegar, says her 18-year-old daughter Sara
A JURY was sworn in at Norwich Crown Court for the trial of three men, charged with the murder of Big Issue seller Keith Swan from Newport. Mr Swan (pictured) died from serious head injuries after an incident in Norwich city centre last January. Edward
A GWENT Assembly Member has called for a feasibility study into the proposed Severnside Airport, at Newport, as a matter of "urgent necessity". Phil Williams, AM for South Wales East, said: "If we are to have a major international airport, Severnside
A DRIVER died and one passenger was injured in an horrific car crash in Cwmbran yesterday. The 27-year-old man, who is not yet being named but is from the Pontypool area, died at the scene of the crash outside Cwmbran fire station in Henllys Way. An eye
GWENT cancer patients are playing a major role in the research and development of treatments for the disease as part of a thriving clinical trials network. By the end of last year, 6 per cent of all new patients on United Kingdom-wide clinical trials
A FLAGSHIP sports centre for the valleys has been given the go-ahead after securing a grant of £1.5 million. Construction work on the sports centre for Abertillery will begin by the end of the year and it should be ready for use by spring 2004. Sportlot
THE site of a former valleys pit could be turned into a tourist attraction in an ambitious £10 million scheme. Markham Colliery closed in 1986 but the area could be revitalised under a scheme being considered by Caerphilly borough council. One proposal
JENNA Baldwin's mother Desiree has visited the site where her daughter's remains were found, police have revealed. Forensic tests have now confirmed that the human remains found in a shallow grave on a Blaenavon mountainside were Jenna's. Detectives and
THE new committee formed in Abergav-enny to raise money for the 2004 National Eisteddfod in New-port has pledged to contribute £10,000. At a public meeting at Ysgol Gymraeg Y Fenni, the committee members were chosen and accepted an invitation from the
