THOUSANDS of people from all over Gwent attended an It's A Knockout Bonanza in Bailey Park, Abergavenny, yesterday to raise money for the Hospice of the Valleys, based in Tredegar. Coronation Street stars Nikki Sanderson and Ryan Thomas, both 19, who
MORE than 3,000 fans signed Newport Rugby Supporters Club's petition on Saturday in a last ditch effort to keep the Newport name in the title of the new Gwent regional team. And there is the promise of more to come, Newport West MP Paul Flynn among them
England gained revenge over Wales for last year's defeat at Sophia Gardens on Saturday, but Robert Croft and his side came so close to upsetting the apple cart yet again. They fell eight runs short of the visitors but could and probably should have won
ANGRY residents in Rassau are calling on Blaenau Gwent council to pull down a row of terraced houses, pictured, branded a death-trap after fire ripped through them. Fire gutted a row of ten derelict houses, contaminated with asbestos, in Heol Rheidol
FEWER patients are failing to turn up for hospital appointments in Gwent - thanks largely to a new booking system for outpatients. DNAs - Did Not Attends - cost the NHS across the United Kingdom millions of pounds a year. But the new system being introduced
PUPILS at a Monmouthshire school got a lesson in gymnastics from a British champion. Hayley Price, pictured, the gymnast who won British titles in 1983 and 1985, visited Magor Church in Wales Primary to show the children how they could exercise. The visit
RUGBY ref Rachel Allen yesterday tied the knot with a burly player who knocked her over in a match. Rachel, 33, from Newport, married Neville Boyland, 44, from Oxford, both pictured, at the Celtic Manor Resort yesterday. As the Argus reported last week
A MAN died and six people were seriously injured in a two-car crash near Newport yesterday. The 24-year-old, from Newport, was pronounced dead at the scene after the Proton car he was travelling in was in collision with a Ford Granada on Magor Road, near
MORE than 3,000 fans signed Newport Rugby Supporters Club's petition on Saturday in a last ditch effort to keep the Newport name in the title of the new Gwent regional team. And there is the promise of more to come, Newport West MP Paul Flynn among them
VANDALS caused £1,000 worth of damage to floral displays in Chepstow - hours after the sites had been shown on GMTV. Town mayor Yvonne Havard, who condemned the vandals as "mindless", said the flowers which were tipped into the River Wye from containers
A TOUCH of dj vu, possibly? Well, not exactly. Wales might have lost this Test match in Sydney, as they have lost many others before, but after the calamity of a dreadful season back home, the tourists proved that in the face of adversity there is a light
NEWPORT might get TWO new hospitals as a result of a shake-up of health services needed to replace the Royal Gwent, pictured. But nothing is yet guaranteed - and early tensions have surfaced about what is set to be the biggest change in healthcare provision
A NEWPORT community came together to celebrate racial equality. Residents in Pill gathered at the Millennium Centre, Courtabella Terrace, a year after Newport city council launched its racial equality scheme. The plan aimed to encourage harmony throughout
THE JOE Calzaghe camp fear his manager Frank Warren is holding him back from the big-time bouts. Newbridge's WBO Super-middleweight champion, preparing for the 13th defence of his crown against Byron Mitchell in Cardiff on Saturday week, has been accused
MORE THAN £229 million pounds in compensation has been paid out to ex-miners in Wales with chest diseases, Wales Office minister Don Touhig says. And £27 million of that figure has been paid out between March 16 and the beginning of this month. The Argus
