CALDICOT town council chiefs have denied claims by an angry resident that safety checks on gravestones have left his parents' graves more dangerous than ever. The council surrounded 60 graves in Dewstow Road Cemetery last Novem-ber to carry out safety
A FORMER South Wales Argus journalist is celebrating the scoop of a lifetime - winning £8.5m on the National Lottery. Pat Griffiths, 48, editor of the Abergavenny Chronicle, and her husband, Roger, 53, matched all six numbers in Saturday's rollover draw
FORMER colleagues of a Tredegar woman, who was killed by her adopted son, have raised money for a poignant tribute to her memory. Afryl Burr was stabbed to death by 30-year-old Darren Burr just after Christmas 2001. Burr was detained indefinitely for
STAFF at a Newport call centre are set to stage a protest this week over fears their jobs could be transferred to India. The Lloyds TSB Group Union has organised a campaign to oppose the call centre closure programme adopted by bosses at the company.
NEWPORT County have signed debut-scoring specialist Sam Bowen from Bromsgrove Rovers in time for their bid to dump Cardiff out of the FAW Premier Cup for the second year running. The big striker, 27, netted FIVE goals in his first appearance with Merthyr
ACCOUNTANCY guru Mark Protherough turned up at the University of Wales College Newport last week to present the institution's Premier Plus status. Mr Protherough, who is director of training at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
A POETIC, eleventh-hour protest against trees in St David's Wood, Blackwood, being bulldozed to make way for the Sirhowy Enterprise Way was made yesterday. Demonstrators pinned protest poems to trees in part of the wood known as The Dingle, which will
IF you missed the Incredible String Band in Beaufort at the end of 2003, you can catch them in Bristol in 2004. The legendary, psychedelic 60s' folk band are in concert in the Fleece and Firkin on Thursday, April 22. Next year the band will celebrate
LONG Island quartet Brand New will play TJ's, Newport on Tuesday, January 27 with support from Stary Light Run and Moneen. The rockin' pop band has a penchant for playing loud, quite fast songs with strained melodies and tacky percussion, then switching
IT'S A crowded battlefield this year for bloody, cinematic epics inspired by history or legend. Achilles and Paris, Alexander the Great, and King Arthur all promise to impress, but Tom Cruise starts 2004 with an admirable turn in this historic East meets
A MAN died and motorists in Gwent faced hours of traffic chaos yesterday after a crash between a digger and a tanker. The accident occurred a mile past the Raglan services on the northbound carriageway of the A40 at around 3.15pm - and left one of the
LIVE dates in Wales are expected from cLOUDED soon but in the meantime they're releasing a single and album, Dead Dogs Two and Ten. A comical sounding trio (they're part Tenacious B, part South Park character) they use a self-satisfied style of comedy
PONTYPOOL inventor Graham Taylor (pictured) is on the verge of announcing a deal for a bio-gas electricity-generating plant located within Torfaen. He is waiting to see if the Assembly will award him an area investment grant. The plant - a pilot project
A major project aiming to help women deal with domestic abuse is being lauched today. HENRY WIDDAS reports IT used to be the silent crime, the terror behind closed doors. But a project is being launched in Caerphilly county borough today to tell women
Newport Gwent Drag-ons have been given a massive shot in the arm with the decision of coach Mike Ruddock to stay rather than go for the soon-to-be-vacant Wales job. The Dragons may be having problems on the road with two thumpings in Europe against Leicester
DAVID Kitt releases his third album, Square One, on Monday, and plays the Barfly, Cardiff, on Friday, January 23. The extremely versatile Irish musician is into his fourth year since his acclaimed debut, Small Moments, on Rough Trade. Often the sign of
NEWPORT'S community safety wardens are set for new powers to issue on-the-spot fines, as part of a crackdown on nuisance crimes. They will be able to take a tougher stance with people on such offences as littering, dog fouling and noise nuisance. The
LEICESTER will target the Newport Gwent Dragons on Saturday, says centre Hal Luscombe after the weekend's results. Whereas the Dragons crashed to a 37-0 defeat at the hands of Stade Francais, Leicester turned around a 33-0 hiding against Ulster at Ravenhill
A MAN died and motorists in Gwent faced hours of traffic chaos yesterday after a crash between a digger and a tanker. The accident occurred a mile past the Raglan services on the northbound carriageway of the A40 at around 3.15pm - and left one of the
NEWPORT snooker referee Paul Collier (pictured) had a lucky escape when he was involved in a car crash in Scotland. Mr Collier, who was officiating at a Premier League event in Greenock, was near his hotel in Langbank at 11pm on Saturday when his vehicle
GWENT has achieved fine cycling achievements in the past year but this summer will see the county's reputation surpass itself. That is because the British Olympic Games team will be in the county to make their final preparations for an assault on Athens
WHEN Stephen Knee opened his Argus last week, a piece of his family history came flooding back. Because Mr Knee, 52, of Thornhill, Cwmbran, is the nephew of Kenneth Price, the Pontypool airman whose cheery smile was used in RAF recruiting posters during
WHAT is the most dangerous combination tool? Trevor Bayliss (pictured), inventor of the wind-up radio, says it's an accountant and a lawyer working together, he told the audience at ELWa's latest People in Business Club meeting. Mr Bayliss exhibited the
A DERELICT Pontypool building is to be renovated and turned into the new headquarters of the Gwent Association for the Blind. At the moment, the group is based on a New Inn industrial estate but thanks to a £250,000 grant from the Bradbury Foundation
THE Coach and Horses, Castleton, was busy with all sorts of customers, from families and groups of pensioners to men enjoying a quiet meal alone, when I visited recently. The menu offered a wide selection of meat and fish dishes, plus about three vegetarian
Are you a family of selfers, techies - or are you good intenders? Forget the nuclear family, HELEN ROBERTS and JON DOEL take a look at a new survey which shows how our lives are changing. TIME was when families had 2.4 children and everyone ate together
