Veteran guest rider Neil Collins provided Newport Wasps with a little sunshine on yet another dark afternoon when they were beaten by Stoke Potters in the Premier League at the Hayley Stadium yesterday. Collins, the Somerset Rebels rider who is a Stoke
NEARLY 50 years since Pele broke the hearts of the Wales football team at the World Cup in Sweden, two Newport footballers are once again bidding for international glory. Martin Ingram, 26, and Donovan Lawrence, 33, have made it into the Wales squad for
JOE Calzaghe is hoping for a July date for his rescheduled fight with IBF world light-heavyweight champion Glen Johnson. The WBO super-middleweight champion's ambition to become the first Welsh double world champion was put on hold when a back injury
MONMOUTHSHIRE council could lose nearly £2 million of funding after abandoning Chepstow's controversial one-way system. The council received £1.7 million of European and Welsh Development Agency cash to pedestrianise in the town centre. But the one-way
NEWPORT Transport is to invest nearly £1 million in new hi-tech buses which will help crack down on rowdy school- children. Over the past year the bus company has spent £150,000 replacing broken windows and has been affected by incidents of vandalism
THE situation where Gwent hospital patients are shipped between accident and emergency departments to ease congestion - as happened at Nevill Hall, Abergavenny, last week - is likely to worsen, a clinician has warned. Rod Jones, joint chief of staff at
THANKSGIVING for the courage and sacrifice of soldiers, sailors and airmen who went on from the D-Day beaches to liberate Europe resounded throughout Newport's cathedral. But it was those who never lived through the storm of enemy fire, or who were taken
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons lock Peter Sidoli is on the brink of winning his first Wales cap in Saturday's first Test against Argentina in Tucuman. Gareth Llewellyn, just one away from a record 88th cap, injured an ankle in training just two days before the
A former London cabbie in only his third full season as a European Tour professional produced the bravest round of his life to win the Celtic Manor Wales Open on Sunday. Englishman Simon Khan, 31, a player outside the world's top 250, stunned fellow Englishman
MINING unions could be heading for the courts again - in a bid to seek compensation for ex-miners with serious knee problems. The massive compensation scheme for former pitmen with chest diseases, which closed in March, became the biggest in British history
YOU'RE never too old to try something new - as an 83-year-old Newport grandmother proved yesterday by abseiling down the city's Transporter Bridge. Frieda Jones, of Rhiwderin, took the plunge to raise money for the St David's Foundation. And she made
A NEWPORT pensioner is claiming a local solicitors' firm stopped him from performing a charity concert in John Frost Square on Friday. Bill Hooper, 70, from Bettws, was due to perform in the square in Newport to raise money for St Anne's Hospice. Mr Hooper
A TORFAEN boxing club in danger of closing has been given a new gym - just before their tenth anniversary. In the ten years since head coach Simon Wat-kins founded Torfaen Warriors Amateur Boxing Club, they have trained two Gaelic Games gold medal winners
FIRST Minister Rhodri Morgan has said sorry for any offence he caused by failing to attend D-Day commemorations. Yesterday Mr Morgan was at the Celtic Manor, attending a meeting about the Newport 2010 Ryder Cup, while world leaders were in Normandy marking
