SLOVENIAN sensation Matej Zagar is in town on Sunday as the high-profile Reading squad visit the Hayley Stadium in another meeting which has all the makings of a classic. Zagar is one of the few riders who hold a Premier League average which is comparable
NEWPORT-based Independent Ballet Wales became the first ballet company to perform at the Eisteddfod. They put on an incredible performance (pictured) of Welsh legend The Lady in the Lake. Newport-born Darius James choreographed the show and the professional
AN exhibition of cinema projection equipment - some of it from the Newbridge Memo - is being held in Risca at present. The exhibition is at the Risca Industrial History Museum, which is in the Oxford House Adult Education Centre in St Mary's Road. The
ANDREW Davies is almost certainly out of Glamorgan's Twenty20 Cup finals day at Edgbaston at the weekend, opening the way for both Gwent duo Mike Powell and Ian Thomas to be included. Glamorgan's one-day specialist bowler has suffered a tear to a hip
IT'S six weeks of fun for the kids and six weeks of spending for mum and dad. The Argus looks at the cost of keeping children busy during the summer holidays. In Enid Blyton's day, four children and a dog could set out armed only with delicious home-made
DESPERATE residents campaigning for traffic calming measures blocked a road off to highlight their cause. They formed a human chain across the junction of Hillside and Commercial Street, Crumlin, preventing cars from passing for about an hour. The protest
It has been a tough week for Glamorgan in more ways than one. The Simon Jones saga was a curious thing which provoked all manner of reactions from inside and out of Wales. For once I am actually going to sit on the fence on this one - some of former colleagues
NO favourites -- that will be the attitude of coach Chris Anderson towards his new team Newport Gwent Dragons. Anderson, honed in the hard school of Australian rugby league, has this week seen the Wales tourists join in pre-season training so that the
THE vibrant colours of India and a stepfather who lived as a virtual hermit in the Himalayas, a love of magnificent buildings and a mother spellbound by art are all elements which go into the making of Alan Taylor's pictures. A restless character whose
SUPPORTERS of Newbridge Memo's bid to win BBC2's Restoration competition can begin voting from tomorrow evening. A BBC spokeswoman said yesterday that people can vote from 10pm - and that essential number to ring has been revealed as 09011 322203. Voting
THE Eisteddfod box office claimed its biggest success this week. A busy day of competitions and superb weather yesterday encouraged 22,438 people through the gates at Tredegar House. That is far higher than Monday's figure of 18,080 and adds to the strong
THE controversial asylum appeals court in Langstone opened on Monday - despite a campaign by many local people against it. The Argus took an exclusive look at one of the cases being heard on its first day. A PALESTINIAN man who escaped from Lebanon fearing
AN Abergavenny mum was crowned the top Welsh learner last night. Lois Arnold moved to Gwent six years ago and set about mastering the language. Now she has beaten off a field of international competition at the Eisteddfod and has become a night school
PAVEMENT artist Loretta Daley has been a regular feature in Cwmbran town centre for almost 12 years. Shoppers flock to see the colourful chalk pastel pieces that the self-taught partially-sighted artist creates, most of which contain animals or nature
A BLACKWOOD businessman was found dead and naked in his house after a woman who tried to resuscitate him fled the scene, an inquest heard yesterday. Wealthy Reginald Penny, 65, was found at his large detached home set in its own grounds in a part of Old
A WOMAN from Newbridge became the latest person in Gwent to receive a scam letter from Spain asking for payment of a parking fine. Andrea Griffiths, of Tyllwyd Place, spotted immediately the letter was a fake - but has spoken out to warn others. "I haven't
ONE of them is just 12 years old and the other 14, but these two brothers have been responsible for a catalogue of anti-social behaviour which has brought misery to a community. Now Jacob and Joshua Curley, of Jones Street, Baneswell, have now been banned
WE HEAR a substantial amount about the Iraq war, but very little about its cost, but now we know. Opening the Pensioners' Parliament in Blackpool, Rodney Bickerstaffe, President of the National Pensioners Convention, gave a breakdown for us all to hear
TRADING standards officers in Monmouthshire are warning people to be on the lookout for two men who a pensioner says tore up his pathway without permission. Gwilym Fry, aged 73, says he was horrified when he returned to his home in Priory Gardens, Usk
ANDREW Davies is almost certainly out of Glamorgan's Twenty20 Cup finals day at Edgbaston at the weekend, opening the way for both Gwent duo Mike Powell and Ian Thomas to be included. Glamorgan's one-day specialist bowler has suffered a tear to a hip
A POSTMAN police want to question in connection with the death of a Risca mother-of-one is still being treated in hospital. Meanwhile, officers have been carrying out house-to- house inquiries in Almond Avenue, Risca, where Natalie Cain's body was discovered
IT may be summer outside but riders are feeling the heat inside the Wales National Velodrome, Newport. The British Olympic track cycling team are in town as they make their final preparations for a medal bid at Athens over the next week. And, instead
