WELSH punk band Martini Henry Rifles return to the green-edged sleaze pits of South Wales this weekend after a lengthy tour on the other side of the Severn Bridge. They also went down a storm in TJ's earlier this month and anyone wishing to repeat the
BEWARE Betsen. That's the warning from Wales' defence coach Clive Griffiths ahead of Saturday's game with 'Les Bleus' at the Stade de France. Griffiths and the Wales management made no secret of their hope that French flanker Serge Betsen would fail to
"IT'S got a good beat, and it fills me with some anxiety," says Dick Valentine, frontman of psycho torture disco band, Electric Six. Falling from the same cloud as The Pebbles psychedelic hits series, with a bad batch of Abba on the brain, the Electric
CORTEZ Belle's planned loan move to Newport County was dramatically called off last night after his club, Chester City, ordered him back. But Chester manager Ian Rush has been told by his chairman Stephen Vaughan that there is no money to spend on new
IT'S a sign of the times when a country wins their first two Six Nations Championship games, but there is still widespread discontent and dissatisfaction. That is the case with France, who have beaten Scotland and England, and will make it a hat-trick
WELSH West End star, television personality and award-winning comedian Mike Doyle is touring Gwent next month. Carmarthen-born Doyle, who has enjoyed a busy career since winning Opportunity Knocks in 1988, plays at Blackwood's Miners' Institute on Thursday
CORTEZ Belle's planned loan move to Newport County was dramatically called off last night after his club, Chester City, ordered him back. But Chester manager Ian Rush has been told by his chairman Stephen Vaughan that there is no money to spend on new
POLICE patrols are to be stepped up after vandals targetted a centre for the visually impaired. The Vision Foundation in Ebbw Vale was vandalised when youngsters ripped off a gate to a nursery garden, overturned some benches and discarded empty beer cans
NEWPORT'S social services chief defended the council's decision to axe meals on wheels claiming those who receive it are not among the most vulnerable of city residents. And there will be no going back on what social services director Ellis Williams called
GWENT traders are being asked to check their stock carefully after the nationwide food scare over the food dye Sudan 1. Caerphilly council says that, despite widespread publicity, a few products that have been affected by the dye have still been discovered
A TODDLER who died after being crushed under a car being driven by her mother had fallen or jumped from the back seat, an inquest heard. Two-year-old Erin Wright died after the tragic incident in Moorland Park, Newport. Her mother Bethan Wright, 28, was
A WALL collapsed and killed a toddler in his grandfather's garden, an inquest heard. And the wall was reported as unsafe to a council weeks before, a coroner was told. Eighteen-months-old Connor Keith Morgan was at his grandparents' house in Cefn Fforest
STUDENT Samantha Swift will show off her body painting skills in London next week after scooping first prize in a Coleg Gwent competition. Her spectacular creation Wise Willow wowed the judges and a full house at Cross Keys campus drama studio during
JACKSON picks up the true story of a basketball coach who demanded excellence on and off the court and drops it clean through the hoop. His portrayal of Ken Carter brims with strength and solid principles, the sort of beliefs that see him turn around
FOR a day of watching wildlife, the Gwent Levels Wetlands Reserve is ideal. The reserve has successfully attracted wild birds to the coast of South East Wales since its opening in 2000. Created as compensation for the loss of mudflats in Cardiff Bay,
KEVIN Morgan sums up the glorious uncertainty surrounding Wales' biggest Six Nations test so far this season against France in a cold and snowy Paris tomorrow. When asked which France he expects to turn up - the halting, uncharacteristic side seen so
NEWPORT band Big John are coming out from behind their alter-ego The King Pimm And The Hotdogs. King Pimm were a covers band and have been playing well-known songs to Welsh audiences for five years. Big John play original songs which have poppy moments
DOVES' biggest UK tour to date calls on Bristol and Cardiff next week. The band made their long-awaited return earlier this month when they released the single Black And White Town. It's the first single to be taken from their third album, Some Cities
TIME'S ticking on and I still haven't received official confirmation from the World Boxing Organisation that my fight against Brian Magee in Belfast on March 18 will be recognised as a world title defence. I have spoken to promoter Frank Warren this week
THE Misbah Tandoori in Priory Street, Monmouth, is a family-run restaurant which offers authentic Bangladeshi cuisine and is located in a grade II listed building in Monmouth. I dined with my partner at the cosy restaurant on a busy Monday evening. With
TORFAEN council has come under fire for letting a group of students sit in on a confidential cabinet meeting. The three students were allowed to stay to watch cabinet councillors discussing confidential information at Pontypool Civic Centre, even though
IT'S a sign of the times when a country wins their first two Six Nations Championship games, but there is still widespread discontent and dissatisfaction. That is the case with France, who have beaten Scotland and England, and will make it a hat-trick
BANISH the last of the winter blues and enjoy a taste of things to come in this summer's Welsh Proms Cardiff Centenary season, when The People's Prom comes to Cardiff's St David's Hall on Friday, March 11, at 7.30 pm. The concert features a popular programme
TIME'S ticking on and I still haven't received official confirmation from the World Boxing Organisation that my fight against Brian Magee in Belfast on March 18 will be recognised as a world title defence. I have spoken to promoter Frank Warren this week
KEVIN Morgan sums up the glorious uncertainty surrounding Wales' biggest Six Nations test so far this season against France in a cold and snowy Paris tomorrow. When asked which France he expects to turn up - the halting, uncharacteristic side seen so
BEWARE Betsen. That's the warning from Wales' defence coach Clive Griffiths ahead of Saturday's game with 'Les Bleus' at the Stade de France. Griffiths and the Wales management made no secret of their hope that French flanker Serge Betsen would fail to
REGARDED as one of Britain's most influential songwriters, Elvis Costello comes to Cardiff's St David's Hall in May with The Imposters. Born Declan MacManus in Merseyside, Costello emerged on the back of the late 1970s UK punk rock movement with his band
PEOPLE representing more than a dozen different nationalities and five religions yesterday symbolically mixed the soil to nurture a Tree of Peace. It will form the centrepiece of a new peace garden at Community House, in Eton Road, Newport. All those
COMEDIAN and historian Tony Robinson had a cunning plan when he recently gave a show in Newport. The actor, famous for playing Baldrick in the Blackadder series, squee-zed in a visit to New-port's medieval ship. Tony, a keen archaelogist whose more recent
STUDENT Samantha Swift will show off her body painting skills in London next week after scooping first prize in a Coleg Gwent competition. Her spectacular creation Wise Willow wowed the judges and a full house at Cross Keys campus drama studio during
