NEWPORT middle-distance runner James Nasrat knows that time is running out on his Commonwealth games dream. Nasrat, goes into Monday's Common-wealth Games trials at the Leckwith Athletics Stadium in Cardiff knowing he will need to produce one of the races
A CALDICOT school bus driver touched and kissed a 13-year-old schoolgirl in a bedroom area on his coach, a court heard. At Newport crown court, Francis Nurden, aged 60, of Estuary View, Caldicot, pleaded guilty to intentional sexual touching of a child
NEWPORT boxer Mo Nasir has announced himself as a major contender for Commonwealth gold at next year's Games in Melbourne. The 19 year-old light flyweight stole the show at the Commonwealth Champio-nships in Glasgow's famous Kelin Hall at the weekend,
A NEWPORT man is warning people to be on their guard against a letter claiming they have won a huge cash prize in an "international lottery". Faryad Ali was surprised to be told he was a winner of the Euromilliones Loteria International because he had
BUDDING film directors are hard at work at the University of Wales, Newport, making documentaries about university life. Teenagers from schools in Gwent took several days out of their summer holidays to make films about the facilities at Newport, and
A GWENT factory is to shed 156 jobs in a desperate bid to continue trading. Workers at TRW Automotive in Pontypool, which employs 800, were yesterday told by bosses they could all lose their jobs by 2007 if "radical action" was not taken. The plant makes
BULL Mastiff Nero was given a stay of execution yesterday after attacking and badly injuring a postman. Despite the two-year-old dog biting postman Andrew Peters as he delivered mail in Fflorens Street, Treowen, on June 28, magistrates in Blackwood decided
COLOURFUL hot air balloons will be launched over a Gwent town this weekend as the annual Big Balloon Festival comes to Blackwood. The free Bank Holiday event, when hot air balloons of all shapes and sizes take to the skies, attracted 35,000 visitors last
Michael Powell's unbeaten 69 helped Glamorgan to an important four-wicket win over Gloucestershire to help stave off the threat of totesport League relegation. The Glamorgan number four shared in crucial stands of 79 and 73 with Dan Cherry and Mark Wallace
DETECTIVES are trying to piece together whether a man found fatally injured on the M4 fell out of or was pushed from a car, we can reveal today. Constandinos Jones, 23, of Maindee, Newport, was out drinking in Newport city centre shortly before he was
POLICE and a Gwent council hailed an alcohol ban on the streets of a Gwent town a success one year after its introduction. A blanket ban on drinking alcohol on the streets of Cwmbran was introduced a year ago tomorrow, and now there are plans to roll
NEWPORT County star Jason Bowen has been ruled out for up to six weeks. The inspirational winger damaged his knee in last week's 1-1 draw at Maidenhead and the club have confirmed their worst fears that he now faces a lengthy lay-off. County physio John
A MAN who terrified neighbours and a debt collector after arming himself with a kitchen knife and a lump hammer had a three-year Anti Social Behaviour Order imposed on him yesterday. Lee Milner, 35, was also jailed for a total of 21 months by a judge
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons run the risk of losing their star players if development on and off the field is not carried out soon. That was the stark warning presented to supporters by new coach Paul Turner, pictured, at last night's 'Meet the players night
COME and clock the colour - it's the most striking art show in town. Exuding optimism where once was near-despair, the exhibition put on by students at a pilot project under the auspices of a charity for the single homeless and by Enterprising
