PATIENTS across Gwent are being urged to sort out repeat prescriptions ahead of the Easter weekend, to minimise delays in getting medicines over the busy holiday. Health bosses want to avoid a repeat of the situation last Easter, when the normal weekend
A MAJOR operation aimed at stopping arson attacks on a Gwent mountain is being re-launched this year by police and fire chiefs. The Blorenge Mountain near Blaenavon will be the focus of helicopter and quad bike patrols throughout the spring and summer
A NEWPORT film-maker is to pick up an award at a top American film festival. Tyrone Murphy fought off stiff competition to win 'best international documentary' at the prestigious Lake Arrowhead film festival in California. His company, Classic Media Entertainment
ANOTHER key part of Newport's £5 million footbridge was brought to the banks of the River Usk yesterday. The latest section of decking - 28 metres long and five metres wide - travelled through the city from Rowecord Engineering, Pill, on the back of a
Newport stage their first double header speedway meeting of the season on Sunday when Rye House provide the opposition for both Everest Group Wasps and the new-look Mavericks (tapes-up 2.30pm). The Wasps, disappointed only to draw against Mildenhall last
DAVIES, Davies and Jenkins - it sounds like a firm of Welsh lawyers but they are the names of people who could be running Welsh rugby next season. The Welsh Rugby Union board tonight hold one of its most important meetings since it came into existence
NEWPORT County's wonderful winning run continued last night with a hard-fought victory over Hayes that lifted them out of the Conference South relegation zone. County moved three points clear of their vanquished rivals and also leapfrogged Carshalton
THE hymns echoed the marching step of the valiant soldier, as in a Gwent churchyard a headstone was raised to mark the final resting place of an old warrior. For 60 years the wind and weather had slowly reduced the mound under which lay the body of John
NEWPORT County manager Peter Beadle paid tribute to his players after their hard-fought 1-0 victory over Hayes last night lifted them out of the Conference South relegation zone. County earned a fourth successive victory in the league for the first time
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have pledged they will secure an automatic place in next season's Heineken Cup by ensuring they are third best Welsh team in the Celtic League. They go into tomorrow night's game against Munster at Rodney Parade one off the pace,
A PREGNANT former lapdancer was warned she could face a jail sentence yesterday after admitting attacking a landlady at a Gwent pub. Young mother Amanda Jayne Wright, 23, appeared before Newport crown court and admitted assaulting landlady Jean Bees at
AN UNDERCOVER crackdown on illegal and off-road bikers in Torfaen - dubbed a "plague of locusts'' - netted 21 offenders in its first weekend. The officers backed by uniformed colleagues, from Cwmbran and Pontypool, took to their motorcycles and launched
ARGUS reviewer Nigel Corten was one of the last people to see Sixties superstar Gene Pitney perform. He says the singer's death in a Cardiff hotel means he has lost "an old friend". TO SAY you could have knocked me over by the proverbial feather when
AN EYEWITNESS described how an ambulance crashed near Newport yesterday while responding to a 999 call. The emergency vehicle was in an accident with a van and toppled on to its side at the Croes-y-Mwyalch roundabout on the A4042 between Newport and Cwmbran
A NEWPORT city centre bar is to stay open until 3.30am every morning under the new 24-hour drinking laws. Revolution, on Griffin Street in Newport city centre, is a two-storey vodka bar with a lounge area, courtyard garden and large dancefloor. It is
ANGRY residents in Underwood were told last night that their leisure centre weekly opening hours are being cut by almost two-thirds. Last year the centre was threatened with closure in a cost-cutting measure by Newport City Council, who said it needed
