MANY of this country's most famous footballers learnt their skills playing in the street. Liverpool's Steven Gerrard started there and the same team's Jamie Carragher has fond memories of playing in the streets of his home town Bootle until it was too
ON Saturday, April 22, at 7.30pm, Beach Boys Inc return to the Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, and recapture the excitement of the period in the sixties when the original Beach Boys first exploded onto the scene on both sides of the Atlantic! With classic
GWENT band Feeder announced further festival dates this summer on the back of their greatest hits album scheduled for release next month. They release The Singles album on May 15, which is preceded by a new single, Lost & Found, on May 1. Taken from
YOUNG Lucy Phillips' dream came true when she beat thousands of other hopefuls to a place in the National Youth Theatre. The 15-year-old Brynmawr Comprehensive pupil auditioned in Cardiff for the hotly-contested post in December, and the National Youth
BRIAN Coyne, the former Cwmbran Town manager, now in charge of Aberystwyth, would be delighted if the Crows won their relegation scrap to maintain Welsh Premier League status. The two clubs clash at Park Avenue this afternoon (kick-off 2.30pm), Coyne's
A RESIDENT living on a flood plain near the River Severn insists his home is safe after being told there was a risk of flooding. Mike Harbinson and his wife Janet, received a recorded message telephone call after midnight from the Environment Agency,
A JEALOUS woman who poured petrol through the letterbox of her ex-boyfriend's home before setting it alight was jailed for three-and-a-half years. Mother Lynne Gulliford set fire to ex-lover Carl Higgs' Cwmbran home because their relationship was over
A GWENT man and his five children were left devastated by the loss of an award-winning wife and mum to cancer. Now, Jennie Moore's 14-year-old daughter Chelsie is to receive a trophy won by her mother from a supermarket chain. Mrs Moore had been battling
NEWPORT County boss Peter Beadle is hoping midfielder and captain Jason Bowen will be fit for tomorrow's vital Conference South visit to Histon (kick-off 3pm). Bowen was replaced at half time during last weekend's draw with Welling United and will undergo
NATHAN Brew has set himself a dual target - to re-establish himself with Newport Gwent Dragons and to break into the Welsh team. Brew is one of the most promising threequarters in Wales and he was capped against Romania in 2003 as a 21-year-old. But since
NEWPORT'S place in a garden festival being held in its twin city this summer will stand out thanks to a striking sculpture. Instead of a purely botanical theme, the city's contribution to the event in Heindenheim, Germany, will feature one of the works
WHEN a member of the Royal Family visits a city there are usually road closures, hundreds lining the streets and plenty of flag-waving. But sometimes just one person, a true fanatic from Newport, is there to greet them. For more than 50 years, Carol Bader
A MALFUNCTIONING clutch denied Australian Craig Watson the chance of winning the Ashley Jones Memorial race at King's Lynn on Wednesday night. It caused Watson to crash in his third race but he'll be leading the Newport Everest Group Wasps in their Premier
STAFF at a Newport company dressed up for a charity fun run in the city. More than 70 staff from the Office of National Statistics helped raise hundreds of pounds for the Noah's Ark Appeal by running around Tredegar Park yesterday. Serious runners took
OWNERS of a Gwent pub say burglars who stole £140 in charity money collected for disabled youngsters are the 'lowest of the low'. Punters donated loose change over the last two years into three coin jars on the bar of The Sally, in Tranch Road, Pontypool
RECYCLING rates in Newport are shooting up since the expansion of the fortnightly rubbish collections to 20,000 households in the city. In the first two months, the rates for residents added to the 2xRecycling scheme have risen by 44 per cent. Items collected
THE Gwent sides propping up the Welsh Premier Division table will be desperate to record maximum points when they go head to head at Eugene Cross Park tomorrow (kick off 2.30pm). Even at a time when games have a bearing on matters at the top and bottom
CHICO fans in Abergavenny are in for a good time when the X Factor star comes to the town in July. He joins Journey South and Spandau Ballet legend Tony Hadley as the headline acts for this summer's inaugural, 10,000 capacity, Pop in the Park event at
LIGHTS, Camera, Action Heroes! Aussie kids phenomenon Hi5 turn the world upside down for kids in Cardiff at Easter. Tickets are selling fast for the hit Australian Children's TV Show Hi-5 as they return to Cardiff's St David's Hall on Tuesday, April 18
