A MULTI-MILLION pound housing estate featuring affordable homes will be built in Newport by Lovell. The estate, which will feature 32 homes, is to be built in the Playford Crescent and Handel Close area of Ringland. Work on the site, which is the second
Cambridge City 0 Newport County 2 CHARLIE Griffin and Andy Gurney got County's play-off push back on track with goals either side of half time to earn a vital win at Cambridge City. After taking only one point from their last two matches this was a
Ebbw Vale 48 Aberavon 20 Ebbw Vale came back from 17-3 down after 20 minutes to run in seven tries and thereby ensure that Neath have retained the Premier-ship title. The Steelmen led 34-20 at the interval having run in three tries in a five minute
A STRIKE at Gwent's further education college was due to force it to close its doors tomorrow. The University and College Union's 450 lecturers at Coleg Gwent began a 24 hour strike at midnight. No teaching is expected to take place at any of the
A NEWPORT campaigner welcomed an Assembly bid for more powers to enable it to improve safety on school buses. At the moment, Welsh leaders are limited in their law-making powers. Deputy first minister Ieuan Wyn Jones, who is also responsible for
Pupils from a Gwent school joined forces with Royal Mail to highlight the plight of ten scarce and threatened UK insects struggling for survival in a changing world. Youngsters from Llanfoist Primary School, Abergavenny, helped launch Royal Mail's
GWENT Cats Protection is thanking Argus readers for their help in relocating dozens of cats from a Newport factory. The charity appealed for help after Newport's Alphasteel plant closed with the loss of 300 jobs before Christmas, leaving its resident
GWENT Police is warning the public and businesses to be on the look out for fake £20 notes in the Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly county areas. Officers say high-quality counterfeit notes have been circulating in the area in recent weeks. Finders should
Some big and bad noise is gonna happen" promised Jethro Tull front man Ian Anderson to a packed house at St David's Hall on Monday evening. The mixture of acoustic blues, classical music, jazz and prog rock that followed certainly delivered. The
RESIDENTS in a Valleys street are asking Caerphilly council to introduce safety measures on their road. The campaigners say a pelican crossing and other traffic controls are desperately needed on the Oak Terrace by-pass in Fleur de Lys and Pengam.
WALES coach Warren Gatland admits he wants the best players in the country playing for their regions, but would not be drawn on whether some who are sitting on the bench should be drafted to their Welsh rival regions. Speaking at the launch of two separate
IT is understood that eight people, believed to be of Eastern European origin, are in custody today after hiding in the back of a German lorry in Blaenavon. Sources say some of those in custody are children. The German lorry stopped outside the Doncaster's
AT a time when top golf appears to be increasingly about money, millions and millions to be won, how refreshing it is to show that romance is not dead. For once Tiger Woods couldn't quite make it, his game strangely out of sorts for a player of his exceptional
AN EBBW Vale win at home over Aberavon tonight (kick off 7.30pm) would seal a fourth Premiership title on the spin for Neath, but it's the spot one below the Welsh All Blacks that is on the hosts' minds. The Steelmen pipped Newport to the runners-up
LOCALS reacted with a mixture of excitement and caution to yesterday's news. Chris Norman, 20, who lives in Risca and is assistant manager at the Commercila Pontymister pub, said: "I think it will be good for the area. "It will obviously help business
OUR own Joe Calzaghe can take Welsh sporting celebrations to a new level this weekend when he faces ring legend Bernard Hopkins in his own back yard. Argus columnist Calzaghe can do what no-one else has managed and put the lights out in Las Vegas if
LOYALTY does count for something after all, friendship really matters, a handshake does count for a lot and a man's word is his bond, even in this professional rugby union age. For when Shaun Edwards told his big mate Warren Gatland just after Wales
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have got mixed injury news ahead of their Magners League game against Connacht at Rodney Parade on Friday night when they finally resume playing. Key flanker Richard Parks and centres Gareth Maule and Phil Dolman have all resumed
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons coach Paul Turner has denied they are on the brink of signing New Zealand number two outside half Nick Evans. Reports linking the Dragons with Dan Carter's deputy surfaced in New Zealand in February, but nothing happened, and they
Joe Calzaghe last night got his first taste of the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas Strip. Hundreds of Calzaghe fans packed the Planet Hollywood Hotel just to get a glimpse of the undeniable fans' favourite. Argus columnist Calzaghe looks lean and
AMBITIOUS development plans announced for Risca and Pontymister will have a material effect on the communities. In what must be the most significant development to be announced for this area in decades, the Bird Group have revealed details of a £60m
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A GWENT town is set to be revitalised under plans for a £60 million development project. The massive development earmarked for Risca would see more than 200 homes built along a regenerated river bank area as well as the creation of 500 jobs at a new
COUNTY striker Jermaine Clarke is confident he can score the goals to fire the Exiles to promotion and insists that, with a bit more luck, they would already be assured of a play-off place. Peter Beadle's men travel to Cambridge City tonight (kick-off
MATT Carver needs your help to try to save his life. And we are appealing to you, our readers, to do what you can. The 22-year-old Newport graduate is suffering from leukaemia and has been told he has only a 10 per cent chance of survival if he does
AN ABERTILLERY cocaine dealer who claimed he was just a courier for the drugs has failed in an Appeal Court challenge to his four-year prison sentence. Michael John Perry, 45, of Glandwr Street, was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court last November after
THE First Responders' group in Usk are appealing for new members. The group was one of the first of its kind to be established in 2004 and work directly with the Ambulance Service in providing treatment to patients before an ambulance is able to attend
Steve Harmison insists he still has the hunger and desire to lead England's bowling attack and is determined to answer his critics. The Durham paceman's future at international level has been brought under scrutiny after he was dropped following a
AND so begins my life as a blogger... Rule one of journalism is never to start a sentence with the word And, but as the Argus have been brave enough to allow me to upload my blogs unedited, I feel suitably confident to make my own rules. Vegas is
Portuguese police have denied leaking transcripts of interviews with Kate and Gerry McCann. Portugal's Policia Judiciaria (PJ) issued a rare public statement singling out the couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell, who last week angrily demanded an inquiry
MPs are facing fresh questions over their expenses as it was revealed that millions of pounds of public money has been paid to political parties in rent. More than a quarter of MPs hire party-owned offices out of their allowances at a significantly
The battle over the publication of a Harry Potter encyclopaedia "decimated" JK Rowling's creativity and halted all work on a new novel, the author said. Rowling said the Harry Potter Lexicon, based on the internet fan site of the same name, "constitutes
