WALES forwards coach Robin McBryde warns his pack to beware of some big players in the South African pack ahead of Saturday’s Millennium Stadium clash. McBryde singles out prop Beast Mtawarira, Adam Jones’ opponent in his 50th appearance for Wales, skipper
CROSS Keys host Newport Saracens in a friendly at Pandy Park tomorrow night (kick-off 7.15pm). Sarries, struggling at the basement of Division One East, have recently appointed former Keys assistant Matthew Back as head coach. The Pandy Park outfit
TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to Torfaen’s longest serving councillor, Gwilliam Evans, who died on Monday (Nov 3). Mr Evans who represented the Panteg Ward, was first elected in 1967 to Pontypool Urban District Council and served as chairman
BETWEEN 30 and 40 tonnes of waste was expected to be cleared from the River Usk in Newport as part of a big clean up. The initial clean up started today and concentrated on the riverbanks between Town Bridge and George Street Bridge. The work will
The Conservatives would hold a root-and-branch review of the way Wales is run if they win the next election under proposals put to David Cameron today. In a report on devolution commissioned by his party leader, Tory peer Lord Roberts said a Conservative
AFTER six years of talks Chepstow Town Council has finally agreed a £400,000 plan to renovate the historic Gatehouse with council tax-payers helping foot the bill. Last week councillors voted to borrow £200,000 and use a further £200,000 from their
MANIC Street Preacher Richey Edwards disappeared without trace almost 14 years ago - but he is proving to be the main influence on his remaining bandmates' new record. The Blackwood trio - James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore - have
An international rugby player has asked police to drop an investigation into an assault that hospitalised him. Mike Phillips was left with facial injuries after being attacked outside a nightclub in Cardiff city centre during the early hours of Sunday
A MOTHER discharged herself from hospital after staff refused to let her five-month-old baby, who is breast-fed, stay on the ward with her. Hannah Hillier, 27, from Wainfelin, Pontypool, checked herself out of the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, after
GIANT lock Victor Matfield is backing skipper John Smit to take the move from hooker to tighthead prop in his stride at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Springboks coach Peter de Villiers has chosen to put the World Cup-winning captain up
A JURY saw video today of a police car travelling at 126mph in pursuit of a car which went on to drive the wrong way down the M4 and crash into an oncoming vehicle Five people were killed in the crash, including three young men in the Ford Mondeo which
NUMBER plates were stolen from a car in the Monmouth area and used in a fuel theft. The front and back plates of a Suzuki Swift, registration ending JDB, were taken sometime during the evening of Saturday, November 1. They were later used on a silver
TEAM Calzaghe member Kerry Hope is hoping childhood dreams of emulating Rocky Balboa will help him to get back on the winning trail in Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Merthyr mauler Hope is the only other member of the famed Calzaghe stable
LESSONS must be learned from the horrific case of Darren Harkin who walked out of a low-security hospital to rape a young girl in Chepstow. A damning report out yesterday said an "isolated, inward-looking and incoherent” culture at The Hayes
Shoppers could be charged 20p for plastic carrier bags at checkouts under proposals put forward by a committee of AMs today. The Sustainability Committee says the fee would raise about £13 million a year for environmental causes and cut litter
INSECTS have been seen on Gwent hospital wards according to information released by the Conservatives. Responses to information requests from the Tories included a report of wasps and flies on a maternity ward at the Royal Gwent Hospital. In another
The timely revival of Frank Vickery's, Erogenous Zones has probably been a revealation to his devoted and loyal fan-base. Written in 1991, and set this time, in the city, the play follows the complicated love-lives of five inter-woven characters. A
JOE Calzaghe has refused to rule out a Millennium Stadium rematch with Roy Jones Jr next summer, but admits he's terrified what his mum will say if he fights on. The 36-year old Argus columnist confirmed that in his mind, he will be retired as soon as
TRIBUTES have continued to flow in for Amber Hartland after the brave six-year-old lost her battle against a rare genetic disorder on Sunday night. Amber died after her condition deteriorated at her family home in Greenmeadow, Cwmbran.
A BLAENAVON man was jailed for 16 years and eight months for almost 40 counts of rape and sexual assault against five young girls. Alan Jenkins, 56, was sentenced at Newport Crown court. The offences spanned almost a decade. Jenkins, of Hillside
A GROUP in Rogerstone is using donations from residents to make a big difference to families in Romania. The Goodwill shop in St John's Crescent, Rogerstone, is run by volunteers from the nearby Pentecostal church, uses donations of shoes,
ONE-TO-ONE care was crucial to the safety of a dementia sufferer and other care home residents, a court heard yesterday. Dawn Harris told Newport crown court that the terms of her contract with care home operators, Ashbourne, meant she could be moved
DELIGHTED ex-Newport back row player Andy Powell said winning his first cap on Saturday against the Springboks is the realisation of a boyhood dream. But the Cardiff Blues No 8 revealed that such was his frustration with a series of serious
IT HAS been some time since an American election caught the public imagination quite like this one. For the past weeks and months of what has been one of the longest running and most expensive election campaigns, hundreds of thousands of Americans
THE Welsh Rugby Union appear to have headed off a further outbreak of hostilities with the regions during the autumn internationals. For they have sent £100,000 to each of the four regions as compensation for releasing players for the fourth game against
SCHOOLCHILDREN marched through Newport's streets to celebrate the anniversary of the Chartist march on the city. Around 100 children from St Woolos Primary School and Malpas Court Primary School gathered at Newport Cathedral yesterday to walk
In city squares and living rooms, ballrooms and villages, the citizens of the world cheered the election of Barack Obama as US president, increasing hopes that America's first black commander in chief would herald a more balanced, less confrontational
HE’S trudged through sweltering jungle, waded through swamps and crossed piranha-infested rivers and all to satisfy his adventurous side. Chepstow accountant Gary Parker spends most of his working day behind his desk at his Newport office, so in his
SENATOR Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States. "It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America," the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a park in Chicago. His rival John McCain
WALES coach Warren Gatland throws new caps Andy Powell and Leigh Halfpenny into the fray against world champions South Africa at the Millennium Stadium – and he urges them both to go out and enjoy the occasion and have some fun. It was Gatland
IT'S something of a rarity that this reporter would be in a fit state to write copy at just gone midnight after being let loose in New York. But tonight was different. Dare I say it, tonight was special. Like most of the other British
British workers spend £5.5b on shop-bought lunches each year while leaving almost the same value of food at home to waste, according to a study. Ham, bread, cheese, cold meats and other typical lunchbox foods such as fruit, crisps and yoghurts
The Assembly Government cannot tell local councils where to put their money, First Minister Rhodri Morgan said today. He said the opposition could not blame his administration for the fact that authorities had money stuck in frozen Icelandic accounts
