THREE players still have a chance to come from outside the current top nine and force their way into Europe's Ryder Cup team on points in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles this week. This is what they have to do - and what also has to happen
PICKING the best wild cards to try to win back the Ryder Cup will be the only thing on Colin Montgomerie's mind this weekend - not where certain stars are playing. With Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington and Luke Donald sticking to their guns - they are
HEALTH watchdogs in Gwent fear cancer patients across Wales are falling behind their counterparts in England for cutting edge radiotherapy treatment. Aneurin Bevan (formerly Gwent) Community Health Council will raise the issue of provision of IMRT
CAMPAIGNERS who lost the battle to save a Risca care home are looking to set up a community or town council. Friends of Ty Darran Campaign Group will have a stall at this Sunday's Risca carnival to canvass the idea of setting up a town or community
A PONTYPOOL soldier will run 13.2 miles in Afghanistan next month to raise money for a forces charity. Lance Corporal Matthew Ash, 25, from New Inn, will complete the first ever half-marathon around his forward operating base in Sangin. He will
A MUM and dad have been so moved by the treatment given to their prematurely born son they’re going to raise money for the Royal Gwent Hospital unit which is looking after him. Michael Woods, 24, of Rogerstone, is to organise a charity football tournament
PETER Hanson, the Swede who has given Colin Montgomerie what Europe's captain calls a "more or less impossible’’ task, today questioned how much some stars want to be part of the Ryder Cup. Hanson spoke out shortly after arriving at Gleneagles for the
HORNETS 53 ISLE OF WIGHT 39 KYLE Newman was the inspiration behind Wessex Bus Hornets getting their National League Trophy qualifying campaign off to a flying start at Queensway Meadows Stadium yesterday. Newman was a regular with Newport Darlows Wasps
A DRIVER was cut from a vehicle after a two-car collision on the A467 this afternoon. Fire crews from Abercarn and Ebbw Vale were called to the Crumlin lights junction at around 2.52pm. A fire service spokeswoman said crews are in the process of
GWENT boxing star Nathan Cleverly could soon be following in the footsteps of Joe Calzaghe yet again after being nominated for this year’s prestigious Boxing Writers’ Club Young Boxer of the Year award. The Cefn Fforest fighter, whose career
AN ELDERLY couple is thanking the people who helped them after their car crashed into a wall in Risca two weeks ago. June and Norman Williams, of Almond Avenue, Ty-Sign, were rushed to hospital after their Ford Fiesta crashed on August 7 at the junction
A FAMILY-run Valleys food company is celebrating half a century in business. Blaenavon-based Vin Sullivan Foods has been supplying hotels, restaurants and caterers across the UK with food since 1960. Among the 6,000 different products the company
THERE will be play-offs at both ends of the Premiership in the coming campaign, meaning the club that finishes top will face an 80-minute shootout for the title and giving the team that props up the pile a lifeline. Play-offs were introduced last term
YOU could hardly compare one of Newport’s highest points to the world’s tallest peaks such as Kilimanjaro or Everest. But looking down from Ridgeway over the Sirhowy Valley, for former Newport Gwent Dragons and four times-capped Wales rugby international
VISITORS might think Newport is hanging out its dirty laundry in public, thanks to a new artwork over the River Usk. A line of inflatable clothes, designed by Bristol-based artists Luke Egan and Pedro Estrellas (corr), was strung across Newport City
PAUL Turner has given the credit to his staff after being presented with the Magners League coach of the year award. “It was a big shock to me and I’m pretty humbled by it, there are far more deserving coaches than me in the room,” said Turner after
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Chepstow's air training squadron are appealing to the prime minister in a desperate big to stave off closure on September 1. Cadets, volunteers and parents are campaining to save the squadron after the Air Cadet
ABERGAVENNY'S King Henry VIII School saw 63 per cent of its students gaining five A* to C grades - an impressive 12 percent increase on the school's 2009 results. Headteacher Nicholas Oaten said: "They're the best results in the recent history of the
THE number of students passing five or more GCSEs at C or above in Caerphilly rose to 61 percent - a seven percent increase on last year and the highest increase in Gwent. Oakdale Comprehensive School's headteacher Chris David said he was “walking
A BOY celebrating a not-so-unlucky 13 A*s and a South Wales Argus papergirl were among the students receiving top grades in Torfaen yesterday. They were among the top performers at Ysgol Gyfun Gwnllyw Welsh-medium school in Pontypool, where almost
BLAENAU Gwent students celebrated the county borough’s best-ever results, with the pass rate for students achieving five or more A* to C grades breaking the 50 percent barrier for the first time. It was one percent up from last year to 50.5 percent
Luton 1 County 1 NEWPORT County finally got their season off the ground at the home of Easyjet last night. Like flying with the budget airline, this was a no-frills experience from the Exiles' point of view but after a battling display
NEWPORT High School celebrated a huge rise in its pass rate with 75 percent of its pupils achieving five or more GCSEs graded A* to C - a 24 increase on last year's 51 percent. New headteacher Karyn Keane put the rise down to the school's excellent
A NEWPORT man who held a knife and a hammer as he threatened to kill his neighbour’s boyfriend was given a community order. Lee Case, 30, of Chepstow Road, appeared at Newport Crown Court after already pleading guilty to affray. The court heard
A PONTLLANFRAITH schoolboy will follow in the footsteps of Olympic athletes after winning a scholarship to a prestigious school of sporting excellence. Iwan Thayer, 11, won a part-paid scholarship to Millfield School in Somerset, which is renowned
AROUND 500 people have applied for 120 new jobs at a new supermarket opening in Newport next month. Applicants are currently being interviewed for jobs at the Sainsbury’s store in Crindau, which will open in mid-September. Around 250 members of
