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  • Govilon couple raise £6,000 for charities

    A GOVILON couple single-handedly raised more than £6,000 for charities this year. Sylvia and John Sharland raised a total of £6,214.87 this year which was split between charities such as the Noah’s Ark Appeal, In The Pink, the Alzheimer’s Society

  • Rodgers ready for 'perfect' Bale

    SWANSEA manager Brendan Rodgers says his side will come up against the "perfect’’ footballer when Gareth Bale lines up for Tottenham at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday. Wales international Bale has been one of the world's best left-wingers over the

  • Royal Navy field gunners, get in touch

    A FORMER member of the Royal Navy’s Devonport Field Gun Crew is appealing for fellow field gunners to get in touch. Stewart McKenzie, of Clitheroe, was based at HMS Drake in Devonport and Devonport Dockyard in 1956. He wants to hear of memories

  • £70,000 plan to improve care services

    MONMOUTHSHIRE council could spend £72,257 on improving fostering and care in partnership with five other authorities. A report entitled ‘A Shared Lives Collaborative’, due to go before Cabinet on January 4, suggests more individually tailored

  • Christmas slimming challenge pays off for Ringland women

    A NEWPORT slimming club is celebrating after losing more than 60 stones between them as part of a festive challenge. Around 60 members of the Ringland Slimming World group took part in the ‘Countdown to Christmas’ challenge with many losing

  • 1,000 homes empty in Newport

    THERE are more than 1,000 privately owned houses in Newport which have been empty for more than six months, new figures reveal. The number is on the rise, and with 72 of these unoccupied for more than ten years, South Wales East AM Lindsay

  • Newport lad braves Tenby swim for good cause

    A NEWPORT youngster braved the cold waters of Tenby to take part in the annual Boxing Day swim in aid of the charity that supports him and his family. Ten-year-old Cameron Carnell, of Lliswerry, who was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

  • New year ban for hospital smoking

    SMOKING will be banned in the grounds of most Gwent hospitals – with the exception of the Royal Gwent, St Woolos and Nevill Hall – from New Year’s Day. The policy is already in force at the area’s two newest hospitals, Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan

  • REVIEW OF 2011: March and April

    Centre open for special children ON APRIL 4, more than seven years after the launch of an Argus appeal to fund it – and two decades since it was first called for – the Serennu Children’s Centre at High Cross, Newport, opened its doors. Children

  • Young and old enjoy Monmouth tea dance

    LOCAL brownies, students and pensioners were among 75 people to trip the light fantastic at a tea dance in Monmouth. They were attending the award-winning weekly tea dance that has been held at Bridges Community Centre for over five years. The

  • Wales and Ospreys hopeful on Jones

    FEARS Wales’ world class prop Adam Jones could miss Six Nations action this season appear to be unfounded, the Ospreys revealed yesterday. There was cause for concern after the tighthead left the field with a neck injury during his region’s 22-14 defeat

  • Caerphilly council plans another council tax freeze

    CAERPHILLY council is planning to freeze council tax for a second consecutive year. In 2011/12, the Plaid Cymru-led administration was the only local authority in Wales not to implement an increase. It froze council tax at the level of 2010/11

  • Fourth generatation Caerleon sailor gets rare honour

    BEING at sea is not an unusual thing for the family of Caerleon’s Rod McDonald – with four generations all serving in the Merchant Navy. Mr McDonald, 63, his late father Bob, late grandfather James and his son Alexander, 29, have all dedicated

  • Govilon couple's epic Land Rover trek for mountain rescue

    A GWENT couple are preparing to drive a 1974 Land Rover around the UK’s 15 national parks to raise money for a local mountain rescue team. Tim Jarvis, 30, and Hannah Byrne, 29, from Govilon, will take on the 2,000-mile challenge over 12 days

  • LEIGH LANHAM SAYS: New Year event sure to be Classic

    WELL it’s been a while since I wrote a column for the Argus but with Newport staging the only outdoor speedway meeting of the close season on Bank Holiday Monday, January 2, I thought I had better give my views. Our co-promoter Nick Mallett and general

  • REVIEW OF 2011: January and February

    THE BIG STORY: Patients’ waits are cause for concern SURGES in demand, coupled with the worst winter weather in a generation and difficult road conditions, combined to put the Welsh ambulance service under huge pressure. Patients in

  • Campaign to cut teen pregnancies in Gwent

    HEALTH bosses in Gwent are planning to launch a campaign to promote long acting, reversible contraception (LARC) as part of a wider strategy to reduce teenage pregnancies. Another part of the strategy will be to ensure that condom card (C-Card

  • Commuters' fears as Severn Bridge tolls set to rise

    WITH the Severn Bridge toll set to rise to £6 next week, people who cross it regularly fear the ‘Gateway to Wales’ is fast becoming an “economic nightmare”. The toll on the two Severn Bridges will go up from £5.70 to £6 on January 1, leaving

  • EDITORIAL COMMENT: Employment action is vital

    THE forecast for UK unemployment figures for the coming year makes worrying reading. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development the rise in unemployment is set to continue throughout the year before reaching a peak of 2.85m

  • Newport church centre's windows shattered in vandal attack

    VANDALS targeted a Newport church and empty units smashing windows and doors, causing more than £3,000 worth of damage. Pastor Robbie Howells of Newport City Church said three windows at the church, on the top floor of the Cambrian Centre,

  • Derby scalp is all we need, say Dragons

    DRAGONS V SCARLETS (Tomorrow KO 7.05) NEWPORT Gwent Dragons believe the derby scalp of the Scarlets will bring the confidence flooding back and turn their stuttering season around. The West Walians head to Rodney Parade tomorrow even-ing looking for

  • Man’s body found after fire in Newport house

    A MAN died in a house fire in Newport yesterday. Police and the fire service were called to a house in Tewskesbury Walk, Shaftesbury, following reports of a fire. Gwent Police were called at 11.40am. When they arrived at the house, they found

  • Boy airlifted off Abergavenny mountain

    AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy was airlifted to hospital yesterday after falling while walking on the Sugar Loaf mountain, near Abergavenny. The youngster suffered serious cuts and a possible fractured leg after falling onto a rock in deep ferns. The Wales

  • Fleetwood win race to sign Rose

    NEWPORT County have announced that Danny Rose is to be sold to their Blue Square Bet Premier rivals Fleetwood Town for an undisclosed fee. The two clubs sealed a deal shortly before Christmas and last night Rose agreed personal terms with the

  • Speedsters set to get the all-clear

    NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are confident that international wingers Aled Brew and Tonderai Chavhanga will overcome injury worries to take their place in the starting line-up against the Scarlets tomorrow. Both speedsters suffered blows in last week’s RaboDirect

  • Drugs concern at Caldicot castle grounds

    THE site warden at Caldicot Castle and Country Park is concerned that youths are starting to take drugs and recklessly drive their cars on the site again, years after the problem first surfaced. Phillip Marshall told the Argus he has picked