NEW homes could be built on a former nursery school and kitchen site in Newport. Housing association Linc Cymru wants to build three new homes on derelict land, which previously housed Rockfield Nursery School on Margaret Avenue, St Julian's. The
THE director of the company which owns a slowly-collapsing railway viaduct said there is no solution in sight for the structure and it may have to be destroyed. The Argus earlier reported farmer Graham Long's fears that someone could get hurt by the
PEOPLE still have a few more weeks to sign up to a new charity event that will be launched by former Wales and Ebbw Vale rugby captain Kingsley Jones. Route 46 is the brainchild of the In the Pink breast cancer charity and is an eight-mile
ACCIDENT and emergency waiting time targets were missed again in Gwent during March - with 1,401 patients waiting longer than the standard four hours to be dealt with. And while fewer patients were forced to wait longer than eight hours, compared to
AN 'UNBELIEVABLE' response from the public helped a charity to secure some of the best land remaining on the Gwent levels. Gwent Wildlife Trust successfully bid for two out of five lots of land on Barecroft Common, next to Magor Marsh, after
PROMISING Newport Gwent Dragons centre Jack Dixon has been called into Danny Wilson’s Wales Under-20s squad for the IRB Junior World Championship in South Africa which takes palce between June 4 and 22. Dixon, 17, became the youngest player
ABOUT £1,710 has been wiped off the value of the average Gwent house since last December, new figures show. Research by estate agent Reeds Rains shows that house prices in Wales have fallen in nine of the last 12 months. But while the
SAINSBURY’S Cwmbran is launching a food donation scheme of products that would normally go to waste. The store is planning to donate bread, fruit and vegetables, to Gwent charities and organisations. The idea behind the initiative is to cut the
2.10pm THE city campus will not now open today, a spokesperson for the university said today. The A4042 Usk Way will not re-open today either. THE A4042 Usk Way is closed both ways due to damage to the city campus building.
EVENTS were cancelled and flood alerts issued as high winds and rain lashed Gwent. The planned Welsh Waterways Festival on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal at Pontymoile Basin on Saturday, was cancelled and will be rearranged for June or July
ELITE cyclists from across the world will speed through the streets of the Caerphilly county borough this year on the 2012 Tour of Britain. The local authority’s chief executive Anthony O’Sullivan said he is “delighted” the area has been chosen
YES, the Westgate and the Kings Head hotels should be saved. However, the question arises, for what? Newport has an appalling record with regard to preserving its historic buildings. Some examples are the demolition of the iconic Lyceum Theatre
THE QUESTION of the morality of abortion has recently been highlighted in the media, with reports about doctors who were willing to sign abortion papers for women who wanted abortions because the baby was a girl. Are these isolated cases, or is
ON JULY 1 1941, a landmine dropped on Eveswell Street, Maindee, killing 37 people. Although the Gimlett family lost seven members and has been well documented over the years, many other families lost members. I am looking for information about
MAY WE through your letters page, thank everyone who supported us when we were concerned about the proposals for our homes at Sid Griffiths Court, Garndif-faith, Pontypool. We are grateful indeed to our Member of Parliament, the Rt Hon Paul
IN response to the article regarding Tredegar Park in Risca (April 24). Let’s get some facts right about this park. It wasn’t given to the people of the town of Risca as the article states. If the person who passed the information on to the Argus
HOW I detest the acerbic manner of Terry Banfield. Also, just about every letter he writes contains inaccuracies. If he read carefully, he would have seen that I said “the Bible in ancient times.” Because I believe in Creation, he writes me off
GWENT'S health board has become the first NHS organisation to be fined following a "serious breach’’ of the Data Protection Act, The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said. The privacy watchdog confirmed today that the Aneurin Bevan
NEWPORT workers helped to raise more than £8,000 for the Royal Gwent Hospital’s special care baby unit. Jayne Dowding and Michael Woods, who both work at Lloyds Banking Group in Newport, were part of a fundraising project which helped to raise £8,300
NINE wards in Gwent county council areas will have no election this year with ten seats going uncontested in the May 3 elections. In Monmouthshire, six council seats in six wards will see no election on Thursday, while in Caerphilly four seats
CROSS Keys plan on using their British and Irish Cup heartache as motivation when they lock horns with Pontypridd in the Swalec Cup final. The Pandy Park outfit were beaten 31-12 by Munster A in the final of the cross-border competition in
METAL sheeting and insulation was torn off Newport’s £35 million university campus as winds as high as 60mph battered Gwent yesterday. Residents and students worried that someone could be hurt by sheet metal that fell from the Newport City
LESS than 25 years ago, Pontypool were among the most feared rugby teams in the UK – yet they could have played their last game in Wales’ élite division. Locals described the Welsh Rugby Union’s (WRU’s) controversial decision to axe them from
TEENAGER Lee Evans looks to have played his way into the Newport County team for Wembley after another storming display at AFC Barrow on Saturday. Manager Justin Edinburgh was disappointed with the majority of his team after they ended their Blue Square
THE family of a Newport scout who died while serving in the First World War joined hundreds of scouts, beavers and cubs in the city yesterday for the annual St George’s Day celebrations. Rain and high winds put paid to the annual parade through the
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons’ Wales hopefuls have been given one last chance to impress caretaker coach Rob Howley ahead of the summer tour to Australia. Howley, who will deputise for Warren Gatland while he recovers from fractured heels, has opted
