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  • Radio project for blind gets big boost

    THE British Wireless for the Blind Fund has received £2,000 from the People’s Postcode Trust. The organisation will use the money to buy specially modified auto sets for the blind and to develop volunteers who will be able to install and demonstrate

  • Have your say on best way to contact police

    A MONTH-LONG roadshowaiming to find out how Gwent residents want to contact police gets under way next week. Gwent Police and Gwent Police Authority are launching an online questionnaire to find out how and where people feel most comfortable reporting

  • Long-serving Llanover councillor steps down

    MONMOUTHSHIRE County Council will say goodbye to a councillor who has dedicated over 25 years to local government. Brian Hood has decided to step down from his role as he approaches his 80th birthday. He said: "I will have done 25

  • Alviro Petersen strikes ton but Glamorgan fight back

    SOUTH Africa batsman Alviro Petersen struck a superb 145 against his old county Glamorgan but a late collapse saw Essex surrender the initiative on the first day of their LV= County Championship Division Two game at Cardiff. After Essex were asked

  • Chance to get taste of adult education with Coleg Gwent

    TASTER sessions, events, open days and workshops are among the events planned to take place during Adult Learners’ Week at Coleg Gwent later this month. The learning festival aims to highlight the wealth of learning, skills and hobbies available

  • Pontypool police in bid to cut car crime

    PONTYPOOL police carried out an operation tackling vehicle crime last week. During April, 17 cars were broken into in the Pontypool area, prompting oficers to run an operation last Wednesday and Thursday evenings. A team of 12 officers

  • Three arrested in Newport Border Agency raid

    THREE illegal workers were arrested at a Newport restaurant after UK Border Agency raids. UK Border Agency (UKBA) officers went to Mint Leaf, Tregwilym Road, Rogerstone, on Saturday evening, after receiving information about illegal workers.

  • Sebastopol fish bar celebrates 60th birthday

    ONE local family business, which has been running for over 60 years, is still going strong to the enjoyment of fish and chip lovers across the county. Arthur Evans was offered a fish bar in Sebastopol in exchange for his home in 1949. He accepted

  • Gwent Police backed over hunt for Rhymney murder victim

    GWENT Police followed procedure in dealing with the disappearance of Leonard Hill, an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation found today. Mr Hill, 64, was murdered by convicted killer David Cook after he was released from prison

  • Garndiffaith family grateful for tot's support

    THE EFFORT to raise funds for a boy who was born with a misshapen head has been successful. Members of the Garndiffaith community joined together to set up the charity, Help in the Community, to raise funds for families who need financial help

  • Charity fundraisers aiming to reschedule cancelled events

    THEbad weather meant a number of events in Gwent were cancelled over the weekend and are being rearranged. The Hospice of the Valleys hopes to reschedule its Lap the Lake event for May 27. Its annual fundraiser at Bryn Bach Park, Tredegar

  • Tails are proof of evolution

    R H ASHTON states that evolution “remains unproven” but offers no proof.There are numerous books on evolution, but evolution deniers should read just one: Prof Sahotra Sarkar’s Doubting Darwin: – Creationist Designs on Evolution.This exposes the

  • Self-defence classes help in MS fight

    VICKY Willatts is fighting back against the multiple sclerosis that is gradually robbing her of her mobility – by taking part in self-defence classes. But for 62-year-old Mrs Willatts and many others with MS, the condition can take a heavy emotional

  • New departure in Darwin row

    THE letter of RH Aston (April 27) prompts me to submit the following: Dr WR Thompson F.R.S was asked to write an introduction to a new edition of The Origin of Species in 1963. In a devastating critique he faulted evolution in all its aspects,

  • Please review presentation

    I RECENTLY gave a talk at Aberystwyth University outlining the history of the controversial and partially completed primary school and residential development at the Glebelands in St Julians, Newport. The talk, entitled The Glebelands Campaign

  • A disgusting turnaround

    FOUR acres is quite a nice piece of land. This particular site is in the middle of town and it is a prime development site; but how much is it worth? No-one has ever mentioned the value of this piece of real estate; so let Monmouthshire Council

  • A better deal for prisoners

    A RECENT news item on BBC Wales (April 26) highlighted the “Why Wales” cancer drugs treatment campaign, ie seeking donations from the public to buy drugs that are free in England, but not available in Wales due to the cost. We are supposed to

  • Empty shops, get a grip

    TO QUOTE Councillor Bob Poole in Friday’s article on shopping centre redevelopment: “We have been in this position two or three times before.” Well, I am agreeably surprised. I had thought it was more often than that. Cambrian Centre, Friars

  • Big, Fat Variety Showcase, Congress Theatre

    DRAMA, dance, music and film - all were on offer at Cwmbran's Congress Theatre in a show which lived up to its name - variety was certainly on offer. The night was put together by a six member company made up of Year 13 students studying performing arts

  • Henry V, New Theatre

    SHAKESPEARE’S Globe, in association with Liverpool Playhouse makes its Cardiff debut with Henry V. Henry V is brought to life by the Globe’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, in an adaptation that is every bit as exhilarating as the text itself.

  • Gwent One Act Play Festival, Blackwood Little Theatre

    THE cast and directors at Blackwood Little Theatre once again swept the board at the annual one-act play festival at the weekend, winning five categories. The theatre hosts the two-night festival as well, and this year five theatre groups were competing

  • Blackwood retail park owner calls for council talks

    THE owner of the ill-fated Blackwood Gate Retail Park called for talks with Caerphilly council to help find a way of filling it. London-based Linnell Investments spokesman Howard Moss said the company remains determined to find a “positive

  • Samuels Jnr aims to emulate his dad

    BOXING is in Jerome Samuels’ blood and he’s looking to emulate the success of his father Paul as he turns professional this month. Samuels junior makes his pro debut against Cardiff’s Lance Verallo in front of his home town crowd on the Inner Core Promotions

  • Newport’s city campus re-opens after wind damage

    IT IS expected to take two weeks for repairs to be carried out at University of Wales, Newport’s city campus which was damaged by strong winds on Sunday. The £35 million campus reopened yesterday, two days after metal sheeting and insulation

  • Newport taxi rapist may have more victims - police

    A NEWPORT rapist may have committed other similar offences according to police and they have urged any possible victims to come forward. Asif Iqbal, 42, of Alice Street, was jailed for 12 years at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday after admitting

  • Newport girls find 250 stolen letters

    FIVE Newport youngsters were thanked after helping to recover 250 letters stolen from a Royal Mail van. Two bags of mail were stolen from a van in Somerton last Friday. But youngsters from Aberthaw Drive found them while playing on a bank near

  • Pill mum's terror as robbers cut bracelets from her wrist

    KNIFE-WIELDING masked burglars hacked £10,000 worth of jewellery from a Newport woman during a break-in at her home. Two men wearing dark clothes and balaclavas forced their way into Shabnaz Kausar’s house on Pinnell Place in Pill last Thursday

  • End of an era for Luke Charteris

    LUKE Charteris is fit to lead Newport Gwent Dragons out for the last time – but he doesn’t envisage finishing with a Shane Williams swan dive. The Wales lock, whose move to Perpignan is set to be rubber-stamped in the coming weeks, was a late withdrawal

  • Grandad’s lifelong love of Newport County leads to Wembley

    AFTER supporting Newport County for the best part of 80 years, there’s only one place John Beal will be on May 12. The 85-year-old, of St Julians, will be travelling to Wembley with seven other family members and friends to support the team

  • Dragons young guns get another big break

    DRAGONS V LEINSTER (Saturday, KO 7.30) WALES Under-20s young guns Jack Dixon and Jon Evans are back in the Newport Gwent Dragons fray for Saturday’s RaboDirect Pro12 finale against Leinster. On Monday the pair were named in the squad for this summer

  • Welsh pair fined over penguin theft

    TWO Welsh tourists who broke into an Australian theme park and stole a penguin following a drunken night out have each been fined more than £600. Rhys Owen Jones, 21, and Keri Mules, 20, appeared before magistrates in Brisbane and pleaded guilty

  • Eddie Butler gives his backing to Pooler

    PONTYPOOL great Eddie Butler has backed his old club in what he calls a “fight for survival” against the Welsh Rugby Union over its desire to axe Pooler from the Premiership. The ex-Pontypool and Wales captain was speaking at the official opening

  • COUNCIL ELECTIONS: Newport sixth-former looking for votes

    MEET the ambitious schoolboy who wants your votes in tomorrow’s local elections. Rougemont sixth form pupil Andrew Hill is the youngest candidate standing in Gwent in this year’s ballot on May 3, aged just 18. While his friends are either