MUSIC lovers flocked to the third annual Devauden Music Festival this weekend. The pop, rock and folk themed event on Friday and Saturday boasted a line up of 24 acts, with Caldicot band Rusty Shackle among the headliners. Singer songwriters
HUNDREDS of people enjoyed the Sunday sunshine at the 23rd annual international Tredegar House Folk Festival. Musicians and dance groups from all over Europe flocked to Newport for the two-day event, which was enjoyed by young and old.
York's eight-year exile from the Football League is over after they beat Luton in the Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final at Wembley. The Minsterman, relegated in 2004, were beaten finalists two years ago, but went one better this afternoon as goals
EUROPEAN cup kings Leinster are fast on their way to becoming the rugby equivalent of the 1950s Real Madrid side, after securing a third Heineken Cup in just four seasons. Many had thought beforehand that the hard as nails Ulster pack and the
A TEENAGER is missing from her Newport home. Chantelle Vickery, 16, was last seen in Bettws around 2pm last Wednesday (May 16). She was wearing a Newport High School uniform including black trousers and a black and yellow polo shirt.
VISITORS to Chepstow at the weekend could be forgiven to think they had gone back in time as the second annual Steampunk festival rolled into town. Around 500 people attended the three-day event, despite the damp and dismal weather, to celebrate
NEWPORT'S Lee Churcher stopped Ferndale's Barrie Jones to win the vacant Welsh middleweight title at the Newport Centre last night. The 31-year-old, who won the British Masters title at the same venue in October last year, added the Welsh belt to his
ELEVEN learners with a wide variety of learning disabilities will attend a presentation ceremony on June 7. The individuals all attend radio workshops at the Pontypool based online disability radio station, Able Radio. Over the past few months the
A MONMOUTHSHIRE school, which has formed links with a school in Kenya, was visited by its deputy headteacher. Goytre Fawr Primary School formed links with Kiaro Primary School in Kenya in 2006 and money has been raised for the school through various
A NEWPORT boy and the South Wales hospice which supports him were awarded funding from the Prison Service Charity Fund. Pat Van Den Heede, of Hampshire Crescent, Newport, applied for a donation from the fund to help her family and friends fundraising
A MOTORCYCLIST has died following a collision with a car near Pontypool. The 20-year-old man suffered fatal injuries when his bike collided with a dark coloured Ford Fiesta on the McDonald's roundabout on the junction between the A472 and A4042
