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  • Gwent boundary shake-up deadline

    PEOPLE in Gwent have until July 10 to view the arguments made about the proposed changes to constituency boundaries in Wales. The Boundary Commission has now entered its second consultation period, and will consider whether to make changes to

  • Have your say on Newport buses

    ABUS user surgery will be held in Newport next month to give residents the chance to have their say on transport issues and view plans for the bus station. The surgery, organised by Bus Users UK with Newport council, will allow the public to

  • Award joy for Blaenavon teaching assistant

    A BLAENAVON teaching assistant has won a top award in this year’s Pearson Teaching Awards. Yasmin Gedney, who is a teaching assistant at Blaenavon Heritage Community School, won the award for Teaching Assistant of the Year. Ms Gedney will now

  • Wales to face Bosnia-Herzegovina

    THE Football Association of Wales have confirmed that the national side will play Bosnia-Herzegovina in a friendly at Llanelli’s Parc y Scarlets on August 15. The game, which kicks off at 7.45pm, will be Wales’ final preparation for the World Cup qualifiers

  • Open-air theatre returns to Chepstow

    BRITAIN’s largest festival of open-air theatre returns to Chepstow from tomorrow. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the Chepstow Festival, now in its 13th year, which spans four weeks and brings more than 90 events to the town. A family

  • ‘Runaway’ Chepstow tortoise is reunited with owners

    A LOST tortoise has been reunited with his family – three weeks after going missing. Henry, a 90-year-old African spurthigh tortoise, escaped from his owner’s garden in the High Beech area of Chepstow. Odette Allen said the family were distraught

  • Don't ignore health hazard

    DESPITE the demented, patronising, ignorant and pompous comments of Jim Dyer (Argus, June 14) the fact is that dogs’ mess is widespread across the City of Newport, because of some irresponsible owners. At the recent St. Julians PACT council and

  • No confidence gets my vote

    IN RESPONSE to Norman Jones’s letter (June 19), I disagree with the first part of his letter where he is suggesting that voters do not vote at all. It’s their own personal choice to vote, like it is yours Mr Jones and mine not to vote, but I’

  • Jock can make a big difference

    I READ in the South Wales Argus that ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Ian ‘Jock’ Johnston is to stand for the post of Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner. I served with Jock Johnstone when we were both Constables and saw him rise through the

  • Standard snub is disgusting

    READING letters regarding Wales not being on the Union Flag, what I think is more disgusting than that is that Wales is not represented on the Royal standard. It is made up of the lions of England top left and bottom right, the flag of Scotland

  • Mess offends pedestrians

    I THANK Gerry S Rose not only for defending Brian Donovan but also for his splendid use of the English language (June 20). I think I will pass on his kind offer to accompany him on his illegal dog-poo spotting adventures but perhaps Brian Donovan

  • Churches loss a great shame

    IT WAS sad to read of another traditional church, St Mary’s, Malpas, experiencing financial problems. Several weeks ago I wrote of the upsurge of the modern style Victory Church in Cwmbran, where money seems no problem. This Americanised showbiz

  • Get a move on with skatepark

    ALTHOUGH I have no interest in skateboarding or other such similar sports, I do feel as frustrated as the skateboarding community that the new replacement skatepark at Tredegar Park is weeks away from being completed while the skatepark down Spytty

  • Elected Head is Way Forward

    NEITHER smugly satisfied Jan Preece paying her service to earlier traditions, nor Bob Urie who is proudly delighted with the Royals as good advertising copy, deeply involved in show business, addresses the issue, and Walt Jackson is somewhat

  • Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

    The Young Venture Player’s latest production, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, had a capacity audience on the edge of their seats from start to finish. Up-beat, energetic and full of humour, this is another winner for this extremely

  • Legal threat bid to stop Rogerstone field being sold

    A CAMPAIGNING group is considering taking court action over a proposal by a community council to sell a field to be used to build homes. Ian Phillips, chairman of the Bethesda Field Action Group, said the group is currently looking at its legal

  • Sci-fi SuperDragon set to be a Newport smash hit

    VISITORS on the SuperDragon trail this summer will be confronted by a creation that’s out of this world. Sci-fi fanatic, John Williams, 44, from Allt-yr-yn, has created a Cyber Dragon for the trail, which will launch around Newport from July

  • Blackwood pupils scoop enterpise title

    A TEAM of teenage entrepreneurs from a Valleys school were named Wales Best Company in a prestigious business competition thanks to their unique mobile phone charger device. A team of 17 Year 10 students from Blackwood Comprehensive were given

  • Decision day for Pooler in club’s legal row

    TODAY is D-Day for Pontypool’s historic rugby club as its fate hangs in the balance. In what could prove to be the club’s most important day since it was established in 1868, Pooler will either have their day in court or have their legal battle

  • Six more sign for Newport

    NEWPORT have snapped up a trio of former Dragons and secured the services of three more players from Gwent rivals Pontypool. The Black and Ambers have agreed deals with tighthead Gethin Robinson, flanker Rhys Jenkins and scrum-half James Leadbeater

  • Abergavenny man left ‘a total mess’ by beating

    AN ABERGAVENNY woman said an alleged murder victim looked like “an old man, with brain damage, a total mess” after a pub fight, Newport crown court heard yesterday. Jade Jones, whose mother was in a relationship with 56- year-old Harry Towers

  • Two-tier warning over O-levels plan

    RADICAL government proposals to axe GCSEs and bring back O-levels risk "labelling teenagers as failures", school leaders have warned. There are fears the move, which Wales education minister Leighton Andrews has said would not apply here, would

  • County out of Welsh Cup

    NEWPORT County have not been invited to participate in the 2012-13 Welsh Cup as they would not be able to qualify for Europe via the competition. County, fellow Blue Square Bet Premier club Wrexham and Western League champions Merthyr Town

  • Have you been hit by doctors' action?

    HAVE you been affected by the doctors' work to rule today? Maybe you've had to re-arrange an appointment or you've had a cancellation. Let us know by clicking the link below to e-mail us, or call newsdesk on 01633 777226. Alternatively, via

  • Ringland teen actor off to US for Disney talks

    A BUDDING Newport actress hopes to get her big break in America after being invited to meet top television and film producers there. Chelsea Toms, 17, of Ringland, beat 3,000 hopefuls in February to win one of 18 places at London’s Celebrity

  • New Dragons lock happy with hard graft

    AS a shotgun-toting lover of the outdoors, Newport Gwent Dragons summer signing Ian Nimmo isn’t averse to getting his hands dirty. And, as befits a man who took his first steps towards becoming a Dragons player in the unspectacular surroundings

  • Gwent Facebook racists spared jail

    TWO Gwent men escaped a jail sentence yesterday after they admitted writing offensive comments on Facebook. Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court heard labourer James Rogers, of Deepweir, Caldicot, wrote on his Facebook account on March 25: “What the

  • CHRIS KIRWAN SAYS: Late howlers show the value of Jamie Roberts

    FIVE days on and it’s still ‘that kick’ that dominates the talk from Wales’ tour Down Under. We should have been thinking about a series decider rather than still wondering whether a first win against the Wallabies for 1969 can be claimed. Emotions

  • CHRIS KIRWAN SAYS: Dragons may have struck gold with Nimmo

    JASON Forster, Adam Black, Joe Bearman, Aled Brew; the Dragons faithful love their cult heroes. Those favourite figures help turn the volume up a notch and turn the Hazell Terrace into a pretty unforgiving place for opponents. But last season the fans

  • Llanvapley pub owners challenge council

    THE OWNERS of a village pub who have been at the centre of a long-running battle to legally use it as a home challenged Monmouthshire council at a hearing. Jim and Jean Sharp of the Red Hart, Llanvapley, near Abergavenny were appealing against Monmouthshire

  • Howley resists wielding the axe as Wales remain unchanged

    AUSTRALIA V WALES (Third Test, Saturday, KO 6.05 BST) WALES caretaker coach Rob Howley has resisted the temptation to wield the axe and has named an unchang-ed side for Saturday’s third Test against Australia. A number of players were sweating on their