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RALLY driving and laundry equipment aren’t often associated with one another, but for a Chepstow father and son, the two worlds came together in spectacular form. Directors of Weir Laundry Equipment, Rob and Ross Weir, entered the Sol Rally

BLAENAVON’S Heritage Railway is getting ready to step back in time to the 1940s, when the country faced its darkest hour, radio was king and the only spam came in tins. Over the weekend of July 7- 8, the railway is holding its annual 1940s

A LOCAL agency which has helped save Torfaen health and social care services £1.3 million in the last year alone has celebrated ten years of helping older people. Care and Repair Torfaen has marked its first decade of helping homeowners in the

BEAUFORT Male Choir will be joined by Fuglset Male Choir, from Norway, for a concert tomorrow in aid of the Jeremy Winston Memorial Fund. The fund aims to create a permanent memorial to the late Dean of Newport Cathedral, who died last November

MONMOUTH Library will be launching the 2012 Summer Reading Challenge on July 14. Children’s author and illustrator, Shoo Rayner, will be visiting the library from11am and will tell stories and draw until 12pm. The session will be aimed

THIS 18-YEAR-OLD art student brought South Pole explorer Captain Scott to a corner of Cross Keys College when she recreated part of the explorer’s famous hut. For her end of year piece, Shannon Curtis, from Blackwood, recreated Captain Scott

A RALLY enthusiast from Cwmbran is in the semi-final of a competition to become a driver for Rally Team GB. Scott Larder, 26 from Fairwater, has been interested in rallying for many years and went on the Team Rally GB Facebook page then pressed

PEOPLE in Newport are being urged to stay vigilant following two attempted thefts from women walking alone in the city this week. On Monday at around 6.40pm, a woman walking on Melfort Road was approached by a woman, described as foreign and

A COLEG Gwent student has had her first ever haircut and raised over £200 for charity at the same time. Brave Independent Living Skills (ILS) student Vicky Midgley had her waist length hair, originally measuring 46 inches, cut to her shoulders in aid

A CWMBRAN funeral director says that waiting times at Gwent Crematorium could be increased to a month while essential work is carried out to reduce mercury emissions. Clive Peterson, of VA Peterson Funeral Service Ltd, said there is already

A COUNCIL leader says he wants to meet the first minister to raise severe concerns over incineration. Newport council leader Bob Bright has reiterated his worries over the technology - being offered by the Prosiect Gwyrdd consortium as a solution to

AT the end of last season Argus readers were invited to send in questions for the Dragons coaching staff. Head coach Darren Edwards, assistant coach Rob Appleyard and director of rugby Robert Beale met rugby writer Chris Kirwan to provide the answers

TWO Gwent food producers picked up a host of awards at a national catering competition. Trealy Farm Charcuterie, of Monmouth, collected six gold awards at the BPEX Foodservice Pork Product of the Year competition. The competition recognises

Once threatened with closure, Ponthir Church in Wales Primary School, is now seeing pupil numbers growing, as CATHERINE COOK discovered. PONTHIR Church in Wales Primary School is going from strength to strength. Situated in the village of Ponthir

A NEWPORT father who was caught on CCTV groping a drunk woman had his jail sentence cut by top judges. Simon John Smith, 46, of Gaer Park Avenue, was jailed for 18 months at Cardiff Crown Court in March after admitting assault by penetration.

DRAGONS are normally creatures of fire, but one of this year’s Super- Dragons took to the water instead, manning the decks of a Royal Navy ship. Carys Heath’s Super- Dragon, Blodeuwedd, which will be based in John Frost Square when it returns

THERE’S plenty to do this weekend in Gwent with events taking place in Blackwood, Ebbw Vale, Blaenavon and Chepstow. This Saturday and Sunday, the second Blackwood Summer Festival is on in the town’s High Street. The festival will take place

With the news First Minister Carwyn Jones would welcome nuclear submarines to Milford Haven, I expected to see the letters page full of CND members from the Labour Party condemning this offer. Have they been told by a higher order not to criticise

I refer to the letter by Mr D J Pritchard of Newport (June 25) and his personal attack on me. Mr Pritchard appears to have a problem with free speech, so he reverts to personal attacks. I would like to inform Mr Pritchard that as a councillor, I

I agree with Gwyn James. The immigrant population has more right to have a symbol added to the Royal Standard than Wales as they number 15 million plus, compared to three or four million in Wales. The next directive from Brussels will be to add

I completely sympathise with all undergoing any work on behalf of Newport City Homes. They have rushed the investment programme to show the Welsh Government that they are complying with the WHQS. However, the blame lies with Newport City Council

Walt Jackson, in his most recent missive, appears to have confused his Royal numerals. He says what happened to Edward IV was demonic and inhuman. In reality, Edward IV died peacefully in his bed on April 9, 1483, after developing a chill while

In April, I wrote to this page requesting information regarding the areas of cleared and ploughed land around the Harlequin roundabout area. Thanks to the gentleman who phoned and told me it was to be seeded with meadow flowers. Remembering the

Your correspondent D J Pritchard’s contribution asking how much longer must Argus readers suffer the daily nonsense written by Cllr Nigel Dix is timely indeed. As with a (sometimes very regular) group of letter writers (I don’t have to name them

I have two loved ones buried at Rogerstone and Bassaleg Cemetery, my daughter and my husband. It is the most beautiful, peaceful place, kept immaculate by its groundsmen. I visit twice a week. Imagine my feelings when a woman pulled up in her

The McDonald’s roundabout where a young man was killed recently is too small, having three places of business.The distance from the Pontypool exit to this entrance is too small for the volume of traffic. It is the entrance/exit to four more places

CONFUSED leaseholders in Pontypool have set up an action group after being told to pay £8,000 for improvement works to parts of the property which do not belong to them. A group of ten Bron Afon leaseholders from New Road, Herbert’s Close,

NEWPORT West has always had a strong sense of community spirit, but recent festivities have strengthened this even further. We are a community all year round, and not just on special occasions. The arrival of the Olympic Flame in Newport

A REMARKABLE archive of aerial photographs has revealed a glimpse of early 20th century Gwent. Pictures of Newport, Ebbw Vale, Brynmawr and Pontypool are among those included in a vast archive of pioneering aerial photography uploaded to the

FOR those of us who remember it happening, it is remarkable to think that ten years have raced by since Newport’s medieval ship was discovered on the banks of the Usk during construction work for the city’s Riverfront Theatre. But it is

ALMOST 3,000 hospital admissions in Gwent are attributed to smoking every year, new figures show. Information published by the Public health Wales Observatory and the Welsh Government estimate 2,900 admissions a year are due to smoking – with

A NEWPORT man, who “loved the sea and lived for the Merchant Navy Association”, has died aged 79. Bert Bale was the head of the Merchant Navy Association in Newport for 16 years, from its inception. His efforts in organising parades both in

START with low expectations and rarely will you be disappointed. England weren’t jeered off on Sunday after their Euro2012 penalty shootout defeat – Roy Hodgson had been in the job for a matter of weeks and getting out of a relatively easy group was

NEWBRIDGE traders say they fear going out of business after the temporary closure of car parks in the town led to a huge loss of custom. A car park at Meredith Terrace is closed until October and a section of a car park in lower High Street

IT WAS pretty honest of the international coach to admit after a disappointing Test that the fly-half was not producing the goods. Unfortunately the refreshing honesty was coming from Springboks coach Heyneke Meyer rather than Wales caretaker boss Rob

A NEWPORT woman, days away from her wedding, has spoken of her fear as she was showered in a "hail storm" of glass at a shopping centre. Susanne Dunkert, 37, was getting supplies ahead of her wedding on Saturday with her friend Leeaan Rose-Smith

I'M sure you can forgive me if I don’t include any cricketing updates this week due to the tragic events that took place last Monday morning. People always say that you never forget where you were and what you were doing when you hear tragic

NEW signing Danny Crow wants to help turn Newport County from relegation strugglers into Conference high-flyers. The 26-year-old striker is used to battling for promotion after two years at Luton Town and he insists he hasn’t come to Newport