THIS YEAR'S Caerleon Festival on July 6-15 will see more emphasis than usual on literature. There will also be a wide range of other artistic events, including sculpture, dance, painting, evening concerts and gigs, drama and film. A literary weekend
WANT to be the next Gareth Bale or Craig Bellamy? Then a Newport schoolboy might be able to help. Lewys Edwards, eight, was the Welsh winner of a UK-wide competition for young inventors, for his ingenious ‘Star Boots’ football boots – goalscoring
A NEWPORT woman, hailed a national treasure for her dedication to local charities and Tredegar House, celebrated her centenary with family on Sunday. Mary Courtney, MBE, of Sandpiper Way, Duffryn, marked the occasion with 16 family members at the Park
NO-ONE could have predicted such a tragic ending for two of racing’s brightest stars. When Cheltenham closed its festival doors in March, Campbell Gillies and his mount Brindisi Breeze had enjoyed their finest hour of their short careers. Their
THE famous 1970s television game show It's a Knockout inspired two events for young people in Gwent on Sunday. Caerleon Comprehensive School in Newport had a It's a Knockout tournament in the school grounds which it combined with its summer fete.
A GWENT teacher who lied about a relative having cancer to get time off work was today given six months in jail for two counts of fraud, to be served consecutively, suspended for two years. Kelly Baker, 31, told her employers at Cwmcarn Primary
FIVE Welsh and 13 English players have been selected for Great Britain's men's Olympic squad for London 2012. Team GB manager Stuart Pearce has not picked any Scottish or Northern Irish players for the tournament. The announcement of
THE head teachers at Pontygof Primary, Waunlwyd Primary, Ebbw Vale Comprehensive, and Glyncoed Comprehensive in Blaenau Gwent will retire at the end of the school term. These schools are closing as pupilsmove into the £54 million Ebbw Fawr
BEARING blank placards and braving another summer downpour, community groups in Ebbw Vale marched to the town's former steelworks site in a poignant echo of past industrial protests. The Ghost Parade - formed by more than 300 children and adults
A Brynmawr man was today cleared of murder, but found guilty of manslaughter at Newport Crown Court. Gareth Jenkins, 48, of Boundary Street, Brynmawr was accused of murdering Harry Towers, 56, following an incident at the Britannia pub in Abergavenny
CHILDREN from West Monmouth School produced artwork as part of Gipsy Roma Traveller History Month. The children, who are all part of the Equal Voice Project in the school and are from the local gipsy and traveller community, produced the works
NEWS footage capturing the building of the Severn Bridge and its opening in 1966 can be seen at Chepstow’s Drill Hall on Wednesday night. The rare footage from the BBC archive features journalist radio Wynford Vaughan- Thomas travelling along
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THE family of a Langstone pensioner, missing since Friday, are desperately worried and appealing for help to find him. Gwent Police mounted a search for Ronald Bowman, 74, who suffers from Dementia, after he went missing from Panteg Hospital, Griffithstown
ANOTHER wind turbine could be set to grace the landscape of the south of Newport if plans are approved this week. Welsh Water has applied to Newport planning to build a 130- metre-high wind turbine within its Nash Waste Water Treatment Works.
AH, THAT special time of year. Strawberries, Pimm’s and grass so perfect it gives us lawn-envy. And alongside the gentle thwack of ball on racquet, what appears to be the noise of a woman giving birth to a baby elephant. When
NEWPORT County will start their Blue Square Bet Premier campaign at Mansfield Town on Saturday, August 11. Their first competitive fixture at their new home of Rodney Parade will be against newly-promoted Nuneaton Town on Tuesday, August 14 (kick-off
RUTH Mansfield’s pages and the photos, “Pink Thousands Run for Life and Love” (June 25) are delightful. As a male chauvinist I never could help noticing how Wales has got more than its fair share of good looking women and, no, I’m not being flippant
IN response to Julian Powell’s suggestion that we put the Newport ship in a bottle (Letters, June 25), I reminded him that he had promised me a pair of kippers as consolation for the destruction of the Newport whale. I was disappointed that my
The Da Vinci Code is a topic that will always remain controversial in the church and at the same time attracts a great deal of interest. In modern times, anything controversial seems to create bestsellers, and authors know this. The Da Vinci
MAY the Welsh Rugby Union stand by its own beliefs and withdraw all our regional sides from European rugby on the ground that “they are not good enough” for the competition? It is by this criteria that they wish for Pontypool RFC to leave Premiership
SO, if Plaid Cymru are the daffodil Tories, what do you call a councillor who shares a campaign platform with many right-wing Tories and far right supporters? Well, that’s what Councillor Nigel Dix did during the Welsh referendum, going against
RECENT letters to this page have questioned the validity of voting. Could it be that democracy is not working? Are we living the nightmare of Orwell’s 1984 with CCTV everywhere and changes to data protection which will intrude upon us? It could
PUPILS from Ty Sign Primary took part in a range of Paralympic sports such as seated volleyball and blind football. The Sport Wales-funded event saw the Risca school’s 450 youngsters take part in a range of disabled and ablebodied sports, which
DURING this tenth anniversary year of discovering the medieval ship in the muds of the River Usk, we should thank all those who helped in the rescue of the ship timbers, and for the subsequent painstaking work to treat, classify and preserve them
IT’S a sobering fact that around 7,000 food parcels were handed to people who visited a foodbank in Newport last year. Families, on our doorsteps, are going hungry because they can’t make it to the end of the week without relying on parcels
Two Welsh Guards have died after a man wearing an Afghan police uniform shot them at a checkpoint in Helmand Province, the Ministry of Defence said. The soldiers, killed with another from the Royal Corps of Signals, received first aid at the
GWENT children showed off their skills during a Welsh folk dancing festival in Newport at the weekend. Around 100 children from 12 schools across the area took part in the event held at Spytty Sports Village on Saturday. The festival was organised
CHILDREN at a Newport nursery are preparing to say goodbye to a nursery nurse who has given 42 years to do the job she loves. Wendy John, 60, from St Julians, who works at Fairoak Nursery will retire this month. Reluctantly she is having to give
Newport County’s new central defender, Tony James, isn’t daunted by the prospect of filling Gary Warren’s boots... because he was born to play for the Exiles. The 33-year-old former Burton and Hereford defender will link up with his new
TWENTY sites have been identified which could become a museum to home the Newport Ship. The Argus understands that sites that could be under consideration include some along the Usk riverfront in Newport – not far from where the ship was originally
