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  • Young smoke to stay thin and calm - report

    YOUNG people in some of Wales’ most deprived areas smoke to keep calm and keep their weight down. That’s according to charity Rathbone Cymru, which found 68 per cent of a group of 14- to 21-year-olds they spoke to smoke - with 80 per cent of these

  • Caerphilly council warden joins patrol

    A NEW community safety warden has begun working for Caerphilly council. Jenna Baldwin will undertake uniformed patrols of parks, playgrounds and estates in the local authority area. Community safety wardens work alongside police in providing support

  • Breton guests welcomed in Caerphilly

     AROUND 50 people from Brittany will be in Caerphilly county at the weekend as part of a twinning initiative. The visit marks the 21st year of exchanges between the Caerffili and District Twinning Association and people from the towns of Lannion

  • Newport's Gunter joins Reading

    NEWPORT'S Chris Gunter is heading back to the big time after he signed for Premier League new boys Reading yesterday in a £2.3m deal from Nottingham Forest. The move sees the Wales international right-back play in the English game’s top flight

  • Talks carry on over regeneration for British in Talywain

    TALKS are to continue over the future of The British in Talywain. At a meeting today behind closed doors, Torfaen council cabinet members agreed to continue negotiations with the Welsh government and HSBC bank on a joint venture to secure the reclamation

  • Newport pupil starts work by staying at school

    A NEWPORT student loves his school so much he doesn't want to leave. St Julian’s head boy Ryan Owen, should be waving goodbye to staff and pupils this summer after completing his A Levels. But the teenager, 18, will instead start a full-time

  • Newport's University to be 'dissolved' in merger

    NEWPORT’S University will be ‘dissolved’ and merged with the University of Glamorgan, the Minister for Education and Skills Leighton Andrews said today. In a statement this afternoon, the minister told of the: “need to dissolve the existing University

  • Pontypool RFC landed £400k bill after court battle

    PONTYPOOL RFC has been landed with an estimated £400,000 legal costs bill after losing its High Court bid for reinstatement to the Premiership. The club has fought valiantly for months against the Welsh Rugby Union's decision to drop it from a

  • Newport pupil starts work by staying at schoo

    A NEWPORT student loves his school so much he doesn't want to leave. St Julian’s head boy Ryan Owen, should be waving goodbye to staff and pupils this summer after completing his A Levels. But the teenager, 18, will instead start a full-time job

  • Businesses want looser EU ties

    Half of British businesses with a view on the country's future in the European Union want a 'looser' relationship with Brussels, a survey has shown. Only 12 per cent of members asked by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said they wanted the

  • NOW AND THEN: Woodward & Son, High Street, Blackwood

    LAST week we visited Woodward & Son, butchers, High Street, Blackwood, and received the following replies: ● Keith Richards, Pontnewydd: “This week’s ‘Now & Then’ photographs are of an old established butchers by the name of Woodward, who

  • Cuts in red tape 'saving millions'

    Savings to business from cuts in red tape have outweighed the costs of new regulation by more than £850m, the Government said today. Ministers said the one-in, one-out system, under which new regulations have to be offset by cuts elsewhere, was

  • Acas handling a third more cases

    More employers and staff are seeking help to resolve workplace disputes in a bid to avoid employment tribunals, according to the conciliation service. Acas said demand for its early dispute resolution service increased by a third over the past

  • Passport Office to move to Nexus House

    THE service that runs Newport passport office will move the office to Nexus House, Usk Way, it was confirmed today. The Argus revealed last month how the Identity and Passport Service was looking at two sites for its planned relocation of the Newport

  • Business Update is online

    Issue 129 of Business Update is online (follow the link at the top of this page). Inside you'll find stories from the following businesses and organisations: Parker and Co Accountants, St David's Hospice Care, EADS Foundation Wales, Packaging Services

  • Newbridge to get £100k regeneration cash from land sale

    CAERPHILLY council is set to release a further £100,000 to help with the continued regeneration of Newbridge. The local authority’s cabinet will today be recommended to approve transferring the money to the newly opened bank account of the Newbridge

  • From the Argus archive

    HERE is what was making the news in Argus 100, 50 and 25 years ago: * Baseball becomes a favourite Newport sport; * Hoppity the magpie steals jewellry in St Julians; * Risca councillor demands TV licences be because of poor reception. 100 YEARS

  • YOUR AM WRITES: Mohammad Asghar, AM for South East Wales

    BACK in 1964, during the build-up to the Tokyo Olympic Games, a 19- year-old boy of slight build was plucked from the bustling streets of Lahore, Pakistan. Known to his friends as Oscar, the boy was offered a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to

  • Coleg Gwent is ‘one of best in Wales’

     COLEG Gwent has shown itself to be among the best colleges in Wales, according to a recent inspection. Estyn, the Welsh education and training inspectorate, judged the college’s current performance as at least Good in every aspect. It

  • Cwmfelinfach pupils knit blankets for premature babies

    PUPILS from Cwmfelinfach Primary School have knitted 40 blankets for the special care baby unit in Newport. The seven to 11-year-olds were taught to knit by Wendy Brooks as part of the Enriched Curriculum. School staff decided to donate the

  • ‘Newport's university 'needs to merge to survive’

    THE University of Wales, Newport, cannot survive in the medium term without merging with other South Wales institutions. That’s the view of Professor Sir Steve Smith, who has completed an evaluation of higher education in southeast Wales. Mr Smith

  • Tax rebate email a scam

    I WAS hoping to warn your readers of an e-mail scam. I was sent an e-mail informing me that I was entitled to a tax refund of £84.75, a believable sum. The e-mail was addressed fromHMRevenue & Customs and had what appeared to be all the correct

  • Give Remploy staff a chance

    I WAS hugely disappointed with the Westminster coalition government’s decision to confirm the closure of five Remploy factories inWales, including those at Abertillery, Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil. We know from the last closure programme under

  • Pensioners’ needs in focus

    ONCE again the unthinking mob of great oratory, Parliament, do not consider the consequences of their actions. Remove bus passes for pensioners? Why not? At least I shall be able to use my car for the greater congestion of traffic on all roads

  • This evil a sign of the times

    So, the leader, ‘Parents Must Help’. Are we not living through the most unsettling moments in our history as a civilised community? The novel mentioned (Argus, July 9) equals the famous painting by Holbein with his hidden Death’s Head and sexual

  • We take pride in our buses - Newport Transport

    AT NEWPORT Transport we very much value feedback and suggestions from our customers and aim to use their comments to improve the way we operate our buses and services. We read with interest the comments made by some of your readers in relation

  • Thanks to all at Royal Gwent

    HAVING recently spent a week in the Royal Gwent Hospital I would like to say how wonderful all the members of staff were who I came into contact with, from the surgeons down to the porters. They get a lot of stick at times but I have no complaints

  • M4 inadequate as a gateway

    SO CLIVE Shakesheff (Letters, July 11) thinks that the main beneficiaries of the M4/ M48 are the companies across the West Country side of the bridges and theWAG should be spending money on creating jobs and not on the sorely-needed relief of the

  • Elderly should not pay cost

    OUR governance becomes more ludicrous and punitive for the British people by the day. To say our fiscal position is parlous, is an understatement. Three million are unemployed yet millions allowed into the country seeking benefits, perhaps work

  • Royal Gwent Hospital staff were fantastic

     I HAVE recently spent two weeks in the following major surgery, and after reading several very negative reports on our hospital I was quite anxious before being admitted. From the day I was admitted to the day I left, I cannot speak highly

  • Make effort in police commissioner vote

     I WAS very pleased to see that my recent letter (Argus, July 6) regarding the forthcoming election of Gwent’s first Police and Crime Commissioner attracted a response fromIan Johnston, an independent candidate for the newpost. Firstly, let

  • Newport museum isn’t big enough

    I AGREE with Steve Palmer (Letters, July 11); the museum is to be congratulated on its presentation. But the sad fact remains that Newport needs a larger museum than it has and much of its collection remains unseen. Some years ago I intended

  • Maindee police were my rescue heroes

    I’D LIKE to thank two wonderful policemen who came to help on July 4 in Maindee, Newport. I skidded on a wet mess of pasty that had been dropped. I went flying and landed on the pavement. A gentleman tried to help me up but I couldn’tmove. I was

  • Recruitment of Newport's head of fairness - not fair!

     IN SETTING up a Newport Council fairness commission, you would expect Labour at least to follow the principle of equal opportunities. Despite not yet receiving approval from both the council cabinet and the full council, it appears a chairman

  • Newport garden vandalism is despicable

     HOW lowand despicable can anyone get to vandalise someone’s garden when they have taken so much time and trouble to put on such a beautiful display for the pleasure of their neighbours and passers by and also to enter it in the best garden

  • Newport poppies are such a delight

    CAN I just say how beautiful the areas of natural flowers are on the road into Newport, past the old Sainsbury’s. The poppies are gorgeous and I almost wish I was stuck in more traffic on my way to work just to have a good look at the flowers!

  • EDITORIAL COMMENT: No excuse for abuse

     SPORT is an emotional business. Sports fans often behave in utterly irrational ways, far removed from how they behave in their day-today lives. So let’s give the benefit of the doubt to the Newport County fans who have driven the club

  • Tributes paid to Crumlin death crash biker

    THE family of the biker killed on the A467 near Llanhilleth on Saturday paid tribute to him today In a statement the family said: “Tragically on Saturday 14th July Allan John Woodland was killed whilst riding his motorbike to work at 5.45am

  • Gwent soldiers on Olympic guard duties

    GWENT soldiers, some of whom have only recently returned from Afghanistan , will be on guard duties at the Olympic Games, it was revealed yesterday. The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, who recruit from across South Wales and the borders, and Chepstow-based

  • Risca couple guilty of £93,000 benefit fraud

    A GWENT couple lied for years in order to swindle more than £93,000 in benefits they were not entitled to. Rachel Loisz and Richard Holland, both 40, cheated the Department for Work and Pensions out of £93,240.19 by lying about the fact they were

  • PEARLMAN SAYS: Chairman Blight has given his all for County

    Newport County are on the brink of revolution at board level and it’s incredibly sad that what could, and should, have been an amicable changing of the guard has descended into farce. As detailed in our exclusive story today, there remains a

  • Fleur de Lys man jailed for robbery of shop next door

    A VALLEYS man robbed the shop next door to his home by attacking a shop worker with a metal bar, a court heard yesterday. Aaron Jenkins, 23, of High Street, Fleur de Lys, was jailed for four years after admitting a single charge of robbery.

  • Blaenau Gwent only area in Wales to show fall in population

    BLAENAU Gwent is the only council area in Wales to have a smaller population now than it did ten years ago, Census figures reveal. While population decline in Torfaen and Caerphilly was reversed in the ten years to 2011, and the populations of

  • Caerleon prepare for Roman Spectacular

    A weekend of Roman re-enactment awaits visitors to Caerleon this August when Empire: A Roman Spectacular takes places in Caerleon Amphitheatre and the National Roman Legion Museum on Saturday, August 18, Sunday, August 19, between 11am and 5pm. Caerleon

  • Caldicot police sergeant nets publishing deal

     A SERVING police sergeant has signed a five-book deal to write a children’s fantasy series. Rich Pitman, of Caldicot, is preparing for the release of his first book entitled ‘Jimmy Threepwood and the Vale of Darkness’ in October after winning

  • Gwent rivals set for Cup clash

    CROSS Keys and Newport have been drawn in the same pool in next season’s British and Irish Cup – and will lock horns with Dean Richards’ Newcastle. The tournament has been extended to 32 clubs and will feature all 12 Principality Premiership outfits

  • Gwent foot and ankle treatment steps up a gear at new site

    GWENT patients needing foot and ankle treatment will in future be directed to the area's newest hospital, where a centre of excellence is being set up. All outpatient and surgical services relating to feet and ankles are now being provided in a

  • Ebbw Vale have high hopes for Sweet

    EBBW Vale are delighted that lock Ashley Sweet has agreed to stay as a Steelman but believe it’s a matter of time before he is leaving them to become a regional player. The 23-year-old has been one of the standout players at Eugene Cross Park over