OLYMPIC cycling medal hopefuls including the ladies pursuit team were back at Newport's Velodrome today. The Team GB squad, including favourites Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton, arrived in the city last week to put the finishing touches to
PUPILS from two local schools are among the first to sign up to the St Anne's Hospice welly walk. The youngsters from Malpas Church in Wales Junior School and Thornwell Primary School, Chepstow, have pledged to tackle the five mile route across
MANAGER Justin Edinburgh believes the Exiles are on track as they reach half time in their preparations for the new campaign. The Exiles can now look forward to four successive home friendlies after four away ones following Saturday’s 3-1 reverse
RESCUE teams searching for a pensioner who went missing from a Pontypool hospital three weeks ago recovered a body from a Gwent river today. Members of the Severn Area Rescue Team made the discovery in the Afon Llywd River near Pontypool at 1.45pm
AN ABERGAVENNY primary school has finished top of the class after its work in PE received a glowing report. Gilwern Primary School was awarded the ActiveMarc Cymru, which endorses schools that are committed to developing high quality physical education
A "PROFESSIONAL con man" took a bride-to-be's wedding car to be valeted, only to vanish with it on the eve of her big day. Helena Morgan, 47, took up the offer of her friend, Paul Paget, to valet her car as a wedding gift, Cardiff Crown Court heard
THE first foodbank in Monmouthshire has provided more than 350 emergency meals in its first month. Volunteers at Abergavenny Foodbank, which the 16th such operation in Wales and the fifth in Gwent, took delivery of over two-tonnes of food donations
AN ANCIENT malt house and adjoining former Thai restaurant in Monmouth are to go under the auctioneer’s hammer. The three-storey building at 10-14 St Mary Street, which most recently traded as the Dragons Den Thai restaurant has a guide price of
A GROUP of budding filmmakers from Ebbw Vale will be given the chance to work alongside industry professionals thanks to £27,973 of lottery funding. The project, co-ordinated by the Ebbw Vale and District Trust, will see 75 teenagers, who are not
HOME favourite Justyn Hugh stopped champion Jeff Evans to win the Welsh light-heavyweight title at the Newport Centre. Pontypool's Evans was ahead on the referee's scorecard after seven rounds but midway through the eighth Hugh unleashed a
