WELSH boxer Fred Evans booked a date with Egidijus Kavaliauskas in the Olympic welterweight division’s last 16 and immediately warned the Lithuanian to forget their last encounter. In perhaps the loudest atmosphere of the Olympics so far, Evans
ONCE again GB's opening goal was crafted in Wales as Great Britain's 3-1 win over the United Arab Emirates - their first Olympic victory since 1960 - sent them top of Group A. Captain Ryan Giggs fed Tom Cleverley and continued motoring into the
ELENA Allen admitted the occasion got the better of her as she limped out of the London 2012 Olympics – but she called on her fellow British shooters to rise to it at the Royal Artillery Barracks. Newport-based Allen, 40, has already sampled the
TEAM GB women’s Olympic football coach Hope Powell has thanked the Welsh fans for cheering her team on to the quarter-finals. Powell’s side cruised to a 3-0 win over Cameroon in their second match at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
A VALLEYS club is set to get a new lease of life after it was handed over to the local rugby club. Llanhilleth Workingmen's Club has remained empty since the club stopped trading in January last year. The boarded up building has suffered vandalism
OH Danny Boyle, you delivered. Brash, ballsy, British. You took that twee Downton Abbey world and blew it up with fireworks, drumming, suffragettes, unions, pearly kings and queens, nurses, children in pyjamas, Grime-loving teenagers in clubs
PEOPLE living at the southern end of Ebbw Vale were deprived of the chance to watch the Olympic Games opening ceremony due to a power cut. Liz Powell, of Garden City, said electricity supplies were lost around 9.30pm on Friday night and she had
ONLY around 700 passengers used the Ebbw Valley railway line bus link in the first few months of its operation, the Argus has learned. Newport West AM Rosemary Butler said the figures for the Rail Linc bus from Rogerstone to Newport railway station
THE most vulnerable people in society would be hit by the closure of Caerleon's only bank, the leader of Newport council said. Labour's Bob Bright has added to the howls of protest over the move by HSBC to shut its Backhall Street branch on November
MAN was ordered not to be drunk and disorderly in a public place. Roy Webb, 53, of Llanvair Road, Newport, has been issued with an interim anti-social behaviour order which prevents him from engaging in a range of offensive conduct. The
A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl is to embark on a journey to a hospital on the other side of the world after Gwent people helped raise £35,000 in a bid to give her the gift of sight. Next Wednesday Olivia Francis will fly with her mother Gemma Lacey
THE number of hospital units in Gwent for older people with a mental illness that is not dementia, will be cut from four to two under proposals from Aneurin Bevan Health Board. The idea is to be publicly consulted upon, as part of plans for the
