A VALLEYS man who won a national award for his volunteering with victims of crime has criticised Usk Prison for allowing prisoners to watch violent and sexually violent films. Warren Lewis, 65, from Pontypool, who received the Victim Support volunteer
OWNERS and leaseholders of little-used and redundant buildings in rural Monmouthshire may benefit from a grant of up of £30,000. Funded by the Welsh Government’s Rural Development Plan for Wales, the Rural Conversion Grant Scheme will support the
A NEWPORT medical centre is celebrating its £265,000 expansion, in what it hopes will be the first step on the road to creating a "health village" in the area. The expansion and renovation at St Brides Medical centre in Duffryn will allow the surgery
A DEAL that will see part of a European patent court come to the UK will create new opportunities in Newport, according to the prime minister. David Cameron, writing to Newport West MP Paul Flynn, said an agreement on a European unified patent
ORGANISERS of one of the UK’s oldest river races is using the internet to enable entrants to sign up for the first time in its 47-year history. Monmouth Rotary Club is hoping that enabling people to sign up via the internet will help them reach
5.30pm FOLLOWING a search of the Usk, firecrews found the ‘jumper’ to be a toy doll. But at 4.41 fire control received the message that one toy doll had been recovered from the river, with a spokesman confirming the doll was back on dry land
A JOINT tenant and councillor group will be set up to monitor the progress of the £20m Caerphilly council investment in the authority’s housing stock for this year. Since tenants voted to keep the council as their landlord, they have continued
Gwent Police are appealing for help after an armed robbery in Newport on Saturday. At around 9.45pm a man entered the Sovereign Stores on Corporation Road and threatened a member of staff with a knife and demanded money from the till and cigarettes
A TORFAEN councillor will mount a challenge tomorrow at the full council meeting about the recent cabinet decision to expand Gipsy and Traveller sites in the borough. Cwmynyscoy Neighbourhood Action Group (CwmNAG) have the support of their local
REFERRING to the horrific actions of James Holmes, seeking notoriety in Aurora, America, including all the sophisticated system of booby trap explosives left in his flat, as a final way to attack the police and bomb disposal experts, if they
TORFAEN Friends of the Earth are delighted that the Welsh Assembly Govern-ment has announced that it is to introduce a National Pollinator Action Plan. Throughout this summer Torfaen FOE, in partnership with the Campaign for the Protection
A RECENT BBC television programme asked “How happy are you with your life?” A loaded question, if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the Welsh Valleys fared particularly badly: too many youngsters without jobs. That’s why Carwyn Jones needs
RESPONDING to Ian Johnston’s letters of July 24 and July 25 and your news item ‘Top Tory recommends support’ for the candidacy of this particular ex-policeman as a commissioner – is he soliciting finance in this venture? Would this not adversely
COUNCILLOR Dix campaigned for a supermarket development to the south of Blackwood, which helped him get elected as county councillor. Lately there have been doubts by local shopkeepers in Blackwood over these new plans. Frankly, I share their
TWO hundred and four national teams are taking part in the Olympic Games. But not Wales. We have to be content with having our identity absorbed into a so called ‘Team GB.’ Thirty Welsh people are taking part in the games, I wish them all luck
FIFTY drums, some containing oil, were found washed up on the Newport shoreline at the weekend. Around ten 200 litre drums were found at Nash beach on Friday (27 July) and another 40 were found at Newport Dock on Sunday. One of the drums
MONMOUTHSHIRE’S green waste could be transported out of the county for up to six months after the firm it normally uses was banned from taking it in. The Environment Agency served a notice on Wormtech last week after E.coli and salmonella was found
Another way, with Credit Unions JUST switch on the television or open a newspaper and sooner or later, you will see an advertisement for a loan company. Very often, these companies will tell you how easy it to borrow money and that you do not
A 90-YEAR-OLD had a lucky escape after falling down 11 concrete steps – but then had to wait an hour and a half for an ambulance. Wilfred Riding, from Caerleon, who will turn 91 on August 9, was enjoying the sunshine last Tuesday, sitting in his
IT DOES not surprise us one iota that the bus link connecting Rogerstone station to Newport city centre is attracting so few passengers. Put simply, it is not what people want. And, in our view, the lack of support for it should not be
Thousands of people visited Abergavenny’s Shire Horse Show at the weekend. ANDY RUTHERFORD reports. ALL horses great and small graced Abergavenny’s Bailey Park at the 30th SouthWales Shire Horse Society show. The event, popular with horse fans
THE developer of a project which will see a new community built to the east of Newport said it’s pleased a proposed incinerator failed to get planning permission. Nick Alexander, of St Modwen, said a waste burner at Llanwern Steelworks would have
A VALLEYS DJ is in with a chance of playing for Radio 1 in Ibiza alongside some of the industry's biggest names. Jonathan Miles from Tredegar was on The Chris Moyles Show this morning with five other hopefuls who are competing for the dream prize
NEWPORT County AFC manager Justin Edinburgh is hoping for two big fitness boosts this week as the build-up to the new season steps up a gear. County host a Swansea City XI at Rodney Parade tomorrow night before welcoming back Sam Foley as Yeovil
A CHEPSTOW chip shop is celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Welsh Language Society by adopting bilingual signs. Beaufort Square Chip Shop put up the bilingual signs on Saturday and believe it is the first Welsh language shop as you enter Wales
PLANS to build 74 homes on the site of a former school in Cwmbran were approved by Torfaen Council ’s Planning Committee. Committee members agreed to the proposed residential development on the former Hollybush School, Ton Road in Cwmbran, which
A FIRE has been burning since just after 10pm last night at the landfill site on Docksway in Newport. A call was received by the fire service last night with regard to the fire at the Newport City Council , landfill site. Fire crews from Maindee
GWENT rock band Feeder lit up the night sky at a festival in Ebbw Vale held over the weekend. The Steelhouse Festival held at Hafod-y-Dafal farm gave three days of rock classics to audiences, with many taking the opportunity to camp over the weekend
RYAN Giggs insisted it made no difference whether or not Great Britain's Welsh players sang the national anthem at the Olympics after helping make Games history. The 3-1 victory over UAE at Wembley was Team GB's first of London 2012 and therefore
A FORMER chapel in Abergavenny is to become an art gallery. The Bethany Baptist Chapel in Market Street was last used by community recycling project ‘Homemakers’ when it leased the building from the Welsh Development Agency until it was sold in
LOTTERY multi-millionaire Les Scadding has joined the board at Newport County AFC and has urged people to follow his lead in order to help the Exiles complete their march back to the Football League. Scadding made headline news across the world
