THE FAMILY of one of Wales’ greatest ever rugby players have said they feel "betrayed" by Newport rugby club, after memorabilia they loaned to the club, with an estimated insurance valuation of around £250,000, went missing. The first Welsh rugby
WALES' education minister says he can't see why a planned super-university merger that would see Newport university dissolved should result in redundancies. Leighton Andrews, speaking to the Argus, reiterated that he didn't expect mergers to result
A STRIKE of toll collectors on the Severn bridges planned for Friday has been averted after union officials came to an agreement with the firm that runs the crossings. Toll collectors with Unite union had voted to strike in a row over changes to
SURELY by now the council, police or media should have noticed how the hanging baskets at the top of Station Road in Chepstow are very low. Good job it’s not a wet summer or everyone would complain when the baskets touched water on their clothes
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I AGREE with past correspondents that the bus station should be moved to Cambrian Road and not where it is at present. A bus station should adjoin a railway station along with a taxi rank. I get the impression from the silent councillors, past
MR ASHTON’S letter (August 20) reminds me of a recent evening when I joined a party of eight to dine and socialise at a well-known restaurant. Loud music was being played. We asked if the music might be turned down, which it was. Some minutes later
NOW that the euphoria of our wonderful Olympic Games is on the wane, with the sponsors counting their profits, the winning medallists watching their bank balances and egos inflate with the possibility of a Queen’s honour thrown in, and as we stick
IT SEEMS that the article regarding the opening of the new Freestyle Skatestore in Cwmbran (August 9) has been misunderstood as a story about us shutting in Newport. This is simply not the case. We are opening a shop in Cwmbran while remaining
THE penny has dropped, heard on air, reported in the Argus (August 16), Ian Johnston now knows, it takes more than a copper or two (even ex) to fund a political candidature. Carefully concealing chagrin and motivations, says he wants public funding
FOLLOWING letters I have had published by the Argus, a number of other letters have also been published with some fears and doubts about the proposed presumed consent of the organ donation bill by the Welsh Assembly. As none of the AMs have the
A GWENT council is proposing to plant thousands of trees in an effort to improve the environment. Newport council's "green lung" programme could see 2,000 trees – 400 a year – planted in the city over the next five years. The authority's cabinet
FOODBANKS in Gwent handed out over 22,194 meals to more than 2,000 crisis-hit people in the last year. The emergency food parcels, which amounts to £18,284 and contained nine meals of dried food per person, enough for three days, were
MORE new companies were set up in Gwent in the second quarter of the year than in the same period in all previous years on record, new figures show. Information registered with Companies House shows 261 companies were set up within the NP postcode
GWENT Police spent more than £700,000 on translators over the past six years. The force needed to employ translators for dozens of different languages in this time, including Welsh, and spent a total of £717,493. Translators are brought in
THE family of a Valleys teenager have paid tribute to a "kind and loving son." Joshua Davies, 15, was found unconscious close to Elmwood Grove, Tredegar, at around 4.20pm on August 15. He was taken to Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil
A GROUP of Blackwood women are preparing to bare all as a theatre group in the town gets ready to stage Calendar Girls. Blackwood Little Theatre is staging its amateur production as part of a world record attempt. And as if stripping off with
ANDREW Coombs is challenging the adage that men can’t multi-task – the forward is heaping the pressure on his rivals at lock and in the back row. The 27-year-old has been one of the most prominent performers in Newport Gwent Dragons’ pre-season
COMPLAINTS relating to food hygiene, standards and infectious diseases have risen in Monmouthshire. During 2011-12, the county's Environmental Health Commercial team received a 69 per cent increase of notifications relating to food poisioning and
TALKS are under way between the Newport County AFC board and a consortium of businessmen led by Acorn managing director Matt Southall, the Argus can reveal. We first reported last month that a consortium was keen on becoming involved with the
THOUSANDS of visitors are expected to attend a two-day festival, held in memory of an Abergavenny soldier, over the Bank Holiday weekend. The Welsh Warrior Festival, held in Bailey Park, raises money for The Richard Hunt Foundation- a charity set
FLANKER Darren Waters has been ruled out of action for six months – one of three injury hammer blows to hit Newport Gwent Dragons ahead of the new season. He will be joined on the sidelines by centre Adam Hughes and wing Matthew Pewtner after they
