GRIMSBY Town gained a crucial psychological advantage over Newport County AFC ahead of their play-offs showdown with a comfortable 3-0 win over the Exiles. The two sides will meet again at Blundell Park in the first leg of their play-offs semi-final
A TRIO who beat up a man in Newport city centre over an alleged £800 debt were handed 400 hours’ community service. Stuart Morgan, 22, grabbed and attacked Andrew Morris outside Wilkinson off Commercial Street on March 5, Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court
CONTROVERSIAL comic Jim Davidson used his Cwmbran show to launch an attack on police and the criminal justice system following his arrest over historic sexual abuse allegations. Davidson was at the Congress Theatre in the town on Wednesday evening
COULD a new Welsh Government commission lead to a cut in the number of the nation's councils? Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones has established a new commission looking at how public services are governed and delivered. Its remit is yet to
SIX hundred people were vaccinated with the MMR jab in the first hour of three Gwent clinics on Saturday. Aneurin Bevan health board chiefs were urging anyone needing the vaccination to go to the Nevill Hall Hospital outpatients' site clinic where there
FAMILY members of a well-known man in the Pill community held his funeral on his birthday as a tribute to him. Trevor Stagg, who had learning difficulties, would always ask everyone to his birthday, his brother Martin said, so his large family
TWO sites proposed for Gipsies and travellers are unworkable, according to Newport council officers. A team of councillors had proposed Brickyard Lane, Allt-yr-Yn, be allocated in the local development plan (LDP) as a contingency residential site
LEO Dixon’s Newport family have just one wish - that one day with the help of pioneering surgery in America the two-year-old will take his very first steps. But that dream is £60,000 away and while the family have worked tirelessly to raise just
AS YOU read this we’ll be on the way up to Grimsby for the last game of the regular Conference season and it could be a bit of a phoney war because we might be making the same trip again for a play-offs semi-final in a few days. It’s one of those
GRIMSBY v COUNTY (Today, KO 5.15) NEWPORT County AFC captain David Pipe says the players owe it to the club’s long suffering fans to give it everything they’ve got in pursuit of promotion. The Exiles head to fellow contenders Grimsby Town for
AT first glance the fight record of Robin Krasniqi is enough to make Nathan Cleverly fans exceedingly worried ahead of their world title showdown tonight (10.15pm start). With a record of 38 successive victories spanning seven years, the Germany-based
RODNEY Parade will next season have a playing surface fit for the Premier League, the Exiles believe. The planned pitch improvements will begin this month, on April 29, with the contract going to the same firm who look after the playing surfaces
