LLANELLI 41 NEWPORT 17 NEWPORT suffered another away-day to forget at the western end of the M4, going down to Llanelli in their last league game of the season by five tries to two at Parc y Scarlets. After losing to bottom club Swansea it
GWENT runners enjoyed the thrills and spills of this year's London Marathon, not letting what happened in Boston's equivalent overshadow the event. A huge police presence reassured the 36,000 runners and spectators, after three people were killed
ADD another observation to the ever-growing list of comparisons between Joe Calzaghe and Nathan Cleverly. Undefeated, Welsh, from Gwent, trained by their fathers, possibly the best British fighters of their respective generations and now similarly
BRIDGEND 30 CROSS KEYS 38 CROSS Keys director of rugby Jonathan Westwood predicts a bright future for flanker Scott Matthews after his accomplished performance in their bonus point victory. The Wales Under-18s back rower shone in a superb team
PONTYPOOL 23 NARBERTH 22 PONTYPOOL RFC survived a late scare to hold off Narberth and claim their fifth win in their last six Swalec Championship games, writes Will Bain. They did it the hard way, mind. With the visitors trailing by just
A NEWPORT teen author who recently signed a three book publishing deal with Random House is having her first book released. The paperback of Beth Reekles' book, The Kissing Booth, will be published tomorrow. The Bassaleg School pupil signed a three
GRIMSBY 3 COUNTY 0 TOP scorer Aaron O’Connor didn’t travel to face Grimsby Town on Saturday and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the rest of the Newport County AFC team didn’t turn up either. County crashed to a 3-0 defeat just days before
MORE THAN 1,600 children, teenagers and young adults were immunised against measles in Gwent over the weekend. Aneurin Bevan Health Board’s head of planning and civil contingencies Wendy Warren said the death of a man in Swansea suffering from
IT was described as an "historic" day for Welsh football, with Newport officially becoming the cradle in which our future sporting talent is nurtured on Saturday. The importance of the new £5 million Dragon Park, Spytty, was summed up by the presence
THE blame-throwing in this south Wales measles epidemic is so pointless. So who really is to blame - those who produced the flawed science which led to fears over the MMR vaccine in the 1990s? Those who reported it in good faith, including the
A suspected fraudster is carrying out unauthorised door to door cash collections in the name of the beleaguered Pill Millennium Centre. The secretary of Pill Millennium Trust says she is "absolutely devastated" after it emerged someone has been
Congratulations to Torfaen Council for the recent unveiling of their Armed Forces Covenant. I was pleased to be able to sign up to the covenant, along with the Leader of the Council Bob Wellington, our AM Lynne Neagle and our ‘Armed Forces Champions
THE annual parade in memory of perhaps Cwmbran’s greatest war hero was given extra signifiance this year with the unveiling of a new £4,000 headstone on his grave. Rorke’s Drift hero John Williams, known as John Fielding, was awarded the Victoria
AH, the school summer holidays... six weeks of long lie-ins, sunshine, and doing nothing much at all, apparently. But for how much longer? That nasty Michael Gove, education secretary in the UK Government, believes kids have too much time off in
MONMOUTHSHIRE council is changing rapidly but needs to be more consistent and balanced in how it accounts for its own performance. That was the view of the Wales Audit Office (WAO) which released its annual improvement report for the council on
LITTER is being cleared from lay-bys between Abergavenny and Newport. Work has begun to clear litter that has been dumped along the A449 and A40 towards the Coldra junction following complaints from residents. Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay said the
