A NEWPORT runner has been given the chance to follow in the footsteps of Britain's 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heroes. Christopher Slight, 34, of Newport, will take part in The National Lottery Anniversary Run at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
FOUR wines produced in Tintern were award winners in the English and Welsh wine of the year competition. Parva Farm Vineyard’s red Ty Coch and sparkling Dathliad both received silver medals and their rosé Bwythyn Rhosyn and sparkling rosé gained
A NEWPORT woman who was honoured with an MBE for her tireless charity work has celebrated her 101st birthday. Mary Courtney, of Aneurin Bevan Court, celebrated the milestone with a family party on Sunday, before joining her fellowresidents and
HOME Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz today spoke of his concern over the cost to the taxpayer of ousting former Gwent chief constable Carmel Napier. Gwent's police and crime commissioner (PCC) Ian Johnston disclosed in a letter to MPs
A LANDMARK Newport pub, whose landlord's impassioned letter calling for pride to be restored in the city centre struck a huge chord with our readers, has re-opened early today after queues built up outside. The Lamb pub, on Bridge Street, Newport
TORFAEN’S older people champion, Cllr Lewis Jones, is to write to Royal Mail backing a petition to get them to replace a post box in Abersychan. At a meeting of full council in Pontypool’s Civic Centre last week the council received a petition
THE acting chief executive of Caerphilly council Nigel Barnett was today suspended. Mr Barnett was arrested with former chief executive Anthony O’Sullivan earlier this week. They were both released on police bail yesterday. Cllr Harry Andrews
LAST week the UK coalition government set out for the first time its detailed public spending plans for 2015-16. Even though we knew it was looking to make £11 billion of savings, we had no idea where the axe would fall, until now. Our budget
LITERATURE fans will open an arts festival bursting at the seams with entertainment tomorrow to pay homage to master of horror Arthur Machen. They will kick off the weeklong Caerleon Festival to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Welsh
THREE years ago, Jan Rogers was living on borrowed time. Her lungs wrecked by the effects of cystic fibrosis, she had been told she had just months to live unless she had a transplant. When the call came in November 2010 she was housebound,
REGARDING the article 'Campaign to restore ancient rights of way' (Barry & District News, June 20). I have been using the Porthkerry Park right of way for over 50 years since moving to Barry in 1960. Firstly by walking and from the early
A NEWPORT man was jailed for 28 months after attempting to steal copper piping from a police ‘capture house’ set up to catch would-be burglars. Andrew Bullock, 38, of Byron Road, The Gaer, Newport, was arrested on November 2, 2012, following the
UPDATE: 2.22pm The missing Risca man with dementia has been found. A DEMENTIA sufferer is missing from his Risca home. Leonard Skyrme, 71, was last seen in Newport an hour ago. Mr Skyrme. who is 5ft 7ins tall and of thin build
ABERGAVENNY is staying open for business during next week’s Festival of Cycling. Organisers of the festival were keen to stress that in spite of some road closures on July 12 and 13, they hope the impact on the town will be limited. Barriers
A CHEPSTOW school devastated by a blaze two years ago will get a new infants building. On Tuesday Monmouthshire council’s planning committee unanimously gave the go-ahead for an extension at Thornwell Primary to begin. The school was gutted
AUSTRALIA v LIONS (Third Test decider, Saturday, KO 11.05) MARK Ring has backed the controversial decision to axe Brian O’Driscoll – but only because the legendary centre doesn’t fit in with the British and Irish Lions’ solitary game plan.
RE “Relief road is all about Cardiff” (July 2), from Mr Hoare, Llangynidr. I cannot agree with Mr Hoare, and would also assume that many people living in Cwmbran, Newport and Caerleon also disagree with him. When there is an accident on the
Re: Newport City Council demanding that the solicitor on Stow Hill removes the windows from his offices. Have any of these councillors walked down Griffin Street lately? I did one evening this week. The stench and decay is appalling. Take a
THIS weekend was the international lonely bouquet day as well as the race for life in North Field, Cwmbran. As a result we decided to join the occasion and leave a lonely bouquet for some lucky individual to brighten up their day. This will be
A GREENHALGH is quite wrong with his assertion that any motoring offences carry only financial penalties rather than penalty points on the offenders’ licenses. There have to be penalty points issued too, otherwise the rich and famous would be regularly
IT IS typical of the arrogance of our present prime minister that, despite a hundred years (plus) of colonial rule, our leader still has a lack of understanding of the social structure of the countries that we hope to do business with. David
I FIND the idea of MPs having a pay rise to £70,000 a year while the rest of Britain is in the middle of a recession and putting a cap on benefits and public sector workers appalling. I have said I would stand at the next election, but for £70,000
THE Prince tried his hand at being a sci-fi baddie during a visit to the BBC’s studios in Cardiff yesterday. Using a microphone plugged into a voice modulator, he uttered the Daleks’ famous “exterminate’’ catchphrase – leaving the show’s writer
IS IT TIME to draw a line under the Carmel Napier/Ian Johnston saga? Since the Argus first revealed that Gwent’s former chief constable was effectively forced out of her job by the police and crime commissioner, the pair have made headline news
A NEWPORT businesswoman had her handbag and phone stolen while she was at work, with the thief withdrawing £1,000 from her account. The theft happened at Heaven Sent day spa on Clytha Park Road. Police would like to speak to a man seen on CCTV
A TEENAGER saw a young mum looking “paranoid” the evening before a fire which killed her, her baby daughter and her mum, a court heard. The jury in the trial of Carl Mills were shown a video of a police interview with a teenage boy who described
NEWPORT County AFC and the Supporters Trust, in association with businessman Iftekhar Haris, have announced they are launching a Newport County festival. The event, set for July 21, will be an all-day affair featuring three stages of talent and
GWENT’S police and crime commissioner Ian Johnston described claims he bullied the former chief constable as “nonsense”. He denied storming out of a meeting where he asked Carmel Napier to retire and revealed to the Argus that the amount of money
FOLLOW our live coverage from Newport Crown Court today for the trial of Carl Mills who is charged with the murder of three generations of the Buckley family in Cwmbran FOLLOW live coverage from our reporter Ruth Mansfield. Tweets by @
The Prince of Wales told parents, teachers and dignitaries yesterday that an Ebbw Vale charity “warmed the cockles of his heart”. Education reporter EMMA MACKINTOSH was there. CROWDS of flag-waving children cheered yesterday afternoon as The Prince
ONE in eight four- and five-year-olds in Gwent is obese, shock new figures reveal. Public Health Wales’ child measurement programme shows that more than a quarter of children in this age group in the area are either overweight or obese. The
THE last two Saturday mornings have been tough. The pain of watching the British and Irish Lions with your afternoon and evening mood shaped by a pair of kicks at goal. The despair of seeing Leigh Halfpenny’s effort fall short was made all
BRIAN O’Driscoll has done many great things over his career and now the legendary centre has debunked the myth that nationality doesn’t matter when it comes to the British and Irish Lions. Some would like to think that we are all in this together
FROM wirelesses to microwaves ovens, gramaphones to iPods, electrical retailer John Beard has seen a lot of change in nearly 50 years, but after almost five decades, one of Chepstow’s last independent retailers is shutting up shop. John Beard,
AUSTRALIA v LIONS (Third Test Decider, Saturday, KO 11.05) NEWPORT Gwent Dragons star Toby Faletau has been backed to shine on his British and Irish Lions Test debut in Saturday’s winner-takes-all game against Australia. After missing out all
FLANKER George Smith has been recalled to the Australia team to face the British and Irish Lions in the third and final Test in Sydney. The 32-year-old, currently playing for the Brumbies on loan from Japanese side Suntory, stepped down from international
AN INQUISITIVE male swan took to crossing a road to look at its own reflection in a bus stop. The swan lives on Llantarnam Ponds in Cwmbran and has been spotted by office workers crossing Llantarnam Park Way to inspect the bus stop while the pen
