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  • U21s: Wales 3 Bulgaria 1

    THE under-21s kept the feel-good factor going for Welsh football as they started their Euro 2017 qualifying campaign with a comfortable home win over Bulgaria. After watching Gareth Bale and the senior national team outclass Israel in Haifa on

  • Newport car firm raises more than £2,000 for hospice

    STAFF and customers at a Newport car dealership have helped to raise more than £2,000 for St David’s Hospice Care. The £2,001 was raised by Wessex Garages in Newport Retail Park throughout 2014. Paul Edwards, general manager at the dealership

  • CWMBRAN BABY MURDER TRIAL: Round-up of today's evidence

    THE mother of a six-week-old baby allegedly murdered by her grandfather told a court he phoned her while she was on a night out saying "she's not breathing, I can't get her to breathe." Amelia Rose Jones had been left in grandfather Mark Jones'

  • £150k renovation for ‘haunted’ pub

    A COUPLE have taken over a 15th century pub in Torfaen which is reportedly haunted. Paul and Sallie Adams bought the Horse & Jockey in Usk Road, Pontymoile, to be nearer to their son Ross who works as a sound engineer on Doctor Who in Wales

  • BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Change is happening but jobs are the key

    Since the steelworks at Ebbw Vale closed more than a decade ago, tens of millions of pounds have been spent in transforming the site and in trying to change the fortunes of the town. But a big injection of new jobs is now needed to back up that investment

  • Plaid Cymru leader launches party's election manifesto

    THE May 7 election offers voters in Wales an "unprecedented" opportunity to influence the direction of government policy if Plaid Cymru holds the balance of power, the party's leader Leanne Wood has said. Launching her party's manifesto in Bangor

  • Robbie Willmott's season 'could be over'

    NEWPORT County AFC have admitted that star man Robbie Willmott could have played his last game for the club. The 24-year-old has been a key performer for the Exiles for the past two years but has not featured since the defeat at Stevenage on March

  • Jealous Newport man hit ex-wife's lover with pool cue

    A JEALOUS Newport man has avoided jail after battering his wife's ex-boyfriend with a pool cue. Stephen Williams, of Heather Road, admitted wounding with intent when he left his love rival with a 5cm gash on his head, exposing his skull. Williams

  • My apology

    I APPEARED on the BBC’s Big Questions programme on March 1 and accused Paul Flynn MP of being hypocritical for spending time writing books and making money from those books despite saying that MPs shouldn’t have second jobs. In fact, Mr Flynn has

  • Not patriotic

    A PREVIOUS Labour Chancellor, Gordon Brown MO once said: ‘British jobs for British people’ and yet the Labour-controlled Welsh Assembly is going to spend nearly £5million (Argus, March 18) on ground preparation work so that Aldi supermarkets, from

  • Market open

    THE ever popular Country Market in the Conservative Club in Usk opened its doors for the first time this season on Thursday and welcomed a great number of customers, old and new. At our recent AGM, we were delighted to welcome Ann Bowyer as our

  • Compensation

    HOW tragic that little Colin Smith died after he was infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood products in hospital. (March 25.) Some 34,000 patients in Britain were infected with these, mainly because the blood was brought in from

  • Longer pause?

    I MUST compliment Newport Council on the new traffic layout on the Pill side of the George Street bridge; the work done now allows traffic turning right off the bridge to run more smoothly, and safely. One thing, though, during the work, the pause

  • Vernon Kay and Ronan Keating join Celtic Manor line-up

    STARS Vernon Kay and Ronan Keating are the latest to join teams at the Celtic Manor’s Celebrity Cup. The event running from July 4-5 will see golf played between teams of celebrities representing England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales at the resort

  • Newport solar farm set for green light

    PLANNING permission to build a 22-acre solar farm in Llanmartin is set to get the go-ahead after originally being refused in October last year.The proposed development would see rows of solar panels laid out on farmland north of Court Farm in Magor Road.The

  • Strong winds batter Gwent

    STRONG winds battered Gwent and much of the UK last night causing problems on the roads. The Met Office recorded top wind speeds of 55mph in Newport at 1am on Monday night while across the country winds as high as 65-70 mph battered exposed locations

  • YOUR AM WRITES: Newport West AM Rosemary Butler

    I AM pleased that the landmark Violence Against Women (Wales) Bill was passed earlier this month by the National Assembly for Wales, becoming the first UK legislature to do so. The ‘Cross the Line’ film has been launched to raise awareness of the subtle