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  • Hundreds descend on castle food festival

    CALDICOT Castle staged the biannual Monmouthshire Food Festival over the weekend.Hundreds of foodies descended on the old castle grounds on Saturday and Sunday to flavour a variety of stalls and to see cooking demonstrations from some very fine chefs.The

  • Treadmill marathon raises money for brave Risca boy

    A TREADMILL marathon raised more than £800 for a nine-year-old muscular dystrophy sufferer earlier this month.The event on May 16 was held in aid of Aaron Stephens, from Risca, who was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a debilitating and painful

  • Circus hopeful needs your help

    A PONTYPOOL teenager needs your help so that he can run away to join the circus.Oliver Park, known as Ollii, has accepted a place at one of the top circus schools based in Holland.But now he needs the public’s support to get there.He explained: “I recently

  • Caldicot choir's pedal power raises funds for youngster

    CALDICOT Male Voice Choir took part in an eight-hour cycling fundraiser today to raise money for Sparkle and for a local girl who suffers from a rare condition. Around 50 cyclists took part in a two-mile circular loop around Redwick between 8am

  • Met Office warns of high winds in Gwent

    HIGH winds are expected in parts of Gwent over the next couple of days, the Met Office has warned. A severe "yellow warning" of wind has been issued for Wales tomorrow and continuing into Tuesday as a result of a powerful jet stream stretching

  • Newport's Big Splash pulls in the crowds

    NEWPORT’S Big Splash pulled in the crowds over the weekend as the weather brightened up. The three day festival, which ran from Friday until yesterday, featured street theatre, live music, cabaret performances and indoor cinema screenings.

  • Tournament a success to raise funds for Torfaen teacher

    OVER 500 people turned out to support a seven-a-side football tournament in Cwmbran to raise funds for a popular Torfaen teacher who suffered a double stroke. Organisers hope to have raised around £3,000 from the event held in Cwmbran on Saturday

  • Quad biker injured in Newport crash

    UPDATE: 4.45PM A spokesman for Wales Air Ambulance confirmed that a helicopter from Swansea attended the scene. It left at 3.40pm and arrived at the hospital at 3.47pm   UPDATE: 4.30PM A spokeswoman for The Welsh Ambulance Service

  • Supreme Selby deserves all the plaudits: Ringside report

    DAZZLING, stunning, spectacular, fantastic, we are fast running out of superlatives to use about Lee Selby’s IBF featherweight world title win over Evgeny Gradovich as London’s O2 Arena. On a night where British boxing received a huge shot in the

  • Missing Cwmbran woman found

    MISSING Cwmbran woman Hayley Jacobs has been found safe and well. Gwent Police issued an appeal on Friday after Ms Jacobs, 32, had gone missing from her home in Cwmbran. She had been last seen at Cwmbran Train Station on Wednesday, May 27 at

  • Ian Woosnam in contention at Celtic Manor

    IAN Woosnam wore the steely look of a gladiator as he conquered the Roman Road course with a best-of-the week 66 yesterday to march purposefully into contention for his first title on Welsh soil for 32 years and a transatlantic double in the space