GARETH Bale has his eyes on further Wales improvement after they rounded off a successful Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win over Andorra. Bale scored the second after Aaron Ramsey had opened the scoring six minutes into the second half
ONCE again Wales concluded a qualifying campaign with a meaningless match – but this time a full house at the Cardiff City Stadium was delighted with that. This time it was different for Chris Coleman’s men. This was an occasion that was resolutely
WAITS of more than 36 weeks from referral to treatment for Gwent patients reached a new high during August, and have increased by 65 per cent in just five months. By August 31, 4,308 patients from Gwent had been waiting longer than 36 weeks, the
HATE crimes in Gwent have risen by nine per cent in the past year figures revealed today as part of National Hate Crime Awareness Week.The Home Office figures revealed an 18 per cent rise in hate crimes recorded by police forces across England and Wales
A CAR wash to raise funds for a Cwmbran mother who was denied access to a life-extending form of cancer drugs have raised £265. Deri Groves, 50, and his wife Michelle have been busy raising funds for their neighbour Carolyn Davies, 47. They
A HOMEOWNER has criticised a social landlord for converting a three-bedroom house into shared accommodation amid what he perceives as a housing shortage for families. Cwmbran dad-of-four John Day, 68, spoke out after Bron Afon turned a house next
REVISED plans for 209 homes on the former paper mill site in Sudbrook have been submitted to Monmouthshire council's planning department. Harrow Estates plc acquired the site in March 2011 and now propose to build 209 homes on the 10.7 hectares
AN elderly cyclist who was left permanently brain damaged following a road accident died two years later as a result of his injuries, an inquest found today. Retired engineer Ralph Williams, 76, from Blackwood, was riding a pedal bike when he was
A MAN standing trial for a string of alleged indecent assaults abused a young girl on more than one occasion, a court heard. Robert Wood, of Caerleon Road, Newport, allegedly abused the girl when she was under 10 years old, Newport Crown Court
A BACKBENCH councillor is to call on town hall chiefs to ban Chinese lanterns in Torfaen. Colette Thomas warned that the sky lanterns could cause fire risks to agriculture and hazardous waste sites and endanger the lives of animals. The Labour councillor
A LABOUR back-bench AM alleges she has been sacked from a committee for speaking out against the Welsh Government’s M4 relief road plans. Jenny Rathbone AM, who represents Cardiff Central, says she was dismissed from the role of chair of the All
THE death of an elderly retired government officer was accidental, an inquest found. 85-year-old Edith Rose Naden was taken to hospital on September 19 this year following a fall at her home in Monmouth. She suffered sustained bruising and
AN inquest was opened and adjourned today into the death of a pensioner who was seriously injured in a road accident in Newport in August. 75-year-old David Melvin Evans died at the Royal Gwent Hospital on September 3 this year, less than a month
ROB Howley has no doubt that Wales are battle-hardened and ready for the latest punishing instalment of their demanding Rugby World Cup schedule on Saturday.After facing England and Australia, games that were sandwiched by a bruising encounter against
WALES prop Gethin Jenkins wants to continue his 13-year Test career beyond the Rugby World Cup.Jenkins, who will be 35 next month, has already spoken with Wales head coach Warren Gatland about his international future.The Cardiff Blues forward has won
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons hooker Elliot Dee is poised for his first start in almost nine months in Glasgow on Friday while wing Tom Prydie could feature after receiving good news about his injured left knee. Dee came off the bench for the Rodney Parade
NEWPORT County AFC manager John Sheridan has further boosted his squad with the loan signings of Tommy O'Sullivan and Jazzi Barnum-Bobb from Cardiff City. Both Bluebirds youngsters should go straight into the squad to face Portsmouth at Rodney
POLICE are looking for a man after a break-in at a property on Court Crescent in Bassaleg, Newport. The incident occurred sometime between 5am and 6.10am on Sunday morning, October 11. A man described as being white, wearing a light coloured
POLICE are appealing for information after a mini jukebox was stolen from B&M Bargains in Abergavenny. The mini jukebox was stolen on the morning of Wednesday, October 7. If you have any information, please call 101 quoting log number 273
POLICE are appealing for information following the theft of a of a mini juke box from B&M Bargains in Abergavenny.The incident took place on the morning of Wednesday, October 7.If anyone recognises either of the individuals in this picture, or has any
SOUTH Africa ace Bryan Habana has vowed that Springboks won't repeat the mistakes that saw them downed in Cardiff when they lock horns with Wales on Saturday.Warren Gatland's men enjoyed a 12-6 victory when the sides met at the Millennium Stadium last
JAMES Hook has been backed to solve Wales' World Cup selection headache by starting in midfield for the first time in over four years in Saturday's quarter-final against South Africa.Warren Gatland is mulling over his options after wing Liam Williams
WALES coach Gareth Williams says Newport Gwent Dragons' Singha Premiership 7s winners have given him plenty of food for thought in Olympic year, writes Chris Kirwan.The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series starts in Dubai on December 4 and the shortened format
THE killer stepson of Usk poet, Anne Jackson, had his sentence for her murder cut by top judges today. Timothy Patrick Jackson, 49, killed his stepmother, who wrote under the name Anne Cluysenaar, with a kitchen knife at her home in Llantrisant
THE Monmouthshire and District National Eisteddfod local fund appeal have received £20,000 from Abergavenny Town Council towards the 2016 festival. The National Eisteddfod is to be held at Castle Meadows, Abergavenny from July 29 to August 6. All
The Welsh Labour Government’s plans for a new stretch of M4 are a costly mistake. Despite mounting evidence that the scheme is a slow, ineffective and expensive attempt to deal with the problem of the traffic bottleneck on the M4 around Newport, the Government
NOW that they have put the name Friars Walk up on the new shopping centre will the local police enforce this and keep the bikes off the main street when they are going the wrong way against the flow of traffic and on the pavement. They could start
ARGUS readers will be aware of the latest controversy over the new M4 road planned in Gwent (October 9, Argus) after the Labour Welsh government admitted it was spending a staggering £20m on preparation works, including consultation, in this financial
I NOW find the council (who keep telling us they are cutting back on street lighting) are replacing the new fluorescent lamps with LED lamps, (noticed Park Drive) these seem to use raw AC since the flicker is very bad. Also a keep left bollard has
MR Rout (Argus letters Oct 9) raised a number of questions illustrating shortcomings in our own society to argue against refugees being welcomed to Wales. The same argument has been made by other readers in several previous letters. I would ask
I WANT to welcome the decision of the Arts Council of Wales to support the community work at the Blackwood Miners’ Institute from 2016. I’m delighted that the work at the institute has been recognised by the arts council. This is a testament to
A PAIR of Blackwood wrestlers have graduated from the prestigious Florida Pro Wrestling Academy after going through the pain barrier in the heat of Tampa.Luke James and George Johnson were the first international trainees and also competed in The Malenko
ANDREW RT Davies AM (leader of the Welsh Conservatives) constantly attacks the Labour Party for its running of the NHS in Wales. His stance is hypocritical in that he is a member of a party whose government is hell bent on the dismantling and privatising
AS FLU season approaches Diabetes UK Cymru is recommending that your readers with diabetes take up the offer of a free flu jab from their GP. People with diabetes are considered a ‘high-risk group’ when it comes to getting flu. This is because
I CONCUR with Nigel Corten, Argus, October 8, regarding the traffic congestion outside the Royal Gwent Hospital, and its knock-on effect, deterring visitors thinking of coming into Newport when the new shopping precinct is opened. I contacted Newport
WELSH Conservatives have supported calls for a ban on the use of snares in Wales. Assembly members Russell George and Andrew RT Davies, who first championed a ban in the Senedd in March, this year, have joined the League Against Cruel Sports in
BEER giants SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev, who own Magor brewery, have "agreed in principle" on a £68 billion blockbuster tie-up to create the world's biggest drinks firm. Peroni and Grolsch group SABMiller is set to be taken over after tentatively
NEWPORT County AFC have announced that Saturday’s home clash with Portsmouth will not be moved to avoid a clash with Wales’ Rugby World Cup quarter-final. The League Two match at Rodney Parade will kick-off at 3pm, an hour before Warren Gatland
PLANS are afoot to open a waste centre able to process 100,000 tonnes of rubbish a year. The processing centre would be sited at the Nine Mile Point Industrial Estate in Greenmeadow Road, Wattsville, planning documents show. The production
Another British advance Gas and smoke devices used SIR John French’s report of Wednesday afternoon’s operations should do much to dissipate may of the rumours industriously circulated as to the actual positions occupied by the British troops
THE majority of people in Wales looked on in bemusement last week as England reacted to the carrier bag charge being introduced. “Plastic bags chaos looms” read one national newspaper headline while Twitter hashtag #plasticbagchaos began trending
AND so to the third of the WNO’s ‘Madness’ season that has moved from the bel canto of I Puritani to Handel’s Orlando and ended up in musical theatre with an acknowledged Sondheim masterpiece, here juxtaposing Todd’s insanity with that of society.
ON A DAY of sporting milestones for Wales, this evening of musical masterpieces most surely topped the lot. Starting dead on 7.30pm, Genesis founder member Steve Hackett was straight into his three-hour set broken into two distinct sections of
RICHARD Herring has previously fallen into the grumpy middle aged man category of comedians but the recent birth of his first child Phoebe has led him to examine the ephemeral nature of happiness in his 12th solo stand-up tour. Tales of nappy changing
ELI Walker has been called up to Wales’ World Cup squad to replace the injured Liam Williams. The Ospreys speedster was initially named in Warren Gatland's 31-strong squad for the tournament but suffered a hamstring injury. The 23-year-old
THE opening of the National Software Academy in Newport is good news for the city and for Wales as a whole. The academy was one of the key recommendations back in 2013 from the Re:Newport taskforce, headed by Professor Simon Gibson and aimed at
TWO cultivators of colossal vegetables from Gwent won a host of awards at the East of England giant vegetable competition last Sunday.Ian Neale, 72, of Magor Road, Langstone and Cwmbran resident Kevin Fortey, aided by his nine-year-old son Jamie Courtney-Fortey
AN EBBW Vale woman, who re-opened the town’s public toilets more than 18 months after a petition against their closure, has said the response has so far been “brilliant”. Tracey West decided to take over the running of the Ebbw Vale toilets when
FIREFIGHTERS from Newport's Maindee and Malpas stations dealt with a fire in the bedroom of a house on the city's Caerleon Road, shortly after 9pm last night.
MORE than 60 firefighters from across Gwent fought for two-and-a-half hours last night to bring under control a blaze at a building in Newport city centre. The fire, which was started deliberately, has severely damaged the three-storey property
LAST week we featured a picture of The Carnegie Library and Corporation Road Elementary Schools. The road in the foreground is Corporation Road with Milner Street branching off beyond the library and Hamilton Street is just in the bottom right
MUSEUM staff are set to begin a fresh round of strikes later this month after talks between union officials and management broke down. They have gone on strike several times this year to protest at plans to scrap premium payment for weekend working
THE potential impact of funding cuts to adult education services in Wales is “hugely worrying”, the country’s representative for older people has said.Speaking to BBC One’s Sunday Politics Wales, older people’s commissioner for Wales Sarah Rochira hit
Firefighters are currently dealing with a 'large fire' in a three storey building on Commercial Street in Newport. Crews from Duffryn, Cwmbran, Maindee, Aberbargoed, Malpas, Pontypridd and Cardiff Central were called to the scene earlier tonight
9:53pm Hate crime in Gwent increases by nine per cent since last year
A CONSERVATIVE member of Newport City Council has said he feels 'totally vindicated' after an allegation of misconduct against him and a fellow councillor made by two colleagues was withdrawn. In August Labour members for Shaftesbury, Cllrs Paul
A ROGUE newsagent who persistently sold alcohol to children as young as 13 was left with a court bill topping £10,000 yesterday. Jayesh Patel, 53, told the youths to put their bags on the counter then passed bottles of alcohol on the side or through
