MARK Williams was tonight knocked out of the World Snooker Championship at the hands of a ruthless Ding Junhui who completed a demolition job on the Cwm potter with a session to spare.The pair started the second session with Williams 6-2 behind. That
CROSS KEYS ended their Principality Premiership campaign on a high as they ran out winners in a nine-try thriller against Bedwas at Pandy Park.Scott Matthews bagged a brace on his 100th appearance for the club while further efforts from Leon Andrews,
A NEWPORT pensioner has been rewarded for working for Marks and Spencer in Newport for 40 years.Carole Long, aged 71, from Allt-yr-yn, has received recognition at a champagne reception in London for her 40 years of commitment to the company. Her career
HEAD coach Kingsley Jones has admitted he would “love to lead” Newport Gwent Dragons as the region’s new director of rugby. But Jones made it clear that if he did take the top job at Rodney Parade then he would still like to be hands-on when it
A NEWPORT war veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress said it was “cruel” that he had to borrow money from his mother to pay an £87 fine after his beloved dog was taken into kennels. Howard Hawkins, 58, from St Julians, served as a corporal
THE A48 is partially blocked after a lorry and car crashed on the Tredegar Park roundabout. The collision happened at around 5.27pm and police are still at the scene. A spokesman for Gwent Police confirmed that no one was injured. There
UPDATE: Wednesday, 6.55am Head of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service's control Jennie Griffiths has revealed on Twitter 40 calls were received yesterday reporting the fire. 40 999 calls were received reporting a wildfire deliberately
CLAIMS by a Ukip MP that the steel industry in Wales, and across the UK, would be better protected if the country left the European Union have been refuted by a Newport MP. Douglas Carswell – Ukip’s only Westminster MP – visited Llanwern steelworks
A MAN who is partially blind said he tried to escape four times from his 'squalid' conditions as he said it was like living with 'invisible shackles', a court has heard. Four men are on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of requiring another to perform
A BLACKWOOD dad will plunge 10,000ft from a plane this weekend to raise awareness of autism.Ross Mason-Price, 27, of Blackwood was inspired to take part in the fundraiser after his three-year-old son Kaden was diagnosed with autism in January.Diving with
THE jury in a trial of a Newport man accused of leaving a baby severely disabled after shaking him, has retired to consider its verdicts.Gary Joy, aged 26, of Wye Crescent, Bettws, has pleaded not guilty to three charges - causing grievous bodily harm
A FAMOUS TV chef has appeared in Blaenavon as part of a new BBC series on Welsh pubs, which airs tonight.David Myers, one half of the Hairy Bikers, visited the Torfaen town as part of the current series ‘The Hairy Bikers’ Pubs That Built Britain’.His
TRADERS who say they were financially hit by last year's Velothon fear the same will happen again.After hundreds of complaints last year, event organisers have sent out letters and spoken to people to quell any unrest including a public meeting in Llanfoist
NEWPORT County AFC goalkeeper Rhys Taylor says he wants his future sorted as soon as possible. The 26-year-old has been in impressive form for Wrexham since joining on loan from County in October and is out of contract at Rodney Parade at the end of the
NEWPORT County AFC have revealed that they received a total of £661,000 for the sales of Conor Washington, Regan Poole and Aaron Collins. The information is disclosed in the club’s audited accounts for the financial year ending on June 30 last
JOBS are to be lost after cuts of £140,000 over the next two years within a division of Newport City Council were agreed.Although the council formally agreed earlier this year to make £9.1m cuts this financial year, where a number of the cuts would fall
PONT-Y-PWL & District Runners’ members did the club proud at the Virgin London Marathon last weekend, with excellent performances throughout the nine-athlete team.Steve Davies, Iestyn Rhodes and Keith Langley had qualified for ‘good for age’ places after
TENANTS from Milton Court in Ringland had their garden refreshed last week with hopes of winning a future flower show.Residents from the tower block, managed by Newport City Homes, spent the morning digging up their communal garden and planting new flowers
ISLWYN MP Chris Evans has praised a top-flight valleys rugby club and called on constituents to show their support.The Labour MP recently visited Crosskeys Rugby Club at its Pandy Park headquarters to hand over a donation and was presented with a black
A GWENT Police officer used an Apple app to secretly destroy computer evidence after being accused of harassing his policewoman wife when she left him for another officer, a court heard today. Stephen Smith, 32, of Tredegar, allegedly carried out
AN ALLEGED victim of modern day slavery who is partially blind said he wasn't able to see the blows coming when he was beaten, a court has heard. Four men are on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of requiring another to perform forced or compulsory
NEWPORT County AFC are offering local clubs and organisations free tickets for Saturday’s final home game of the season against Notts County. An Exiles spokesman said: “The club is working closely with our community team to ensure everyone has
THRILLER Live is the closest you can get to the legend of Michael Jackson performing on stage. Amazing dancing, fantastic songs and a great atmosphere; this is definitely a winner of a show. Celebrating the journey of Michael Jackson, the show
A ROW has erupted after Prime Minister David Cameron visited one of Wales' under-threat steel plants today - without telling First Minister Carwyn Jones he was going. In March Tata announced plans to sell its entire UK operation - including plants
POLICE have issued a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to after an alleged assaulted outside a pub in Caerphilly. The incident happened outside the Courthouse on Cardiff Road on November 21 in 2015. A 34-year-old man from the Lansbury
YOU have probably noticed already but I would like to draw your attention to at least two letters published in the press today by Sir Eric Howells. I represent the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party. We are standing candidates on the list regional
MR JOHN Smith’s letter is a strange one indeed (April 20). He starts by saying that Jeremy Corbyn is irrelevant. I agree with him there. Then the last four words in his letter read “vote for the Tories”. What an excellent recruiting officer he
THANK goodness the Joe Marler circus is over. Let’s be honest, the bloke has been hung out to dry, as it were. Was what he said that bad? Not really. He apologised at half time and to his credit Samson Lee accepted it. This should have been
EVERY year, it is the same. Caerphilly County Borough Council will change sporting facilities over from one season – winter – to summer. This may entail remarking and refitting of playing fields in particular and there is always considerable argument
IT IS shameful that the Welsh government intends to compulsorily purchase a nature reserve near Magor simply to put a new motorway through it. How much more of our precious natural environment is to be sacrificed to this vanity project? So there
A NEWPORT man sent to prison for theft is wanted by police after he breached his licence conditions. Shaun Nicholson, 31, was sent to prison for four months and 14 days for theft but was released on April 8. Anyone with information on his whereabouts
THE jury in the Hillsborough inquests has found that the 96 people who died were unlawfully killed. The jury of six women and three men also found that fans' behaviour did not contribute to the disaster. They found that the 96 died due to crushing
A NEWPORT woman who has breached her licence conditions is wanted by police. Paige Wyatt, 24, was sentenced to eight months and 14 days in prison for theft. She was released on licence but has breached conditions and has now been recalled to
MONMOUTH is both the largest and wealthiest constituency in Gwent and is the only Tory stronghold in the area – represented by a Conservative in both the Senedd and Westminster. The largely rural area borders Caldicot, Pontypool, Cwmbran and Blaenavon
A MAN has been arrested after an attack in Ebbw Vale on Sunday left another in hospital. The 28-year-old was arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent. He is in police custody. The victim, a 53-year-old man, remains in Nevill Hall Hospital
A DOG from Torfaen who was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for his talent of recycling plastic bottles has died. Tubby the Labrador, from Pontnewydd, was included in the 2011 edition for the most bottles recycled by a dog – 26,000 of
A GARDEN shed was 'deliberately' set alight in Cwmcarn last night. A fire crew from Risca attended to put out the blaze on Newport Road at 6.52pm. They had left by 7.41pm.
FIREFIGHTERS were called to put out a hand drier fire at Abergavenny bus station yesterday. The accidental fire was in the men’s toilets and crews from Abergavenny and Brynmawr attended at 6.39pm. They left at 7.03pm.
NEWPORT County AFC are finally safe from relegation and the planning for next season has to start with Saturday’s final home game of the campaign against Notts County.Manager Warren Feeney has already stated that he will look to give some of the youngsters
A PATCH of grass and bracken was deliberately set alight in Pontypool yesterday. The fire covered 25 square metres. Firefighters from New Inn were called to deal after the blaze, which also burned a telegraph pole near Woodside Road in Trevethin
ONE of Newport’s most iconic landmarks was the stage for a fundraising and awareness walk for a Welsh kidney charity and foundation. Event organiser Maureen Hendon, who was diagnosed with kidney failure in 1992, organised the Walk for Life event
A MONMOUTH hotel and spa - which experts say could drive £1.6 million into the town - looks set to be turned down over flooding concerns. Alchemy Hospitality Management Limited want outline planning permission for a 60-bedroom hotel, six hotel
SINCE the recent launch of our partnership with Brace's Bread to mark their new £10,000 Community Sport Fund, we have already received more than 200 applications. The new Brace's Bread scheme is set up to support grassroots sports clubs doing fantastic
A CALDICOT man who boasted in an internet chat room that he had been spying on a young girl and taking indecent images of her has been jailed for 16 months. Kevin Williams, 44, formerly of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but now of Blackbird Road
9:39pm BREAKING: Second Newport Labour group member suspended ANOTHER member of Newport’s Labour group has been
MONTPELLIER’S World Cup-winning coach Jake White “can’t believe” Newport Gwent Dragons are just two places off the bottom of the Guinness Pro12 given their performances in Europe this season. White, who lifted the Webb Ellis Cup with the Springboks
