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The UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of critical following the Manchester attack. Prime Minister Theresa May said the rise in the terror threat level means further attacks may be immient. The prime minister added

A MOTHER-OF-TWO is aiming to raise money for her fiancé’s funeral after he died unexpectedly in his sleep last week. Teresa Hart, who lives on Glenview Road, Trevethin, has spoken of her heart ache at the sudden death of 33-year-old Gaetano Esposito

TORFAEN council has formally re-elected its leader following the local government elections earlier this month.Panteg member councillor Anthony Hunt was confirmed as the leader of the council at its Annual General Meeting yesterday.Cllr Jessica Powell

PEOPLE across Wales have today shown solidarity and support for the victims of the terrorist attack in Manchester last night.A vigil was held outside the Senedd this afternoon, which saw politicians and faith leaders speak about the importance of togetherness

ACCESS to areas around the stadiums set to host the UEFA Champions League finals will be “extremely” limited it has been announced, while anyone attending will be subject to “rigorous” security checks. South Wales Police, who are organising security

A FORMER waste management company boss faces four years in jail if he fails within three months to pay back almost £340,000 in clean-up costs, after illegally stockpiling thousands of tonnes of waste.Judge Daniel Williams told Adrian Lewis – who stockpiled

A CHILDRENS' charity has been advising parents what to do if their children have been affected by the terror attack in Manchester.  At least 22 people have been killed and more than 59 injured after an explosion following the Ariana Grande concert

A NEWPORT restaurant has made an 85 kilos piece of artwork out of chocolate to celebrate the upcoming Champions League final and raise funds for Newport County AFC. Chocolatiers from Gemelli, in Newport Retail Park, Spytty Road, have been working

FORMER Newport Gwent Dragons fly-half Steffan Jones is returning to Wales to play for Bedwas in the Principality Premiership, writes Chris Kirwan.The 26-year-old from Bargoed, who can also play at full-back and centre, arrives from Ampthill after spending

FORMER Newport Gwent Dragons full-back Phil Dollman has been called into the Wales squad for the summer tour to face Tonga and Samoa.The 32-year-old from Caerphilly left Rodney Parade for Exeter, who were then in the Championship, in 2009 and has been

LAST year we lost many familiar figures and famous faces including David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Prince, Muhammad Ali, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and George Michael.  The news that acting legend and arguably one of the best James Bonds, Roger

FORMER James Bond star Sir Roger Moore has died in Switzerland at the age of 89 after a short battle with cancer, his family has announced. A message shared on the actor's official Twitter account read: "With the heaviest of hearts, we must share

THE funeral of Rhodri Morgan who died last week will be held on Wednesday, May 31. The first minister's ceremony will be conducted by humanist celebrant Lorraine Barrett at 11am and the public are invited to attend. A full order of service

GWENT Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of Darryl Hanbury. The 28-year-old, from Newport, breached his licence conditions after being released from Cardiff prison on March, 30 2017. He had been serving a 161 day prison

CWMCARN OAP HALL: We are looking for new members to join us. We hold coffee mornings each Thursday between 10am to noon where you can relax and chat while enjoying refreshments. We also open on Fridays between 2pm and 4pm. When we hold our weekly meeting

NORDIC WALKING: There are many health benefits derived from Nordic Walking. It can eliminate back, shoulder and neck pain and it can help alleviate conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis and stress. Nordic Walking has less

SPIDERIFFIC WAS TERRIFIC!: On the evening of Friday May 12, Gil and I joined a capacity audience for one of the funniest productions I have ever seen. Amazingly this production was by an amateur  company, our local Cwmbran Woodland Players and was

BLAENAVON OVER 50’S FORUM: Angela Lewis reports as follows: The May meeting of Blaenavon Over 50’s Forum was held at Blaenavon Workmen’s Hall. Chairman Mrs. Phyllis Roberts welcomed everyone, apologies for absence were given and the previous months

VOLUNTEERS: Are you at a stage in your life where you have time on your hands? Do you feel that you need to extend your skills or self confidence to make progress in your career? Do you feel you would like to be part of something worthwhile? Many people

FORMER Newport County AFC boss Warren Feeney is back in football management – and he is set to return to Rodney Parade next season. The 36-year-old, sacked as Exiles chief last September, has been confirmed as assistant to new Crawley Town manager

ELECTION: I am delighted to have been elected to serve as one of the three Newport City Councillors to represent Rogerstone. Thank you for your support and I will do my best to represent all residents in Rogerstone. Rogerstone Community Councillors

NEWPORT TO PETERSTONE: Newport U3A’s Cycling Group latest outing took them on a 12 mile ride on quiet roads and lanes across the Gwent Levels towards Peterstone. Following National Cycle Route 88 from Pencarn Way, Duffryn, they were soon out in the

MOVING TRIBUTE: I have been a Newport Councillor for more than thirty years. In that time I have estimated that I have attended around four hundred meetings in the main council chamber. Truth be told, many of them were a battle to keep my eyelids open

GWENT Police are appealing for information to find 40-year-old Jason Evans, from Newport, who has breached his licence conditions after being released from Cardiff prison on February 17, 2017. A spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: "Evans was serving

FUN DAY: A week today, Monday May 29 is the Spring bank holiday. As usual, there will be a Fun Day at the Transporter Bridge. We were lucky with the weather last time until late afternoon when rain, thunder and lightening prevented people going over the

LITTER PICK: Graig Best Kept Villages Group have organised litter picks in Bassaleg and Rhiwderin next Weekend. On Saturday May 27 the litter pick will be in Bassaleg, meeting at the end of Forge Lane, Court Crescent at 10.30am and on Sunday May 28

GWENT Police are appealing for information to locate 27-year-old Cordell Roberts who has breached his licence conditions after being released from HMP Cardiff on December 1, 2015. A spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: "Cordell Roberts, who is from

LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTION: The local councillors of Alway extend their thanks and gratitude to the residents of the Alway ward for providing their support in the local council election. The councillors wish to communicate that they will always provide

I notice in your advance events column of 12th May, that Leslie Thomas the Newport writer is giving a lecture on his experiences of life in Newport during the Second World War. Considering Leslie Thomas died in 2014, I can’t wait to attend. Len

I AM BECOMING seriously annoyed at the constant repetition of the “£350m for the NHS” line, including during last night’s election debate. To be clear, this was never a pledge made by the Leave campaign. Rather, they stated that “We currently send

THE serial columnist that is the Welsh Nationalist Andrew Nutt seems to have gone to ground recently. For those who don’t know, he was up for being elected as one of the three councillors for Bargoed. Well how did that go? Out of the eight candidates

IT'S not Paul Flynn who is saying the Tory candidate in Newport West was forced on the local party. It’s top Tories. Former Tory candidate Iain Dale said on radio he ‘knew’ the local party was threatened that they would be ‘disbanded’ if they did

THANK you for publishing my request and photograph on May 8 in Grassroots. The response was all I could have asked for and I am very grateful for the ladies, of whom appeared in the photo, taking the trouble to phone me with the information I wanted

I AM PLEASED to hear that the Conservatives plan to scrap the Severn Crossing tolls, as that will reduce the costs of my trips back to Wales, especially to Cardiff for the rugby! But a more serious benefit is that they expect the move to boost the

I REFER to the letter from former Tory councillor Peter Davies, South Wales Argus, 17th May 2017. While Mr Davies claims that the local Tory association he chairs is content with their General Election candidate in Newport West, he might want to

WE KNOW that Newport City Labour council has fooled the public many times, and now it looks like a member of the public is also trying to fool the Newport public!  I have lived in the “same town and country” longer than Ann Poyser (Argus 16.5.17) and

WHILST I welcome the new rules banning smoking to protect mainly young people’s health introduced by the Public Health (Wales) Act.  I am at a loss why there has been no mention of the detrimental effects of vaping? If the chief Medical Officer

AN APPEAL for information has been launched by Gwent Police following the theft of meat products from the Cwmbran branch of Iceland. Officers working in Cwmbran wish to speak to a woman captured on CCTV in relation to an incident which took place

GWENT Police have launched an appeal for information to help identify a man in relation to an incident at the Cwmbran Rugby Club in March. Officers working in the Torfaen town understand that a vehicle was broken into on Thursday, March 30 and

AMS of all parties have joined together to pay warm tributes to former first minister Rhodri Morgan, who died last week aged 77. Mr Morgan, who died on Wednesday, May 17, served as Labour MP for Cardiff West between 1987 and 2001, AM for the same

MOVING tributes have been paid at a memorial service celebrating the life of Kyle Vaughan, four years after he went missing. Friends shared fond memories of the Newbridge man, at an emotional service at St John’s Church, in Newport, where there

A GOLF company director has admitted manslaughter over the death of a ball collector who drowned in a freezing course lake Dale Pike, 25, admitted manslaughter by gross negligence after Gareth Pugh, 29, died in the lake at Peterstone Lakes Golf

KINGSLEY Jones insists Taulupe Faletau is “100 per cent” the British and Irish Lions’ starting number eight for this summer’s three-Test series against the All Blacks. And the Newport Gwent Dragons chief believes that would still have been the case

A NEWPORT man went to Buckingham Palace last week for a prestigious garden party, having been recognised for his services to volunteering.Keith Wood, 74, was among hundreds of people at the event organised by the Royal Family on Tuesday, May 16 .Mr Wood

NEWPORT County AFC supporters, like all football fans, are eager for news of exciting new signings now that the season is over and done with but manager Michael Flynn is already way ahead of his predecessors in the past two summers. Back in 2015

Last week we featured a picture of the Cross Hands Hotel, Chepstow Road, Newport. TODAY’S photo shows the Cross Hands Hotel on the corner of Chepstow Road and Somerton Road. Over the years this building has seen many changes and alterations

IT is perhaps no surprise that the Westgate Hotel in Newport is once more on the market. But in our view it is welcome. This is a landmark building which has been under-used for far too long. The current owners have shown no great inclination

A NEW form of broadband technology is set to be rolled out in a Monmouthshire parish. The next phase of Nominet’s TV white space (TVWS) broadband technology will be installed in Llanarth. Following the launch of Arran Broadband – which uses

A SEAGULL which became trapped in a razor wire fence was put down at the weekend.   The RSPCA was alerted to the trapped bird after a member of the public spotted it in a lane near Phillip Court, Newport, on Saturday, May 20.   The

STAGECOACH in South Wales has invited potential engineers to apply for its apprenticeship scheme. The bus company is offering places on its bus engineers’ programme which begins in September and October of each year. The scheme aims to recruit

FAMILIES have been informed about changes to a controversial policy which required them to remove precious ornaments from the graves of their loved ones. Monmouthshire County Council (MCC) has sent letters to inform families about the policy change

A TOTAL of 73 people appeared in Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court yesterday following a second investigation into alleged ‘crash for cash’ scams across Gwent. Operation Dino Part II is a Gwent Police investigation into fraudulent insurance claims after

UPDATE 7.30pm Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old named as the suicide bomber behind Monday's terror attack on Manchester Arena, was born in the city and is believed to be of Libyan descent. UPDATE 6.20pm  Presiding officer @ElinCeredigion

The sudden death of Rhodri Morgan shocked and saddened so many people. It was a testimony to the man that campaigning for the General Election was postponed the following day. The tributes were gracious and sincerely felt across the political

LESS than two weeks ago, organisations and industries around the world were subject to a co-ordinated cyber attack. On Friday May 12, ransomware codenamed ‘WannaCry’ infiltrated and infected machines in more than 150 countries – including the UK