WALES boss Chris Coleman has dismissed rumours linking him with the vacant Crystal Palace job and insisted he’s fully focused on next month’s crucial World Cup qualifier in Serbia. Ex-Palace defender Coleman feels he and his players have a point
IT WILL be a tightly contested election in Newport, according to results from an online survey conducted by the South Wales Argus.Our figures hint that Labour will hold Newport East – but will lose Newport West. In our survey, Labour got 40.4 per cent
A NEWPORT school has become the first dementia-friendly secondary school in Wales following a visit from a city care provider.Pupils and staff at St Joseph’s RC High School took part in interactive information sessions run by Ray Morrison, a Dementia
NEWS that the Circuit of Wales project could change hands from the Welsh Governments to its Scottish counterpart has prompted a mixed reaction across social media.Yesterday, the Argus revealed that those behind £425 million scheme have been in contact
BLAENAU Gwent has scrapped the role of mayor in a move estimated to save £55,000. At an AGM meeting this morning, the new Independent-controlled council voted to axe the positions of mayor and deputy mayor. The new set-up will see Cllr Denzil
BLAENAU Gwent County Borough Council is failing to meet Welsh Government recycling targets. A Welsh Government document - ‘local authority municipal waste management, October to December 2016’ - containing statistics covering provisional quarterly
THE official opening of a multi-million pound Welsh-medium school in Torfaen shows the Assembly’s commitment to achieving one million Welsh speakers by 2050, according to education minister Kirsty Williams AM. The Assembly Member attended the ceremony
A DARK comedy incorporating masks, dance, hip-hop culture, rock and rhyme in a masquerade, makes its debut performance at Wales Millennium Centre next week. RATS (Rose Against The System) follows the story of The Butetown Rats who have been planning the
FORMER Newport County AFC star Regan Poole says Manchester is still a city in shock after this week’s terrorist attack. The 18-year-old, who moved from Rodney Parade to Manchester United two years ago, paid tribute to his United teammates after they
MUCH remains to be done to ensure that by 2024/25, no schools in Wales are classed as ‘bad’ in terms of the state of their buildings.That is a key finding of a Wales Audit Office report on the Welsh Government’s 21st Century Schools and Education Programme.By
FORMER Newport Gwent Dragons back row forward Netani Talei has retired because of a knee injury, writes Chris Kirwan.The 34-year-old, who won 33 caps for Fiji, had been playing for Aviva Premiership side Harlequins after leaving Rodney Parade in 2014.
GWENT darts ace Nick Kenny says he needs to “step it up” at the BDO World Trophy, which starts on Friday at the Memo Arts Centre in Barry. The four-day event, one of the British Darts Organisation’s four majors, comes to Wales for the first time
ORGANISATIONS across Gwent have held minute silences in a mark of respect for the victims of the Manchester attack. The flag at the Gwent Police headquarters in Croesyceiliog was held at half mast as staff stood in silence. Speaking afterwards
LOOK at everyone here…people from every corner of the world. We don’t care where you are from, what religion you are, what colour you are or what you had for breakfast. If you are here tonight you come in peace. So said Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson
NEWPORT County AFC great escape hero Mickey Demetriou will be staying at Rodney Parade. The 27-year-old defender, whose goals were crucial in the Exiles avoiding relegation this season, has handed the club a massive boost by signing a two-year
ONE of Britain's foremost fiddle players Tom McConville will take to the stage of the Lyceum Folk Club next week.McConville was born on Tyneside and brought up in a pub on the famous Scotswood Road with clientele drawn from the Irish and Scottish
NEWPORT'S Lee Evans has been selected in a 26-man Wales squad for a training camp in Portugal next month ahead of the World Cup 2018 qualifier in Belgrade against Serbia. Chris Coleman's men take on Serbia on June 11 and former Newport County AFC
IF YOUR home has to be sold to pay for your care there will be no house for your children to inherit and if they can’t afford to get on the housing ladder anyway, who is going to buy all these houses? Rich and/or foreign landlords, large corporations
MRS May trots into the Conservative manifesto launch like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (cabinet). What does their manifesto show us, future tax increases and an increase in borrowing both to pay for a Brexit deal. There are no costings to scrutinise
ANDY Rutherford is way off beam with his editorial this week. Elections are not football games. Football games are for entertainment. Elections are much more serious: they are about listening to opposing political parties’ values and goals, and choosing
JUST when you thought Thatcher was nicely in her grave, up pops another Tory clone, but this time a lot more nastier in the form of Theresa May. Thatcher in true neo-liberalist fashion took away school kid’s daily break time milk quota but May has
I AM APPALLED at the Tories plans to remove the triple lock on pensions and to remove the winter heating allowance. I get £250 heating allowance which is not enough to heat the house all through the winter anyway. Have these Tories got any idea of
A MINUTE'S silence will be observed at 11am on Thursday in remembrance of all those who lost their lives in the Manchester concert bombing. The silence will also mark the nation's solidarity with those who were injured in the blast as well as others
ANDREW Selby has his dream scenario all planned out – he wants to fight for a world title at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium with his brother and the Joshua-Klitschko rematch on the same bill. If that were to fall into place somewhere down the line
WHEN Newport Gwent Dragons played at Principality Stadium last month they featured a squad entirely comprised of player who could dream of running out of the tunnel in the red of Wales. Some of them – Tyler Morgan, Adam Warren, Cory Hill, Rhys
8:34am Traffic remains slow on the M4 westbound around junction 25a (A4042, Newport), and there is also slow traffic on the
We are launching a weekly spread of pictures from our burgeoning camera club. The club, an online forum on Facebook, now has more than 650 members. To request to join, and be in with the chance of seeing your pictures in print too, visit http://bit.ly
APPROACHING the school down a narrow terraced street in between Cwmbran and Pontypool, it is hard to imagine that there is the space for an establishment to cater for 405 pupils at the end of it. But at the end of Florence Place lies Griffithstown
A VIGIL will be held in Newport city centre in the wake of the terror attack in Manchester. It will start at Westgate Square on Friday, May 26 at 6pm. Events organisers, including Newport City Council, mosques, churches, charities, youth groups
