THE contest to lead Plaid Cymru into the next Assembly Election has kicked off. The party's current leader Leanne Wood, as well as challengers Rhun ap Iorwerth and Adam Price, appeared before supporters and party members at an event in Cardiff this
ROSS Moriarty has vowed to make up for lost time when he eventually gets his Dragons career up and running on completion of the ban handed down to him while on Wales duty this summer. The back-rower will miss the Rodney Parade region’s pre-season
A BAND is performing in this country for the first time. Punk power pop band, Duncan Reid and the Big Heads, will rock out at Abertillery's Dolls House on August 11, at a gig starting at 6pm. Despite half the band being from Wales - drummer
A GWENT brass band are celebrating after winning a title at the National Eisteddfod. Newport Borough Brass Band performed in the Donald Gordon Theatre at the Wales Millennium Centre on Saturday as part of the event. They competed against five
PLANS to build retirement living apartments for elderly people on the site of Abergavenny’s police station and former magistrates’ court have been approved - despite the scheme dividing opinion in the council chamber. Councillors on Monmouthshire
PLANS to build up to 45 homes on a greenfield site in Raglan have been given outline permission, despite concerns expressed over the suitability of the site. Outline planning consent for a development on a 5.4 acre site off Chepstow Road in the
A NEWPORT pub is hosting a quiz based around the iconic American sitcom Friends on Thursday. Man of Gwent, in Chepstow Road, is hosting the quiz between 7pm and 9pm. It follows sell-out quizzes based on the fantasy novels Harry Potter and popular
JUDGES from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) were in for a surprise when they arrived in Usk for the Britain in Bloom competition last week, as Usk in Bloom’s chairman, Tony Kear, turned up at their hotel in an armoured personnel carrier. After
A HISTORIC ceiling at a Chepstow hotel and country club could be saved from possible "catastrophic damage" under plans submitted to Monmouthshire County Council. The ornate pastel ceiling in the panel room of St. Pierre Marriott Hotel & Country
WITH the summer holidays in full swing, I hope families will enjoy the opportunity over the coming weeks to get out and enjoy all that the great outdoors have to offer. Six of our sites - Morgan Jones Park, Ystrad Mynach Park, Brithdir Cemetery,
CONCERN has been voiced after travellers set up an illegal camp near business premises today. About eight travellers’ caravans have parked outside businesses in Stephenson Street Industrial Estate. Steve Miller said he spotted the camp when
A WELSH Assembly committee looking at issues surrounding culture, the Welsh language and communications is letting people in Wales pick what it will consider in the autumn term. The poll launched by the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications
WELSH taxpayers lost around £1 million as the result of the failure of the organisation responsible for managing Wales' natural resources to properly sell timber grown on public woodlands, it has been revealed. Last month a Wales Audit Office (
DRAGONS wing Ashton Hewitt has revealed that he will miss the start of the season due to the injury that denied him the chance of winning a first Wales cap. The 23-year-old from Newport was forced to withdraw from Warren Gatland’s squad on the
WELSH language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith has launched a legal challenge to rules which they claim block councillors from considering the impact planning applications. The group has said it is concerned new guidelines published by the Welsh
TWO Cwmbran teens have been named as the second and third men who died in a road traffic collision which occurred in Cardiff during the early hours of Sunday. Dayne Thomas and Alex Davidson, both 19 and from Cwmbran, were travelling in a grey Ford
GWENT Police are appealing for information to locate 27 year old Justin Harris from the Ebbw Vale area, who has breached his licence conditions after being released from prison on 12th June 2018. A spokesman said "Justin received a two year and
EXCITEMENT is growing ahead of a new music festival being held in Newport later this month for charity. Portstock 2018 will debut at Tredegar Park, in Cardiff Road, on August 18, with range of live acts and entertainment to feature, along with a multitude
TOUR de France winner Geraint Thomas will be given a hero's welcome back home to Wales on Thursday. The 32-year-old, who was born in Cardiff, became the first-ever Welshman and only the third Briton to win the gruelling cycling challenge when he
THE Dragons have suffered a blow to their preparations for the new PRO14 season with forwards Aaron Jarvis and Harri Keddie missing the start of the campaign. The Rodney Parade region announced this morning that Wales international prop Jarvis
FAMILY and friends of a former rugby league player who was found with “life-changing” injuries will be hiking three Gwent mountains to raise money to buy a specialist car to aid his recovery. Scott Bessant was found in the early hours of the morning
STEFAN Sankala has made the step up to take the reins as Bedwas head coach from Ian Gardner. Gardner, who took over from Steve Law last summer, takes on the role of technical rugby director as part of the club’s new coaching and management structure
A NEWPORT menswear store has now teamed up with a cult fashion label to mark the start of the new football season with a special one-off, week-long promotion. Chessmen is offering discounts off special edition tops designed by Weekend Offender.
SO, HOW was the opening weekend of the season for you? Saturday’s six-hour, 325-mile round-trip to Mansfield to witness a 3-0 defeat for Newport County AFC was not the joyous start to the campaign that I was hoping for. And the reaction from
RESIDENTS from Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly packed Hafodyrynys Community Centre last night to discuss the community’s next steps in the fight against quarrying at the Tirpentwys Canyon. There was standing room only as around 120 residents
NEWPORT County AFC number one Joe Day is certain that the arrival of fellow goalkeeper Nick Townsend can only be a good thing for him and for the club. Day, who has been the main man between the sticks since joining County in 2014, saw back-up stopper
AN 87-year-old man wept after a jury cleared him of committing historical sex offences against two young girls. Edward Card, of Market Street, Abergavenny, was acquitted after a trial at Newport Crown Court where he had faced 15 counts. He
A SECOND World War veteran recently celebrated his 100th birthday with friends at Cwmbran’s Parkway Hotel. George Reynolds enjoyed a vintage musical performance at his party, organised by the Newport branch of the Royal Artillery Association (RAA
A new, sinister form of drug dealing, which exploits young and vulnerable people, is emerging in Gwent. NICHOLAS THOMAS finds out more DRUG dealing is nothing new, and like most cities in the UK, Newport has its fair share of problems connected
A JEALOUS partner jailed for attacking his “on-off girlfriend” is back behind bars after he admitted assaulting her again after they visited a nightclub. Michael Green, who struggles with a cocaine problem, left her with a black eye and split lip
Cwmbran-based and award-winning brewery Brew Monster is set to open a tap room at its brewery after just over a year in business. Within the last year the business, which is based at Avondale Business Park, Cwmbran, has gone from strength to strength
