Mike Buckingham

. Right, Olivia Lawrence and her dog Hugo

PER Ardua Ad Astra - Through Hardship to the Stars - the motto of the Royal Air Force, could be the watchword of the 25th Newport Air Scouts.

IN a final journey laden with symbolism, Sidney Robinson crossed over the river which was his great love to a resting place in the city to which the Usk gave birth.

For 2000 years Twmbarlwm has stood sentinel, defying even the Roman Legions but is now being destroyed by a new reckless and sometimes violent force. Mike Buckingham reports.

HE STARTED in Scouting back in the days when they were called Boy Scouts, wore big hats and shorts and did their daily Good Deed.

LOCAL historian and author Sidney Robinson, among the last of a generation of Newport chroniclers which included the late Cliff Knight, died at the age of 97.

Arthur Machen, literary son of Caerleon, journalist, author, actor and mystic whose words evoke a magical Gwent which, in its remotest corners, is still to be found.

ACTUALLY, what was the partridge doing in the pear tree?

SOMETIMES verbose but often succinct, capable of great insight as well as the most thudding rhyme,William Downing Evans is back among his own people.

RESISTANCE fighters who would have been the last line of defence against a Second World War German invasion are honoured in an art exhibition opening at Newport’s Riverfront.