A massive manhunt for a fugitive gunman ended when the man walked down from Twmbarlwm mountain into Fairwater, Cwmbran.

Labour leader Neil Kinnock officially opened the new Woodfieldside Business Park at Blackwood as well as a new £300,000 baking facility at Brace’s Bakery.

A reputation for violence had left Newport trailing near the bottom of a new league table of best towns and cities in Britain in which to live.

It was claimed that Blaenau Gwent Borough’s low uptake of childhood vaccinations could be placing children at risk of severe handicap or even death.