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Developer appeals over bid to build homes

8:00pm Sunday 21st March 2010

A DEVELOPER is appealing against Newport City Council’s decision to reject plans for 60 new homes on the site of a former garden centre.

Fires hit home and business

5:40pm Sunday 21st March 2010

FIRES ripped through a business and a home in two separate incidents in Newport.

Mental health unit plans submitted

4:10pm Sunday 21st March 2010

PLANS to renovate a derelict Valleys hospital and transform it into a state-of-the-art facility for mental health patients have been submitted to Caerphilly council.

Plans to close two depots

3:08pm Sunday 21st March 2010

TWO Newport council depots could close as part of a plan to improve the efficiency of the local authority’s work places.

Polls still signal hung Parliament

The latest polls point to a hung Parliament

12:40pm Sunday 21st March 2010

THE Tories are still not on course to win the general election outright, two more opinion polls have indicated, pointing to the possibility of a hung Parliament.

Just 25% of voters back BA strike

Just 25% of voters back the BA strike, a poll found

11:20am Sunday 21st March 2010

ONLY one in four voters supports the strike by British Airways cabin crew, according to an opinion poll carried out in the days before the walk out.

Drivers warned as one lane closed on M4 at St Julians

10:37am Sunday 21st March 2010

ONE lane is closed this morning on the M4 between junctions 25 at Caerleon and 24 at the Coldra due to a broken down tanker.

CWMCARN BABY DEATH: Photos of baby's clothes released

A towel wrapped around  a newborn baby found dead in south Wales

2:58pm Saturday 20th March 2010

POLICE trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found dead behind a Cwmcarn convenience store have released photos of the clothes he was wearing and towels in which he was wrapped.

CWMCARN BABY DEATH: 'I wish we had checked bag earlier' - shopkeeper

ANGUISH: Gursewak Singh

2:23pm Saturday 20th March 2010

THE man who found abandoned baby outside a Cwmcarn shop spoke of his anguish that he did not find the baby earlier.

CWMCARN BABY DEATH: Residents' shock

Just some of the tributes left outside the Spar yesterday

2:00pm Saturday 20th March 2010

RESIDENTS arrived at the Spar store on Newport Road throughout the day yesterday to lay flowers and cuddly toys in memory of the abandonned baby boy.







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