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Let trams rattle through Newport again

ROMANTIC: A Newport tram passes the old Argus office on High Street in the 1920s

11:46am Thursday 28th January 2010

BUSES reek of failure but trams are an altogether different thing.

A loony way to spend taxpayers' dough

11:49am Thursday 28th January 2010

IF any more evidence is required that education in Wales consists of little more than keeping a largely ineducable mass off the streets and the unemployment register, I offer the following.

Poor Haiti. What has it done to deserve our media?

'BASKET-CASE': Haiti

11:38am Thursday 28th January 2010

NOBODY has yet worked out precisely why Britain is responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Haitia but somebody will.

Strange chaps, women

1:23pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009

I HAVE a mother and four sisters, wife, daughter and squadrons of grand-daughters and other female relatives all of which means at this time of the year I spend a lot of time in stores shopping for girlie things.

The more you think about Switzerland the less there is to think about

DREARY: Switzerland

1:28pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009

I have a handy red knife with a corkscrew and a blade which over 30 years or so has been honed down to half its original width and which has of all things, a toothpick and miniature tweezers.






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