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THE WEEKENDER: Will we get our money back at the pumps?

PUMPS: Prices appear to be on an upward spiral.

11:10am Sunday 19th May 2013

WHILST we are only at the investigation stage, the oil price fixing allegations engulfing giants of the industry such as BP and Shell throw up an intriguing question: If price fixing is proved, who pays us back?

THE WEEKENDER: Wait for it, wait for it: COME ON COUNTY!

ONE STEP AWAY: Newport County players and fans celebrate reaching the play-off final

10:21am Sunday 5th May 2013

THE most difficult task this week has been ignoring the hype. Most football fans love nothing more than spending hours discussing the strengths and weaknesses of theirs and the opposition’s teams, the myriad possible outcomes of upcoming matches.

THE WEEKENDER: Keep school summer holiday long and leisurely

Michael Gove

12:40pm Sunday 21st April 2013

AH, the school summer holidays... six weeks of long lie-ins, sunshine, and doing nothing much at all, apparently. But for how much longer?

THE WEEKENDER: Divisive in life, Thatcher has proved divisive in death

Iron Lady: Thatcher is remembered for attempting to get British athletes to boycott the 1980 Olympics and demonising football fans through the attempted introduction of an identity card scheme

10:20am Sunday 14th April 2013

DIVISIVE in life, it was only to be expected that Margaret Thatcher would be divisive in death, and so it has proved.

THE WEEKENDER: Easter – the movable and unpredictable feast

The Easter cross

12:10pm Sunday 31st March 2013

WITH Easter Monday falling on April Fool's Day, we can be forgiven for thinking that Someone On High is playing a prolonged and decidedly unfunny trick on us.

THE WEEKENDER: Horror tackles must not go unpunished

AWAITING RESULTS: Newcastle's Massadio Haidara is stretchered off during Sunday's defeat at Wigan - following a horror tackle by Callum McManaman, but one that was defeated by Chairman Dave Whelan

11:50am Sunday 24th March 2013

WE'VE all seen it, we've all winced and shuddered at it.

THE WEEKENDER: Only one winner on Saturday

RUGBY'S THE WINNER: I suppose we won't be watching the Derby v Leicester game on Saturday

9:10am Saturday 16th March 2013

TITANIC sporting encounters - I just can't get enough of them.

WEEKENDER: Keep Mother's Day simple - give her a lie-in

11:10am Sunday 10th March 2013

ACCORDING to a survey published earlier this week, the most popular 'gift' mums want on Mothering Sunday is a good night's sleep and a lie-in.

THE WEKENDER: The future holds no fun for shoppers

BLEAK TIMES: Empty shops on Commercial Street in Newport

11:10am Sunday 3rd March 2013

THE old adage that a shop is never so popular as when it has a sale on, may need modifying.

WEEKENDER: Respect the ref - it's the rugby way

10:40am Sunday 24th February 2013

SERGIO Parisse may or may not have insulted referee Laurent Cardona while playing for his club Stade Francais last weekend - but when it comes to talking to the man in charge during matches, he talks loudest and longest.






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