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Mental health problems 'cost Wales more than £7bn a year'

10:20pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

MENTAL health problems cost Wales more than £7 billion a year, an NHS report published today says.

Cwmbran beauty queen needs sponsors to reach final

8:10pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

A CWMBRAN beauty queen is making a last-minute bid for a sponsor so she can enter the Miss Wales final.

Bettws man’s anger as police impound electric bike

6:20pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

AN EPILEPSY sufferer who drives an electrically-assisted pedal bike had it impounded after a police officer mistook it for a real scooter.

Varteg residents fight opencast plans

5:40pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

CAMPAIGNERS in a Gwent village are fighting plans for an opencast mine in their community.

Baby death doctor suspended for four months

4:43pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

A DOCTOR with a 'disregard' for patient safety was suspended for four months today for sending home a baby girl who died the next day from blood poisoning.

PLIGHT OF CARERS: Caring for people with dementia

4:20pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

THE Alzheimer’s Society found there to be 6,215 people currently living in Gwent with dementia.

PLIGHT OF CARERS: What is a carer?

3:50pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

A CARER is defined as someone who provides informal care to a relative or friend who because of disability, sickness or frailty is unable to live at home without support.

PLIGHT OF CARERS: The high price of a life of devotion

3:30pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

In this first week of the Argus' campaign, ALISON SANDERS met Janet Morgan who five years ago gave up her career in Hong Kong to devote her life to caring for her elderly mother.