100 years ago

IT SAID something for the resources of the country that even while engaged in war furnishers Messrs P E Gane of Newport managed to distribute a monetary bonus to staff as result of a successful years trading.

AT Newport County Police Court a St Mellons farmer was brought up on the charge of beating and assaulting a labourer.

It was later found that the labourer had also sustained gun shot wounds and he was being detained in hospital.

50 years ago

MEMBERS of the Union of Shopworkers, Distributive and Allied workers were told that a demand for a £2 a week pay rise was ‘totally impracticable’.

WHILE high interest rates were making it impossible for house purchasers to obtain 100 per cent loans, Newport Town Council were still granting the loans with no attempt to alter its policy.

25 years ago

HORRIFIED police have slammed as ‘suicidal lunatics’ children spotted playing in the central reservation of the motorway in Gwent.

LABOUR scored a muted triumph in the battle for Britain’s town halls, making a net gain of 305 seats and taking control of eleven councils