100 years ago
AT TREDEGAR Police Court, on Tuesday, John Rees, collier, Tredegar, was summoned by the Education Authority for neglecting to send his child to school.
Can the Newport Technical Institute help in the production of ammunition? That is the question to which Dr. R. W. Holland, Principal of the Institute, seeks an answer.
50 years ago
TWO men were killed in an accident in the converter shop at Ebbw Vale steelworks on Wednesday afternoon.
A 32-YEAR-OLD Abergavenny woman was fined £10 by Abergavenny magistrates on Wednesday for stealing a purse from one of her factory workers.
25 years ago
AN OFFICIAL complaint has been made against the police by a Gwent man who claims he was attacked and his family harassed in a late night visit by officers.
A NEWPORT primary school’s hope of getting a new full time teacher to cope with extra pupils have been dashed because there is no cash to pay her a full salary.
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