GWENT'S Co-op shoppers received a big 'divi' payout this Christmas. They were among thousands throughout Wales who shared more than £750,000. The 'divi' - or dividend - has long been one of Wales' most popular shopping traditions, the payout depending
NEWPORT lock Mike Voyle is returning home to New Zealand to spend Christmas with his family and misses the Welsh/Scottish League game with Ebbw Vale on Boxing Day. With this in mind, Del Cross gets a run out with the Newport Development XV against Newport
THE biggest disaster in over 100 years of Welsh rugby - that is what the introduction of regional rugby would be. The call for it among some members of the media and some former players is reckless, bordering on the irresponsible. For there would be only
WELSH club rugby is bankrupt and unless proposals put forward by the six leading clubs are accepted it will cease to exist, claimed spokesman Stuart Gallacher, pictured, today. And the Newport model was held up as the proper way to run Welsh club rugby
The housing market is set to slow down next year but there will not be a widespread fall in property prices, according the an estate agent's group. Bradford & Bingley agents said house prices will continue to rise during 2002 but at a slower rate
RESPECTED Gwent industrialist Mike Lynham is calling on local businesses to pull together and plan for a future he expects to be tough. The boss of Solutia's Newport plant and president of ngb2b, the Newport and Gwent Chamber of Commerce, says 2002 will
EMPLOYERS in Wales' 20,000-worker call centre industry have been warned to prepare for an official crackdown on unhealthy working conditions. Speaking at the Welsh Call Centre Conference 2001, Kelvin Williams, of safety, health and environmental risk
Christmas is coming and the tills are getting overloaded. NIGEL JARRETT says it's the time of year when shopping centres as well as individual traders battle for custom IT would be stupid to ignore Cardiff as a prime shopping destination for South Walians
What makes one of the most successful firms in Wales tick? NIGEL JARRETT headed north - the north of Gwent, that is - to find out IT might be said, with a certain amount of common sense, that a commercial business is something that should always be -
