ITALY'S creative genius Alessandro Del Piero believes Wales are the Azzurri's biggest obstacle on their road to Portugal. The Juventus star believes that despite Wales' lowly world ranking of 76, compared with Yugoslavia's rank of 19 and Finland's position
NEWPORT has been named one of 12 firework hotspots in Britain. The Department of Trade and Industry has named the city in a list of areas where firework misuse and injury is most acute. The government has launched tough new measures to cut the number
THE owner of a historic Newport building is being challenged: "Make it safe before someone is killed." Residents who live near the city's former art college on Clarence Place, Newport, want its owner, property developer Thila Garaj, to take action after
WORK to create a bus lane on one of Newport's busiest roads got under way without a hitch - but council officials say it is too early to say whether it will cause long-term traffic chaos. Construction of the new lane began on Sunday, along the north side
DEFIANT Tim Harris is still manager of Newport County after the club's board of directors gave him their full backing. Harris' six-year stay at the Exiles was under threat after a dismal run of results - just three wins in 14 games and an embarrassing
WALES' most famous political couple returned to their roots over the weekend - and unveiled two restored tourist attractions for the Valleys. Neil and Glenys Kinnock are now heavily involved with the Eur-opean Union, Glenys as MEP for South Wales East
A CAMPAIGN to bring broadband fast Internet to two towns in Gwent is rapidly gathering pace to cover a wider area, with interest now coming from the local MP. Systems change manager Peter Davies (pictured) and fellow campaigner Keith Jarrett want BT to
PENSIONER David Harris had Welsh health minister Jane Hutt's full attention, and he was not about to let his opportunity slip away. Mr Harris, of Blaenavon, had just had his heart monitored at the town's Carreg Wen surgery as part of Torfaen's new coronary
HARD-hat students found out what it means to work on a building site when they visited a landmark project at Newport as part of National Construction Week. The Year 12 team from Bettws High School were the guests of builders Lovell at Bishpool where outdated
BOGUS water officials stole hundreds of pounds from an elderly woman in Cwmbran. The bogus officials entered the woman's house in Llantarnam Road yesterday morning. The one man said that they were working on a house a few doors down and need to check
A TEENAGER who saved a neighbour's life after she suffered horrific injuries in a frenzied meat cleaver attack received an award yesterday from Jane Davidson, Assembly minister for education. Shane Jordan, 17, of Maesglas Avenue, New-port, used first-aid
FOR the second year running, a business student at the University of Wales College, Newport, has scooped the highest marks for the Chartered Institute of Marketing's postgraduate diploma in marketing. Alison Tennant spent a year studying part-time for
THE mess Welsh rugby finds itself in grows by the week. Now whatever road they go down, legal action is almost certainly the end result. There does appear to be a general realisation that the number of sides at the top end of the game must be reduced.
BRADLEY Dredge is one of the most improved golfers on the European Tour - but the Blackwood star is not about to start fading. The 29-year-old is still to achieve his ambition of a Tour victory and last night admitted his heart-break at not picking up
THE mess Welsh rugby finds itself in grows by the week. Now whatever road they go down, legal action is almost certainly the end result. There does appear to be a general realisation that the number of sides at the top end of the game must be reduced.
A £2m project to change the face of Coleg Gwent's Newport "Nash" Campus and create modern facilities is about to get underway. A two-storey building with a dramatic curved roof and glass curtain walling will create a new learning resource centre (LRC)
SMALL businesses in Gwent which form an important part of the area's manufacturing base are becoming increasingly worried about securing public liability insurance. Since Business Argus highlighted the case of Newport scaffolding firm Rushar and the 550
WALES coach Steve Hansen urges fans to get behind Newport instead of criticising them after their disastrous start to the season. Hansen admits to being concerned at the form of leading clubs Newport and Swansea and hopes supporters play their part in
A move to take economically ravaged north Gwent into the hi-tech age begins in a big way tomorrow. NIGEL JARRETT prepares the ground and offers a glossary of terms WITH the relentlessness of a mechanical hammer, Welsh businesses big, small and barely
BIG Brother winner Kate Lawlor (pictured) has appealed to missing Gwent teenager Jenna Baldwin to let her family know she's okay. The Argus contacted the star after Jenna's mother, Desiree, told us the 15-year-old was a big fan of Big Brother 3. And Kate
WELSH boss Mark Hughes has gone through the roof as the Millennium Stadium's famous canopy wasn't closed before his Welsh team trained there yesterday morning. And due to the bungle, his Welsh team - who are just a day away from their massive Euro 2004
Police baffled by the discovery of the body of a dead baby on the canal bank near Newbridge are appealing for the mother to contact them amid experts' claims that she is likely to be deeply distressed. It appears increasingly likely that the mother of
DAVE Biggs thought he had left his old job behind - but his new one took him right back to his working roots. He said an emotional goodbye to the silenced Pirelli Cables works at Newport when he picked up the final order of stock for his new bosses. Mr
SIX wards at Gwent's two biggest hospitals have been closed to new admissions to try to prevent the spread of a virus that causes sickness and diarrhoea. Five wards at the Royal Gwent in Newport and one at Abergavenny's Nevill Hall Hospital are not taking
