Newport's Phillip Price is not used to starting well at the Wales Open, so his first round score of 68 came as a huge relief to the Ryder Cup hero. Price finished the first day four under par and along with Jamie Donaldson looked set to fly the flag for
AWESOME prog rock band Yes are in concert in Cardiff International Arena on Thursday, June 5. The 70s band have reformed their classic line-up for a string of shows to promote a boxset of their music titled In A Word: Yes (1969-). Yes' first four albums
JAMIE Donaldson is spearheading the challenge for a first home winner at the Wales Open. Donaldson was leading the Welsh pack overnight and gave the home fans something to cheer about with a solid first round 68 on a good day for the Principality's players
A TODDLER is scarred for life after being savaged by a dog as he played near his home. Three-year-old Craig Wright needed major facial surgery for horrific gashes to his lip, eye and nose after the attack by a stray dog. Surgeons have warned his devastated
NINA Nastasia evokes a weeping landscape with her trinket-strewn ditties and has a new album out next Monday. Nastasia's haunting voice is as grey as a thunderstorm on a sandy beach while half-recalled memories, an unflinching mortality and a weary wisdom
Yesterday morning Ian Poulter was only minutes away from pulling out of this year's Wales Open, before it had even begun. However, after shooting a course record-equalling score of 65 the Milton Keynes based 27-year-old was pretty pleased he didn't. Poulter
JOE Calzaghe has promised 'fireworks' when he makes his rescheduled 13th defence of his WBO super-middleweight crown. The Newbridge idol was fuming last night after his bout at Cardiff's International Arena with American Byron Mitchell was switched for
A MAN died today in a horrific car crash in Newport. The accident happened just after 1.30am, on the A4042 between the Croes-y-Mywlach and Grove Park roundabouts on the Newport to Pontypool road just past the Brynglas Tunnels. The road was closed as emergency
NEWPORT East's AM says it is time to look again at Public Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes for public projects. John Griffiths says he is frustrated by the delays in replacing the dilapidated Durham Road Infant and Junior Schools. Yesterday the Argus
SCHOOLBOY Thomas Gibbins was left shocked and terrified after his puppy was mauled to death by another dog in front of him. Thomas, ten, was walking four month-old Labrador Murphy on Llantarnam Road, Cwmbran when the puppy was attacked by a Staffordshire
TWENTY years ago, Russia was still the enemy of the free world, balefully eyeing Reagan's America and extending cold tentacles of communism across Europe. Now all that seems to have evaporated like a bad dream. America has had to find new enemies, and
COLIN Montgomerie (pictured) looked set to miss the cut after another mixed day at the Celtic Manor. Monty endured an awful start, bogeying the third, but the big Scot made up for it with birdies on five and seven before a further bogey on 10 left him
A PRACTICAL joker put up notices claiming the Charles Rolls statue outside Monmouth's Shire Hall would be replaced by pornographic art. A fake planning application was pinned to the hall's notice board, stating the proposal for the removal of the stature
"IN THE valley of Myddfai in the heart of the Black Mountains lived Rhiwalon. On his way to the little lake of Llyn-y-Fan he saw a beautiful lady sitting on the smooth surface of the water, combing her long golden hair..." Welsh folktales, unlike the
A CWMBRAN man admitted peddling porn and pirating film and music CDs from his home. David Chard, (pictured) aged 55, of Penylan Court, Coed Eva, Cwmbran, committed a total of 29 offences over a three-month period last year, Newport crown court heard.
WANNABE Pop Idol Marie Lao has won an audition for the show - and is grateful for help from the careers service. The 17-year-old from Pill was recalled twice at auditions for Girls Aloud last year. But in the end the show's producers told her she needed
GAY men are meeting in a Cwmbran town centre public toilet for lunchtime sexual encounters, the Argus can reveal. Now Cwmbran police have stepped up surveillance in the area to crack down on the problem. The move follows complaints from other users who
WITH two new martial arts centres opening in Gwent karate and kickboxing have never been so popular. The Maindee Martial centre, in Chepstow Road, is busier than ever and has expanded with a new club in Risca and another in Bettws due to open in June.
THEY call it the Blues - plural - because there are many shades of blue. And acoustic bluesman Ben Andrews, playing Abertillery next Thursday, is a master of them all. The guitar-picker from Washington DC has been playing for more than 20 years, and has
REDEVELOPING Pontypool's run-down leisure centre must be done as a priority, council bosses say. Early plans for its £6.5 million refurbishment were shown to councillors at a meeting of the education, leisure and young people scrutiny committee. The proposed
WALES great Neil Jenkins (pictured) promises there will be no tears when he steps out in a Wales jersey for the 100th and last time at the Millennium Stadium tomorrow. The record-breaking fly half is sure of a terrific reception when he takes the field
DUE to phenomenal demand, Blue have announced a new Cardiff show as part of their Autumn tour. Tickets for the Tuesday, November 18, performance went on sale last Friday at 9am. The band are now playing three dates in Wales from Sunday, November 16. Voted
A KOSOVAN teenager fighting for the right to stay in Wales is to receive the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in his asylum hearing. Edmond Pone, (pictured) 18, fostered by Julia Gregg, 30, and her husband Steve Crandon, 34,
