A NEWPORT father and daughter displayed nerves of steel when they became the first people ever to abseil off the Transporter Bridge yesterday. An admiring crowd of supporters including relatives, neighbours and work colleagues, waited as 53-year-old Mike
WALES' most experienced player Gareth Thomas may miss the whole of his country's tour Down Under for personal family reasons. The Bridgend skipper was a late withdrawal from the Wales team which lost to the Barbarians on Saturday and did not fly out with
CELTIC Manor owner Sir Terry Matthews vowed after this year's Wales Open: "You ain't seen nothing yet." Record crowds turned up to witness Englishman Ian Poulter win the tournament. But after the event Sir Terry, who dished out over £1.5m in prize money
ARSONISTS who started forest and grass fires cost Gwent fire service more than £15 million last year, it has revealed. And now South Wales fire service is launching a major crackdown in a bid to cut the number of deliberately-started blazes - such as
WITH just seven days to go until the Torfaen Race for Life women are being urged to continue their hard training beyond the event. The Sports Council for Wales, which is a co-sponsor of the race along with the Argus and supermarket giant Tesco, wants
GWENT Police has set itself a new target of reducing crime by 23 per cent by the end of March 2005. Chief Constable Keith Turner believes achieving that target should put Gwent in the bottom segment of the league table of crime per head of population
NEWPORT Wasps could not complain as they suffered a five-point defeat at home to Elite League club Poole in their British League Cup yesterday. Wasps led by two points after six heats, but Pirates, using rider replacement for Lukas Dryml, just had the
ALLOTMENT holders have accused the council of throwing in the trowel - by not doing enough to save their plots. Tenants of the Twmpath allotments have one year to vacate their plots after Torfaen county borough council was served with notice to quit the
A PENSION fund for thousands of council workers in Monmouthshire and Torfaen is one of the worst in the country, new figures show. Now one of the fund managers of the Greater Gwent pension fund - led by Torfaen county borough council - has been sacked
HE promised when he went on he would play with a smile on his face - and he did. But he also promised his farewell wouldn't overshadow the game - and here he couldn't have been more wrong. Long after this clash at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday is
IT'S somewhat ironic that the man who so nearly pulled out of this year's Wales Open before it had even begun went on to win the £250,000 prize money. Ian Poulter had been suffering with tonsillitis all week, in fact, on Wednesday, it was so bad that
In the end it wasn't to be for Newport's Phillip Price as he suffered a dismal final round in this year's Wales Open. Price had started the day only two shots off the leader, Ian Poulter, but despite two early birdies on holes three and five it was downhill
A CONTROVERSIAL nursing home, which could house patients needing secure accommodation, has been approved following a public inquiry. Residents in Langstone, Newport, are outraged by the decision of the Assembly Planning Inspectorate to permit Independent
ONE of the oldest family businesses in Blackwood is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Generations of Blackwood men have bought their clothes at Lamberts, on the town's High Street - and more recently the shop has also sold school uniforms. The men's outfitters
Ein cyfarwyddwyr: Mae llwyddiant y cwmni yn ddyledus i raddau helaeth i amser, ymdrech ac arbenigedd y cyfarwyddwyr anweithredol, a dynnwyd o ddiwydiant, addysg ac awdurdodau lleol. Rhoddir eu cyfraniad yn ddi-dl. Y cyfarwyddwyr yn ystod y flwyddyn oedd
WALES embarked on the toughest tour of them all today, with coach Steve Hansen claiming they went in a very positive frame of mind. A trip Down Under to play arguably the best two rugby nations on earth in world champions Australia and a resurgent New
RESIDENTS of a Pontypool community given a huge Assembly grant say vandalism won't deter their regeneration plans. A year ago Trevethin, St Cadocs and Penygarn were awarded £642,000 by the National Assembly's Communities First Fund to revamp the wards
FAIRYTALE ending is an overused expression, but it is the only way to sum up Neil Jenkins' farewell in a Wales jersey at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, writes Paul Tully. The rapturous reception he received when he walked on to the pitch with his
NEWPORT dad Paul Lewis has won the May Swalec/Argus Local Hero award for his support and compassion to a family who lost their son in a tragic crash. The father-of-four, pictured, was nominated for the support he gave to grieving parents Debbie and Thomas
