GWENT coach Mike Ruddock is bouyant about his new team's draw in next season's Heineken Cup despite being in a group of death. Ruddock declared today: 'This is the best thing that could have happened.' Yesterday, his side were drawn against either Stade
NEWPORT outside half Jason Strange has joined Zurich Premiership newcomers Rotherham, and teammate Jonathan Pritchard is set to follow suit. Strange has signed a two-year deal with the Yorkshire club who won promotion from the First Division. Pritchard
NEWPORT'S George Rose was cursing his luck after a leg problem may have cost him the top prize at the Welsh National Road Race Championships last Sunday. The 26-year-old sport science student from Cwmbran was alongside Wales' Commonwealth Games rider
A CRUNCH meeting to determine the future of the controversial South Sebastopol housing development has been postponed. Councillors were due to meet next Tuesday to discuss the plan to build 1,200 homes on green land between Pontypool and Cwmbran. The
PEOPLE living in an area of Newport are calling for a crackdown on teenage gangs after a pub landlord was beaten up by youths. Wyn Stark, 58, was set upon by a gang of about 12 youths as he tried to stop them vandalising a customer's car. Mr Stark, landlord
ALMOST 6,000 new homes will be needed in Newport by the year 2011 to meet local demand, the city council's development plan says. And the plan shaping Newport's future took a significant step forward as the public are given their chance to have a say.
NEWPORT Wasps captain Craig Watson will miss Sunday's Premier League home clash with Sheffield. Watson hits the World Championship trail, competing in the fourth quarter-final for next year's Grand Prix event at Heusden-Zolder track in Belgium on the
MY career has been saved, now I want to put everything into Newport and Gwent. Percy Montgomery made this clear to me in his only interview with a journalist after his two-year ban, 18 months suspended, and £15,000 fine for pushing a touch judge. "I'd
THE SHAPE of things to come for Ebbw Vale's Corus site is unveiled today. Ebbw Vale - dealt a devastating blow by the loss of 800 jobs when Corus closed the tinplate works in the town last year - could now be transformed over the next ten years. The Ebbw
MY career has been saved, now I want to put everything into Newport and Gwent. Percy Montgomery made this clear to me in his only interview with a journalist after his two-year ban, 18 months suspended, and £15,000 fine for pushing a touch judge. "I'd
ESTATE agents say it's all about location, location, location. But for Newport photographer Rex Moreton, it is the architecture of his home city's streets which has inspired his latest exhibition. Some of Newport's most stunning houses - many dating back
NEWPORT'S skyline changed forever yesterday, when three giant chimneys were blasted out of existence at Llanwern. The coke oven stacks at the steelworks site were demolished to make way for a new development that should include housing, light industry
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into a Newport car crash which claimed the life of one young man and left another seriously injured. Twenty-year-old passenger Glyn Gurney, of Elaine Crescent, Newport, died after a Volkswagen Golf collided with the central
A FORMER call centre worker who gave a court a bogus character reference from the Pope is now being shunned by friends, magistrates heard yesterday. Merthyr magistrates court was also told that Julian Evans, 28, of Wyefield Court, Monmouth, is now set
BOY George is at the centre of a row with a Newport club night promoter after the Eighties icon walked out of a DJ gig after just 25 minutes. The former Culture Club frontman walked out of a Mutts Nuts event at the Zanzibar nightclub, Stow Hill, on bank
SPENDING watchdogs are investigating if LG Philips should repay millions of pounds of aid to the National Assembly after axing 870 Gwent jobs. The National Audit Office has been called in to see if the electronics giant should hand back some of the government
NEWPORT Wasps promoter Tim Stone has lodged an appeal with the British Speedway Promoters' Association, demanding they overturn Sunday's home five-point British League Cup defeat against Elite League Poole Pirates, writes Ray Parker. Stone is maintaining
