AN INVESTIGATION is being launched into the cause and the cost of the high level of staff sickness in Newport schools. Absence rates because of illness shot up in the city council's lifelong learning and leisure department between January and March. A
MICHAEL BALDWIN told police how his stepdaughter Jenna died after she fell downstairs as they argued, jurors heard at his trial for murder yesterday. Prosecutor David Aubrey QC told Cardiff crown court that a hand-written statement Baldwin gave police
POLICE are investigating the sudden death of Gwent-born Dr Phil Williams, one of Plaid Cymru's most respected politicians and a respected scientist, found in a massage parlour yesterday. Dr Williams, former shadow Welsh economic development minister,
A TRAINSPOTTER turned crimebuster after stumbling upon a £28,000 drugs stash by a Newport railway line. The find took place on November 17 last year, and has already led to an arrest by Gwent Police. Detective Constable Jon Skillett, of Alway CID, pictured
HUNDREDS of mourners packed a Newport church yesterday to say their final goodbyes to Newport man Glyn Gurney. Glyn, 20, of Elaine Crescent, St Julian's, died on May 30 when the car he was a passenger in crashed into the safety barrier on the A4042 Pontypool
RECYCLING targets for Welsh authorities are too ambitious, according to a leading member of the country's "greenest" council. Waste recycling and composting rates in Newport have risen from 12 to 17 per cent to make it the best in Wales. But it still
THE Meningitis Trust in Stroud has gained a celebrity supporter from the cult television series Big Brother. Anouska, the first person to leave the Big Brother house posed for photographs for the News of the World at the weekend to raise funds for The
