A GWENT pensioner, who stole £103,000 from a building society, is taking legal action against her son to force him to hand over two golden retrievers she claims are hers. Vilna Marsden, from Monmouth, was released from jail in December, halfway through
WALES squad members Andy Marinos, Nathan Brew, Ian Gough and Rhys Oakley all line up for Newport Gwent Dragons in their first Celtic League game of the season against Llanelli Scarlets at Stradey Park on Saturday night. They failed to gain a place in
THE jobs of 300 workers at a Gwent carpet factory have escaped the axe as receivers try to sell the business. Receivers acting for Carpets International are to make 296 people redundant across the UK, but the jobs of all 300 workers at Crumlin are safe
A NEWPORT veterinary nurse says a dog left tied to an electricity pylon on a mountainside would have died if she had not stumbled across her. Student veterinary nurse Joanne Cook, 23, and her boyfriend, Wayne Standley, 24, were walking on Mynydd Maen
PROPOSALS to build three new Welsh-medium primary schools in the Caerphilly county borough were rejected by the National Assembly. Caerphilly council published proposals to establish the schools on the former site of Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni in Aberbargoed
THE LINE-UP for this weekend's Pontypool Jazz in the Park festival has a truly international flavour with acts from as far away as South Africa and Russia. The festival, to be held in Pontypool Park from Friday to Sunday, is in its fourth year and last
PLAYWRIGHT Patrick Jones is set to premier his new production in Gwent before taking it on to London's West End. Tredegar-born Patrick, brother of the Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire, will show his play for the first time at the Blackwood Miners' Institute
THE mother of a teenager accused of a sex attack on a seven-year-old girl broke down in tears when she heard police would not be pressing charges against him. And she says her family - including her 14-year-old son - had to move to a different area of
A 350,000-ton opencast mining operation is being planned for north Torfaen. Private developer Glamorgan Power Company wants to extract coal from land just outside Varteg - and, as part of the deal, is promising to restore the 153- acre site to a "high
POLICE are stepping up patrols in Usk to help combat car crime in the town - after our Car Safe campaign highlighted the problem. Residents have welcomed the move and believe two officers dedicated to their community are making a difference. In August
Forget the image of pit girls or the girlfriend riding pillion - Gwent women have a new role in the macho world of motorbiking. As GARETH PHILLIPS discovered, more and more women are living their lives at full throttle. THE ego-dominated, testosterone-fuelled
A CHEPSTOW trader says he will not be driven out by thieves - despite being burgled more than 30 times in the last ten years. Mick Mason (pictured), who runs key-cutting and engraving shop Cobbler's Cabin, in Rifleman's Way, says he has been broken into
THE last thing you might be expected, or want, to do with a £318 camera is swallow it - but that is just what Martyn Fisher has done. But the camera never lies, so the saying goes, and Mr Fisher hopes the tiny one he swallowed at the Royal Gwent Hospital
MIKE Ruddock hails the start of the Celtic League this week as a new era and the future of Welsh rugby. The Newport Gwent Dragons coach - efforts will be made today to finalise officially the name of the side though Ruddock still calls it Gwent Dragons
A HOSPITAL consultant caught with an stash of drugs taken from two Gwent hospitals has been struck off. Dr Sammy Sadakeque Alley Abrahaem, aged 43, of Imperial Road, Windsor, who used to work at Abergavenny's Nevill Hall and Newport's Royal Gwent hospitals
