TWO Newport Gwent Dragons out here in Australia send messages back home in advance of big matches in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres tomorrow. Newport-based prop Rod Snow, a major figurehead in the Canada team which takes on Wales in the World Cup
G'day from Down Under! Let me tell you about an increasingly pale colleague with his self imposed regime of a five-mile run plus one meal a day. I do believe he is disappearing before our eyes. And of the Welsh agency man who booked into a hotel in Melbourne
Iestyn Thomas, the former Pontypool and Ebbw Vale loose head prop now with Llanelli, has declared: "We have got to meet fire with fire" as Wales prepare to meet Tonga on Sunday. Thomas follows in the footsteps of the Pontypool front row and lives on the
WELSH coach Steve Hansen has made sweeping changes for Wales' second World Cup clash with Tonga at Canberra Stadium on Sunday. Iestyn Harris, Gareth Thomas and Martyn Williams, all influential figures, are omitted from the line-up as only five players
QUICKER access to a GP or practice nurse, stronger flu vaccination programmes, and improved patient record systems are among the aims of a £7 million funding boost for primary care in Wales. The cash from the Assembly will help develop what are called
NEWPORT is set to have a team in the totalRL.com Welsh Rugby League Conference next season alongside Torfaen Tigers. The side, to be based at Pill Harriers RFC's Courtybella Terrace ground, are expected to get the official green light from Rugby League
WE are playing for pride against Wales on Sunday, says Tonga and Celtic Warriors scrum half Sililo Martens after last night's hefty 36-12 defeat against Italy at the Canberra Stadium. The Tongans also suffered two major injury problems to make their plight
SENIOR Gwent councillors will now consider whether to accept the National Ass-embly's controversial 'golden goodbye' of £20,000 to step down. Yesterday, the Assembly voted to offer councillors who have been in office for 16 years or more £1,000 for every
NEWPORT born and bred Alix Popham makes his World Cup debut for Wales on Sunday when he lines up against Tonga at the Bruce Stadium, Canberra. And Popham hopes to mark his 24th birthday 48 hours earlier with a belated present by helping Wales to their
THERE is nothing quite like an Italian Press conference for chaos and last night didn't disappoint. In fact, it descended into the utter bedlam I had predicted to a colleague, with Press assembled from all over the world, the language problem and the
WALES hooker Mefin Davies has revealed a fresh aid in the ever growing fitness regime - surfing. Davies is a big fan of water sports, and was delighted with two days surfing in the Sydney suburb of Manly when Wales spent a few days there ahead of settling
MORE than 1,000 Torfaen children were given food for thought yesterday about how to have a healthy life. And top of the menu was having a healthy school dinner. Emmerdale stars rubbed shoulders with top athletes and urged children from 12 junior and primary
RESIDENTS of a busy Blackwood road that was the scene of a fatal accident two years ago are to restart their campaign for traffic calming. They decided to kick-start the campaign following another accident outside their homes at Rock Villas on the A4048
CANBERRA - The quietest capital city in the world. That's the label we are all attaching to the Australian capital after only one full day here. London, Paris, Rome and the rest of the world's capitals, they all have things in common - they are teeming
THESE three blacked out faces are those of teenage yobs who cast a shadow of fear across Newport estates. But although a court has let us name them we are forbidden to show you their faces. Leon Kent, 16, Gavin Mills, 17, and Ryan Ahern, 15, of Newport
IT'S been a G'day Down Under after a G'night as well. To start at the beginning of the sequence, it was a member of the Welsh media's birthday yesterday, and we had a right night out at Filthy Mcfadyeans (yes, that's the name, and no it wasn't filthy)
THE parents of a Cwmbran girl battling a life-threatening condition say her recovery was hindered by a series of infections and she was not able to start school this year. But now, they hope she and her brother, born with a serious heart complaint, will
WE are playing for pride against Wales on Sunday, says Tonga and Celtic Warriors scrum half Sililo Martens after last night's hefty 36-12 defeat against Italy at the Canberra Stadium. The Tongans also suffered two major injury problems to make their plight
WHAT should be a glorious page in Welsh rugby history has somehow become lost in the translation. The seventies were, of course, one of the finest decades in Welsh rugby history and as such is a period we should all glory in. I can understand those who
THERE is nothing quite like an Italian Press conference for chaos and last night didn't disappoint. In fact, it descended into the utter bedlam I had predicted to a colleague, with Press assembled from all over the world, the language problem and the
WELSH coach Steve Hansen has made sweeping changes for Wales' second World Cup clash with Tonga at Canberra Stadium on Sunday. Iestyn Harris, Gareth Thomas and Martyn Williams, all influential figures, are omitted from the line-up as only five players
THERE was good and bad news in the fightback against car criminals last month. For the total number of car crimes in Gwent has continued to fall for a second month in a row. But while the figures released by Gwent Police reveal another dramatic drop in
THE Phillips boys, unrelated John and Gareth, last night scored the goals to re-ignite Newport's hopes of qualifying for the lucrative FAW Premier Cup quarter-final stage. And equally as important, manager Peter Nicholas' side managed to keep a clean
Iestyn Thomas, the former Pontypool and Ebbw Vale loose head prop now with Llanelli, has declared: "We have got to meet fire with fire" as Wales prepare to meet Tonga on Sunday. Thomas follows in the footsteps of the Pontypool front row and lives on the
ANGRY residents say their children are playing on asbestos-contaminated land and council chiefs are not doing enough to end the danger. Residents in Lower Glantorfaen Terrace, Forgeside, in Torfaen, say that despite warnings youngsters have even been
INTERNATIONAL model Jenny Richards is the toast of the fashion world, a regular in glossy magazines and on catwalks across the globe. It's hard to believe the stunning, confident 20-year-old was once a victim of bullying. But now Jenny, from Newport,
FAIRFORD Town are having to face the prospect of travelling to Rymans League side Bemerton Heath for this Saturday's vital FA Vase first round clash with a much depleted squad. It was certainly not the kind of news that Fairford manager Mark Webb wanted
