THE Newport boy who was set alight by a gang of thugs was cheered yesterday as he led Newport County out onto the pitch. Lloyd Bailey (pictured), 11, of Dudley Street, suffered burns to his face and hair after a lit can of petrol was thrown at him last
MORE than 100 flats could be built on the site of a former Newport golf clubhouse. Developers Taylor Woodrow want to build 101 two-bed apartments on part of the former Tredegar Park Golf Course, Rogerstone. The development will see blocks of three-storey
THE Welsh have hit town at last - and they soon drank the pubs dry. The normally quiet and sedate Canberra is set for a cash bonanza as accommodation in the city is now running at 98.9 per cent capacity. The first weekend of Rugby Celebration Canberra
A RADIO link between pubs and clubs is set to make Newport city centre a safer place for a good night out by cracking down on troublemakers. If enough licensees sign up for the radios - which are already being used by 55 city stores to clamp down on shoplifters
WALES will beat Italy in their crunch World Cup group match on Saturday night and reach the quarter-finals of the tournament, forecasts Newport Gwent Dragons prop Rod Snow. And Snow says he is returning straight to Newport after Canada's final game in
KEY Italian pair Mirco Bergamasco and Marco Bortolami have been ruled out of the Italian team to face Wales in Saturday's vital World Cup group match which will decide which team reaches the quarter-finals along with favourites New Zealand. Italy lost
Anneliese Heard's Olympic dream is back on track after the Gwent star won her appeal to be included in the Great Britain team. Gwent triathlon star Heard was involved in a nasty pile-up during Sunday's Madeira World Cup meeting. She needed to finish as
A LACK of adult minders on buses for New-port Welsh School is putting children in danger, say parents. Newport council has failed to put an adult supervisor on three of four city buses serving the school. Parent Teacher Association member Caryl Davies
POLICE officers were attacked by a mob of more than 50 people as they tried to make an arrest in Tredegar, a court heard. One constable needed hospital treatment, and officers eventually used CS spray to break up the crowd, after an "ugly scene" in the
LAST Sunday was a rather depressing day, what with Wales' insipid performance against Tonga at the Rugby World Cup, until I chanced upon a piece of cricket news which really cheered me up. Namely that Mike Kasprowicz had been recalled to the Australian
THE funerals of car blaze tragedy victims Annette Poulsom and Julian Maggs will take place next week. The badly burnt bodies of the two were found by firefighters in a burning car parked near Lower Carno reservoir, Ebbw Vale. Police are still trying to
NEWPORT County goalkeeper Duncan Roberts is in hot water today after allegedly threatening and abusing his own fans. The 24-year-old stopper will face club disciplinary action after he made hand gestures and allegedly verbally insulted and threatened
PARENTS left without care for their autistic children after council services were withdrawn are threatening legal action. Between 25 and 30 families suffered when Torfaen council's social services department, which is facing an overspend of £2.2 million
PUPILS and staff in a Valleys primary school turned the clock back 150 years yesterday for their harvest festival. Victorian costumes were worn by staff and pupils of Cwm Gwyddon School, in Abercarn, as the 150th birthday of the neighbouring Welsh chapel
PUPILS and teachers past and present joined together to celebrate a very special birthday - that of St Julian's junior school. The Newport primary first opened its doors for learning on November 6 1953, guests, including Newport mayor Ray Truman, were
MARJORIE Hellings is recovering from a near-fatal heart attack - but she was determined nothing was going to stop her meeting the men who saved her life. The Risca pensioner spent the days and weeks after her August 22 cardiac arrest wondering who had
ONLY a few months ago Brent Cockbain, the Australian born and bred lock, was contemplating nothing more than a season with the newly-formed Celtic Warriors and settling further in Wales with his Welsh wife and new baby boy. But his world was to turn upside
CHRIS Wyatt is taking it on the chin as he waits for his chance to start a game in the World Cup. Wyatt, the Llanelli lock born in Newport and still living there, was a last minute replacement when Dragons counterpart Michael Owen withdrew because of
THE ousted former head of a Gwent race equality group has been reinstated after winning an employment tribunal yesterday. Dr Mashuq Ally, of Barrack Hill, Newport, lost his job as director of the South East Wales Racial Equality Council in July amid allegations
CERI Sweeney has won the Wales outside-half vote and the whole front row is changed as coach Steve Hansen makes 11 changes, one positional, for Saturday's crucial World Cup pool match against Italy at Canberra Stadium. Sweeney has been preferred to Jones
CERI Sweeney has won the Wales outside-half vote and the whole front row is changed as coach Steve Hansen makes 11 changes, one positional, for Saturday's crucial World Cup pool match against Italy at Canberra Stadium. Sweeney has been preferred to Jones
THERE was a corner of Canberra that was Canada last night - our hotel. After the stirring performance in defeat by the Canadians against Italy the team was given a hero's welcome at the hotel we are sharing with them, though mercifully they left this
IT'S showdown time, admits Wales full-back Rhys Williams ahead of Saturday's huge World Cup Pool D clash with Italy at Canberra Stadium. 'We wouldn't expect anything else, we have got to target it and we have got to win three out of four games,' said
