AN AWARD-WINNING hair designer has opened a new salon in Abergavenny. Terry Sanders (pictured) already had 50 appointments booked before the doors of his new venture, Mr Terry's, opened for business on Friday. Mr Sanders, 46, has 30 years' experience
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are expected to announce later today that they have gone into administration. The final details were ironed out yesterday during a series of meetings and a press statement is set to be issued. Both the Newport and Ebbw Vale members
ARGUS readers have brought the spirit of Christmas back to a couple terrified by bogus officials who stole their savings. Generous anonymous donations have more than replaced the £300 stolen from Abergavenny pensioners Walter and Lillian Moore. We reported
SENIOR executives believe disgruntled employees are more likely to launch a deliberate attack on a company than kudos-seeking hackers. And they also believe security breaches usually arise from a failure of process rather than a failure of technology.
A massive effort is about to be launched to keep Steve Hansen as Wales coach and extend his contract way beyond the end of this season's Six Nations Championship. Hansen accepted the Wales job for two-and-half years and has always insisted that would
COUNCIL chiefs at the centre of a flattened gravestones row last night pledged relatives will not have to pay for memorials to be restored. Caldicot town council laid scores of headstones flat after a health and safety inspection at Dewstow Cemetery.
A GWENT police worker accused of racially discriminating against a black member of staff said he feels "vindicated" after the allegations were dropped. Ken Leverson, who was found to have racially discriminated against fellow civilian worker Noellar Huggins
MARK Hughes knows the first qualification hurdle will be the hardest for Wales as they look to make the cut for the 2004 European Championships. His red army tackle the Russians in a mammoth two-leg Euro 2004 play-off as Wales aim to remove the major
WELCOME to Curie Close, Newport - where pensioner Bill Casey says he's so fed up with waiting for the damaged street sign to be repaired, he made his own. Mr Casey, 77, says the sign for the Malpas street went missing six months ago. His wife, Barbara
THE LAST chief of Gwent Fire Brigade before its merger was given a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his championing of fire services. Terry Glossop, of Newport, was the chief of Gwent Fire Brigade for eight years before becoming Commandant
NEWPORT'S council chiefs gave a cautious welcome to a radical vision to transform Newport by 2020. Cabinet members supported multi-million pound plans to regenerate the city through new services, a shopping mall, houses and a university campus. But they
POLICE in Cwmbran arrested two ASDA employees yesterday - but not because they have done anything wrong. Jackie Foster and Daryl Griffiths are being held in the cells of Cwmbran Police station until their colleagues at ASDA Cwmbran have raised £500 for
WALES coach Steve Hansen heads for New Zealand today not, as had been suggested he might, having collected his P45 from WRU chief David Moffett in Australia. Hansen instead flies home to visit his two daughters and for a well earned rest. When he returns
A CASH crisis could bring an historical spectacular held in the ancient monuments of Monmouthshire to an end, councillors are being told. The annual Son et Lumiere (sound and light) production is a tourist and community event involving scores of local
UP to 10,000 Torfaen gravestones in three cemeteries may be laid flat after council chiefs carried out a safety review. Up to 90 percent of the 11,268 memorials and headstones in Cwmbran, Blaenavon and Panteg cemeteries have been described as "extremely
NEWPORT'S car crime epidemic is casting a shadow over plans to redevelop the city's former art college. Councillors will decide tomorrow whether to approve proposals to convert the Clarence Place building into luxury flats. But Gwent Police - one of those
GWENT factory workers who put a brake on losses by learning new working practices have secured a top training award. Employees at Cwmbran's ArvinMeritor brakes factory not only secured the future of the 700-worker plant, but are now acting as role models
LESLIE Thomas (pictured), the Man with the Golden Typewriter, spurned the salons of London to launch his latest book in Newport's Ottakars bookshop last night. As the piles of books for signing rapidly diminished and he continued to flourish the well-known
