EBBW Vale Rugby Club will still be playing in the Welsh Premier Division next season. The club received a letter from the Welsh Rugby Union this morning confirming this season's bottom club would not be relegated. The Union also confirmed there would
SUPPORTERS of a social club regarded as the last link to steel-making in a Valleys' town face an anxious wait over its future. The committee of the Ebbw Vale RTB Sports and Social club were meeting landowners Corus today to find out if they have a role
A CWMBRAN father who was more than three times the drink drive limit died after his car smashed into another vehicle being driven by a mother with her two young sons, an inquest heard. Wiremu Bill Pakau, aged 30, from Thornhill, Cwmbran, died from multiple
MICHELLE HARRIES is one of the Newport Gwent Dragons' biggest fans. So it was fitting that she unwittingly became a bit of an icon when she visited Ireland for the Leinster v Dragons match last Friday. TV cameras picked out Michelle, 33, of the Gaer,
A GWENT widow is alleged to have six times breached restraining orders protecting her neighbours - allegedly threatening them and damaging their property. Cardiff crown court heard that Dorothy Evans, 78, pictured, deliberately boxed in a tradesman's
A MONMOUTH woman drove at her partner on purpose after a row, causing him to go flying over the roof of her car, a court heard yesterday. Beverley Davies, aged 30, of Geoffrey Drive, denies dangerous driving and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm
A POPULAR church organist has died after being diagnosed with liver cancer. Patrick John Carney, 82, organist at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Newport, died on May 13, after he was diagnosed less than a month ago. As an organist at St Mary's for
RESIDENTS in a Newport street say people have been left "scared to walk the streets" after being terrorised by months of vandalism and burglaries. Locals living on St Woolos Road say they have been plagued by a spate of burglaries and vandalism to their
PERCY Montgomery has been given the all-clear to resume his international career next month -- against Wales. The Newport Gwent Dragons star had his injured hand examined yesterday before returning to South Africa last night. The broken bone was confirmed
BUSINESS is booming at a famous Gwent restaurant after it featured in a reality TV programme its owners had feared would kipper it. The owners of the Walnut Tree Inn in Llandewi Skirrid admit since the eatery appeared on Channel Four's series, Gordon
IF regional rugby in Wales is not reduced from five teams to four the game at top level will die a slow death, claims Newport Gwent Dragons director Martyn Hazell. Coaches, chief executives and team managers met yesterday to try to divide up the leading
AN USK residents group is calling the decision to move sex offenders nearing the end of their sentence to Prescoed open prison "breathtaking, complacent, short-sighted and dangerous." The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Paul Goggins MP, confirmed
A GWENT widow is alleged to have six times breached restraining orders protecting her neighbours - allegedly threatening them and damaging their property. Cardiff crown court heard that Dorothy Evans, 78, deliberately boxed in a tradesman's van parked
GWENT residents caught up in an alleged investment scam are preparing to fly to Cyprus, where the court case is to take place later this month. Former Newport man Gregory Sydenham-Hutt, who also uses the surname Tokkallos, is accused of swindling hundreds
A NEW village could be created in Gwent with radical plans for the site of a factory near Pontypool. A blueprint for a whole new community was submitted yesterday to Torfaen council officials for the regeneration of 162 acres of land around the former
The next three weeks are the most crucial in the golfing season, according to Blackwood's Bradley Dredge. Dredge tees off tomorrow in the lucrative Deutsche Bank Open in Heidelberg, as does Newport's Phillip Price. The following weeks both players will
