YOUTH expert David Williams is the sixth and final member of new Wales boss John Toshack's backroom staff, it was revealed yesterday. The former Wales international and caretaker coach joins Brian Flynn and Alan Curtis in overseeing the under-21, under
NEWCASTLE director of rugby Rob Andrew has called on Newport Gwent Dragons coach Chris Anderson and flanker Jamie Ringer to apologise for remarks they made ahead of Sunday's Heineken Cup showdown at Kingston Park. Ringer said on Saturday after the Dragons
'NEWPORT Gwent Drag-ons will have plenty of support in the north-east of England on Sunday for their must-win Heineken Cup-tie against Newcastle at Kingston Park. The Dragons received an allocation of 400 tickets for the match a couple of weeks ago and
GWENT'S WBO super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe's promoter Frank Warren says he will re-open negotiations next week for a new opponent for the fighter once a new date for his next defence is finalised That date is likely to be March after Calzaghe
A NEW estate of 152 homes could be built on the site of a former Newport high school. Bellway Homes has announced plans to build 119 houses and 33 flats on the site of the former St Joseph's High School, Duffryn. The 3.6 hectare site also includes a small
THE long-awaited Cwm bypass could be open next month, it was revealed yesterday. The three-mile road, which runs from south of Waunlwyd to the A4046 roundabout at Aberbeeg, does not yet have an official date for opening. But Cwm councillor Des Davies
NEWPORT must aim to double its student population and become one of the top 70 places in the UK to shop, according to a new strategy for the city. And the panel behind it, the Local Strategic Partnership, is inviting the public to add their own ideas
TWO young women trapped by a blaze in a Newport house were rescued by firefighters early today. Emergency services were alerted to the fire in Royal Oak Drive in the early hours of this morning. The pair, who were trapped in an upstairs bedroom, were
PROPOSALS for new hospitals in Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent are safe under new Health and Social Services Minister Dr Brian Gibbons, he said yesterday. But the Irish GP, appointed on Monday in the wake of former health and social services minister Jane
WALES threequarter Hal Luscombe will have a special splint made to protect his injured thumb so that he can play for Newport Gwent Dragons in their vital Heineken Cup-tie against Newcastle at Kingston Park on Sunday. Luscombe injured a ligament in his
A man was arrested over the death of a convicted armed robber whose badly burned body was found in woodland on the Gwent border, police said today. The body of Courtney Davies, 53, from the Rumney area of Cardiff, was found with multiple stab wounds in
ECONOMIC Development Minister Andrew Davies said yesterday he "deplored" the way a series of manufacturing firms had closed factories in Wales - including a number in Gwent - leading to hundreds of redundancies. Last week more than 100 workers at Merton
THE price of the average home in Newport almost doubled in the past four years, new figures released today show. And the city is the Welsh property hotspot of 2004 according to statistics from The Principality Building Society. The statistics from major
PARENTS fighting to save a closure-threatened community school are outraged after an education chief branded them a 'rag, tag and bobtail' opposition. In an extraordinary letter to Torfaen AM Lynne Neagle, Torfaen cabinet member for education John Turner
A GWENT woman starts a five-year jail sentence today after an attack on a police sergeant left him with a detached retina. Sergeant Lyndon John, of Cwmbran police, had major eye surgery after the vicious attack and was off work for more than two months
