POLICE boarded up a flat yesterday in New-port's first 'crack house' closure in the fight against hard drugs. In a high-profile police and council operation Leanne James' flat at Meon Close, Bettws, was boarded up for three months under new powers granted
THE Breva V1100 is Moto Guzzi's latest and probably best big bike to date, but don't take our word for it - the 1100cc Breva sports tourer, was described by Motor Cycle News as "Moto Guzzi's smoothest and best handling bike ever". Although silky smooth
SEAT Sport has taken to the streets of London with a fleet of 30 "black" cabs, all dressed in eye-catching Seat British Touring Car livery. The sporty cabs are proving a great hit with passengers by and passengers in the capital, and are generating enormous
UP TO 400 houses could be built on the site of a long-stay hospital for people with learning disabilities. Gwent Healthcare Trust this week submitted an outline planning application to Torfaen county borough council for hundreds of homes to be built on
HERE'S an event worth getting steamed up over .... The Rotary Club of Abergavenny stages its annual Steam, Veteran and Vintage Rally this Sunday and Monday in the town's Bailey Park. The charity event is one of the biggest fundraisers in South Wales.
SNAP a photo of a Ford vehicle in Britain and you could spend the rest of the year in a sporty new Ford Fiesta ST. Ford Motor Company Limited, established in Britain in 1904, is this year celebrating the 40th birthday of the country's most popular van
THE new Ka Special Editions Design comes with convenience and style additions for just £300 more than the entry model. Ka Design packs in a CD player, central locking, tailgate release, power windows, and a blue leather steering wheel with matching gear
WALES coach Mike Ruddock left for North America yesterday with his squad minus 10 British Lions hoping for a repeat Six Nations Championship performance. Not just the way Wales roared to their first Grand Slam for 27 years, but the way players came in
THERE are 100,000 reasons for former miner Terry Mason and his fellow workers at Big Pit to celebrate today. Because the Blaenavon mining museum has won the UK's largest single arts prize - the £100,000 Gulbenkian Museum of the Year award. Judges praised
THE BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales will be ending their concert season with the choral extravaganza, Verdi's Requiem. This grand finale will take place on Wednesday, June 8, at St David's Hall, Cardiff, at 7.30pm. Taking up the baton to perform
PEOPLE living in two Newport streets aw-oke to find debris strewn across the road after a vandalism spree. Yesterday morning residents in Greenmeadow Road and Pontfaen Road found brick walls demolished and a large antique granite plant pot embedded in
KAYABA Industry Co. Ltd is supplying the new Aston Martin Racing team with its Electronic Power Steering (EPS) system, in a three year technical partner sponsorship deal. Specially designed for racing use, Kayaba's EPS system is fitted to all of Aston
GWENT-based Newcastle speedway captain Phil Morris returns to the Hayley Stadium on Sunday believing his side can upset Newport Wasps and maintain their 100% Premier League record. The 29-year-old Cwmfelinfach product admits it was hard being loaned out
COUNTRY legend Hank Wangford appears at the Riverfront next week. He teams up with Reg Meuross to perform in the Studio in their first tour as a duo. Featuring toe-tappers and tearjerkers including He Forgot to Tell You He Was A Married Man and I've Forgotten
Advanced FSI petrol engine technology extends the list of Audi A8 attributes from this week as a new, directly injected 3.2-litre V6 FSI unit joins the luxury saloon range. The first car in the class to feature this efficiency and economy-boosting injection
ELECTRIC latin blues guitarist Tino Gonzales arrives in Gwent as part of his first major UK tour. The Chicago-born guitarist/singer/songwriter comes to Newport with his Electric Latin Blues band. It is not easy describing Tino in a few words. Perhaps
THE first big musical on the Wales Millennium Centre stage this year is Cameron Mackintosh's new production of the legendary Miss Saigon. Landing in Cardiff on June 7 for a five-week run, Miss Saigon is one of the largest touring productions in the UK
The Pacifier (PG) HH Vin Diesel, Brittany Snow and Lauren Graham IT is Mrs Doubtfire meets Kindergarten Cop in this lame movie with the star of xXx Vin Diesel. In The Pacifier he plays Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe assigned to protect five children following
BILL Baldock, who began a long career in journalism at the Argus' sister paper, the Free Press, died aged 68. Born in London, Mr Baldock moved with his family to Pontypool at the age of three, and attended the then West Mon Grammar School before studying
GET ready to roar with laughter as a top Cardiff comedy club comes to Gwent. The Poncho Comedy Club, normally resident at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, is coming to the Arena, Abertillery, on June 3 as part of its quest to bring Welsh comedy to the
POLICE officers in Blackwood are launching a major new initiative to target vehicle crime in the area. This week, officers are visiting 4,000 homes in and around the town centre to give residents crime prevention packs. This is in addition to the 10,000
IN partnership with Gowrings Mobility, the UK's leading manufacturer and supplier of wheelchair passenger vehicles, Renault is delighted to announce that it has sold its 2,000th wheelchair accessible Renault Kangoo conversion, the most achieved by any
CHILDREN at three Gwent primary schools are getting stuck into some pukka tucker over the next two weeks, thanks to outspoken culinary hero Jamie Oliver. And the new menu, which includes home-made meatballs, freshly prepared lemon chicken and fresh fruit
CLEO Laine and John Dankworth appear as part of the Riverfront Theatre Music Festival on Thursday, June 2. This formidable husband and wife team are world class performers in demand all over the world. Their music includes jazz, classical, pop and folk
IT'S done wonders for the Accord and CR-V, and now comes the third application of Honda's i-CTDi diesel engine: this time the FR-V 6-seater will be recipient to the 2.2 litre diesel made famous by that 'hate something, change something' TV commercial.
ABERGAVENNY conductor Dr Vernon Handley collected his CBE for services to music yesterday. During his 40-year career, Handley, who has long championed British classical music, has recorded more than 150 discs, with more than 90 featuring the works of
THE eighteenth Hay festival is launched today with ten days packed full of events. Hay is a market town in the Brecon Beacons National Park and its 1,500 population trebles during the festival as crowds flock to shows, talks and readings as well as checking
BROWNS Lane, Coventry, England, 18 May, 2005 - Jaguar has achieved a remarkable quadruple success in the latest J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study released today in the U.S. This major achievement for Jaguar was led by its best performing
MEXICAN food is a big passion of mine so eating at a well-known chain restaurant was never going to be filled with excitement for me. Chiquitos has branches spread across the country, usually near cinema complexes, but its Cardiff eatery is nicely placed
NEW mayor of Newport Councillor Ken Critchley yesterday launched his charity appeal to raise money for the Newport branch of the Samaritans, the charity that operates a 24-hour phone line forpeople contemplating suicide. Councillor Critchley, who took
EVERY weekend children at a Gwent nursery take it in turns to take their beloved teddy bear Spencer home with them and then write about his adventures. But now Spencer is on his biggest adventure yet, after he was dropped in a shop and accidentally sold
Global adventure, winning the world's toughest motorcycle race and setting new Guinness World Records are just some of the credentials that BMW's legendary GS range is renowned for. Since the introduction of the original R80 G/S 25 years ago, BMW's GS
