RAIN failed to stop play at the annual Brynmawr Carnival with residents turning out despite Saturday's downpours. But despite the show of community spirit, organisers said the event would be lucky to make a profit this year. The Brynmawr millennium carnival
TWO teachers who set up a Gwent nursery after they were made redundant now act as role models for other would-be female entrepreneurs. Marie Ellis Jones and Emma Pryer established Little Stars, in Mamhilad, near Pontypool, with help from Chwarae Teg,
WE will find you - that is message to drug users and dealers in Gwent, who are being targeted with technology. Monmouthshire Community Safety Partnership and Gwent Police's B-Division now own a new £40,000 machine which can detect the equivalent in drugs
CHILDREN are being driven out of a Newport playground by yobs, according to a worried parent. Alan Martin, 46, from St Julians, fears the playground in Glebelands Park is becoming a no-go area for young children and their parents. He says the area has
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons number eight Michael Owen says his battle to earn a Test place against New Zealand is as tough as ever despite the injury which has ended Lawrence Dallaglio's British Lions tour almost before it begun. Dallaglio was invalided out
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons number eight Michael Owen says his battle to earn a Test place against New Zealand is as tough as ever despite the injury which has ended Lawrence Dallaglio's British Lions tour almost before it begun. Dallaglio was invalided out
THE daughter of Blaenau Gwent's new Independent MP Peter Law is demanding evidence to back up her expulsion from the Labour party. In an exclusive interview with the Argus Cerian Law says she was wrongly expelled as she did not sign a letter of endorsement
CLASSICAL music is being used as the latest "weapon" in the batle against yobbish behaviour at Newport's bus station. Waiting passengers often feel intimidated by young people handing around but dislike of the music being piped over the tannoys is keeping
CERI Sweeney took on a new role for Wales on Saturday and went close to creating a new national record. The Newport Gwent Dragons star was handed the inside centre position occupied by Gavin Henson last season as Wales coach Mike Ruddock switched him
Lawrence Dallaglio suffered Lions heartbreak for the second time after his tour was ended by a fractured right ankle. The former England captain was stretchered from the field in the first half of the Lions' hard-fought victory over Bay of Plenty after
MIGUEL Angel Jimenez produced a masterclass in how to win at the Celtic Manor Wales Open yesterday, strolling to a four stroke victory with a course-record equalling round of 62. But as the amiable Spaniard puffed on a trademark Cuban cigar and celebrated
WE will find you - that is message to drug users and dealers in Gwent, who are being targeted with technology. Monmouthshire Community Safety Partnership and Gwent Police's B-Division now own a new £40,000 machine which can detect the equivalent in drugs
THIS is one bunch of people who know how to have a cracking time. It might look frightening, but believe it or not, whip-cracking is the latest craze sweeping the nation, and Gwent hosted the first national competition on Saturday. It's a skill movie-makers
MIGUEL Angel Jimenez doesn't recall a single detail of his first trip to Wales back in 1989, but he will certainly never forget his return trip of 2005. On a sensational final day that saw six different men take an outright lead, it was Jimenez who kept
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save a Gwent primary school from closure say plans for a development of 400 houses in the next village should guarantee its future. Ponthir Primary School is threatened with closure by Torfaen council along with two other primary
A VAST swathe of Wentwood Forest is up for sale, sparking fears that it could be lost to commercial timber companies. At 3,000 acres the historic forest on the edges of Newport is the largest ancient woodland in Wales and the ninth largest in the UK.
Lions.....34 Bay of Plenty.....20 Lawrence Dallaglio suffered Lions heartbreak for the second time after his tour was ended by a fractured right ankle. The former England captain was stretchered from the field in the first half of the Lions' hard-fought
