A PAIR of former youth theatre performers are hoping to trace fellow members of their Gwent-based company 50 years after they trod the boards together. Gwent Youth Theatre is celebrating its golden anniversary next year. It started life as the Monmouthshire
A FORECAST for Newport shows a bright future for the environment, with the city's recycling rate, already one of the best in Wales, set to improve even further. It is calculated that 28 per cent of rubbish will be spared from the tip by next year after
Newport Wasps' Danish rider Mads Korneliussen, battling to get back into action, could ride at King's Lynn tomorrow night with the help of a body support on his ligament-damaged shoulder and arm. The 22-year-old from Aalborg returned home for both private
CANDY floss, a castle and a clown were just some of the ingredients of a fun day on a Newport estate. Organised by Alway Community Association, those who attended the event did not let the overcast weather dampen their enthusiasm. 'Erbie the Clown put
POLICE in Cwmbran are launching a summer crackdown on youths on scrambler and quad bikes who are ripping up the countryside. Officers have received dozens of complaints from residents in the Hollybush area, where youths on bikes are tearing across the
HOOKER Leighton Jones, son of sacked senior coach Steve Jones, says he is to speak to the players before deciding whether to accept the captaincy of Pontypool Rugby Club. Pontypool's website last week carried an announcement that Jones had been contacted
NEWPORT is losing the retail war and failing to attract shoppers, a shock survey reveals today. More than 167,000 people shopped in the city last year spending £640 million. But a report says it could attract up to 2.2million people each year because
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons include all six new signings in their squad for the opening match of new coach Paul Turner's reign against a Gwent Premier Select XV at Pandy Park tomorrow (7.15pm). And while team manager Jim McCreedy stressed the result was not
THOUSANDS flocked into Blackwood to cheer on the town's sixth annual carnival on Saturday. An estimated 5,000 people enjoyed the bustling party atmosphere. They gathered under the bunting to watch more than 70 vintage motorbikes and vehicles lead the
REGULARS were so afraid their country watering hole could be taken over by a pub-chain they decided to band together and buy it themselves. Six locals in the village of Grosmont, near Abergavenny, stumped up the cash to buy the Angel Inn last month. The
SHOPPERS in Newport are being warned to beware of purse snatchers preying on women in the city. Police say pickpockets operating in Newport are stealing on average at least one purse every day. Now plain clothes police and uniformed officers are working
Britain's Tim Benjamin was full of confidence after cruising into the 400metres semi-finals at the World Championships. Benjamin broke the 45-second barrier for only the second time in his career to record the fastest time from all seven heats in Helsinki
RESIDENTS were able to view plans for the redevelopment of a key area of Newport for the first time yesterday. Ambitious proposals for Rodney Parade include the raising of the riverbank to provide flood protection, several hundred new apartments and a
AN ANNUAL charity football match was set up in memory of two men killed in a valleys car crash. Abertillery man Michael Henry Davies, 54, and Edward Thomas Ralph, 65, from Crickhowell, died on July 19 when their cars collided on the Garnlydan junction
Christian Malcolm, Marlon Devonish and Tim Benjamin gave Britain's beleaguered team a welcome boost on the fourth day of competition at the World Championships. All sprinters advanced to the next round, Newport's Malcolm and Devenish in the 200 metres
Australia face an anxious wait to find out if pace bowler Brett Lee, pictured, will be fit to play at Old Trafford in the third Test against England. Lee, who very nearly guided Australia to victory in the second Test at Edgbaston on Sunday with a heroic
A CHARITY for blind and visually impaired people is to close its Blaenau Gwent resource centre because of a lack of funds. Trustees of the Vision Foundation have decided to close their Ebbw Vale centre at the end of next month. The closure of the centre
