GWENT-based Welsh nat-ional coach Tony Will-iams, pictured, is ada-mant women's boxing will appear as a full Olympic sport for the first time at the 2012 London Games. And in order that Welsh women have the opportunity to take part, the Principality's
PUPILS walked through the doors of their new £7.2 million state-of-the-art Gwent school for the first time yesterday. Abergavenny's Deri View Primary School was built as part of a package of measures to combat the growing number of surplus places in Monmouthshire
A NEW environmentally-friendly burial scheme is being showcased at a Gwent castle. The 6.1 hectare burial site in the grounds of Usk Castle can contain up to 2,500 graves, but will have no gravestones. All the graves will be mapped out on a computer plan
IF it's got wheels or if it floats Paul Heaton's your man. Especially the wheels. He's written about merchant shipping with some success, but it's the seemingly unending stream of books about lorries and buses that have them queuing outside the book stores
TRIBUTES were paid today to a Newport councillor who died days after major heart surgery. As reported in later editions of the Argus yesterday, Dr Bill Morgan, 59, died of liver failure at the University of Wales Hospital, Cardiff, on Saturday night.
Glamorgan seamer Simon Jones was today ruled out of England's crucial deciding Ashes Test at The Oval after failing a fitness test on his injured right ankle. Jones was put through his paces by physiotherapist Kirk Russell at Lord's this morning but was
A NEWPORT teacher scooped £16,000 on the roadshow version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Maths supply teacher Mark Labbatt, of Winchester Close, won the cash at the Princess Theatre in Torquay. He was a contestant during the last night of the touring
Carl Robinson is grateful to at last have been given a proper run in the Wales team. The Sunderland midfielder was at best a bit-part player under Mark Hughes, amassing just 19 games in six seasons - most as substitute - before John Toshack took over.
A NIGHTCLUB boss defended his decision to stay open until 6am when it holds special events. Zanzibar, in Stow Hill, was granted the extension by Newport council and there were no objections from residents. Now residents claim they were not consulted enough
IT seemed like the simplest of ideas. Charge residents in a busy street £10 a year to guarantee them a parking space outside their own homes. But the plan has turned into a farce, with the council insisting people fork out a tenner for the permit - and
Selling Rodney Parade -- sacrilege or sensible in the year 2005 and beyond? I offer this suggestion as a way out, as an alternative to Newport falling way behind the rest of Wales in rugby and sports stadia. I know such an idea varies from being controversial
NEWPORT'S James Collins has regained full fitness and is desperate to take his place in the Wales team for tomorrow night's World Cup qualifier against Poland, but admits he might have to make do with a place on the bench again. Collins replaced Robert
CABINET members of a Gwent council will meet next week to consider a radical new proposal to amalgamate two primary schools. Torfaen's director of education Mike de Val put forward a new plan to close Cwmbran's Brookfield and Hollybush primary schools
MORE than 200 jobs are on their way with the major expansion of a factory. American automotive giant ArvinMeritor Inc is to expand its factory in Cwmbran to accommodate the company's commercial vehicle trailer systems and axle manufacturing division,
THE FAMILY of a Gwent man convicted of murdering his girlfriend in India today revealed he will appeal against his conviction. Last week Blaina man Adrian Duggan was jailed for life for the murder of Catherine Campbell in a Goa holiday resort on Christmas
A VICAR of Dibley moment came to an ancient Valleys church as parishioners gave thanks for their animal friends. In scenes reminiscent of the TV episode in which Geraldine played by Dawn French opened the portals of Dibley's church to the furred and feathered
