NEWPORT County boss John Cornforth will do his best not to let the managerial hangman's noose dangling over his head affect him going into tomorrow's crucial Nationwide South trip to Lewes. Cornforth admitted last week that his job would be in jeopardy
WITH a slow, sad, balletic turn one of the most prominent actors in what has been Newport's industrial story made its exit from the stage. Over 280 feet tall and 180 feet in diameter at its base, drably grey and with the uninspiring proportions of a giant
NEWPORTONIANS played a prominent part in the ceremonials as a memorial to the men of the Merchant Navy who died in the Falklands conflict was unveiled in London by the First Sea Lord. Bertram Bale, of Ridgeway, Newport, and vice-president of the Merchant
WALES will never go down to three regional rugby teams and there will always be a major side playing out of Gwent, Welsh Rugby Union chief executive David Moffett has insisted in an exclusive interview with the South Wales Argus. He also urges Newport
A RENOWNED Gwent doctor who discovered a breed of moth has died at the age of 89. Dr G A Neil Horton discovered the new moth half-way up a mountain in the north of Monmouthshire, and was also well known as a family doctor in Usk. Dr Horton was born in
ROCK bands are mobilising for a mini benefit festival in aid of Gwent tot Amber Hartland. The youngster won the hearts of Argus readers, who followed her brave battle against a rare genetic disorder over the last three years. Amber's suffers from infantile
NEWPORT's two-and-a-half-year-old Welsh Premier Division ground record will come under heavy fire when Swansea visit Rodney Parade tomorrow. Swansea have got former Newport forwards Darren Davies and Nick Kelly in their ranks and word has come down the
A BUZZARD found hours from death was finally released after being nursed back to health. The six-month-old buzzard flew back into the wild following rehabilitation by the Welsh Owl and Bird Sanctuary, in Treowen. A walker found him lying on a path on
A TERRIFIED elderly widow injured in a street attack said she is still scared to leave her house. The 78-year-old, who lives in Abertillery, suffered a broken nose, elbow and wrist and bruises to her hands and face after the attack by a youth in July.
LITTLE Brianna Holland, who is just eleven months old, makes five generations of her family. Josephine Brown, 87, of Eschol Court, Lliswerry, Newport, is Brianna's great-great-grandmother, and she is the first in an all-women line-up. Brianna lives in
JOE Calzaghe's last fight at the CIA was a punishing two-round destruction of top American Byron Mitchell and he is expecting his return there on Saturday to be equally explosive. "It's going to be exactly the same with the same result with the difference
PENSIONERS who meet at a weekly social club had the lifeline minibus which takes them there stopped without explanation this week. Fifty members of the Wednesday Club, which meets every week at Bettws day centre, in Newport, say they have no idea why
Newport Gwent Dragons must step up to the mark next week when they face a daunting double against Celtic League champions the Ospreys and third placed Leinster in the space of three days, both away. The Dragons have won all their four games so far, three
PROPOSALS to close a Valleys comprehensive school because of falling pupil numbers were revealed last night. But councillors and school governors said they will fight Caerphilly council's plans for Oakdale Comprehensive and have vowed to keep the school
ANGRY Newport traders could refuse to pay their business rates because they are sick of gangs of hoodie-wearing youths causing havoc. Traders in the Handpost area of Stow Hill say teenagers as young as 13 are taking drugs and lighting fires on shop roofs
