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  • Cannabis dealt yards from police station

    TWO MEN carried out a cannabis deal just yards from the major incident room at Pontypool police station, a court heard. Gethin Francombe, 21, of Blaendare Road, Pontypool, and Mark White, 21, of Clos Afon Llwyd, Pontypool, each admitted possessing

  • 5,000 apply for 400 jobs

    MORE than 5,000 applications flooded into the new Quinn radiator factory in Newport when they started recruiting for 400 people. It is a year since the Irish-based manufacturing giant announced it was going to build Europe's biggest radiator factory

  • ASBO yob jailed for nine months

    A NEWPORT teenager whose ASBO banned him from using his own front door was locked up for a string of offences including thefts, criminal damage and breaching the order twice. Marcus Ball, 19, was also charged stealing from a car on the Broadmead Park

  • Trouble makers hit with £80 fines

    POLICE have fined known trouble-makers who have made Gwent residents' lives hell. Six men,one woman, and a male youth were targetd by officers after their booze-fuelled antics were captured on film by covert video surveillance around the George Street

  • Why the ads wheely annoy me

    There are some adverts I really hate. Seriously. Some annoy me so much that I'd like to put my hand through the screen and choke the irritating actors with whatever product they're pushing until they keel over and admit defeat. Like Barry Scott, for

  • TV dodgers caught

    ALMOST 900 people in Newport were caught watching television without a valid licence in the first half of of this year, according to results published today. Half-year results reveal there were 895 licence dodgers in Newport in the first six months of

  • Visitor centre bill goes £300,000 over budget

    A NEW development at one of Gwent's top tourist attractions is set to go more than £300,000 over budget. The new visitors centre at Cwmcarn Forest Drive looked set to cost £500,000 more than the £1.5 million planned. There was even talk of the project

  • A lighthouse could be yours – for £1million

    IT BOASTS 18 rooms, three of them en-suite bedrooms, one further bathroom, two reception rooms and outstanding views across the Bristol Channel. The two-floor property also consists of a hallway with a spiral staircase, a hot tub, a flotation tank -

  • Desperate parents' reward offer

    THE parents of a missing Gwent man will mark his 27th birthday tomorrow by offering a £5,000 reward for information leading to his whereabouts. James Nutley, from Deepweir Gardens, Caldicot, disappeared in October 2004 while on a golfing trip with

  • Three held in sex attack hunts

    GWENT police have arrested two men in connection with a rape and serious sexual assault in Risca. They have also arrested a man in connection with a second, unrelated, sex assault. Officers launched an investigation after a 15-year-old girl was

  • Young dad braves fire in rescue bid

    A YOUNG father ran into a burning block of flats in a brave attempt to rescue his sleeping neighbours. Justin Parcell, 20, of Roding Close, Bettws, Newport, was dozing in front of the TV when fire broke out in a ground floor flat at 1.45am on Saturday

  • Vandals risk deadly blast in village hall

    VANDALS diced with death when they tried to explode an aerosol in a village hall microwave. Police are investigating the incident, involving vandals who broke into Langstone Village Hall on Old Chepstow Road sometime between Friday and Saturday nights

  • Allan wants to give back to charity

    NEWPORT councillor Allan Morris is back on his feet and raring to go less than a week after coming out of hospital after undergoing lifesaving heart surgery Now the Lliswerry councillor wants to help raise money for the British Heart Foundation whose

  • Two arrests over Risca sex attack

    POLICE have arrested two men in connection with a serious sexual assault in Risca. The men from Abercarn, aged 22 and 23, were arrested after a girl of 15 was attacked in a lane off Commerical Street at midnight on Monday. It is believed she was raped

  • Please help my Joanne

    CHARITY Barnardo's is appealing for a carer to give a disabled Gwent 16-year-old independence from her mum. The charity set up a scheme in Blaenau Gwent offering "link carers" to give parents, carers and patients a break. Joanne Oliver, from Abertillery

  • Day case rates are straining system

    TOO few patients are having their treatment as day cases in Gwent hospitals, leading to longer than necessary stays in a system struggling to cope with demand. Despite improvements in recent months in the number of day case treatments at the Royal

  • Brucie in charge of golf cup

    VETERAN entertainer Bruce Forsyth will take to the greens in Newport for the star-studded All Star Cup golf tournament, it was announced yesterday. The 76-year-old former Generation Game host was named in the line-up for the second All Star Cup being

  • Dragons' start to season is a knockout

    MORE than 1,500 people turned out help kick-off Newport Gwent Dragons' season. Fans of all ages made their way to Rodney Parade on Sunday afternoon for a family fun day and, despite the dull weather, enjoyed music, stalls and displays, as well as an

  • Beadle so upbeat

    NEWPORT County boss Peter Beadle believes his side are on the right track and is urging supporters to come and see for themselves, starting with tomorrow's home clash against Basingstoke Town (kick-off 7.45pm). Beadle witnessed his charges draw 3-3

  • Skipper so hungry

    WALES skipper Ryan Giggs, 33 in November, has stressed his hunger to lead Wales into a major finals. Giggs steps out tonight in Swansea to win his 57th cap, hoping that the forthcoming Euro 2008 campaign will end up with him gracing the stage of a

  • YM glad for Cueto

    ANDREW Cueto turned the clock back and did the YM a big favour at UWIC on Saturday, the opening day of the MacWhirter Welsh League season, answering a SOS keeper call with Julian Phillips (working) and Marcus Ardle (injured) out of the reckoning.

  • Wife's tribute to tragic PC

    THE wife of a Gwent police officer who died after collapsing on a cricket pitch today paid tribute to his "wicked sense of humour". Father-of-one PC Hywel Evans, 43, (pictured) died after collapsing during a Blackwood Town Seconds match against Rogerstone

  • Love, love, love

    This is really saaaaad but do you know the question that's on my mind today..... "Do you believe in love?". It's so cheesy but ..... do you?? I suppose you either do or you don't.... Anyway, enough soppiness. I was pretty impressed with the other

  • These shoes are made for buying ...

    Why is it that whenever I am met with a warm smile by a passerby it kicks starts my day and I think, see there we go haven't I always said that the most touching things in the world still come without a price tag...even though (ahem ahem) I'm the first

  • Texting is the only way

    Blog number B: Just as there are rules which apply to everyone you may notice, as you get older, that there are rules followed only by individuals and which you know nothing about. My teenager follows a rule, or a sign I can't see, which says Please leave

  • Old before my time?

    I am regularly discriminated against on the grounds of my age. The main culprits are the two biggest DIY stores who refuse to give me a 10% discount card because I am not yet 60 years old. How can they get away with this blatant unfairness?

  • Noise, football and parking - what more is there to life?

    LAST year's changes to Britain's licensing laws were meant to signal the nation's final descent into a boozy, violent hell. While that hasn't quite happened there have been some noticeable changes, particularly for those of us who live on or near a "