This blog starts on Monday - the day I plan to have my last ciggy. At least that's the theory. If anyone has any tips for me in the meantime feel free to click on my name or leave a post. I need all the help I can get. Until Monday .......
TORRENTIAL rain brought down part of the roof at a Newport fast food restaurant Thursday. Three-year-old Kelsey Acerman and her mum Gemma were directly underneath the ceiling of the McDonalds on Old Chepstow Road, Coldra, when it started to collapse
GRANVILLE Harris stood out from the teenage students collecting exam results at Coleg Gwent today. The 74-year-old has made a hobby of collecting A-levels in his retirement to stave off boredom. Mr Harris got a B in history to add to the C in geography
A DIALYSIS patient who told a public inquiry he is regularly left waiting for ambulances which do not turn up says he was asked to stop making complaints by phone. Keith Callaway, 62, of Monnow Way, Bettws, says over the last two years he has lost count
A NURSE who works at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital saw her husband leap with their two children from a fourth floor hotel balcony, killing their six year old son. The 32-year-old man, John Hogan, was charged with murder and attempted murder on the
A GWENT-born teacher has died from skin cancer . Jo Bryant, who grew up in Abertillery, died at the age of 43 after a brave two-year battle fighting melanoma. Sally Burridge, her partner of 15 years, said Jo would be hugely missed. She added they had
A BLEARY-eyed blog today after getting back at 2.30 this morning following my jaunt up to Manchester to (a) watch the England v Greece game and (b) take my two Man Utd-mad sons to Old Trafford for the first time. A total nightmare of a journey up there
A former builder was today found guilty of murdering three generations of the same family by bludgeoning them to death with a pole. Mandy Power, 34, her bed-ridden mother Doris Dawson, 80, and her daughters Katie, 10, and Emily, eight, were found dead
PEOPLE of all ages took to the dance floor to raised cash for an alopecia charity. The 12-hour non-stop danceathon was held at Burnt Barn Road Sports and Social Club in Bulwark, Chepstow, and raised around £350 for the Alopecia Areata Support Charity
COUNCILLORS in Usk reacted with fury after the Home Office said it would not meet them to discuss scrapping the policy of placing sex offenders at Prescoed open prison. Usk Town Council wrote to the Home Secretary, Dr John Reid, earlier this month
WHATEVER grade is inside A-level student Cally-Jo Purnell's envelope today, she says she has already won the biggest fight of all. Last week, the 19-year-old from Duke Street, Abertillery, was told she was in remission by doctors after being diagnosed
AN ENVIRONMENTAL group wants drivers to foot the bill for travelling on a busy Gwent road. Traffic congestion has long been a problem on Hardwick Hill on the A48 through Chepstow and locals say it has worsened over the last couple of years, especially
POLICE swooped to issue on-the-spot fines to eight known trouble-makers who have made Gwent residents' lives "hell". Six men, one woman, and a 17-year-old youth were targeted by officers after their booze-fuelled antics were captured on film by covert
A FORMER Gwent police dog dubbed 'dangerous' by the force will be assessed by the Institute of Professional Dog Trainers tomorrow. German Shepherd Saxon is in danger of being put down after Gwent police branded him "unsafe to work with." Today Gwent
NEWPORT County boss Peter Beadle was delighted last night after his side thrashed Basingstoke 3-0, but promised fans: "We can play better." It was a super start to the home campaign, Craig Hughes with a brace and Julian Alsop with a goal on his home
ORGANISERS of a Newport carnival say they could lose thousands of pounds if they are forced to re-route the procession because of a road closure. Traders in Pill are angry that Commercial Road has been closed off for a number of weeks after a fire
NEWPORT County got their home campaign off to a perfect start last night with a comprehensive win over a lacklustre Basingstoke. Though the visitors were poor - just as bad as they were at Spytty Park last season - County performed really well, quick
PAUL Turner is hoping to be able to shuffle his pack this season to avoid a similar situation to last season when his Newport Gwent Dragons side staggered to the finish line. The Dragons failed to qualify for the Heineken Cup last season when they
CRUMBLING maisonettes on a city estate are to be torn down in November to the relief of residents. All but one of the tenants of the Parret Close maisonettes in Bettws now have new accommodation lined up. The council is still in discussion with
BLACKWOOD'S Bradley Dredge will be among the 33 European's bidding to end a dreadful run in the majors, when the USPGA, the final big one' of the season, gets underway this afternoon. It is an astonishing seven years since a European claimed one of
CROESYCEILIOG made the perfect start to life in the top flight of the MacWhirter Welsh League, winning their opening Division One game at Caerleon last night. Caerleon, beaten at home by Pontypridd last Saturday, went down 2-0, a goal scored in each
DEFENCE secretary Des Browne's decision to grant posthumous pardons to 306 British soldiers shot after being accused of cowardice or desertion during the First World War has been greeted with jubilation by a Gwent relative of an executed man. Private
PARENTS at two closure-threatened Gwent schools are gearing up for a fight to save them. Monmouthshire County Council proposed to close Sandy Lane Infants and West End Infants in Caldicot because of too many surplus places. The plans would see Sandy
Hello all, Firstly I think maybe I should introduce myself... as if there is anyone reading this that is remotley like myself then 'you like to be a little bit nosey' or as I prefer to put it....'FINDING OUT ALL THE FACTS'. Well firstly I'am 25 years
This isn't a real blog, it's more likecommunity service. It was either this or pick up litter from the side of the A48. And that's a long road. I suppose anyone who actually happens to stumble on this and stays long enough to read it will feel as
What really annoys me about the doctor's surgery that I went to was that whenever I have to go there, no matter how early I go, there's always so many people before me; arrrgggghhh...like soooo many meaning the double digits 12-13!!! Maybe that's because
So, be honest. Raise your hand if you will. Are you an office gossip? No? See, now that's where you just might be wrong. 'Psst, he's lying!' I may stage-whisper to the colleague next to me, sidling up on my swivel chair to deliver the latest tidbits
4. Further to my previous waffle about the written language, my lack of it and other peoples as well, I read an article in the Daily Mail which said that a marine bug (their word not mine) which lives at nearly minus 20 degrees C has greatly increased
I have a neighbour who is something of a grumpy old man himself - although he has quite a way to go before he reaches my elevated level of grumpiness. My neighbour has just done some of work inside his house including removing a large stone 1970's type
