GLAMORGAN begin their competitive 2009 season with a one-day Friends Provident trip to Old Trafford to face Lancashire on Sunday, April 19. The Welsh county open their home account at Cardiff’s SWALEC Stadium on Tuesday, April 28, with an LV
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a blaze involving two cars in Palmyra Place, Newport. A crew from Maindee attended the fire at around 3.21am on Thursday and two hose reels were used to extinguish the fire. Eyewitness Mark Wright, 34, of Ridgeway Court
A man escaped after an attempted armed robbery at the Londis store on Chepstow Road, Newport. Gwent Police believe a gun was involved in the incident that happened at 7.25pm on Thursday. Nothing was taken from the premises. The store was closed off
A motorcyclist died yesterday after a crash on Langstone Road, Newport. An eyewitness said his bike was intwined in a metal fence near the Hilton Hotel as the rider lay on the floor close by. Emergency service staff are believed to have worked for
GWENT residents can now access the latest crime information for their area using new online interactive crime maps. Statistics for offences, such as burglary, robbery, vehicle crime, anti-social behaviour and violence against the person, are available
ALMOST a quarter of a million pounds of assembly money means new schools in Newport are a step closer to opening. The city council's school building fund was due to receive £2 million from the assembly for the next financial year but was handed
Passing sentence on Oakwood, Justice Lloyd-Jones said that the recorded footage of the ride made it clear that there was a systemic problem. "I regret to say that the figures derived from the analysis of the CCTV footage make it clear that this was
READERS are reporting a serious accident on Newport's Langstone Road. One eye-witness said 999 staff were resuscitating a motorbiker after his bike had gone through a fence near the Hilton Hotel at 3.30pm today. The Wales Ambulance Trust
Afterwards, Hilary Williams, Hayley's aunt, dismissed the fine as "insignificant’’. "I feel that it should have been a lot higher. It should have been so much higher that it would have put this company out of business for good.’’ She added: "No
The distraught family of the teenager who fell to her death from a white-knuckle ride condemned a £250,000 fine for the company running the theme park today as "far too little’’. Sunday school teacher Hayley Williams, 16, of Pontypool, plunged
A POLICE officer told a jury yesterday that when they arrested a man accused of rape, one of his alleged victims, who was travelling with him was "petrified" of him. Jury members at Newport Crown court heard Michael Glyn Thomas raped a woman in her
A theme park was fined £250,000 after a teenage girl died after plunging 100ft from a ride. In 2004, Hayley Williams, 16, from Pontypool, died after falling from the Hydro Ride at Oakwood, Pembrokeshire. A court heard today how hundreds
ANGRY parents have hit out at plans to close a Gwent primary school, saying the decision will “rip the heart out” of their community. Blaenau Gwent’s Executive Committee yesterday approved plans to proceed with the publication of S statutory notices
IF YOU were looking towards this columnist to give you some festive cheer – forget it because the very fabric of our local football system is in danger of collapse. You see it’s not only the credit crunch during this harsh financial crisis which is threatening
THE rugby team of the moment has to be the Harlequins after their tremendous Heineken Cup double over Stade Francais and that fantastic final few minutes of the second game when they kept the ball for 29 phases before Nick Evans dropped the matchwinning
An 81-year-old war veteran was today fined £1,000 for killing two elderly friends by ploughing into them in his BMW. Edwin Woods was driving to an opticians to collect a pair of glasses when he was dazzled by the sun, striking Doreen Morgan, 74, and
THIS year police have attended seven car accidents on the A4042 trunk road between Mamhilad and Goytre around the Little Mill junction, one which was fatal. At the weekend that a man was seriously injured in a crash between a Ford Focus and
WELCOME one and all to the 2008 Pearlman Gwent sport awards, the lesser-known event that follows the UK loveathon known as the BBC Sports personality of the year. This year, in the inaugural Gwent awards – stand-by for typical ‘Gwent does not exist’
A NEWPORT woman has spoken out against the treatment of an Iraqi friend who threw his shoes at President George Bush. Helen Williams, 40, of Malpas, met Muntadar al-Zaidi when she was working as a volunteer in Iraq in 2003. She said
So the girl who was head and shoulders above anyone else won “X-Factor”, but as you would expect it’s not to everyone’s liking. I played Alexandra Burke’s version of “Hallelujah” on my show last Sunday and I think she’s done a decent job of it.
The traditional telephone ‘sickie’ is dying out – as thousands of employees text in sick instead. Researchers found one in five employees now send a quick text message to let people know they won’t be in. And a quarter of those, polled
A company behind a theme park where a schoolgirl plunged to her death from a white knuckle ride will be sentenced today for a fatal health and safety breach. Sunday school teacher Hayley Williams, 16, fell 100ft from the top of the spectacular Hydro
NEWPORT County manager Dean Holdsworth swelled with pride after seeing his side more than match Blue Square Premier outfit Rushden & Diamonds over two FA Trophy clashes. The sides couldn’t be separated after more than 200 minutes of football this week
PAUL Turner has revealed his Christmas wish list – home Magners League derby victories over Welsh rivals the Ospreys and Cardiff Blues, starting with the Liberty Stadium outfit tomorrow night. Though the Ospreys provided the lion’s share of Wales’ Grand
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have named three scrum halves in their squad for tomorrow night’s Magners League derby against the high flying Ospreys at Rodney Parade. Wayne Evans, who has missed only two games this season, Rob Lewis, the number two in Europe
MEMBERS of Gwent’s business community came together to mark the opening of a new innovation centre aimed at supporting new companies. The Springboard Innovation Centre on Llantarnam Park Industrial Estate, Cwmbran, was yesterday unveiled as the latest
WE are delighted at plans announced by justice secretary Jack Straw to allow the reporting by the media of family court proceedings, including care proceedings. For readers who do not already know the family court is currently out of bounds to journalists
THE shocking case of the 96-year-old woman who was left waiting 19 hours for an ambulance is yet more proof of a crisis in our ambulance service. While we realise in this case that it was not a 999 call and therefore not deemed an emergency, Marjorie
A 96-year-old great grandmother says she lay in bed in agony as she waited 19 hours for an ambulance. Marjorie Weale, from Ponthir, is suffering from sciatica and said her doctor called 999 for an ambulance at 1.30pm on Monday, which did not
IT was all fun and games at a Newport primary school yesterday, as their Christmas party was ambushed by some special guests. Stars of the Riverfront panto Sleeping beauty, backed by the Argus as media sponsorers of the show, turned up to say
A Croesyceiliog man is walking hundreds of miles to map every tree on Torfaen Council-owned land. Rob Richards, 49, is an agricultural officer who is recording the species, size and age of each of the tens of thousands of trees on the council
Unemployment looks certain to top two million in the New Year after a black day on the jobs front, with a series of grim figures and fresh redundancies condemning thousands to the dole. The Government conceded that unemployment will get worse
NEWPORT County manager Dean Holdsworth has backed his mentor Sam Allardyce to succeed after he was appointed Blackburn Rovers boss yesterday. Rovers moved quickly after sacking Paul Ince on Tuesday and have swooped for the former Bolton and Newcastle
