A DISABLED teenager who encountered problems getting his wheelchair on and off buses in Gwent is making an appeal to find his very own mode of vintage transport. The Argus reported in March how 16-year-old Ryan Escott, of Swffryd, was told he could
PARENTS at a Newport secondary school claim their children are riding in unsuitable vehicles after yellow school buses were withdrawn from some parts of the city. Yellow school buses are now only running as shuttle services between the city centre
A CAR collided with another car and a garden wall on a Newport road today. The Volkswagen Polo collided with a Ford Focus and a wall in the front garden of a house on Christchurch Road just after 5.15pm. The road was closed off by police and they
WALES' autumn Test plans have been dealt a huge blow with the loss of their British and Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips. Phillips, a star performer during the Lions' gripping Test series against world champions South Africa this summer, faces up to
TONY Heare says he always had the gift of the gab. But when the Caldicot rock fan started volunteering on hospital radio at the Royal Gwent three years ago, he realised his talents could be shared with more than just family and friends. Three
AUDITIONS for the first Xmas Factor talent competition will take place in Abergavenny later this month. Welsh celebrity Peter Carrie will join the judging panel to help select a handful of hopefuls who will go through to the final. The event was
WE are delighted to hear that a planned march by the so-called Welsh Defence League through Newport on Saturday has apparently been called off. The march, ostensibly to protest against Islam, would probably have stirred up ugly scenes, with counter-protesters
WE find it astonishing that a convicted rapist from Lithuania, who has built up a string of convictions in this country, is being allowed to remain here. In the first instance it is incredible that a man with convictions for rape, drug smuggling and
POLICE have just arrested a man after a six-hour siege in Newport. Officers were called to a house on Chepstow Road at 11.20am this morning after a man, wanted in connection with another Gwent police investigation, was spotted in the area. Armed
DRIVERS are now being diverted along sections of Harrow Road and Corporation Road as part of Chepstow Road is closed to traffic. The stand-off with an armed man in a house continues.
A FOUR-hour limit will be placed on patients and visitors using car parks at Gwent’s two major hospitals, to try to ease the problem of ‘fly’ parking. Since hospital car parking charges were abolished in Wales 18 months ago, some sites have had problems
POLICE have now confirmed the man at the centre of the Chepstow Road siege has a firearm. Part of Chepstow Road remains cordoned off, although it is still passable to traffic and police officers are directing traffic. The man remains in a house
THREE Gwent primary school pupils won top prizes in a national cycling competition last week. The young competitors from Our Lady and St Michael’s Roman Catholic Primary School in Abergavenny won awards in the Wales Schools Cyclo-cross Championship
POLICE say armed officers are at the scene of a siege in Chepstow Road. A police spokeswoman said officers went to an address on the street at 11.20am today to arrest a man wanted in connection with a Gwent Police investigation - officers would not
JOE Calzaghe has confessed that he is ‘gutted’ to have been voted off Strictly Come Dancing, but a new signing to Calzaghe Promotions and their strongest line-up to date for their next show has eased his disappointment. The undefeated two-weight champion
POLICE have sealed off part of Newport's Chepstow Road. Officers with dogs are currently searching a number of houses in the area, and local people are reporting that there are armed officers at the scene. Eyewitnesses say they see five police vehicles
A MAN caught trying to break in to a Newport home is being sought by Gwent police. A homeowner on Cefn Road in the Rogerstone area of Newport returned home on October 5 between 5.45pm and 6pm to find a man trying to get in to the rear of the house.
MAKE no mistake about it — this will be no ordinary Welsh rugby derby, it won’t be the normal east-west clash. It will be far more than that when Newport Gwent Dragons head west on Friday night to take on the Scarlets in the Magners League. For it will
THE man accused of Gwent's body-in-the-carpet murder was found dead in his prison cell yesterday, officials confirmed last night. Daryl Terrence Smith, 40, of Bellevue Close, Trevethin, was charged with the murder of 23-year-old Bobbie Stokoe
A FORMER royal harpist took part in four night-time burglaries with her boyfriend in one week, a court was told yesterday. Ebbw Vale-born Jemima Phillips, 28, appeared in court on the first day of a crown court trial, charged with four counts
The 2009 Travelodge discarded clothing catalogue has revealed that British workers are taking their fashion advice from Quentin Tarantino and are power-dressing in black and white like the sharp suited stars from ‘Reservoir Dogs’ - in order to be seen
One in ten small firms in Wales are already experiencing an upturn in trade, according to a new survey. Research carried out by the Forum of Private Business has found that while some of the country’s small businesses are still shedding jobs and cutting
Huge pressures on cash flow this year have driven more businesses than ever before to exercise their right to charge late payment interest on bad debt according to Lovetts, one of the UK’s leading debt recovery law firms. Although still relatively
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons’ worst fears have been confirmed – they have lost three more props to long term injuries. No sooner had it been confirmed that New Zealand recruit Ben Castle would be out until the new year with a torn bicep than fellow new signing
NEWPORT and Pontypool are nervously waiting for the referee’s report into Saturday’s vicious Gwent derby at Rodney Parade. A mass brawl in the 16th minute resulted in Pooler prop Neil Giles being sent off and his teammate Morgan Allen sent
WORK to construct a cinema in Abergavenny is under way. Independent cinema operators Peter and Irene Davies, who own the Coliseum Cinema in Brecon and the Palace Cinema in Haverford West, bought the old Drill Hall on Baker Street earlier this year with
A CONVICTED rapist, drug smuggler and burglar from Lithuania will not be deported for burgling an Ebbw Vale couple's home. Valdas Rimaitis, 35, of no fixed abode, was free to come into the UK, despite his lengthy previous convictions, and continue to
THREE witnesses could hold key information about the £10,000 robbery of a security guard outside Newport’s Tesco Extra store, police say. The Argus reported yesterday how more than £10,000 was taken during the robbery on Friday night when a security
