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  • Everybody was in the pink...

    PEOPLE across Gwent dressed in pink on Friday to raise money for breast cancer charities. Wear It Pink Day was part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Abergavenny’s Mardy Park Resource Centre got into the spirit by holding a Pink Party. Residents

  • Edinburgh 8 Dragons 9

    THEY played in a near-empty Murrayfield in non-stop rain, but Edinburgh proved to be a delightful place for Newport Gwent Dragons. A near-perfect display of wet-weather rugby ensured Paul Turner’s team took the four points against an Edinburgh side that

  • Hallowe'en party was dead good...

    AN UNDY woman is getting into the Hallowe'en spirit with her own graveyard, slaughterhouse and witches cauldron. Sarah Hawkins, 34, has taken three weeks to turn her Meadow Rise home into a house of horrors for her Hallowe'en party.

  • Corpa fire was arson

    POLICE are looking for a teenager who was seen climbing over the wall of a former Newport pub, moments before it was deliberately set on fire. Firefighters were called to a fire at The Corporation Hotel, known as the Corpa on Corporation Road at around

  • Woman killed on M4

    A PEDESTRIAN died when she was struck by a lorry on the M4 last night. The heavy goods lorry hit her at around 10pm on the westbound carriageway near the Caerleon Road intersection at junction 25. Police do not know why she was on the road, but

  • Gwent champions honoured

    TWO outstanding Gwent women received recognition for their achievements at Buckingham Palace on Friday. Bridget McNally, from Blackwood, was awarded an MBE for her efforts to raise thousands of pounds for Cancer Research UK while fighting cancer herself

  • Woman found in river named

    AN ELDERLY woman found dead in a Valleys river yesterday has been named. Margaret Morgan, 83, was found in the River Ebbw, just off Allotment Road, Beaufort, on Saturday morning. Police were called to the river, next to the pharmacy and doctors

  • Victim Support volunteer of the year

    A FORMER British Gas worker who dedicates hours of his time to helping victims of crime in Gwent has been named volunteer of the year by Victim Support. Warren Lewis, of Pontypool, has volunteered on a range of projects since his retirement 15 years

  • New ambulances for Wales

    NEARLY 60 new ambulances and rapid response vehicles will be bought thanks to a cash injection from the Assembly, it was announced on Friday. Health minister Edwina Hart said the Welsh Ambulance NHS Trust was to receive a £5 million funding boost to

  • Medieval ship attracts worldwide attention

    NEWPORT'S medieval ship continues to fascinate worldwide attention from people of all ages - and here's the proof. Three-year-old Mateusz Popielski went to see the vessel during a visit to the city from his home in Warsaw, Poland. He

  • Remembering when the Boks were beaten at the Parade

    THE years were rolled back and nostalgia reigned on Thursday night at a special reunion of the Newport team which beat South Africa 11-6 forty years ago. The evening at Rodney Parade, organised by the Friends of Newport, was described as a great success

  • Duffryn youngsters hard work for charity

    A GROUP of Newport teenagers are trying to raise more than £55,000 to travel to Kenya to work with villagers. The group of 16 Duffryn High School youngsters, including Ashley Pyke need to raise £3,550 each, a total of £56,800, to take part in the month-long

  • 'Tsunami' of grief since teen's death

    The family of a Maesglas teenager, who died in an air rifle accident, are only now starting to come to terms with the loss, nearly two years on. On November 11 2007, Danny Marsh, 17, left his mother Karen Morgan,42, to go to the gym. “He never