MONMOUTHSHIRE council is inviting Caldicot residents to do a post-Christmas house clearance and pick up a bargain by bringing useful, unwanted household items to a swapshop event at the Severn Bridge Social Club in Goldfinch Road. To be held
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have received a £10,000 suspended fine and forfeited last Friday's LV= Cup game with Saracens. The punishment, announced by tournament organisers following consultation by the competition's organising committee, relates to the
A NEW award to recognise outstanding students studying woodland management in Gwent was launched. Coleg Gwent’s Usk campus is among the first to launch the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) silky handsaws awards to outstanding students on vocational
WALES are confident they can avert any threat of a second-row crisis in this season's RBS 6 Nations Championship after Bradley Davies' tournament-ending ban. Davies today joined his fellow World Cup locks Luke Charteris and Alun-Wyn Jones, who are
THE developer behind a 600- acre regeneration scheme in Newport has seen a 34 percent increase in its profits this year. St Modwen, which is behind the Glan Llyn site in Llanwern, yesterday announced an increase in profit before tax to £50.4
POLICE in Pontypool fined four people and arrested another after five drugs raids in the town. Officers hit five targets in Trevethin, Penygarn and Pontnewynydd after getting tip-offs from people living in the three areas. The homes
A PROPOSAL to redevelop the site of a former primary school near Abergavenny is to go on show for local residents on Thursday. The plan to build new homes and create a green space on the site of the former Govilon Primary School in The Avenue
A NEWPORT postman shocked residents on his rounds last week when he dressed up as a monkey to raise money for a three-year- old girl battling leukaemia. Richard Avery, 37, wore the unusual costume all day on Friday after asking colleagues to
IT WAS once a rugby club, a pub and a church, but a Valleys building is nearly all set to welcome in worshippers once more. For the Zion Church in Talywain, the New Year brings a new beginning, as the doors are set to reopen for the first time
A NEWPORT-born man obsessed with Britain’s rail network, defrauded train companies of at least £20,000. Peter Young, 30, who lives in Glasgow, travelled first-class for free for up to three years, writing at least £10,000-worth of bogus company
NEWPORT’S schools and services for young people are good, according to a new report. A report by inspection body Estyn, published yesterday, looked at Newport council’s services for children and young people and rated them ‘excellent’, ‘good’
THE A4048 is closed in Tredegar due to an accident involving two vehicles this afternoon. The collison happened between the A4047 Beaufort Road in Tredegar and Railway Terrace in Hollybush. Emergency services are in attendance to the accident,
Following on from last year’s production of Role Play, Newport Playgoers take another slice of life from the wonderful world of playwright Alan Ayckbourn with a production of the comedy/tragedy Time of My Life. Gerry Stratton has organised a small
One can never be sure of the right response to Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition, if only because the leader wrote to his wife that it had been 'much better than lounging about in too great comfort at home.' The brave are often rash, and the sadness
THE next mayor of Newport has selected the two charities he will support when he takes on mayoral chains of office this year. Newport Labour councillor and mayor-elect John Guy, a former policeman and current deputy mayor, is to back St David
WE WELCOME wholeheartedly Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd’s calls to strengthen our laws surrounding stalking. He is quite right when he says that stalking should be made a specific offence. And we cannot for one minute understand why this
THE girlfriend of a man accused of murdering a Newport father denied adding to her evidence to support her boyfriend yesterday. Karl Drummond, 37, of Attlee Court, Shahid Rafiq, 37, of Bryn-yr-Ysgol and George Glover, 40, of Graham Court, all
AN ENVIRONMENTAL expert gave evidence in a public inquiry into Torfaen council’s rejection of plans for opencast mining at Varteg, near Pontypool, yesterday. The council refused permission for 325,000 tonnes of coal to be extracted because
MISS Grender’s friend with whom she spent the evening before her death told the court yesterday the mum-to-be was her normal self that night. Jenna Allman told the court she picked Miss Grender up from her mother’s house at around 7pm on February
TORFAEN bowls clubs yesterday welcomed news that the council will continue to maintain their greens. It was feared that cutbacks could spell the end for the clubs as Torfaen council considered stopping the maintenance of the greens in a bid to
WORK to move a memorial commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War began at the weekend. Newport council agreed to refurbish the Victory in Europe and Victory in Japan floor memorial, and move it from Commercial Street
MOST fight fans have never heard of unheralded American Tommy Karpency but he believes he can shock the boxing world by beating Nathan Cleverly in their world title bout later this month. Karpency challenges Cefn Fforest’s Cleverly for his WBO world
MURDER accused Carl Whant broke down in tears before his seventh police interview where detectives were quizzing him about the death of pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender, a court heard yesterday. After six interviews in which he answered “no
A 35-YEAR-OLD man was left with serious injuries after being stabbed in Newport yesterday. The man, who is thought to live locally, was attacked on Dunn Square by a group of three or four men at around 1.20pm. Police said he suffered serious
NEWPORT County’s revival continued apace last night after a dominant display left them three games from a cup final. While the Exiles’ long suffering supporters have seen no light at the end of the tunnel in terms of their bid to beat the drop, suddenly
A MAN whose mother died after waiting for an ambulance for 41 minutes yesterday handed AMs a petition calling for better ambulance services for Monmouth. Mathew Davies handed the 400-name petition to the National Assembly for Wales’ petitions
FLY-HALF Jason Tovey is set to return to pull the strings for Newport Gwent Dragons in Friday’s RaboDirect Pro12 clash against Ulster. The 22-year-old is expected to leave the Dragons for Cardiff Blues in the summer with his agent saying that a verbal
A DRUG house in Newport was closed down by police yesterday after officers raided it twice since October, finding drugs were being used and supplied. Magistrates yesterday granted Gwent Police a “crackhouse closure” order to close 6 Morris Street
FOLLOW our live blog of the Nikitta Grender trial with our reporters sending updates from 10.15am today. Pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender was found dead at her Lliswerry home after a fire in February last year. Carl Whant, 27, of no
FROM the likes of Barbara Windsor and Rolf Harris to Coldplay and the Manic Street Preachers, Blackwood Miners’ Institute has hosted some of the biggest names in music and entertainment over the last 20 years. Next week the Valleys venue will
THE HEAT is on flanker Dan Lydiate to get straight back to his stunning World Cup form when he returns to the Wales back row in Sunday’s Six Nations encounter with Scotland. So good was the Newport Gwent Dragons blindside in New Zealand that it was almost
YOUNG people in Newport not in education, employment or training are invited to a free ‘get into hospitality’ course. Youngsters aged between 16 and 25 are invited to the course, which will consist of skills training and work experience within
MIKE Phillips has hailed the devastating impact of Wales' teenage wonder George North on Test match rugby. Ireland's Grand Slam and Triple Crown hopes in the RBS 6 Nations Championship this season went west on Sunday after 19-year-old North cut loose
