A VALLEYS man was fined £230 for allowing his staff to sell alcohol to an underage teenager. Julian Evans, 47, of Market Street, Blaenavon, pleaded guilty to the offence by post at Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The court
MORE than 4,500 waste tyres were found at an illegal site in Newport. Environmental crime officers visited the site after a tipoff from a member of staff from Environment Agency Wales. An enforcement notice has been served on the site
COACH Raymond Verheijen says he is to resign from his role with the Wales national side and has accused the Football Association of Wales of “political and destructive games”. The outspoken Dutchman was brought into the national set-up by former manager
PLANS for a £4.7 million health complex in Blaenavon moved a step closer after proposals were submitted to Torfaen council. The official plans for the Blaenavon Primary Care Resource Centre, developed by Cheshire-based Assura Group and its partner
DANCING is the secret to a long life, according to a Gwent 100-year-old. Florence Blackwell, of Magor, only made her dancing shoes redundant last year at the age of 99, after first taking it up for pleasure in her twenties. The great-grandmother
A RISCA woman will sing at the Houses of Parliament as part of St David’s Day celebrations. Emma Hughes, 27, will perform solo, singing hymn Dros Gymru’n Gwlad, in a special concert held on March 1 in St Stephen’s Chapel. Listeners will include
How long have you been a chef and where did you train? I've been a chef for 20 years. My father owned a restaurant in Tunisia, and some of my earliest memories was of watching him cook some amazing North African grill dishes. Why did
PROMPTED by the need to diversify, a few years ago the Jones family decided to turn a barn on the family farm into a restaurant. It was a leap of faith that has paid off handsomely. The converted building – a great deal of the work was done by
HAVING recently wowed fans and critics alike on their recent sell-out dates where Feeder gave fans the chance to preview tracks from their forthcoming album Generation Freakshow, the band have announced another four shows. One of these sees the
LEGENDARY American singer-songwriter Don McLean returns for a UK concert tour to celebrate his 40th anniversary in the music business. He will come to Cardiff’s St David’s Hall on Monday, October 29 at 7.30pm. Over the course of his extraordinary career
THE world famous Met Opera in New York will broadcast Verdi’s Ernani to The Blake Theatre in Monmouth tomorrow at 6pm as part of their Live in HD season. The production stars four extraordinary singers. American soprano Angela Meade, whose victory
A DIGITAL interpretation of Newport’s Medieval Ship will help experts piece it back together, a council report says. Newport City Council will apply for a £21,000 grant from the Welsh Assembly Government’s museums archives and libraries division
WORK to demolish 1960s-built almshouses in Monmouth began on Thursday. Bristol Charities, which became the trustee of the 400- year-old William Jones Almshouse charity last year, is demolishing the 19 Cwrt William Jones almshouses off St James
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A WOMAN told a murder trial jury she saw three people carrying another person in a cradle position along a Newport street before hearing the next day a man had been set alight in the same place. Kelly-Marie Maidment was giving evidence in the
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are looking to prop Phil Price to provide them with plenty of bite in the scrum against a team that literally got their teeth into them last season. The Rodney Parade region triumphed 18-3 when took on Aironi at the Stadio Zaffanella
DENNIS Tippins has walked, jogged and cycled the length of the Monmouthshire- Brecon canal to capture iconic images of bridges and waterways. Mr Tippins, 70, who has lived by the the canal at Pontymoile for 45 years, spent three months taking photographs
TWO Newport landlords were fined a total of £7,000 for failing to comply with the rules of running houses in multiple occupancy (HMO). Saeed Zafar, of Queens Hill Crescent, was found guilty in his absence by Newport magistrates who found he failed
WHEN Leigh Halfpenny feels the heat of having to step up for a shot at goal at Twickenham in front of more than 80,000 fans tomorrow, he has a simple remedy for calming his frayed nerves. The 23-year-old will imagine himself back in the Swansea suburb
ABERGAVENNY’S very own Elvis and his Memphis Mafia are among the performers at a charity concert in memory of a popular rugby player tonight. Abergavenny RFC has organised the concert at the town’s Borough Theatre in memory of 21- year-old
TWO Cwmbran pensioners who have supported rugby in Newport for 70 years were named winners of our competition to find Newport Gwent Dragons’ biggest fans. Season ticket-holders Gerry and Margaret Lewis, 80 and 79 respectively, will enjoy an allexpenses
A GWENT hospice, which has treated around 10,000 people since it was set up, is celebrating 21 years in the community. Hospice of the Valleys has come a long way since it began with just one doctor and one nurse in 1991. By the following
NATHAN Cleverly is used to outwitting his opponents by relying on his superior intellect, but he may just have met his match in American Tommy Karpency. The battler from Pennsylvania is a huge underdog in the eyes of the bookies, but there is little
IT’LL take more than heading to Twickenham with the expectation of living up to the favourites tag to faze Wales number eight Toby Faletau. Victory against England in London tomorrow would inch Warren Gatland’s men towards a second Grand Slam
TRIBUTES to pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender and her unborn daughter, Kelsey-May, continued to flood in as the community spoke of its relief that her murderer had been convicted. Flowers lay along the wall outside Miss Grender’s boarded-up
EBBW Vale man Julian Emms faces jail after being found guilty of defrauding £16,500 from a fund set up to help his son fight a degenerative disease. It took a jury at Cardiff Crown Court just half an hour yesterday morning to find Emms, 46,
WITH the Muppets making great shakes on the silver screen at present, Avenue Q picked the perfect time to roll into town, offering the very antithesis of Jim Henson’s creations. Yes, the cast is a mixture of people and puppets, but that is where
If your only experience of the circus was being dragged along to watch a few sad animals and a slightly scary clown in a big top, No Fit State are the ones to show you just how much times have changed. The Wales-based company have been busy building
A LISTED Newport building, which was left in ruins by an arson attack, was officially reopened yesterday. The Grade-II rustic teahouse in Belle Vue Park, which was badly damaged in the attack in August 2010, has risen from the ashes thanks to
FROM laughing out loud to swallowing the tears back, this show took the audience through a rollercoaster of emotions in just a few hours. The Willy Russell musical, which is celebrating its 28th anniversary, tells the story of twin brothers Mickey
Labour MP Eric Joyce was charged with assault following a late-night fracas at a House of Commons bar in which a Tory rival was allegedly head-butted. The former soldier, 51, was arrested on Wednesday amid claims Conservative Stuart Andrew
RESIDENTS living in three Pontypool streets are joining forces to oppose the building of houses on their local green. Bron Afon Community Housing has submitted a planning application to Torfaen council to build 11 homes on the grassland between
NEWPORT County manager Justin Edinburgh hopes to be at full strength in defence at Northwich Victoria tomorrow (KO 3pm), which will make up for a shortage of numbers up front. The Exiles boss is waiting on the fitness of captain and defensive rock Gary
