MORE than £6.5million has been awarded to projects in Gwent to help young parents and young people with disabilities. The Big Lottery Fund's Bright New Futures programme has donated a total of £6,569,703 across eight projects which are either based
Three people have been hurt in an accident in Monmouthshire involving one car and five motorcycles. The accident at 7.25pm happened near the Cwrt Bleddyn Hotel, Llangybi. South Wales Fire Service said three people have been taken to hospital
MARCUS North and Murray Goodwin hit half centuries as Glamorgan enjoyed the better of the first day's play against Leicestershire in their LV= County Championship Division Two game at Grace Road. Put into bat on a damp, cloudy morning, Glamorgan
WALES needs its own NHS whistleblowing hotline, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has said. Kirsty Williams expressed disappointment there was no freephone telephone service in the principality for hospital workers to anonymously report
THIS week marks the Alzheimer’s Society’s annual ‘Dementia Awareness Week’, and although these days, the calendar is jampacked with various events highlighting worthy causes – raising dementia awareness is particularly important, because so many people
SLOW traffic is reported due to a broken down vehicle in the Brynglas Tunnels on the M4 this afternoon. The eastbound stretch is affected between J26 A4051 (Malpas Road) and J25 A4042 / B4596 (Caerleon), with congestion up to J27 B4591 (Highcross
With regeneration plans put into place to transform Newport’s city centre, SOPHIE BROWNSON, DANIELLE SHERIDAN and DEAN PROSSER asked the people of Newport what they would really like to see happen to regenerate it. MORE shops, arts and leisure
Last week’s Now and Then picture was of Station Approach, Caerleon. It seems no one recognised it as we received no replies. Caerleon railway station was a former station serving Caerleon on the east side of Newport. It was opened on the Pontypool
A LIVE music venue in Newport, due to close this weekend, had its licence restricted yesterday following noise complaints. Newport council’s licensing sub-committee yesterday reviewed the licence for The 200 Club on Stow Hill, ordering it to close
GWENT Police are appealing for help in finding a 17-year-old girl who has gone missing. Lydia Morgan was last seen at her home in Ebbw Vale at around 9pm last night, Monday 20th May. She is five feet tall, with red/brown shoulder length hair
ONE lane is blocked this afternoon and heavy traffic is reported after a lorry broke down on the Coldra Roundabout at J24 of the M4 with the A449 and the A48. The lorry has come to a halt just before the entry slip road to the Westbound M4.
LICENCE reviews into nightspots owned by Iftekhar Haris were dropped by the sub-committee yesterday. Police had raised concerns about anti-social behaviour and public safety. But officers decided not to proceed after Mr Haris was found not
WALES needs better weather if its tourism industry is to prosper - says the country's own First Minister. New figures show there has been a sharp drop in visitors to the country in recent years. According to statistics from Visit Britain, North
LORD Freud and his Tory pals want to turf single people and families out their homes into smaller/less bedrooms accommodation. To change accommodation and change landlords, they would need to find a bond and a month’s rent in advance. This amount
ON behalf of the members at Race Methodist Church, Pontypool, I would like to convey our very sincere and grateful thanks to the people who helped us after the recent break-in at the chapel. The mess which confronted us was so upsetting. We thank
SO Gwent Police are going on twitter with a behind the scenes look at their custody suites, I suspect this money wasting idea might be the brainchild of our partially elected Police Commissioner? (If not I apologise). I’m sure the viewing figures
WHEN is someone from the city council or traffic authorities going to take a look at the little opening to the right of the traffic lights on the Pill side of the George Street Bridge, it is an accident waiting to happen. Three things happen when
ON May 15 I was walking through Pontymister Welfare Grounds and noticed that Caerphilly council have emptied the dog litter bin and left the contents by the side of the bin. The following day I walked through the Welfare Grounds again and noticed the
MORE than 100 people are expected to gather outside Newport Civic Centre at 3.45pm tomorrow afternoon for a demonstration against council plans to merge two primary schools. Wednesday is the final day of Newport council’s statutory notice period
Tories fall. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Cllr Dix accuses Ian Duncan Smith, the Tory MP, of telling lies about the results that the cap on benefits will have. Can this really be the same Cllr Dix who promised to bring a Morrisons
THE remarks made by your correspondent Linda Joseph, in relation to Newport County, are small minded and fail to appreciate the bigger picture. The civic reception and open-top bus parade are obviously funded by Newport City Council. This is a
STOKE City have parted company with their Newport-born manager Tony Pulis after seven years in charge, accoring to reports. The 55-year-old guided them to the Premier League in 2008 during his second stint at the club and later led them to Europe
AROUND one in every eight NHS hospital beds in Gwent may be closed during the next six years, ahead of the opening of the long-proposed Specialist and Critical Care Centre (SCCC). An Aneurin Bevan Health Board plan proposes a reduction of 241 acute
TWO Newport Gwent Dragons will tour Japan with Wales after head coach for the two-Test series Robin McBryde named his 27-man squad this afternoon. Lock Andrew Coombs, who shone in his country’s Six Nations title-winning side after making his debut
NEWPORT YMCA is hosting a cycling fundraising event in aid of further events for children in the summer. On June 1 cyclists will gather at the Newport YMCA centre to take part in the YMCA Tour de Y, a national fundraising cycling event, designed
STAFF at a Newport pub donned their exercise gear yesterday as they cycled, ran and rowed 140 miles for the Clic Sargent children’s cancer charity. But they didn’t leave the Queens Hotel on Bridge Street as they used running machines, cross-trainers
A GANG of thugs attacked a police officer like a “pack of animals” before threatening to burn his house down, a court was told. Gang leader Preston Killoran, 20, rugby tackled the police constable in front of the baying mob in Hammond Drive, Newport
THREE people were arrested following a blaze in the Tredegar area. The two 18-year-olds and one 17-year-old from Tredegar area have been bailed pending further enquiries and the investigation into the blaze is ongoing.
TWO companies and their managers were fined a total of £27,000 and ordered to pay costs totalling £25,000 for failing to licence and comply with house in multiple occupation regulations. The Newport City Council prosecution centred on a failure
FAREWELL then to the season of all seasons for Welsh football, 2012/13 now etched indelibly in the annuls as the greatest ever campaign for club football this side of the Severn Bridge. Swansea, Cardiff, Newport and Wrexham all won something, all
A NEW Welsh-medium unit in Caerphilly is expected to start taking year seven and eight pupils by September this year. The £20 million former St Ilan site is an extension of Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni near Blackwood, which would have been forced to
SLOW traffic is reported this morning due to an earlier broken down vehicle on the M4 in Newport. The delays are on the eastbound stretch between J27 B4591 (Highcross) and J26 A4051 (Malpas Road). All lanes have been re-opened. Lane one
WALES’ Lions have accepted the responsibility to lay the foundations for a successful series Down Under by taking the strain in training. Warren Gatland’s 37-man squad has been depleted ahead of the tour to Australia with a raft of players still
AARON O’Connor admits he faced an agonising decision as to whether to stay at Newport County AFC, but ultimately he made a choice of the heart. The 29-year-old, who scored his 20th goal of the season at Wembley to seal County’s promotion to the
BLACKWOOD ward councillors assured locals that budget cuts won't mean the end of night security at the town's bus station and the return to the "dark days" of huge anti-social behaviour problems. Last week town councillors presented a 250-name
DEADLOCK appeared to have been broken in the spat between the regions and the Welsh Rugby Union last week – but an independent chairman with a casting vote on the Professional Regional Game Board appears to be as distant as ever. The two parties
