BLAENAVON Leisure and Sports Trust (Blast) is inviting applications for grants after the group was awarded charitable status. Groups and individuals can apply for a share of the £30,000 raised by the group, which was set up in an attempt to save
Tensions ran high at a public meeting last night to discuss proposed locations of gipsy sites near Duffryn. Dozens of people attended the meeting at Duffryn Community Centre last night (Tues) with some turning back because the hall was packed to
A FARMER caught transporting illegal meat known as “smokies” in his vehicle while travelling through Newport has been fined £13,500. Stanley Harrison was stopped by Gwent Police earlier this year and Newport City Council environmental health officers
GLAMORGAN are making a real fight of their LV County Championship Division Two clash at the Swalec Stadium after Hampshire dominated the opening day. The hosts’ bowlers worked hard in the morning session, dismissing the visitors for 341, just ten minutes
FIRE crews across Gwent were busy this afternoon tackling 10 grass fires since midday. On Monday night South Wales Fire and Rescue service received 62 calls to 999 in a 12 hour period from 6pm, including reports of 12 deliberate grass fires in
PARIS to London is a well-travelled flight route, but one man from Ponthir took the scenic route and cycled it instead. Iain Glover, 45, from Candwr Park, raised £915 pounds for CLIC Sargent, cycling in memory of his friend’s son Ben Crutchley,
ANEURIN Bevan Health Board will get an extra £1.9 million to fund nurses as part of £10 million being spent across Wales. Health minister Mark Drakeford has announced the extra cash for health boards in Wales to recruit more hospital nurses.
AN ACCIDENT on the M4 in Newport is causing delays this afternoon. The crash between two-cars has been cleared to the hard shoulder, but people slowing to look at accident is causing disruption to trafffic flows. The incident happened on the
STOP and search powers led to higher numbers of arrests in Gwent than in England and Wales, a report reveals today. Nearly 14 per cent – 1,029 out of 7,442 people – held under stop and search powers in Gwent, were arrested, compared to nine per
Travellers arriving at Cardiff Airport will now experience a brighter, warmer welcome to Wales thanks to a new Welsh Government-funded project to improve passenger experience. The new art and multimedia installations are one component of the wider
UPDATE: 20.34pm Lee Parsons said: "I was in the local park in Brynithel, near Abertillery with my four year old daughter Molly when the aeroplane first appeared, I thought that it was very low for such a big plane. I joked with Molly "that it was
RESIDENTS have been celebrating the reopening of Market Hall Cinema by visiting in their thousands and breaking boxoffice records. After months of hard work, negotiation and protests by members of the community, Brynmawr’s Market Hall Cinema was
WORLD famous Arctic Circle chef, Magnus Nilsson, is heading up this year’s line up of culinary talent at the Abergavenny Food Festival. Some of the world’s best chefs will be at this year’s festival being held from the September 19-22. Highlights
ACCORDING to WB Yeats, "education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire”. Since devolution, the Welsh Government has merely been filling the bucket as opposed to igniting a spark in the minds of Welsh pupils. With respect
CAERPHILLY council is set to turn to its former chief executive Stuart Rosser to steer the ship following the arrests and suspensions of its top two men. Mr Rosser left his role at Christmas 2010 following a 38-year local Government career that
The latest addition to Bristol Airport’s passenger facilities has opened its doors following completion of work on the new £600,000 Aspire Lounge. The new facility replaces the old executive lounge, increasing the space available by 50 per cent
Ceri Garner-Jones discovers a holiday park on the south coast which offers excellent accommodation and facilities in a great part of the country. There’s something about the south coast of England that makes me want to return time and again.
I WAS a Pontymister boy until I was 20. I came down yesterday to see the Cuckoo Statue. I found it. What I saw was a sadness beyond belief, weeds, scruff, broken signs, tattered fences, and detritus. Is there nobody down there to say “This is an
IT’S cruel and unfair that a person working in the local jobcentre, can suspend my benefits because they claim I am not looking for work hard enough. I have walked to Pontypool and Newport in order to register with recruitment agencies. And
I ALWAYS note with interest letters about the relief road. In the past I was courier and a bus driver and for 30 years there has been no decision on what to do. May I make an informed suggestion? Magor to the east gate of Llanwern. From there
LAST week’s Now and Then picture showed the recently re-opened market hall at Brynmawr. In 1844 Brynmawr market hall was built and after various alterations was replaced by a new and larger hall in 1894. The trade done in the market was largely
A BOND of Cwmbran (Argus July 4) argues that penalty-points as well as fines for motoring offences, makes everything equal between the rich and famous, and the rest of us. But how can that be? My understanding is that the Courts have discretion
Road, Caerleon Road and St Julian’s area after the war. We played cricket across the main Caerleon Road with the stumps chalked onto the wall of St Julian’s Methodist Church. We splashed up the dingle, blocking the stream, climbing trees and
YET again we read of (R H Ashton) opposition to the Circuit of Wales coming from outside the county borough, albeit from a “former resident”. I am not a motor racing enthusiast, although my wife is. I am however an enthusiast for pastoral care
INCREDIBLE? The refusal until now of the government to award the Arctic Medal to the deserving veterans of that campaign might seem as if we did not have the benefit of military history to remind us that... ...Good Queen Bess abandoning her
DURING my 50 years representing my people, I have served on Monmouthshire County Council, Mid Glamorgan CC, Bedwas and Machen UDC, and Bedwas Trethomas and Machen CC. But the finest authority of them all has been and still is Caerphilly CBC.
MONMOUTHSHIRE council must ‘at least’ double its savings in 2014/15, according to its leader, Councillor Peter Fox. In his state of the county speech to all councillors on Thursday, Cllr Fox warned that in order to protect essential education and
TEAMS from all corners of the community were brought together by football at the weekend. Around 200 families packed out Bettws’ PlayFootball centre on Shannon Close for the Newport Refugee Week Football tournament and family fun day. A ladies
A MAN accused of the murder of three generations of the same family told police he first became aware of the fire when he saw smoke while sat on a nearby wall. In police interviews read out in court, Carl Mills denied being responsible for the
CONSIDER yourself part of the family at Fairwater High School this week as pupils put on a production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at the school starting tomorrow at 7pm and running, until Friday, July 12. Students from across the Cwmbran school will
IF A flying pig passes overhead in the next few days not an eyelid will be batted after Andy Murray’s Wimbledon success. After 77 years of British male tennis being a laughing stock, the sight of a British winner is a far more unlikely eyeful than
THE Abergavenny festival of cycling kicks off today, with the Abergavenny Handicap Race the first of a series of events throughout the week. The festival has exploded in recent years, becoming one of the premier events for British cycling fans
A WAR hero who survived a mission to stop Nazis building V2 rockets only to be killed in a raid days later will be remembered next month. Pilot Officer Arthur Fitzgerald, 20, took part in the daring RAF bombing raid to destroy a secret research
THERE appears to be something of a difference of opinion regarding the players being signed by Justin Edinburgh this summer. To some the message reads loud and clear and has done for well over a year: in Just we trust. However, there appears
NEWPORT County AFC vice-captain Max Porter is hoping that his hard work will be rewarded after he sacrificed his summer. The Exiles midfielder has been sidelined since January with a groin injury and won’t be fit to return for the first pre-season
SAFE and compassionate care, based on openness, honesty and a willingness to listen to the views of patients and staff are the key messages of the Welsh Government’s response to the Stafford Hospital scandal. AMs will this afternoon debate the
OVERNIGHT on Monday into Tuesday, South Wales Fire and Rescue received 62 999 calls, 12 were for deliberately set grass fires. Seven of these were in the Newport area. South Wales Fire and Rescue warned people to make sure they fully extinguish
ROADSIDES in Gwent are going wild with flowers, as councils are planting seeds on verges instead of just mowing the grass. Banks of wildflowers help bees, currently suffering due to climate and loss of habitat, as well as adding a splash of colour
THE Manic Street Preachers will kick off their UK tour at the Newport Centre on September 13. Blackwood’s finest will appear at the venue for the first time since September 2010, three days before releasing their 11th studio album Rewind The Film
FOLLOW our live coverage from Newport Crown Court today for the trial of Carl Mills who is charged with the murder of three generations of the Buckley family in Cwmbran FOLLOW live coverage from our reporter Danielle Sheridan. Tweets by @ArgusDSheridan
A FORMER Blaenavon bookshop-owner has been sentenced to 60 years in jail in a US court for producing child sex images. James Daniel Hanna, 67, was arrested in Madison County, Arkansas in August 2012 and pleaded guilty to two counts of producing
FIREFIGHTERS are trying to find the best way into a waste firm’s building after it caught fire at the weekend. Up to 600 tonnes of landfill type material at Able Skips, Nash Mead, was still smouldering well into the afternoon yesterday, more than
STANDING just 18 inches high and with hooves smaller than egg cups, Muffin is the smallest foal ever to be born at a Monmouth horse hospital. The colt foal, born to a miniature Shetland pony named Belle, arrived in the world on June 26 and is the
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons will make a bumper offer to returning Lions hero Toby Faletau in a bid to keep him in the region. The 22-year-old is one of the hottest properties in world rugby and his profile soared with a sensational performance in the
NEWPORT County AFC have reached agreement to sign Liverpool goalkeeper Jamie Stephens with a deal set to be announced imminently. As revealed in Argus Sport, Stephens has won the race to be Lenny Pidgeley’s competition for next season after manager
FURTHER delays in the planning application for the proposed Circuit of Wales could jeopardise a MotoGP Grand Prix coming to Ebbw Vale in 2015. Planning developers behind the £250m motorsport circuit fear delays could put back the prospect of a
