A HENRY will be in charge of Wales this weekend. But before rugby fans do a double take, it's Raewyn Henry (pictured) - wife of Graham. Despite her husband's public departure from the Wales national rugby team, she leads out the country's netball team
CAMPAIGNERS for a new children's centre in Newport are celebrating today. A purpose-built centre catering for the needs of these youngsters CAN be developed on a site at High Cross, Newport, a National Assembly for Wales planning inspector has ruled.
YOUNG Ebbw Vale full back Matt James (pictured), fulfils one of his rugby goals on Friday when he runs out for Wales A against France A at Cardiff Arms Park. The 24-year-old Oakdale-born product's next goal is a place in the senior squad - yet he has
A PUBLIC inquiry is to be held into a controversial scheme to build 240 new homes on a site which flooded earlier this month. Plans by Bovis Homes were rejected by Monmouthshire county council's planning committee last July after objections from both
AN employment tribunal chairman yesterday slammed the Ministry of Defence, accusing it of "delaying tactics" in the case of former Gurkha Hari Thapa (pictured). Former Lance Corporal Mr Thapa, of Hollybush, Cwmbran, claims he was racially discriminated
NEWPORT Schools Under-12s met Ebbw Vale Schools in their second series of games in the David Nickless Shield at Maesglas Primary School. Both sides had opened their accounts in the competition with victories against Cardiff and Merthyr respectively. Newport
FORMER miner Sydney Smith (pictured), who has devastating chest disease, has only five months to live - according to the government health assessment test he had last June. And the 78-year-old Blackwood man, who put in his claim eight years ago for compensation
WATERWAYS engineers have partly-drained a section of canal to protect a Gwent school from a landslide. There has been a major surface slippage down the side of the Blorenge mountain, near Llan-foist. So far, it is not threatening Llan-foist Primary School
THE owners of the site of a former hospital have vowed to press ahead with controversial plans to build executive houses there. Pontypool Hospital, which was financed by voluntary contributions from local people at the beginning of the last century, was
A DOCTOR who made hundreds of night visits to three Gwent patients within two months was yesterday banned from working as a GP. Former Pontypool GP Dr Unniparambath Prabhakaran, 52, (pictured) made 196 calls to one woman alone and was accused of "colluding
EXPERTS say the South Wales valleys have become one of the United Kingdom's top earthquake hot-spots over the past three months. This graphic by the British Geological Survey shows quakes centred around the Gwent and Glamorgan valleys which have taken
GWENT Police are investigating a man's claim he was unlawfully arrested and assaulted by two officers. Brian Dunstan, 54, was found not guilty at Newport crown court of committing affray. Police had called at his home in Greenfields, Cwmbran, to investigate
AT THE Edison Gwent Junior Shuttle Series championships held at Underwood Leisure Centre, Newport, Gwent players were in terrific form when they took 12 of the 17 titles on offer. There was a very high entry from all over Wales plus some visitors from
MAY and Percy Peppercorn (pictured), are still Valentine sweethearts - 60 years after marrying on February 14. Mr Peppercorn, who is also known as Don, said they chose to wed on Valentine's Day because his wife "is a romantic girl." "We have sent a Valentine's
WELSH goal hero Craig Bellamy (pictured), dismissed his strike against Argentina last night as "one I should be scoring." The 22-year-old Newcastle United hitman modestly said after Wales' superb 1-1 draw in Cardiff: "I don't know if it was a good goal
SCRUM half Rob Howley (pictured), has promised fans they will never again see a Welsh team perform as badly as they did in Ireland. Howley hoped to celebrate his 55th cap, the most by a Wales scrum half, with victory at Lansdowne Road but instead suffered
A FOOTBALL club had its chance of success blighted by boy racers who wrecked their pitch with a stolen car. Youths used a car to churn deep ruts across the pitch of Thornwell and Burnt Barn football club, Chepstow, in a figure-of-eight. Now the club fears
Newport Saracens were up against it at Upper Afan and found themselves trailing 23-3 on half-time. " We ended up with a bare 15 players taking the field after one of our cars broke down. And it got worse when we lost two players in the second half," remarked
