PETER Nicholas has a simple aspiration for his injury-hit Newport County side this season, insisting: "We must finish as high as possible." By the Exiles manager's own admission, this term has been "up-and-down". Now, though, with promotion out of the
It's 20 years since alternative comedy first provided a breath of fresh air to the nation, and 20 years since Julian Clary called himself The Joan Collins Fan Club and performed with Fanny the Wonder Dog. Sadly Fanny, Julian's beloved pet, as well as
VICTORY for red-hot Cwmbran Town at off-colour Port Talbot Town tonight will help secure FAW Premier Cup status next season for the Crows, according to stand-in boss Roger Gibbins. A top-eight Welsh Premier League finish ensures qualification into the
FOUR Newport players are rated extremely doubtful for next week's Principality Cup semi-final against Bridgend at the Millennium Stadium. Key openside flanker Jason Forster, number eight Steve Ojomoh, lock Mike Voyle and scrum half Ofisa Tonu'u are all
THE sister-in-law of missing Veronica Reynolds yesterday visited the site where police are looking for her body. Mrs Reynolds went missing from her home in Hollybush Avenue on August 8. This week police began searching land near her Malpas home. Her sister-in-law
A CONSTRUCTION worker died last night after being buried alive in a trench collapse. The man was working in a deep trench designed to carry pipes when it caved in yesterday. The accident happened at about 4.10pm in a field at Coal Star Farm, Malt House
Wye Knot, The Back, Chepstow It's not often you leave a restaurant with not a trace of complaint about service. Not on our evening at this small but cosy restaurant on the banks of the Wye. Guests are invited into a tiny bar, to check over the menu on
Thousands of people visited Abergavenny Leisure Centre yesterday keen to discover if they were holding a hidden treasure. HELEN ROBERTS reports from the Antiques Roadshow THEY came from all over Gwent to take part in a British institution. For 25 years
A FRAUDSTER was yesterday jailed for conspiring to handle stolen cars worth over £500,000, in one of the biggest car-ringing cases ever dealt with by Gwent Police. Raymond Williams, aged 59, (pictured) of Primrose Bank Cottage, Penallt, Monmouth, admitted
A BRITISH citizen who has moved to Gwent from South Africa may be separated from her 16-year-old daughter - after being denied accommodation by Torfaen council. Laura Broadrick, 46, arrived in Britain from South Africa with her children, Nicole, 16, and
The local band formerly known as Drift - now called Distant Sun - falls on Newport next week. Distant Sun will add well-needed to cheer to the Chris Rees' gig in OTT on Monday, April 14. Their music has the sun-stained plod of Dandy Warhols but still
Newport Wasps are poised to cruise into the next round of the Knock-out Cup at the expense of Somerset Rebels tonight at the Oak Tree Arena (7.30 pm). Wasps staged a perfect demolition in the first leg at Hayley Stadium last Sunday, stacking up a 61-35
A MAN jailed for life for the brutal slaying of a Risca couple is spending his 38th birthday today waiting to hear if he can appeal against his conviction. John Roden's mother Mary says she is convinced that her son is innocent. Roden (pictured) was jailed
TRIBUTES have poured in for a woman whose life spanned three different centuries. Lily Clarke, (pictured) who was born in Newport in 1898, died at Penrhiw Nursing Home, in Oakdale, after a short illness. Her family believe she had held on to life in her
A YOUNG mum is keeping a vigil at the bedside of her seriously ill former partner after he and their toddler son were rescued from a house fire. Stacy Young, 18, has been praying 23-year-old Jonathan Dean pulls through for the sake of their little boy
THE Welsh Rugby Union will benefit by £7m from France winning the fight with England to stage the 2007 World Cup. The International Board announced yesterday that France had won the right to host the tournament, beating rivals England by 18 votes to three
"We're not untouchable," lead singer of Erasure Andy Bell told Mono last week. "No, because you get people, when I'm out on my travels going to the barbers and that, saying to me, 'aren't you the guy from that 80s' band Erasure'. And I just think, 'I
SELLING the Millennium Stadium is an increasingly attractive option for the cash strapped Welsh Rugby Union, who are £66m in debt. WRU group chief executive David Moffett told members of Newport Business Club at the Celtic Manor Resort last night that
