FOR a year, the Argus/SWALEC Local Hero Awards have paid tribute to wonderful people across Gwent who have given their time to make a difference. Yesterday saw the culmination of the awards. Pensioner George Williams is your Local Hero of the Year. Our
Cross Keys have confirmed details of their Konica Minolta Welsh Cup tie with Newport which was this week the centre of a television row. BBC and S4C decided it would be screened on January 24 - half an hour after the massive Newport Gwent Dragons Heineken
GWENT clubs are to ask the WRU to clarify and perhaps change the rules relating to the number of regional players who can play for a Premier Division side. The move follows a meeting at Usk last night between the Gwent sides, Newport Gwent Dragons regional
RESIDENTS of a Gwent village united last night in a battle to abolish 'feudal' rights being used by a businessman threatening to charge them up to £45,000 to gain access to their homes. Villagers from Peterstone, Wentloog, say they are being "held to
NEWPORT council is being forced to raise wages to try to stem an exodus of community safety wardens. Staff turnover hit alarming levels during an 18-month stretch as 72% of trained wardens quit to earn more with the police or in other public sector jobs
Ebbw Vale are bracing themselves for the most important 90 minutes of their season - but it won't be happening on the pitch. The Steelmen beat Bridgend 21-20 on Saturday at Eugene Cross Park with former Caerphilly prop Mike Wilson turning out for Vale
A HARD-HITTING national campaign raising awareness of domestic violence is receiving support in Gwent. The Refuge project will run until March with high-visibility Don't Ignore It posters being placed in selected pedestrian locations across the UK. Detective
HIS smile and thumbs up were an important part of the war effort - and he was almost as famous as Vera Lynn. Pontypool's Kenneth Price had one of the most famous faces during the Second World War, urging people across war-time Britain to back our airmen
A TEENAGE army trainee's last moments during a caving exercise were recalled yesterday at the trial of a Monmouth man accused of his manslaughter. Instructor Matthew Doubtfire, 33, of Rock-field Road, Monmouth, denies the manslaughter of Private Kevin
BLAENAVON'S Book- town is to double in size over the next six months in the second phase of the ambitious project. James Hanna, the entrepreneur who began the project last summer, has outlined his plans to create even more shops to draw tourists into
A NEWPORT man says he is lucky to be alive after a ceiling joist fell and alerted him to a fire at his home which investigators now believe was an arson attack. Brian Purcell was awakened by a loud crashing noise at his second-floor flat in Commercial
THE Post Office faces a grassroots revolt over plans to close one-third of their urban offices in the UK. Post Office Ltd say that the closures are necessary because the government switched the payment of most pension and benefit payments to direct debit
Charmed Wizards weave their spell Cross Keys 15 Aberavon 22 CROSS Keys didn't receive the rub of the green during this narrow Welsh Premiership defeat against Aber-avon at Pandy Park. Some crucial decisions had gone against the Gwent side before the replacement
THE proposed South Gwent Children's Centre - subject of the Argus-backed Sparkle Appeal - was yesterday dubbed a futuristic "carbuncle" by members of Newport city council's planning committee. But the committee's postponement yesterday of a decision on
NO repeat - Stade Francais coach Nick Mallett says he has warned his team against any repetition of the violent scenes which marred last Saturday's Heineken Cup tie against Newport Gwent Dragons when they meet again in Paris on Sunday. Stade prop Pablo
NEWPORT County loan star, Jamie Moralee could be set to stay at the club after his spell ends on January 23. Moralee suffered a hamstring injury in the defeat against Worcester City last weekend and is a major doubt for their trip to Cambridge City on
