RESIDENTS are redoubling their opposition to plans to build up to 600 houses on a Gwent hospital site. Gwent Healthcare Trust wants to sell the Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital site, a long-stay hospital for people with learning disabilities, to a developer
GWENT-BORN centre Matthew Watkins plays at inside centre for Wales against England at Twickenham on Saturday, not his customary Scarlets club position of outside centre, but that doesn't bother him one jot. He said: "Because the positions intermingle
WALES coach Mike Ruddock has warned Wales it's going to be ferocious at Twickenham on Saturday when they come up against the England juggernaut bent on revenge for last season's defeat. A year ago Wales started on a Six Nations Championship roll which
MONMOUTHSHIRE will lose trade if the Abergavenny livestock market closes in September before a replacement is built, farmers are warning. Today Monmouthshire County Council's cabinet was due to consider a report on the replacement market in a bid to speed
NEWPORT man Lemy Bullock died after being stabbed through his liver resulting in rapid blood loss, a court heard yesterday. Home Office pathologist Dr Derek Simon James told Cardiff crown court Mr Bullock was killed after receiving a fatal stab
FURIOUS campaigners must keep waiting for a decision on the future of their local school. The fate of Ponthir VC School was expected to be decided by education minister Jane Davidson in January after a series of delays. A six-month decision deadline set
NEWPORT lock Ben Thomson faces another long lay-off after again damaging an anteria cruciate knee ligament, writes Paul Tully. The youngster, who joined Newport from the Harlequins in January last year, was off for eight months and needed reconstruction
Cwmbran Town manager Sean Wharton, preparing for two home cup ties in the space of four days, will be forced to shuffle the player pack because so many are cup-tied. First up is a meeting with Macron Welsh League side Abertillery Excelsior tonight in
POLICE in Newbridge are appealing for information about a missing teenager. Sarah Davies, 15, pictured above, was last seen at her home in Newbridge at around 11am on Saturday. It is believed she got on a bus heading for Newport. She has brown hair, worn
CHEPSTOW mayor Armand Watts is set to take off his official chain and pick up a lollipop in order to help two primary schools. Neither Thornwell Primary nor Pembroke Primary has been able to find new lollipop ladies to work at their school gates. But
BETTER transport links for Gwent commuters were on the horizon today with the announcement of the chance of five new railway stations and better Valleys services. A report by expert consulants proposes a £155 million project which could include five new
ASSEMBLY First Minister Rhodri Morgan poured cold water on ambitious plans for Newport's joint bid for the Commonwealth Games. As reported in the Argus, Newport council leader Bob Bright announced Newport, Cardiff and Swansea held initial talks about
MORE than 5,000 people took the plunge in the first two weeks of Newport's new pool opening. The 25 metre, eight-lane competition pool is the newest addition to Newport's International Sports Village and is already proving popular. It was opened on January
THE girlfriend of a Gwent man says she is "devastated" after he died following a serious assault. Hannah Clayton, 34, kept a vigil at the bedside of 39-year-old Alec Howells for two days after he was found bleeding on the doorstep of the home of his brother
