PEOPLE power is poised to win the day in the battle of the bins in two Gwent villages. Caerphilly county borough council looks likely to bow to public pressure tomorrow over refuse collection arrangements to two villages by agreeing to spend £120,000
Llanelli 17 Pontypridd 20 PONTYPRIDD coach Lynn Howells has urged his Principality Cup heroes 'to go up another gear' as they began preparations for a Parker Pen European Shield final appointment with resurgent Sale. Ponty lifted their first major trophy
A MAN who endured a nine-hour wait on a trolley at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital got so fed up he discharged himself rather than wait any longer for a bed. David Griffiths gave up and went home at 3pm last Wednesday afternoon after waiting from around
TWO petitions calling for plans to close a school in Abergavenny to be dropped will be handed to county councillors tomorrow. The petitions have been collected by children and parents opposed to the closure of Croesonen Infants School which is proposed
A GROUP of Gwent pupils celebrated the last day of term in style - arriving at the school gates in a stretch limousine. The stylish six, pictured - Sarah Pinnell, Carla Greensill, Vick Hancock, Katie Williams, Christie Radford and Laurian Corner - are
A BAD fall by fellow Welsh triathlete Leanda Cave booked Bassaleg's Anneliese Heard, pictured, her place in this summer's Commonwealth Games. Cave, an Australian who races for Wales, took a heavy fall on the cycle stage of Saturday's Great North Triathlon
HAR-TRICK hero Mark Dickeson laid the platform for Wales to become the first non-league International champions. Tommi Morgan's team overwhelmed previously unbeaten Republic of Ireland to take the inaugural Four Nations crown in hugely impressive fashion
NEWPORT will get a new name on Tuesday, to mark its status as a city. The former town will officially become the City of Newport and the county borough council looks set to become Newport City Council. But the council says the name change will not cost
A MISSING Gwent boy has been reunited with his relieved parents. Liam Cheshire, 14, was returned to his Pontypool home on Saturday - the day his parents' plight was featured in the Argus. Liam went missing four days before. Mother Nicola Cheshire, 34,
Newport Wasps Select 77 Exeter Falcons Select 41 JOE Screen, the flamboyant Elite League rider, provided the ultimate in speedway entertainment when he guested for Newport at the injured Exeter rider Lawrence Hare's benefit meeting at Hayley Stadium yesterday
OFFICIAL claims of record levels of economic development in Wales hide the true "worrying" position, a leading politician says. According to a Welsh Assembly government report going before AMs this week more jobs were created and safeguarded last year
COACHES are being organised to take protesters against proposals for a new Newport nightclub to the licensing meeting that will decide its fate. As the Argus previously reported, Luminar Leisure - the owners of Newport's Chicago Rock cafe bar - have applied
A GRIEVING family claim they are being kept in the dark about how a Gwent man died in his prison cell. Now they want prison officials to help them find out why "happy-go-lucky" man Wayne Tranter, pictured, was found hanging in his cell at Cardiff Prison
NEWPORT centre Andy Marinos says Wales are in for a bruising time if they are to qualify through to and beyond the quarter-final stages of the World Cup in Australia next Autumn. But he, Wales coach Steve Hansen and former Wales great Ieuan Evans all
MORE than 200 people took part in an afternoon of fun on the weekend to help raise funds for a charity aimed at granting wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses. Twenty teams from South Wales and Bristol competed in an It's A Knockout tournament
