Rugby authorities in Wales, Ireland, New Zealand and everywhere else need to be careful they don't alienate ordinary fans and members from the game completely. Everything is now being geared towards the national game, Team Wales, Team Ireland etc, so
AN ELDERLY Pontypool couple were attacked outside their home after making a stand against anti-social behaviour. The couple, Cecil and Marion Hayes, of Talywain, say they were fed up with a gang listening to loud music on a car stereo outside their house
THE absence of Australian ace Craig Watson through illness proved too big a handicap for Newport as they crashed to a heavy defeat in their Premier League match at Exeter last night. Watson missed the meeting because of a virus and the Wasps were forced
GAMESA Energy UK has established a new headquarters at Newport's Celtic Springs Business Park. The operation is a subsidiary of Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica, one of Spain's largest companies and a world leader in wind turbines. Like a number of international
A WORKER was taken to hospital after falling from a concrete crushing machine on a Newport building site. Kevin Barratt from Bristol is in a stable condition following the accident yesterday morning at the Bellway Homes Sherman's Meadow site in Coverack
ASSEMBLY Member David Davies is celebrating becoming a father after his Hungarian-born wife, Aliz, gave birth to a baby daughter at 3.10am yesterday. Sophie Abigail Davies weighed 8lb 6oz when she was born at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. Mr Davies
THE GOVERNMENT has been making concerted efforts to tackle the increasing number of workers entering the country illegally. A large part of the strategy has revolved around increasing the responsibility of individual employers. The Asylum and Immigration
A DISTINGUISHED New-port landmark will become a pub/restaurant if a planning application from George Wimpey Homes is approved. Lysaghts Institute in Liswerry has played a sentimental role in thousands of Newportonian lives as a social club and a venue
AS the Greek dust settles and the Athens smog lifts Nicole Cooke has been reflecting on her weekend of hell. On Saturday her father was arrested in Greece for scrawling her name on the roads of Athens with chalk. And a day later the Welsh cyclist suffered
A TWO-vehicle crash caused traffic chaos around Newport yesterday afternoon. A car and a lorry collided near the Tredegar Park Roundabout, just off Junction 28 of the M4 at 12.35pm. No-one was injured in the accident. Police diversions were put in place
Despite reports, tickets sales here in Athens aren't going well. In fact embarrassed officials are now contemplating giving tickets away to some of the less popular events. Ironically Olympic chiefs have also warned ticket touts to stay away from the
ABP's South Wales Ports director Budha Majumder has left his job with immediate effect citing "personal reasons". The popular businessman was in charge of ABP's port facilities from Newport to Swansea for the last two-and-a-half years. Most commentators
NEWPORT'S derelict art college was the scene of another fire last night. Fire crews attended a small rubbish fire on the first floor of the building, in Clarence Place, Newport, at 8pm. A hydraulic platform was used to search for people on the roof of
GLASSINGS where victims are left scarred for life are prompting a growing number of Gwent councillors to back calls for bottles and glasses in pubs and clubs to be replaced with plastic containers. Councillors and police say replacing glass with plastic
A NEWPORT family were deprived of their planned summer holiday after a man conned them out of £7,500, police say. The tattooed con artist wrote out a cheque for the money on the pretence of buying the Malpas family's Volkswagen Passat with licence plate
ANNIE Thompsett began life on Newport's fringes at Coedkernew and now lives at Miskin near Llantrisant. Not the biggest relocation in the world, but in between she has been on an environmental odyssey which has included a science degree at Plymouth and
VALLEYS-based civil engineering company David Lewis (CE) has become the official title sponsor of Newport Gwent Dragons. It replaces Bisley office equipment, the family business of club benefactor Tony Brown. The deal runs for one year, with an option
Manchester City and Wales star Ben Thatcher (pictured) has tipped three young Gwent players to make a big impact - in the Premiership. Thatcher, 29, the Swindon defender who recently qualified to play for Wales through his Welsh grandmother (from Barry
A TWISTER struck a Gwent town yesterday, causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage. Shocked residents in Caldicot were alerted by crashes and bangs at about 12.30pm as the freak wind wound its way across several streets, ripping off roof tiles and
A GWENT councillor will get tough on flytippers in his ward saying offenders will be prosecuted and publicly named and shamed. Armand Watts, county councillor for Thornwell in Chepstow, said residents are sick of seeing their streets blighted by dumped
NEWPORT European Partnership is flagging up the fact that its 50th project to qualify for European structural fund money has just been approved. Over the last four years about £7.5m of European funds has come Newport's way and, as a result of match funding
