GWENT politicians have lent their support to a campaign for tougher and more thorough policing of the Internet to protect children from predatory paedophiles. The Children's Charities Coalition for Internet Safety, which includes NCH, NSPCC, Barnardo's
ON the streets of Blackwood few were celebrating the news that Neil Kinnock is to become a life peer. "Poacher turned gamekeeper" and "two-faced" were some of the things uttered by Saturday shoppers when asked about him taking a seat in the House of Lords
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons became the first Welsh team to win in Europe this season when they secured a priceless away victory by beating Edinburgh at Murrayfield on Sunday. It made up for last week's surprise home defeat at the hands of Newcastle, though
RICHARD Garner is 45. He has had to quit his job and cancel a holiday, and the pains in his left hip dominate his life. "I am in absolute agony and I can't leave the house," Mr Garner says. "My life is on hold because I can't do anything." Now Mr Garner
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons pair Hal Luscombe and Steve Jones have been added to the Wales squad for this month's internationals against South Africa, Romania, New Zealand and Japan. The call-ups mean the Dragons have now got eight players in national squads
THERE will be no Newport Transport buses on Monday, December 27, and Tuesday, December 28 - both bank holidays - because the company says the services are not "commercially viable". But with many stores in Newport starting their Christmas sales on the
Ebbw Vale came away from Virginia Park with a hard- fought but deserved victory against premiership strugglers Caerphilly, who are propping up the tables. Vale showed a good deal of enterprise throughout the 80 minutes, with their backs looking particularly
THERE was pandemonium at Ladysmead on Saturday as some furious Newport County fans turned on the side after the nightmare 4-1 hiding by Tiverton. Sections of the support, which made up almost half of the bumper 1007 crowd, voiced their disgust at the
HUNDREDS of children in Newport will have their first lessons in the new St Joseph's Roman Catholic School today. From today until Wednesday the pupils will have a staggered start at the new £10 million school in Pencarn Way, Newport. Two weeks ago the
A week after a Caldicot man went missing in Tenby, police say they have no new information as to his whereabouts. James Nutley, 25, from Deepweir Gardens, was last seen in Tenby at midnight on October 24. The talented young golfer was staying with friends
HOMELESSNESS is expected to rise by a massive 92 per cent in Monmouthshire next year, an Argus investigation has revealed. The figure for those presenting themselves as homeless is expected to rise from 324 households in 2003 to 700 next year. In 2003
PARENTS and pupils fighting to save a Gwent comprehensive school are gearing up to have their say at the first of a series of public meetings tonight. Torfaen council is talking to hundreds of families in the north of the borough over the next three weeks
THE family of a Falklands War veteran who died at the age of 40 have paid tribute to a popular and fun-loving man. David Welch from Earl Street, Abertillery, was found dead in his bathroom on October 15. The death is not being treated as suspicious and
AN experimental drug used to fight a deadly childhood disease is undergoing trials on American children - thanks to a Cwmbran toddler. Two-year-old Amber Hartland, of St Dials, Cwmbran, suffers from the rare genetic disorder infantile Tay Sachs, a condition
