BRYNMAWR's vicar was awarded the Queen's Volunteer Reserve Medal in the New Year Honours list for his military work. The Reverend Richard Grey is a major of the Army's Chaplain Corps. For more than 30 years Mr Grey has served the people of Gwent as a
NEWPORT County boss Peter Beadle has boosted his ranks by signing a defender and admits he hopes to bring in a striker imminently, ahead of Saturday's vital Nationwide Conference (South) clash at Carshalton (kick-off 3pm). Beadle has signed centre-half
ANGLO-Parisian band Mono Taxi, who recently cancelled a gig in Newport, will bring their punky-funk and finely balanced harmonies to South Wales in February. The band were to push their new single Kind Of Better with an appearance in the Meze Lounge on
THE family of a man with a mental age of seven who went missing from his Abertillery home say he is back safe and well. Mark Howells, who is 34 and lives with his parents in Glandwr Street, went missing on Tuesday evening. His relieved family said that
DANGERMEN - that's the warning from Newport Gwent Dragons coach Paul Turner about Connacht, tonight's opponents in the Celtic League at Rodney Parade. The Irish team are bottom of the table, nine points behind ninth-placed Dragons and having played a
ONE of the country's best loved and most acclaimed musicians Joe Brown, is back at the Beaufort Theatre and Ballroom, Ebbw Vale on Thursday 2nd March at 8pm. Joe Brown along with his Bruvvers, will be performing a two-hour musical celebration live on
POLICE are hunting the attacker of a 14-year-old schoolgirl after she was assaulted in a Newport street yesterday morning. The incident took place at 8.30am near Bassaleg Comprehensive School in Penylan Road as pupils were arriving. The girl was taken
WORK has started on a £400,000 state-of-the-art sports facility at a Gwent school which will enable pupils to keep tabs on their fitness. The sports science laboratory at Croesyceiliog Comprehensive - funded by the Lottery schools improvement grant -
POP lovelies the Sugababes may have lost a member but they're still doing two shows in Wales this year. The girl band will headline Cardiff International Arena on Thursday, April 7 and support Take That in the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday, June 21.
HAVING recently celebrated its first birthday, the Riverfront, Newport is looking forward to an exciting second year with a spectacular spring programme. Family entertainment is off to a side-splitting start with Paddy the clown; hilarious and widely
NEWPORT today announced it hopes to jointly bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Bob Bright, leader of Newport City Council, said: "We will be jointly with our other two cities in Wales, Cardiff and Swansea, making a bid to host the Commonwealth games
WHEN Gordon Collins, the director of The New Venture Players, had a fundraising idea for the society, he contacted past and current members to ask if they would be interested in appearing. His idea of a tribute to the Rat Pack, for one night only, came
VISITORS to a Gwent town could soon be greeted by trees full of birds. But these avian visitors to Brynmawr won't be birds of the feathered variety. Made of metal, and costing £68,000, they are part of a modern artwork called Birds in a Tree. The plan
DANGERMEN - that's the warning from Newport Gwent Dragons coach Paul Turner about Connacht, tonight's opponents in the Celtic League at Rodney Parade. The Irish team are bottom of the table, nine points behind ninth-placed Dragons and having played a
CRAIG Warlow has been reinstated at outside half for Newport Gwent Drag-ons in their crucial Celtic League game against Connacht at Rodney Par-ade tonight. Warlow went on against the Ospreys on New Year's Day at an important stage in the game with the
A GWENT couple walked away and left a man to die after stabbing him 18 times, a court heard yesterday. CCTV cameras filmed Paul Lewis, 55, and Kathleen Carey, 56, leaving a flat in Holly Road, Risca, where Tony Jenkins died. The popular 46-year-old is
CRAIG Warlow has been reinstated at outside half for Newport Gwent Drag-ons in their crucial Celtic League game against Connacht at Rodney Par-ade tonight. Warlow went on against the Ospreys on New Year's Day at an important stage in the game with the
AT THE start of what I expect to be a dream year for me it may be a good time to try a little crystal ball gazing and my prediction is it's going to be a good 2006 for Welsh boxing. In 2005 I doubt many people would disagree that Manchester's Ricky Hatton
A GWENT shopping centre is celebrating its busiest Christmas with a double-record-breaking number of festive shoppers. Nearly 400,000 people poured into Cwmbran's town centre in the week before Christmas. Cwmbran Shopping management said the previous
Cornishman Chris Harris, bidding for a successive hat-trick of New Year Classic victories, will have an additional incentive at Sunday's meeting (tapes-up 1.0pm) Tim Stone, Newport promoter, is offering Harris a "bonus" if he makes it three in a row.
COMMUNITY leaders are calling for CCTV to be installed at the spot where a man was found critically injured. Anthony Beecham, 38, was found with life-threatening injuries between the Nightingale pub and the Spar shop in Bettws, Newport, in the early hours
AT THE start of what I expect to be a dream year for me it may be a good time to try a little crystal ball gazing and my prediction is it's going to be a good 2006 for Welsh boxing. In 2005 I doubt many people would disagree that Manchester's Ricky Hatton
HE'S more used to hanging out in the 'Port, but now Goldie Lookin Chain's Maggot is rubbing shoulders with MP George Galloway, Faria Alam, glamour girl Jodie Marsh and entertainer Michael Barrymore. "I'm here to make up the numbers," the rap posse member
THE CELTIC Manor resort, already boosted by news that the Wentwood Lakes course is nearing completion, have announced that six-times major winner Nick Faldo will be entering this year's Wales Open. Faldo, Europe's greatest golfer with over 42 titles to
A VALLEYS community has a new focal point after getting its first caf for seven years. Former miner Neil Matthews opened the new caf and takeaway in Oakdale's village square on Wednesday. Neilo's Diner was officially opened by Penmaen councillors Allan
