Gwent | Archive | 2001 | August
A TEACHING union is calling for a programme of self-defence classes for teachers to be rolled out nationwide in the wake of the Marjorie Evans case. more...
THE lazy, hazy Sundays of summer will be music-filled at Bedwellty Park in Tredegar throughout August. more...
SHOPPERS in Blackwood were dismayed yesterday when they found parking charges in the town had apparently doubled overnight. more...
TONY Blair was plunged into a row with the Welsh Assembly yesterday after he appointed Lord Haskins as rural recovery co-ordinator to help the countryside recover from foot-and-mouth. more...
ONE of the best-known and most popular characters in Tintern has died after a short illness. more...
COMMIT a crime in Newport and there's more than a fair chance that the local magistrates will throw the book at you. more...
TWO Gwent company directors have been cleared of the manslaughter of a mother and daughter who died in a motorway fireball. more...
CWMBRAN'S new £8.5million cinema complex - already nearly six months behind schedule - is to get a new look after developers dumped plans to include a nightclub and health and fitness centre. more...
A FUNDRAISING campaign to send two disabled Cwmbran boys on the trip of a lifetime to swim with dolphins has gone up a gear. more...
THREE teenagers are being treated in the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, following an outbreak of typhoid fever. more...
RESIDENTS on a troubled Gwent estate are being asked to help evict young thugs in the area by logging all incidents of crime. more...
TRIPLE jumper Jonathan Edwards won the first British gold at Edmonton 2001 with the biggest jump of the year - before adding he could have broken his own world record. more...
NEWPORT County face Yeovil Town at Spytty Stadium tomorrow night (7.45pm) as their pre-season preparations draw to a close. more...
COULD his dyed gold hair be an omen that Christian Malcolm is going to win 200m gold in the early hours of Friday morning? more...
CWMBRAN Town boss Tony Willcox is urging football fans of all clubs to get behind his side when they take on Slovan Bratislava in the UEFA Cup on Thursday night. more...
A SEA of leather and metal swept through the streets of Gwent as hundreds of Harley-Davidson enthusiasts rolled into town. more...
GLAMORGAN recall England spinner Robert Croft for their Cricinfo Championship First Division clash against Surrey at The Oval starting tomorrow (writes Robin Davey). Croft played an important role in Sunday's victory over Lancashire at Colwyn Bay, and replaces Keith Newell in the 12. more...
IT may be an exaggeration to say the Welsh Rugby Union and its leading clubs are on a war footing after the leaking of a major report into the game's future, but the battle lines have been drawn up nonetheless. more...
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