A NEWPORT schoolboy is looking forward to spending the cash he won after winning a competition to name the pandas on a city roundabout. Nine-year-old Rhys Armstrong, a pupil at Lliswerry Junior School, christened the two pandas found on the roundabout
A STING operation helped catch a Cwmbran man who was pretending to be a taxi driver, a court heard yesterday. Brian Pike, 65, of Myndd Maen Road, West Pontnewydd, admitted faking it at Abergavenny magistrates court yesterday. Earlier this year, posing
A GIPSY family is applying for planning permission to leave an "unsafe" caravan site and set up home in a Gwent village. Henry Price said he wants to set up a family home on land they own in Castleton so their children can live a life away from the sewage
WHEN single mum of two Katy Kelly fell off her horse four years ago she was left paralysed from just below the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. But these days Katy can "walk" around her house and has just taken part in a 24-hour marathon walk
JASON Forster insists there will be no panic in the Newport Gwent Dragons camp after losing their last three games and facing five more really tough games up to the end of next month. That schedule starts with Friday night's home game against twice Heineken
HOPES that Gwent rock band the Manic Street Preachers may support the bid to restore Newbridge Memorial Hall were raised after a visit by the band's James Dean Bradfield. The singer dropped into The Memo last week for an interview with a US production
NEWPORT County's directors say that Sunday's player cull shows just how passionate they are about the club. In a move that raised a few eyebrows but was hailed by a large section of supporters, County's board released Antonio Corbisiero, Wayne O'Sullivan
SERIOUS questions are today being asked over the conviction of a Gwent man jailed for life for murdering his girlfriend in India. Yesterday the Argus said the conviction of Adrian Duggan, 37, of Blaina, raises more questions than it answers. Today a top
A FRIEND of a Caldicot man who is missing with what is believed to be a rifle said he sounded depressed during a telephone conversation a week ago. Concern is growing for the safety of 64-year-old retired steelworker Derek John Upton, who has been missing
WALES manager John Toshack has been dealt another blow in his quest to find a regular number one goalkeeper for his new-look side. Toshack lost first choice 'keeper Danny Coyne for the foreseeable future at the weekend when the Burnley stopper was stretchered
A month after the heartache of having to give up the captaincy and leave his home town club Pontypool, hooker Leighton Jones is on the verge of playing against one of the top teams in the Northern Hemipshere. Jones joined Newport from Pooler in the fall-out
Newport speedway rider Karl Mason is hoping to be part of the Mavericks team in their bid for cup glory against Weymouth. Mason is still waiting for a left knee operation - but it may be keyhole surgery which could result in his making a swift track return
A GIRL aged 13 was left with a broken shoulder after being in collision with a van outside her school. Farjana Aktar was crossing Nash Road outside Newport's Llisw-erry High School at lunchtime on Friday when she was in collision with a van and thrown
A CYCLIST is in a critical but stable condition today after a collision with a car left him with serious head and back injuries. The man, who is believed to be local but has not yet been named, was in collision with the windscreen of a hatchback car as
AN eight-year-old boy gave up the money he was saving for a PlayStation game to help save a Gwent school. Euan James was so upset by the proposals to close Oakdale Comprehensive he has donated his £9 to help the campaign to keep the school open. His sister
