Gwent | Archive | 2006 | March
MORE than 1,000 pupils exhibited their music and Welsh language skills throughout the week during Pontypool community council's inter-schools eisteddfod at yesterday's junior section. more...
A GWENT call centre is creating more than 100 new jobs - just two months after it was rescued from the brink of liquidation. more...
PLANS for a new retail and leisure complex at Abergavenny's cattle market site could be rejected, according to the council's head of planning. more...
A BRAVE Gwent youngster who lost a leg during her ongoing battle with cancer is due to have an artificial limb fitted in the next few weeks. more...
ARCHITECTS are coming up with futuristic and eye-catching entries for a new market square at the heart of Newport. more...
HE may not be bringing home the gold, but Newport people say Mo Nasir has done us proud - and his boxing club chairman is now tipping him for Olympic glory. more...
YOUNG NEWPORT film makers are to follow football fans from the 32 World Cup nations for a 90-minute documentary. more...
A TEENAGER who threw a Liquorice Allsort at a man and cut his eyelid was locked up yesterday for breaching an interim anti-social behaviour order. more...
A GWENT youngster was left bitterly disappointed when snow forced him to miss the Royal opening of the Senedd in Cardiff. more...
COULD you resist the lure of food for 24 hours? more...
THE Welsh Rugby Union and its First Division clubs are to meet again next week in a bid to resolve a dispute over splitting the division on a regional basis next season. more...
ATHLETICS legend Steve Cram has slammed the state of male British sprinting after their abject showing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. more...
NEWPORT COUNTY boss Peter Beadle is urging his side to continue helping themselves in the battle for Conference South survival. more...
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are targeting a place in the Heineken Cup next season, insists returning Wales player Ceri Sweeney ahead of Saturday's tough Celtic League clash against leaders Ulster at Ravenhill. more...
THE Welsh Rugby Union today confirmed the worst kept secret in Welsh rugby - acting head coach Scott Johnson is returning home to be an assistant coach with the Australian RU. more...
FROM Carnegie Hall in New York to the Musikverein in Vienna and London's Royal Albert Hall, Kremerata Baltica, the Grammy-award winning chamber orchestra, will soon be able to add Cardiff to their list when they perform at Wales Millennium Centre on Sunday, April 23. more...
WORLD-class Irish folk singer-guitarist Alan Burke is to play at a Valleys guitar club on Friday, April 7, when Islwyn Guitar Club brings Alan Burke to the Crosskeys Hotel. more...
HERE'S your chance to join in an Easter egg-stravaganza at Zanzibar, Newport. more...
THIS week's big gig happens at Meze Lounge on Monday, as weekly clubnight Alternative Twist celebrates its birthday in amazing style. more...
THE Beautiful South return with a new album Superb on May 14 and will be showcasing it in Newport as part of a new UK tour. more...
FROM the songs of the sirens, through the whirlpools of Charybdis, the cave of Cyclops and the House of the Dead, the Odyssey is one of the world's best- known and well-loved adventure tales. more...
EIGHTIES Welsh rock legends The Alarm will play a very special concert at Chepstow Castle this summer. more...
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