Gwent | Archive | 2006 | March
AROUND 70 workers lost their jobs after a Gwent manufacturing firm failed to attract a buyer to save the business. more...
A GWENT nurse was named one of the best in the UK when she picked up a second national award for her work. more...
A NEW primary school in the Valleys is to get a share of £1.8 million to fit solar energy panels on the building. more...
CHARLES Clarke, the Home Secretary who is trying to force a merger on all the Welsh forces, has never even seen Gwent Police in operation. The Home Secretary plans to forge ahead with merging Wales' police forces and announced last week he wants all mergers in place by April 1, 2007. more...
POLICE are investigating a Brynmawr couple's claim that they came home from a night out to find their house was left open after officers broke down their door. more...
PROLIFIC offenders like a Newport man with 277 convictions need to be "rehabilitated as well as punished". more...
A FATHER and daughter can continue to take off and land planes at a private Abergavenny airstrip after planners ruled it is not a nuisance to the community. more...
THE British Red Cross' new Welsh headquarters is to be built in Newport. Planning permission for the 1,014sqm building in George Street is granted and work is expected to start on the site at the end of this month. more...
NEW life could soon be breathed into dilapidated and boarded up buildings in Pill thanks to a proposed regeneration project. more...
OVARIAN cancer patient Patricia Whittaker no longer plans far ahead but she put her faith in a potential drug of the future to help overcome her disease. more...
DRAGONS and Wales second-row Ian Gough has launched a passionate defence of his regional and national team-mate Michael Owen. more...
WALES caretaker coach Scott Johnson has admitted he breathed a huge sigh of relief when Stephen Jones was passed fit to play, writes Nabil Hassan. more...
DRAGONS full back Aled Thomas is determined to take his chance after being given the nod for Wales Under-21s in their clash with Italy at Rodney Parade tomorrow night. more...
NEW Welsh boxing legend Joe Calzaghe is set to gain the perfect reward for his destruction of American Jeff Lacy in their world super-middleweight unification fight on Saturday - a multi-million dollar `homecoming' fight at the Millennium Stadium. more...
GWENT snooker ace David Donovan hopes that his clean sweep of Welsh age group titles can serve as a springboard to success on the professional circuit. more...
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