Archive
-
Date
Join up
NEWPORT should consider joining the English set-up if the super club system is not accepted, says former Wales captain Brian Price. He is one of Newport's most distinguished former players and is famous for leading the side which defeated Wilson Whineray's
-
Date
Gym staff pull in the change!
Heave ho! Staff from Newport's Fitness First gym took part in a 24-hour row for charity this weekend. The olympic effort, on rowing machines in the Tesco Extra store in Cardiff Road, was to raise money for the Noah's Ark Appeal for a children's hospital
-
Date
Nurse search goes global
HEALTH bosses are going global to help fill scores of nursing posts and other key vacancies at Gwent hospitals. A second intake of 60 nurses from the Philippines arrives in Gwent in February, and a recruitment drive is planned for Australia to attract
-
Date
Live music venue opening delayed
THE launch of Newport's newest concert venue will be delayed until next year because of problems fitting a new floor. The old Odeon cinema in Clarence Place was bought in March this year by the P2 Group, who have converted it into a new venue for live
-
Date
Join up
NEWPORT should consider joining the English set-up if the super club system is not accepted, says former Wales captain Brian Price. He is one of Newport's most distinguished former players and is famous for leading the side which defeated Wilson Whineray's
-
Date
End of an era for Blaenau
BLAENAU Gwent RFC, one of the oldest rugby clubs in Wales, have been forced to stop playing after 132 years in existence. The Abertillery Park-based club have withdrawn from Welsh National League Division Seven East because they cannot raise a side. But
-
Date
Life of Moffett
THE lunatics now running the Welsh rugby asylum cannot be allowed to get away with the latest madness. Provincial rugby... a team representing the Principality at the highest level from North Wales? I've never heard such rubbish and were it not so serious
-
Date
Savings: Rail chiefs deny threats to Valleys service
RAIL chiefs have denied that cost-saving measures will threaten the planned Ebbw Vale rail link - despite fears of a reduction in services. The Strategic Rail Authority is demanding bidders for its new all-Wales train franchise to come up with plans for
-
Date
Tributes to Jenna recall her 'love and laughter'
HEADS bowed in grief, the family of Jenna Brookfield accompany her coffin on its final journey. The 15-year-old was yesterday laid to rest after a moving funeral service where her family and friends paid tribute to a girl they remembered as being full
-
Date
Take advice, it pays off - ELWa
NOT all businesses being encouraged to take advantage of a service that could help improve their competitive edge are easily convinced of its worth. The National Council for Education and Learning for Wales (ELWa) runs a Small Firms Training Initiative
-
Date
May the sales force be with you
In a shopping centre not so far away... Newport's Kingsway Centre was invaded by spacemen on Saturday, when Star Wars characters, including bounty hunter Boba Fett and a Tusken Raider, flew in to entertain shoppers. The characters, from SAJ Promotions
-
Date
My great day - Evans
EBBW Vale hooker Jon Evans will no doubt have been taking a trip down memory lane this afternoon as Oxford and Cambridge Universities contested the 120th Varsity match. After getting his degree from Cardiff University, Evans spent a year at Homerton College
-
Date
Corus makes over £18m from plant and machinery at Llanwern
A DEAL between steel company Corus and developers acquiring 600 acres of land at the Llanwern plant's former 'heavy' end is due to be signed soon. Corus has also announced that it has made over £18 million from the disposal of plant and machinery made
-
Date
Carnival 'too rough' for fair operators
THE organisers of a winter carnival in Newport were told that their area is "too rough" for a fairground operator. This year's Pill Winter Carnival is now without a full fairground. Organisers of the carnival, being held on Sunday, were left without rides
-
Date
Here's to a great partnership
A GWENT winemaking company is toasting a fifty-year partnership with its financial advisers. The Monmouth-based Monnow Valley Wines is owned by the Baker Family, who formerly owned the Duffryn Estate in Newport. Independent chartered accountancy firm
-
Date
Course change led to air crash
TWO pilots who died when their light aircraft hit electricity pylons on a Gwent mountaintop may have seen the structures too late to save themselves, a crash report says. Their aeronautical chart would not have shown the pylons - atop Mynydd Maen, above
-
Date
Crib is a scene of animal magic
A CHRISTMAS nativity scene with a difference was recreated at a farm in Tintern. This Christmas the nativity scene includes live animals at Parva Farm, Tintern. Judith Dudley, from Parva Farm, said: "We wanted to celebrate Christmas and provide something
-
Date
County bid to go in with the big guns
NEWPORT County are on the brink of a mouth-watering FAW Premier Cup quarter-final showdown with one of the top sides in Welsh football. A draw at Bangor City tonight (7.30pm) will be enough for Peter Nicholas' side to progress to the last eight - a feat
-
Date
Plan for flats faces hurdle
PLANNERS are recommending that a controversial plan to demolish the historic Rougemont School building in Newport and build houses on the site should be thrown out. Officers are recommending that Newport council's planning committee refuse consent for
-
Date
Household debts take a heavy toll
NEARLY 90,000 people in Wales have household debts in excess of £10,000, and more than 100,000 see more than half of their monthly income eaten up by credit re-payments. Ten per cent of consumers in Wales feel that they have borrowed more than they can
-
Date
'He's brilliant, he's one in a million'
IRANIAN Hajar Unisy, who came to Britain two years ago with little English, overcame the language barrier, learnt new skills and landed a job at Newport's Big W. After learning English at Charles Street Community Centre in Newport and completing the government's
-
Date
Life of Moffett
THE lunatics now running the Welsh rugby asylum cannot be allowed to get away with the latest madness. Provincial rugby... a team representing the Principality at the highest level from North Wales? I've never heard such rubbish and were it not so serious
