100 YEARS AGO LORD

Tredegar’s Agricultural Show was hailed as THE show of 1913, with excellent exhibits and keen competition shown by all.

SHOCKING disclosures were made and subsequently heavy fines imposed, after an Alexandra Road resident was charged with keeping a disorderly house after police noticed that the premises was often frequented by sailors and foreigners.

A STRIKE of repair shop men at Newport Power Station began over the question of smoking.

FOLLOWING a tragedy at Clifton Suspension Bridge, questions were asked as to whether the suicide victim was from Newport.

50 YEARS AGO

IT WAS announced that sixty caravan homes would occupy the wooded site at Waunwern on the Crumlin Road at Pontypool.

THE landslide on the mountain above Glan Ebbw, Blaina, was stabilised after water in the centre of the slip was diverted as far away as possible.

MONMOUTHSHIRE County Council was set to tell the National Ports Council that it was in favour of the amalgamation of the ports of Newport and Bristol under the control of the new Upper Bristol Channel Port Trust Authority.

ALTHOUGH the All Blacks defeated a combined Pontypool/Cross Keys side, the team were not disgraced, with the winning points coming only in the last three minutes of the game.

25 YEARS AGO

GWENT Police smashed a major forged MoT certificates racket, following a series of raids on garages and houses in the Risca and Blackwood area.

A NATIONWIDE alert was launched in a bid to identify a silent teenager found wandering in a confused state near the Severn Bridge at 2.30am.

THE town of Cwm was reeling after an announcement that British Coal was set to close Marine Colliery.

MORE than one in three Gwent nurses had lodged appeals against their new pay grades, in a massive display of disaffection with health bosses.