South Wales trains faced delays while major signalling modernisation work was carried out in the Severn tunnel area.
Three new babies were born at the Royal Gwent Hospital to herald the dawning of a new decade.
Cruel horse killers had been using Trefil quarry as a dumping ground for the corpses of starved Welsh mountain ponies.
Police launched a massive hunt for a gunman who had fired five shots from a semi-automatic pistol in James Street, Pill.
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