AN 82-YEAR-OLD Gwent woman died in hospital last night after a car crash which also claimed the life of her husband.

Retired Llanhilleth builder Stanley Howell James, 85, died in hospital shortly after the crash between Mr James' Metro and a Rover 218 on the A467 near Glandwr industrial estate, near Llanhilleth, on Tuesday.

Police confirmed today the pensioner's wife, named locally as Evelyn, died at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, last night.

The retired couple ran an ironmonger's shop in Swffryd for many years.