THE PROBLEM of drivers cruising along a Gwent High Street is due to be discussed at a public meeting tonight.

Phillip Howells, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Islwyn, has arranged the meeting in Blackwood Miners' Institute at 7.30pm.

Other parliamentary candidates for the constituency - Don Touhig for Labour, Leigh Thomas for Plaid Cymru, Mary Millington for Socialist Labour Party Wales, Liberal Democrat Kevin Etheridge and Independent Paul Taylor - have said they also intend to be at the meeting.