HIS talents helped create one of the most popular detectives ever to appear on television screens worldwide. Monmouthshire-based scriptwriter, playwright and local historian Julian Mitchell, 78, talks to KATH SKELLON about his award-winning play, Inspector
MORE Newport rugby legends were inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame after a dinner was held at Rodney Parade last week. Now in its third year, more than 200 guests paid tribute to nine great players from the Black and Ambers’ rich history who
A MAN has been awarded £450,000 in compensation from a health board over his birth after a fortune teller told his mother he would "win a claim".Jamie Lewis' mother had been ready to throw the towel in during a long running dispute
FIVE MINUTES WITH.... Paul Williams, 47, the owner and baker at Happy Occasions Cakes in Cwmbran, who recently scooped two awards at the world’s biggest cake showIf you had to be stuck in a lift with someone, who would it be and why?Leonardo Da
A CAR containing two people has come off the road between Tintern and Brockweir on the A466. The ambulance, fire fighters from Malpas and Monmouth, and Gwent Police have all been called to the incident which happened at 3.15pm. ------------
For many school leavers the world of work, wages and debt can come as a shock, so some Gwent teens and an AM are calling for more financial education in schools, as EMMA MACKINTOSH reports. MAKING the shift from the world of school to the reality
AN APPEAL has been launched after a group of degus - rodents typically kept as pets - were found abandoned in Newport last weekend. RSPCA Cymru is appealing for information and potential new owners after 17 degus were found dumped in woodland in
NEWPORT County AFC fans are invited to the club's new kit launch for the 2014/15 season at Rodney Parade tomorrow night. The new home and away kit will be launched at the fans' forum event from 6.30pm in the Bisley Lounge on Thursday. Strikers
FORMER Wales and Newport County winger Leighton James is recovering at home after suffering a mild stroke. The 61-year-old, who also starred for Burnley and Swansea City, had hospital treatment after being taken ill on Sunday afternoon with
MANY years ago I was regularly helped to maintain the semi-technical manufacturing plants, within a building called the Engineering Laboratory at Huddersfield’s ICI works, by an elderly gentleman who was also the president of the local Burns society
WHEN in Aldi on Thursday with my disabled father, who uses a motorised wheelchair to get around, we were aproached by a lady. This lady was very kind enough to pass on information that, if ever my dad were to get stuck out and about, he’d be able to
I RATHER enjoyed Andy Rutherford’s take on Britpop (19 April), but if he believes it didn’t actually exist he’s either in denial or wasn’t paying enough attention at the time. The term ‘Britpop’ was coined as early as the late 1980s when the likes
THE RELENTLESS demonisation of the recipients of benefits in this country in recent years…” (Scandal of food banks, SWA April 16), only works because something like 70 per cent of the population supports the government in its cruel and vindictive campaign
CERTAIN of your correspondents in recent times have been hell bent on trying to divert your readers from the real issue of the Caerphilly council pay scandal. The reality is that this rise – given to 21 senior officers and agreed by a committee
FOUR friends from Thornwell raised £800 for St David’s Hospice by tackling one of the longest and fastest zipwires in the UK on Saturday. Nik Everett, Karen Zimmerman and Toni Roberts dressed up as clowns while Keith Chapman wore a mankini
THE Thomas, Carroll Glamorgan and Monmouthshire League cricket season gets under way on Saturday, a week before the Conference and the South Wales Premier League.In Division One Abergavenny get their campaign started at home to Pontypridd, Chepstow host
AN Usk woodland which was once home to a maternity hospital will be brought to life as a Victorian-themed visitor attraction with the help of a £300,000 heritage grant.Coed Cadw-The Woodland Trust, which bought Cefn Ila in 2007, will spend the &
WALES under-20s head coach Byron Hayward has picked an experienced 28-man squad for this summer’s Junior World Championship in New Zealand, including 11 Gwent youngsters. Luke Garrett, Elliot Dee, Joe Davies, Scott Andrews, Scott Matthews, James Benjamin
A 54-YEAR-OLD man was assaulted and had his wallet stolen in Newport's Maindee area last Saturday night, Gwent Police said.Officers are appealing for information about the assault which they say happened on Malvern Road at around 10.20pm on April
TWO people were helped from a car and a van by paramedics following a collision outside Undy Police Station, Magor, just before 10am today. The South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews from Caldicot, Maindee and a rescue tender from Malpas
A CALDICOT woman will compete to be named Miss Wales at an event in Port Talbot this weekend. Hannah Bowen, 22, will also seek to be named Miss Monmouthshire at the Princess Theatre, along with the county’s other nominees, Louisa Fletcher and Paige
A STRETCH of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is set to reopen to boaters next week following major repairs to the embankment near Abergavenny.A two-kilometre-stretch of the canal between Llanfoist and Govilon was closed in January after the embankment
A NEW Deputy Chief Constable was appointed by Gwent Police yesterday.Craig Guildford, who took up his post as Gwent Police’s new Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) yesterday, joined Cheshire Constabulary in 1994 after completing a Geography degree when
CONGRATULATIONS are in order for everyone associated with Newport County AFC. After 25 years in non-league exile, the County secured League Two football for a second successive season over the bank holiday. Some supporters might be disappointed
FUNDRAISING for a Talywain mum continues after £6,000 has already been raised in two weeks towards a life changing operation.A fundraising event was held on Sunday for Lindsay Clarke, 33, who has been completely bed-bound since December.This raised
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have agreed fresh three-year contracts with influential centre Ashley Smith and Wales wing Tom Prydie. Smith, 27, and Prydie, 22, have penned deals that will keep them at Rodney Parade until the summer of 2017. Only three
TWO Pontypool men who rammed a police car while trying to escape in a car they took from a driveway were jailed.Justin Jones, 28, and Alex Clarke, 26, started up a Mazda MX5 they found on a driveway on Priory Street in Usk in the early hours of March
NEWPORT County defender Darcy Blake admits he was angry over the award of a contentious penalty in Monday’s 1-1 draw with Burton Albion. The Exiles, whose safety in League Two was guaranteed just before kick-off, courtesy of Bristol Rovers’
A LEGAL case where a woman won damages after claiming she was wrongfully arrested cost Gwent Police more than £9,000.Kristy Robinson was awarded £2,350 back in February after taking civil action claiming she'd been arrested without due
ALEX Chant couldn't celebrate his 21st birthday. A month into a three month long coma, he had sustained massive brain injuries after he fell from a moving taxi after a night out in Newport on March 27, 2010. And when his family arrived at the Royal
