Serial burglar 'used wife as barrier' between himself and police while being arrested
A MAN from Brynmawr has been jailed for one year and eight months for a series of offences, including burglary, assaulting a police officer, and affray.
'No one checked on us': Community feel let down by council's flood response
A COMMUNITY in Newport feel "let down" by the council after flooding from Storm Bert destroyed their homes and sporting fields.
Owner heartbroken after 'vile' thugs break into yard and torture her horses to death
Julie Jackson arrived at the fields where she keeps her horses, just off Ty Mawr Lane in Marshfield in the Gwent Levels on the morning of November 19, to see her 30-year-old horse Skye, and her two ponies Red and Oak, were missing.
Gwent man who stole £12m of Anglo-Saxon treasure 'detained in Edinburgh prison'
A MAN from Cwmbran who was wanted for breaching his licence conditions upon release from prison, has been found and re-arrested by police.
Couple create petition to stop council building 770 homes on 'beautiful' Gwent Levels
A PETITION has been launched in attempts to stop Monmouthshire County Council from building 770 new homes on the Gwent Levels, in north Portskewett, to the east of Caldicot. The Gwent Levels are a scenic lowland area on the banks of the Severn Estuary in Southern Monmouthshire.
Former National Diving Centre to be turned into a hub for marine engineering
PLANS to transform the Dayhouse Quarry in Tidenham, Chepstow, NP16 7LH, into a marine engineering facility have been approved by the Forest of Dean District Council. The development is led by the ocean technology company called DEEP, and will take place at the National Diving and Activity Centre, which was formerly Dayhouse Quarry, a source of limestone, which flooded in 1996.
Rugby club 'devastated' as flooding destroys clubhouse and forces them to close
Newport High School Old Boys (NHSOB) rugby club in Caerleon has been destroyed after Storm Bert flooded their clubhouse up to the roof.
Family with new-born forced out of home after flood fills their house with sewage
Families living in the Hawthorns area of Caerleon, Newport, have been forced out of their homes after flash flooding has left their properties, cars and furniture laced in sewage water.
LOOK: Pictures of the Royal Gwent and its surgeons in the 80s and 90s
OPENED in 1901 by Lord Tredegar on land gifted by the viscount on Cardiff Road, the Royal Gwent Hospital is Newport's principal hospital site. The South Wales Argus archive photos show the changes to this building and the many staff who have worked there.
This valleys home has the 'the best garden pub' in South Wales
A HOUSE has gone up for sale in the valleys that has a bespoke, fully decked out pub in the back garden.
