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  • Annual charity football tournament in Monmouth

    WALES will face England in an ‘international’ football match in Monmouth ahead of the World Cup in Brazil.Welsh and English dads will compete for honours in the annually contested Kevin Johnson Charity Shield in a bid to raise £3,000

  • Torfaen AM joins fight to help Pontypool RFC

    TORFAEN Assembly Member (AM) Lynne Neagle has said she is “confident” joint efforts can put an end to the campaign of “mindless vandalism” plaguing Pontypool Park.The historic club has been subjected to a shocking barrage of abuse

  • Sunshine bring walkers to Chepstow Walking Festival

    MORE than 240 people came out in the sunshine for the second annual Chepstow Walking Festival at the weekend.The three-day walking festival hosted by Chepstow Walkers are Welcome spanned from April12 to14. The festival was opened by Stephanie Dovey, Chepstow

  • Deaf Pontypool boy aiming for F1 gets first sponsor

    A PONTYPOOL schoolboy aiming to become Formula One’s first deaf racing driver has secured his first big sponsor, and taken part in his first competitive event.Caleb McDuff, from Talywain, was diagnosed as profoundly deaf aged just two, following

  • Monmouthshire gets £461k from car parks

    A COUNCIL’S car parks made nearly half a million pounds in 2012/13, according to figures from the RAC Foundation.A “profit” of £461,000 was earned by Monmouthshire County Council from parking charges from an income of £1.1

  • Chepstow police search was like a 'panto’

    A BEAT bobby said his bid to search a man for drugs turned into a “pantomime”.Thomas Waymouth, 37, of Grahamstown Road, Sedbury, claimed he had done nothing wrong and was not going to be searched outside his house by PC Nicholas Assiriti.Using

  • Chepstow woman raises cash for Nepal school

    A BULWARK woman will be combining raising money for charity with cleaning up her neighbourhood next Friday (April 25). Niki Morgan, from Thornwell Road, is hoping to raise £1,000 for the Ginette Harrison School in Nepal. She will be focusing her

  • Abergavenny radio station back on air

    VOLUNTEER presenters at an Abergavenny radio station who were forced off the air following a break-in are back in the studio.The studio at Nevill Hall Sound, which has been broadcasting to patients of Nevill Hall Hospital and the wider community for 35

  • Families hit out at Torfaen graveyard rules

    MORE Torfaen residents have waged war with the local authority over plans to strip graves of “over personalisation”.Torfaen council officials sent out a policy reminder last week giving grave owners and visitors until May 31 to remove any

  • Abergavenny pals will drive to Mongolia

    THREE friends from Abergavenny are to drive to Mongolia in a Nissan Micra that is almost as old as they are.Robert Morgan, Sion Thomas and Rhys Briggs, all 22, will be setting off on July 20 for their adventure, raising money for St David’s Hospice

  • Pontypool street sweeper to pick up honour

    A PONTYPOOL street sweeper will formally receive his British Empire Medal (BEM) next week.Keith Wright, who was honoured in the New Years Honours list, will receive his award at the Civic Centre in Pontypool next week.The 49-year-old street scene operative

  • Rogiet family raise £20k for tot's vital op

    A CAMPAIGN to raise money for a three-year-old toddler to have a life changing operation has reached its halfway mark of £20,000.Ruby Atkins, the three-year-old daughter of Rachael and Antony Atkins, of Rogiet, was born 10 weeks prematurely on Christmas