A FLOOD victim who lost his household contents after freak weather conditions devastated parts of Cwmbran warned fresh flooding was “inevitable” in Torfaen.David Simpson, 49, spoke out after taking part in a community clean-up which saw volunteers remove
WORSHIPPERS at a 290-year-old chapel hope to increase its footfall after converting part of its graveyard into a car park.Fifteen spaces have been created at Peny-garn Baptist Chapel, so people don’t have to park up to 100 metres away on a narrow road.Secretary
IT HAS taken volunteers hundreds of hours and over five years to bring to life, but now, the Usk Tapestry Project is finally complete.The initiative began as a vision of the late Margaret Turner, a talented needle-crafter whose idea was to capture the
MORE than 280 people from Gwent have been touched by Emily Clark’s plea for bone marrow donors after The South Wales Argus highlighted her story.Cwmbran’s Emily Clark, 17, is urging people to sign up as bone marrow donors as she searches for a life-saving
A PERMIT scheme to allow businesses access to a pedestrian zone in Caldicot has not yet been implemented, but the council hopes it will be in place by the end of November.It has previously been reported about vehicles driving illegally on Newport Road
AN ENGLISH teacher and poet has been shortlisted for a national book award.Jonathan Edwards, who has taught at Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls for nine years, is in the running for the Costa Book Awards 2014.The imaginative writer has been shortlisted
A MONMOUTHSHIRE county councillor has criticised the way the authority has consulted parents over possible changes to how children with special educational needs (SENs) have transport provided to them. Thornwell councillor Armand Watts criticised the
