AS COVID restrictions in Wales are relaxed, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has issued an update on its impact in the region’s hospitals.

BIN Bags, carpet roll and a suitcase have been found dumped in a city reen designed to stop flooding in what’s been branded a “disgusting” act of fly-tipping.

A TEENAGER has pleaded guilty to robbing a taxi driver.

A ROUND-UP of recent cases heard at Newport Magistrates’ Court.

A "PROBLEM" which has led to police being told NOT to pursue criminals at high speeds in their BMWs is widespread with forces across the UK.

POLICE are searching for a 26-year-old man who failed to appear in court.

The report on which Boris Johnson’s future may depend was expected to be delivered this week.

QUESTIONS have been raised on the future of plans to restore a rail link to Abertillery.

According to online site Down Detector Brits have reported issues across the UK.ek.

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A DRUG dealer who has admitted possession of cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply is facing a long jail sentence.

Brits will face tighter measures to travel to the popular holiday destination as the country introduces stricter rules on vaccination.

TOP scorer Dom Telford is 'touch and go' for Newport County AFC's clash with Barrow tomorrow.

Norwegian pop sensation Sigrid is hitting the road in 2022 and is coming to Cardiff and the general sale tickets are dropping today. How to buy.

Five men – Lewis Aquilina, Ethan Strickland, Elliott Fiteni, Kyle Raisis and Joseph Jeremy – are on trial accused of murdering Newport father Ryan O’Connor for his Gucci bag last summer

COVID restrictions will be eased in Wales from tomorrow, first minister Mark Drakeford has announced.

THE murder trial of a gang of five men accused of killing a father for his Gucci bag is being adjourned until next week.

MORE than 600 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded in Gwent, but no new deaths, according to the latest Public Health Wales figures.

A MULTI-MILLION pound regeneration project in Ringland has taken a step forward after permission has been granted to demolish a derelict former pub.

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NEWPORT County AFC striker Ryan Hillier will spend the rest of the season on loan at Cardiff Met in the Cymru Premier.

David Maggs said he 'just lost it' when he killed wife Linda Maggs in her bedroom.

Residents in an area of Newport say they were given no consultation or warning about the new mobile phone mast in their neighbourhood.

Police and ambulance vehicles are responding to a road emergency in the Spytty area of Newport.

Critics say Newport City Council has "over-reacted" and its weekday ban on public vehicles in cemeteries is causing "upset" for the bereaved.

A FORMER police cadet was jailed for attacking a PC responding to a chilling threat he’d made that he wanted to slice his own mother’s throat.

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a grass fire in Malpas this evening (Thursday).

CWMBRAN Centre has been bought as one of two shopping centres including in a £138 million deal.

PLANS to fine people who refuse to recycle in Torfaen have been criticised as ‘draconian’ and should not be introduced at the moment, councillors have said.

AMBULANCE rapid response vehicle numbers in Monmouth and Chepstow could be cut by half according to reports.

A DAMNING report into the relationship between Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and a waste services contractor has highlighted a laundry list of failings in the way the arrangement was run.

The LEADER of Gwent’s only Conservative council says residents in Monmouthshire want Boris Johnson 'to go'.

Emergency services are at the scene of the crash near Chepstow

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POLICE officers will be given extra powers to combat anti-social behaviour in Bargoed over the next two nights.

A WOMAN was warned she could be going to jail after she pleaded guilty to a serious assault.

CAERPHILLY County Borough Council will lobby both the Welsh and UK Governments to make St David’s Day a bank holiday in Wales.

GWENT Police are investigating as a collared dove was shot dead on a public road in Newport on Monday.

FOUR schools in Blaenau Gwent are teaching some of their classes online, and 6.5 per cent of school staff are absent due to Covid-19, it has been revealed.

A ROUND-UP of recent cases heard at Newport Magistrates’ Court.

We are on the hunt for Gwent's Best Takeaway.

A TRAPPED deer had a lucky escape after two Dyfed Powys Police officers came to its rescue.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has sought to escape the pressure of Whitehall for the north Wales coast 

A COUNCIL has welcomed the publishing of an Audit Wales report which criticised the relationship it had with a waste services contractor.

A MAN who witnessed a father-of-two being attacked in a Cardiff park tried to put himself between the victim and his assailants, a court has heard.

TODAY, people across the world will take time to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and those killed in genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

GWENT Police are appealing for information to locate a Tredegar man.

Holocaust Memorial Day falls on January 27 every year

A WOMAN living in Barry has finally spoken to her parents in Tonga following a natural disaster.

AN independent animal rescue centre near Llandysul, Ceredigion, has raised £5,000 to provide vital surgery for two adorable corgi puppies.