NEWPORT city centre has changed significantly over the past few decades.

TUESDAY marked the one year anniversary since prime minister Boris Johnson implemented a national lockdown across the whole of the UK.

CREATIVE freelancers from across South Wales - including two in Newport - are creating new commissions showing what is special about being a creative in their area.

THE most desirable Newport postcodes have been revealed.

A YEAR of coronavirus regulations and restrictions have meant that, across Monmouthshire, changes and adaptations have had to take place.

TWO Nelson primary schools could be merged – at a cost of £4 million – under plans put forward by Caerphilly council.

FOR the last year many couples have had to postpone their weddings, so we thought it would be nice to have a look back at our readers’ big days down the years.

A PENARTH qualified fitness professional has submitted a comment to the Senedd reflecting his concerns on the ongoing closure of the sector and why a reopening date is needed.

Salmonella poisoning, food allergies and unapproved premises' are just some of the reasons behind a number of urgent product recalls across the UK.

Wales lift Six Nations trophy in behind-closed-doors celebration as squad reunite

Dan Barnes met Chloé Newcomb Hodgetts, former apprentice of the renowned Henry Ashby, to see what they could find in just a few of the area’s secret larders.

THERE have been no new confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Gwent for the sixth day in a row - but the seven new deaths confirmed in the rest of Wales takes the total beyond 5,500, according to Public Health Wales.

AIRBNB has revealed the list of their most wish-listed homes for 2021 - and this Gwent property has made the top three.

AFTER nurse Cindy Sulit fell ill with coronavirus last March she became, in the words of an Aneurin Bevan University Health Board colleague, “one of the sickest patients we had who survived”.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular judge and “fanatical Welsh rugby supporter” who has died.

PENARTH unsurprisingly had a buzz about it on Friday.

CORONAVIRUS has been a factor - direct or otherwise - in more than 1,500 deaths across Gwent, according to the Office for National Statistics.

WHAT did you on the first day of being able to venture beyond the bounds of the 'stay local' rule?

A CWMBRAN mum has called for greater understanding around autism ahead of World Autism Awareness Week.

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to deliver a coronavirus recovery in Wales.

UPDATED 2.30pm: The bridge has now reopened, Gwent Police are reporting.

ONE of Gwent's cheapest properties sold for nearly three times the expected amount at auction.

We've been asking our readers what they like about living in Newport and Gwent.

THE chairman of an Usk community group has spoken of how the town being named 'best place to live in Wales' feels like recognition of residents' hard work.

HERE is your weekly fix of pets from around Gwent.

A NEW adventure site will open in the South Wales valleys next month – providing Covid restrictions allow.

LIBERTY Steel, whose plants include one in Newport and another in Tredegar, has asked the Government for £170 million in financial support, it has emerged.

CHURCHES have been the venue of choice for weddings for years, but how about getting married in a castle?

THE site of the former Pontllanfraith High School could be refurbished and used as a new pupil referral unit.

PENARTH embraces sustainability with a place to donate things you own but don’t need and borrow things you need but don’t own. 

Johanna Fallon, of the South Wales Argus Camera Club, sent in these great shots here of the popular Cwmcarn Forest Drive.

This weekend sees the clocks go forward and the evenings getting longer as we head into spring. To celebrate we asked the members of the South Wales Argus Camera Club to send us pictures which meant 'forward' to them. Here are nine of them. This i...

IN June 2003 Blaenavon launched itself as a book town as part of the Booktown International family.

Why were governments doing different things? Which policies would work? Now we know.

New statues and commemorative artworks in Wales should address the lack of diversity of those commemorated in public spaces, according to a Senedd committee.

A CHARITY which manages 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales is to trial changes to how it mows the grass along towpaths to boost wildlife.

The shortlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2021 has been announced, with American writers Raven Leilani and Kate Elizabeth Russell among the six "bold new voices" competing for the £20,000 award.

McDonald's is offering huge savings on their most popular products this week.

We rate and review a range of supermarket Easter eggs, from big names to own brands.

The best bargains hitting the shelves in the middle aisles of their stores from Sunday, March 28, 2021.

ONE in three young women single parents are suffering “economic abuse”, such as being prevented by a partner or family member from having a job, a new study suggests.

WALES are Guinness Six Nations champions after France lost 27-23 to Scotland.

THE family of a Newport boy who was one of the victims of the contaminated blood scandal, are demanding to know why hundreds of parents and children have not been compensated for the deaths of loved ones.

THERE has been a significant fall in coronavirus hospitalisations in Wales in the week stay local rules are lifted.

NO new confirmed deaths from coronavirus have been recorded in Gwent for five days, and just 15 new cases have been confirmed today, one of the lowest daily figures since the early days of the second wave last autumn.

THE Welsh Government will lift its stay local rule from Saturday (March 27) to allow the tourism industry to begin a phased reopening.

THE mother and sole carer of a disabled Newport man who has undergone more than 100 surgeries has spoken of the struggle she has faced getting her son moved to a property nearer to her own.

A BURGLAR who stole a Burberry watch and gold jewellery after smashing his way into his victims’ home has been locked up.

WORK has begun to bring a first of its kind drive-through Costa Coffee to Newport.

A GWENT town has been named the best place to live in Wales.