Newport, England News

Aquidneck Island is known for its autonomy. This is our island, creating an "us" and a "them." That is, "us" being islanders and "them" being the land-lovers across the bridge.

CONFUSION over the new waste collections has led to piles of rubbish building up in Island streets and some residents have still not received their wheelie bins.

A NEWPORT man is now banned from all pubs, bars, clubs and off licences in the city as Gwent Police takes a new approach to stamping out drink-fuelled crime.

IT WAS built to transport stone, coal, iron and processed lime from Brecon to Newport and the Severn Estuary during the Industrial Revolution.

Research carried out by the Local Data Company shows Cwmbran's shop vacancy is 6 per cent, the lowest in Wales, while Abergavenny has the second lowest rate with 7.9 per cent.

MURDER accused Carl Whant broke down in tears before his seventh police interview where detectives were quizzing him about the death of pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender, a court heard yesterday.

A NEW cycle route through Newport, which will link the Cowes to Newport and Newport to Sandown cycle tracks, has been partially opened.

On February 4, 2011, Mr Mayes and Miss Grender had sex before Whant picked him up to go to work.

The boyfriend of a murdered pregnant teenager repeatedly denied today that he shared women with the cousin accused of killing her.

The 38-year-old man from Ryde on the Isle of Wight was told he much return to answer bail on March 7, pending further enquiries.

OFFICERS investigating the murder of a pregnant Newport teenager seized 300 CCTV discs from 200 shops and businesses, a court heard yesterday.

NEWPORT, Monmouthshire and Torfaen will not be included in plans for economy-boosting enterprise zones in Wales, in was announced yesterday.

As volunteers gear up for what promises to be another busy summer on the water, activities are taking place on land to raise funds for the independent inshore lifeboats that operate from Ryde, Sandown and Freshwater Bay.

BLAENAU Gwent is the worst area in Wales at coping with the economic downturn but Monmouthshire is the best, according to a new report.

PARTS of the Newport to Cowes cycle track will be closed over the next five weeks for extensive maintenance and resurfacing.

The 18-year-old man was walking on Gaer Road at around 11.45pm on January 22, when he was approached by a man who demanded his BlackBerry Curve phone before running off in the direction of Maesglas.

Mark Sweeting, 40, of Monnow Way, Bettws, admitted carrying a round object in a sock on December 14 last year.

Police have confirmed that because staff changes were implemented quicker than first thought likely, Shanklin front office will now be closing earlier than the original planned date at the start of April.

TWO Newport men were jailed after a police operation uncovered them as couriers for an organised crime gang which brought large quantities of drugs into the area.

YESTERDAY, jurors were taken to see Miss Grender's flat and the bedroom where she was found dead on the morning of February 5 last year.