Monmouthshire | Archive | 2006 | January
Chepstow Police are appealing for information after a man was attacked by a group of three to five men while walking home from Chepstow town centre on the evening of Thursday December 23, 2005. more...
THE future of nuclear power stations at Berkeley and Oldbury is now in the hands of government ministers. more...
PROFESSOR Robert Mansel, from Monmouth, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's new year's honour list. more...
HAIR-RAISING stunts have brought one Pontypool man fame and he hopes they will attract a fortune for a local hospice. more...
A MAJOR search operation that began with reports that someone had jumped from the Second Severn Crossing looks to have come to an end with the discovery of a body on a river bank. more...
CHEPSTOW fitness expert Rich McLaughlin is now fitness coach for Bristol City FC and is director of The Body Firm personal training company. He has previously worked with celebrities such as Elle MacPherson and Guy Ritchie. more...
TELEVISION cult hero Dr Who topped the television ratings on Christmas day in an episode that was filmed in the locality. more...
Hundreds of local people turned out to support the annual display by members of the Monmouthshire Hunt. more...
AN OUTDOOR swimming- pool left derelict for more than a decade in a Gwent town is set to be demolished this year. more...
Laurence James Taylor, 48, from Goldfinch Close, Caldicot, is to be receive an MBE in recognition of his work for the Ministry of Defence. Mr Taylor said: "I thought it was a joke at first - I couldn't believe it. "I'm not even sure what I'm being awarded it for. more...
A LANDMARK decision, which was undertaken by Monmouthshire County Council to halt the sale of woodlands to turn them into leisure plots, still hasn't been adopted by the government. more...
THE decision to close two village schools has been described as a `terrible blow' by Monmouth MP David David. more...
POLICE yesterday confirmed that a body found in Pontypool Park was that of missing town landlord George Wait. more...
AWARD-WINNING Chepstow town centre still requires more work in 2006 after the council admitted steps need re-designing and parking issues need to be resolved. more...
A 32-year-old man who repeatedly swore at police officers after refusing to leave a Monmouth pub has been fined £50 by Abergavenny Magistrates. Richard Graham Hughes, formerly of Springfields Road, Ross-On-Wye, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly on December 17, 2005, when he appeared in court last week. more...
THE former vicar of Govilon has been given the Queen's Volunteer Reserve Medal in the New Year's Honours List. more...
A FORMER Gwent doctor suspended from practice for building up a huge stock of dangerous drugs faces being banned for a third year. more...
Police are reminding people that it is still illegal to buy alcohol for anyone under the age of 18, despite new licensing laws coming into effect recently. more...
King Edward II took possession of Chepstow Castle in 1306 and made Hugh Despenser the Younger, its constable, a role he held from 1308-1310. more...
SPEED humps designed to make a road safer have become a danger, claims an Abergavenny grandfather. more...
A TEENAGE bully who robbed a 17-year-old of his car at knifepoint was locked up for Christmas after being sentenced to two-and-a-half years' detention. more...
FOR one night only, Monmouth's historic Savoy Theatre in is hosting an encounter with Charles Dickens. more...
A FORMER constable of Chepstow Castle has been nominated as one of the Ten Worst Britons of the last 1,000 years. more...
MIDWIVES at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital were kept busy over the weekend, with a trio of babies born to south Monmouthshire couples on New Year's Day. more...
Here we go again RESIDENTS of Hendre Close, Monmouth, endured a `Christmas from hell' due to the noisy activities of a tenant. more...
AFTER weeks of frustration, the parents of a teenager who suffered a coma are seeing the first signs of her recovery. more...
WHEN I took delivery of my first County Card back in 1992, Monmouthshire Golf Club was the venue for the breaking-in ceremony. Set two miles outside Abergavenny, coming from Pontypool, it is reached by taking the left turn to Llanfoist, through the village of Llanellen, and the club pops up on the right-hand side about half a mile from there. more...
FANS of jump racing are in for a treat in the next few months, with extra National Hunt fixtures at Chepstow Racecourse. more...
OCEAN oarsman Andrew Barnett passed the 1,000 mile on Boxing Day on his epic Atlantic row. more...
MONMOUTH rowers blew away the Christmas cobwebs by making a splash at their Boxing Day scratch regatta. more...
The Borderers play their first match of the New Year away to Croesyceiliog in the league this Saturday. more...
It's been little over one year since the The Thursday Trust took over the running of the Abergavenny Thursdays football club, and for anyone who has been down to the Penypound stadium it's easy to see the improvements that have taken place in such a short time. more...
The 23rd Annual Caldicot Boxing Day road race, over a distance of just under three miles (probably the longest-lasting local event of its kind), saw Stephen Davies, Caldicot, scoring his sixth successive victory in a record time of 13 minutes 17 seconds. more...
Benevolent Cup 2nd round: Tippling Rogiet 0, Chepstow Athletic 4 more...
Peter Lloyd won The West Wales Rally Spares-Christmas Stages 2005 Rally with Damian Cole second and John Dalton third. more...
OCEAN oarsman Andrew Barnett passed the 1,000 mile on Boxing Day on his epic Atlantic row. more...
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