£1,000 for missing dog thought to have been shot at

A £1,000 reward is being offered for information to find a missing husky dog which may have been shot at.

Four-year-old Siberian Husky Koda went missing after being taken for a walk near Eglwysilan Church in Abertridwr earlier this month.

Owner Jo Skelding explained: “I was out of the country … Continue Reading

Exhibition to mark 100 years since Pontllanfraith man’s Titanic distress call

The sinking of the Titanic was a disaster that made headlines around the world, but not many people know one of the first people to receive the ship’s SOS call was in Pontllanfraith.

Amateur radio enthusiast Artie Moore, from Gelligroes Mill, received the call from the stricken liner after it … Continue Reading

Drug advice service for youngsters looking for new name

An advice service which helps youngsters having problems with drink and drugs is looking for a new name.

Run by the charity Crime Reduction Initiatives, the CRI Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent Young Person’s Substance Misuse Service is calling on local youngsters to come up with new name and win an … Continue Reading

Blackwood Library Bookworms sing latest book review in bizarre YouTube video

Libraries are usually the place to be quiet, but for one reading group it was the perfect setting for a singsong book review.

Blackwood Library Bookworms Reading Group decided to do something a bit different for their review of CJ Sansom’s Heartstone – a crime novel set in the Tudor … Continue Reading

Cardiff’s goalkeeper Tom Heaton confident they can win the Carling Cup

• ‘We’ve got enough about us,’ says second string
• Heaton shines in shoot-out defeat of Crystal Palace

Match report: Llandovery RFC 16 Bedwas RFC 12

Principality Welsh Premiership, Saturday January 21 2012
Match report by John Meredith and photography by Ian Lovell

A storming second half by Bedwas was not quite enough to gain victory over table topping Llandovery on Saturday.

Current league leaders Llandovery started with a strong wind at their backs and immediately … Continue Reading

RBS risks row over ‘unacceptable’ Stephen Hester £1m bonus

Bank heads for political storm with award of 3.6m shares to chief executive despite widespread opposition

Christopher Jefferies calls for inquiry into police leaks to newspapers

Joanna Yeates’s former landlord says evidence given to the Leveson inquiry showed ‘potentially criminal conduct’