Monmouthshire, Wales News

Buy this photo COLOURFUL: Lauren Welch, Christine Smith, Tracey Welch, Karen Evans at the back and Mike Nash and Maureen Powell, front who took part in the canal walk Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with 48,000 women getting it in Britain each year.

Leading author Jennifer Sullivan warns of 'generation of illiterate, unemployable young people' and the scourge of TV- and celebrity-obsessed culture A leading Welsh author has warned that a literacy crisis among TV-obsessed school pupils is threatening the future of children who are leaving primary education without the ability to write a legible ... (more)

The book, A Different Time, A Different World - Pontypool Police Court Cases, has been compiled by Brian Foster, 72, from newspaper archives.

Walkers, many of them wearing pink-themed outfits, will gather at three starting points to take part in the annual In The Pink Canal Walk.

New figures from the 2011 Census show the number of children speaking Welsh is more than twice that of those aged 16-64 and the over 65s Numbers of children speaking Welsh are more than double that of those of working age or pensioners, new analysis of census data has uncovered.

Education and children's services are still failing in Blaenau Gwent, two years after the local education authority was placed into special measures.

Children of families affected by housing benefit cuts could use a sofa bed when visiting a separated parent, the welfare minister says.

Traditionally associated with culinary delights like lamb, cockles and laverbread, Wales could soon find itself being ranked alongside Burgundy in France or Spain's La Rioja as a centre of wine producing excellence.

POLICE officers and staff who have gone beyond the call of duty to help make Gwent a safer place were honoured at an awards ceremony.

A choir from Monmouthshire featuring a large number of new recruits in the line-up has been named the best UK choir in an international competition.

MORE than A 5 million will be invested across Gwent to create more children's centres and nurseries as part of the Flying Start programme, the Welsh Government announced today.

A single sermon has been preached at all Church in Wales services this weekend to encourage more people to take part in religious life.

POLICE officers and staff who have gone beyond the call of duty to help make Gwent a safer place were honoured at an awards ceremony.

A REPUTED hideaway house for Charles I during the Civil War is opening its doors to the public as a community led venue.

Pictured: Christopher Copeland, 51, leaves magistrates court today having been accused of keeping more than 500,000 he claimed was for Help for Heroes An alleged conman accused of pocketing more than 560,000 he claimed to be collecting for the Help for Heroes charity was pictured for the first time today.

Commercial finance consultants HCF has selected two experienced former senior HSBC bankers to boost the business and help manage growth in South Wales.

THE sun was out and people from across Monmouthshire had three days to make the most of it with a range of events over the Bank Holiday weekend.

GWENT'S youngest councillor has had a busy 12 months, as she reaches the end of her first year in office.

Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool is Gwent's only Welsh-medium secondary school which accepts pupils from neighbouring counties, not just Torfaen.

Two chalara seminars will be staged by Natural Resources Wales in conjunction with other countryside management agencies next week to help woodland owners and managers tackle the disease that threatens Britain's ash trees.