WALES will not be coming out of lockdown in the near future, health minister Vaughan Gething confirmed today.

MOTORISTS are urged to take extra care if heading out in the north of Gwent today, as freezing temperatures are likely to make travelling more tricky.

THREE people have appeared in court charged with conspiracy to supply heroin.

IN the wake of pandemic hero Captain Sir Tom Moore’s death, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has explained how it is using the money he raised last year.

Follow along live throughout the day, for all of the latest updates on coronavirus as they break

NEWPORT City Council has been “barred” from approving an application for further conversion works at Uskmouth Power Station.

A PETROL station worker was left “holding on for dear life” on a car bonnet when a motorist drove at him after being challenged about paying for fuel.

A TALENTED 12-year-old Monmouthshire schoolboy is making an innovative device which, the school says, could well be used by the NHS to save lives in the UK’s fight against Covid-19.

A MAN who started a fire inside his home, endangering those of his neighbours, has been sent to a mental health facility.

A NEWPORT man who snatched a body camera from a city centre pub manager, leaving her with injuries akin to whiplash, said he did it because he was “scared the footage would be shared on social media”.

A ROUND-UP of recent cases heard at Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court.

PlayStation5 restock is rumoured to be going live today with more drops coming later this month.

A CALDICOT man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for burglary.

Do your clothes have the dreaded dry clean only tag? Here's the right way to wash those clothes at home without making a trip to the dry cleaners.

HOUSE prices always seem to be getting higher and higher, but every now and again a property comes up that is an absolute bargain.

A HUSBAND snapped and murdered his wife just days into the first national lockdown over worries about coronavirus and money, a court was told.

PlayStation5 restock is rumoured to be going live tomorrow with more drops coming later this month.

A DRUG dealer trafficking cocaine and laughing gas cannisters who was caught with £8,000 of designer clothes, watches and shoes has to repay his crime money.

BEDWAS and Trethomas recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases in Gwent in recent days, according to Public Health Wales.

HEALTH minister Vaughan Gething has apologised on behalf of the Welsh Government as Wales passed 5,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths.

A WORRIED daughter says her 95-year-old mother who became housebound after being in hospital and contracting Covid-19 is yet to receive her first vaccine.

A MAN has been charged with murder following the death of a woman in Pontypool on Saturday morning.

POLICE have released the picture of a convicted killer who was jailed for 18 years for raping a woman in her home.

PEOPLE in Wales who are housebound and are yet to receive their coronavirus vaccine have not been forgotten, health minister Vaughan Gething pledged today

THERE have now been 5,000 confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Wales since the pandemic began, according to Public Health Wales.

Emergency services dealt with a house fire - in Griffithstown, Pontypool, earlier today.

Follow the South Wales Argus live updates on the Covid-19 coronavirus public health crisis in Wales and Gwent's Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area.

A MAN who played a leading role in a drug-dealing gang which trafficked cocaine in the Gwent Valleys has been given a four-year prison sentence, and will serve half of that period behind bars.

A DRUG dealer was jailed after police found heroin inside a Kinder Egg when it fell out of his boxer shorts during a strip search.

Here are more babies recently born in Gwent.

A NEWPORT man who stalked a woman at her home and her workplace has been jailed.

POLICE in Monmouthshire have been busy dealing with intoxicated drivers, speed violators and more.

A DRUG dealing dad who was growing his own cannabis was told he was lucky not to be going straight to jail.

Newport Wafer Fab is one of two South Wales businesses to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation to develop advanced components for longer range electric vehicles.

GWENT is set for yet another cold spell this week with snow and ice forecast for some parts of Wales.

A ROUND-UP of cases heard at Newport Magistrates’ Court and Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court.

THE Welsh Government will work with a group of campaigners who have been battling for a new rail station in Magor since 2012 to get the scheme “off the ground”, a minister has said.

THE Wales and Borders rail franchise - which runs trains running through Gwent - has been taken into public ownership by the Welsh Government.

OVER the coming week, stargazers across Wales are being encouraged to take part in Star Count 2021.

A FRESH appeal to resolve residents' long-standing parking problems in an area of Bargoed has been lodged with Caerphilly council.

A GROUND-BREAKING new scheme to help police deal with missing children and adults with additional needs has been launched – with the help of a Caerphilly school.

During the latest lockdown, you are not alone.

A CARE home in Newport is improving residents’ quality of life - with magic.

Last week Asos, also an online retailer, signed a £330 million deal to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT from Arcadia.

TWO Gwent schools have been chosen as finalists for Wales as part of the annual Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards.

THE UK Government “doesn’t have a plan” to bring home a British mother due to finish a five-year sentence in Iran next month, her local MP fears.

The increase has been calculated by Government using the Consumer Prices Index.

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi urged the public to keep faith after South Africa suspended its rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.

With tickets costing an average of £37, it's a bill most motorists could do without.

High street retailers want to see changes that would put them on a “level playing field” with online rivals.