TODAY Wales goes to the polls to pick the next set of Senedd Members.

TODAY'S the day - the Senedd Election is here, and, with coronavirus uncertainty still lingering in everyday life, people may still have some questions about what will happen.

Keep up to date with all the latest news as polls open for the Senedd elections

GRATEFUL residents have started a fundraiser to say thank you to the firefighters and helicopter pilots who spent days battling a devastating mountain fire last month.

AN IMPORTANT part of Torfaen’s industrial history is going up for auction.

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

IT'S not just Members of the Senedd voters will be electing today, with Police and Crime Commissioners also on the ballot paper.

TODAY'S Welsh Parliament election will see its three largest political parties – Welsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru – compete to form the next Welsh Government.

The South Wales Argus Camera Club has more than 4,400 members and we regularly feature their pictures both in paper and online.

THE 2021 Welsh Parliament election is the first to be held since Wales’ legislature changed its name from the National Assembly of Wales and the first to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote.

PIER Pavilion Community representatives held an online meeting last week with the Vale Council Managing Director Rob Thomas, convened by the  Director of the Lottery board in Wales, Andrew White. 

ITEMS have been dumped at a large park in the Vale of Glamorgan.

To celebrate and help anyone looking to get back into fitness, PureGym is offering members 50% off their first month, with £0 joining fees.

GREGGS have issued an urgent recall of products over fears they may contain glass.

Here is a round up of the public notices which have appeared in the South Wales Argus over the last week...

RESIDENTS can now have their say on plans for 12 flats for people who have been homeless at Hill Street car park in Newport.

AN LS Lowry sketch the eminent artist made on a napkin whilst on a visit to Gwent during the 1960s has failed to sell at auction.

A WOMAN repeatedly stamped on her girlfriend’s face during a “vicious attack” after drinking 20 bottles of Budweiser to celebrate her birthday.

“PLEASE, if anyone is listening and is frightened, please dig deep and find the courage. Find somebody, just ask for help because the system works.”

GWENT has now gone 17 days without a new confirmed coronavirus death, the longest period since last summer - and the rolling weekly case rate for Wales (10.1 per 100,000 people) is at its lowest rate since last August.

A MAN who “laughed and grinned” while sexually assaulting a woman at a Gwent hospital has been sentenced.

A DRUG driver left a woman with a broken neck in a horror crash when he got behind the wheel after taking cocaine and ketamine.

POLICE bodycam footage shows the shocking moment police discovered the dismembered body of a woman in a suitcase near the Monmouthshire border.

A “TERRIBLE ten” local authorities who pay the lowest care home fees in Wales have been named and shamed.

All the latest coronavirus headlines for Wednesday, May 5 from across Gwent and Wales.

A MAN who burgled three homes in Blackwood, “brazenly” taunted a homeowner on CCTV and then took off in her car, has been sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court.

ANEURIN Bevan University Health Board has said there is no connection between not having a stand-by list for left over vaccines and the levels of coronavirus vaccine doses deemed unusable in Gwent.

WITH less than 24 hours to go until Wales goes to the polls, first minister Mark Drakeford visited Barry this morning in the final day of campaigning.

PLANS for a new activities centre and café at Pontymoile basin, on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal near Pontypool, have been recommended for approval despite more than 70 objections to the proposal.

A FORMER personal instructor jailed for dealing ecstasy has been ordered to hand over money he made from drug dealing.

The latest Senedd election opinion poll suggests a late upturn in support for the Welsh Conservatives.

WITH voters heading to the polls in the Senedd Elections in a matter of hours, we take a look at the parties trying to earn your vote, and the policies they are standing on.

A BENEFITS cheat who swindled the taxpayer out of nearly £40,000 despite having £30,000 in savings at one stage has escaped a prison sentence.

A MEMBER of staff at a Cwmbran care home has added a splash of colour to the walls to brighten residents' days.

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

AN UNLIKELY pair who teamed up last year to build a guest house and hub in Usk dedicated to an evolutionary scientist from the town have provided an update on their work.

Struggling to decide which party to vote for in the Senedd election? Researchers from Swansea University have launched myVoteChoice, an online tool to help you find the party and the candidate that is the best fit for you.

TWO teenagers have been arrested, and one charged, following the robbery of an e-bike in Newport last month.

A LARGE quantity of catalytic converters worth an estimated £150,000 have been stolen from a recycling yard.

PLANS for a new factory in Cwmbran, which will keep around 170 skilled jobs in the town, will be brought back to Torfaen County Borough Council’s planning committee next week following new flood risk information.

FILMGOERS will be able to return to the cinema in Cwmbran in less than two weeks time.

THE former treasurer of Plaid Cymru has given his support to a party campaigning for the abolition of the Senedd.

A POPULAR cafe near Chepstow which had to close during lockdown will reopen in a new guise at the town's upcycling centre.

THE Lord Nelson Hotel in Milford Haven is up for sale, for a whopping £680,000.

A STEELMAKER with plants in Newport and Tredegar has hired a team of specialist directors to its board to accelerate the group’s overhaul and refinancing after its backer Greensill Capital went bust.

EMERGENCY services dealt with a fire in Barry over the Bank Holiday weekend.

GYM-GOERS across the Vale returned to the gym for the first time since December on Monday.

AN outgoing police and crime commissioner has urged voters to take their chance to influence criminal justice policies in Thursday’s elections.

A CREATURE described as a "big cat" has been spotted for the fourth time on the Wales-England border.

A TYCROES man who sent messages inciting a ‘13-year-old’ to perform acts of a sexual nature was in fact communicating with members of two separate decoy groups.