The Latest Breaking News from Newport

Man's incredible nine stone weight loss after struggling with anxiety and depression

Andrew Rowley, from Newport, has lost nearly nine stone with the help of a weight loss programme

Wales Online · Mar 11, 2023

Beautiful street memorial as tributes left to victim of crash that killed three

Dozens of bouquets have flooded the front of a martial arts centre in Newport run by the father of A48 crash victim Eve Smith

Wales Online · Mar 10, 2023

Everything we know so far about the Cardiff crash that killed three

The group of five disappeared after meeting on a night out in Newport and lay undiscovered in the wreckage for up to 46 hours

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023

The 'self-assured' double killer whose actions shocked even the most experienced police detectives

The killing of a backpacker whose body parts were dumped in a Welsh layby 33 years ago has been re-investigated as part of a crime documentary

Wales Online · Mar 7, 2023

Cardiff car crash police reveal timeline and new details after 2-day search for wreckage

Friends Sophie Russon, 20, Eve Smith, 21, and Darcy Ross, 21, all from Newport, had been on a night out at the Muffler bar and club in Maesglas, Newport, on Friday evening before they are thought to have headed to Trecco Bay in Porthcawl

Daily Mirror · Mar 7, 2023

Lady Rhondda: the little-known suffragette whose efforts led to greater equality for women

The design for a statue of a leading suffragette has been unveiled in Newport, south Wales. Margaret Haig Thomas or Lady Rhondda was a lifelong campaigner for women’s rights and was the first woman to hold a hereditary peerage, though she was barred from taking up her seat in the…

The Conversation · Mar 7, 2023

Cardiff crash: Everything we know about friends’ night out that ended in tragedy

Fateful night out included 70-mile round trip that started with Sophie Russon, Eve Smith, and Darcy Ross at Muffler bar in Newport

The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2023

Tributes paid as loved ones name victims of A48 crash that killed three

Three young people from Cardiff and Newport who had been reported missing died in a crash on the A48 at St Mellons while two others were badly injured

Wales Online · Mar 6, 2023

Police said woman, 20, was 'hungover somewhere' before finding 3 bodies, mum says

Sophie Russon's mum hit out at the police after claiming they assumed she was "hungover somewhere" after she was in a group of five who went missing on a night out in Newport, with three now known to have died in a suspected car crash

Daily Mirror · Mar 6, 2023

Three bodies found after five people vanished on night out clubbing

The five had been on a night out clubbing in Newport before the tragedy.

Daily Record · Mar 6, 2023