A senior doctor has warned the National Health Service “will not survive if we let our hospitals become nursing homes”.

THE permanent closure of birthing units at Newport’s Royal Gwent and Abergavenny’s Nevill Hall hospitals has been agreed by health chiefs.

GWENT could be left with just one 24-hour Minor Injuries Unit if plans to close the centre at Abergavenny’s Nevill Hall Hospital overnight are approved.

VENUES including pubs, sports grounds, theatres and town halls will have to prepare for potential terrorist attacks under new responsibilities termed ‘Martyn’s Law’.

A specialist breast unit at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr (YYF) will open as planned in 2024 despite the local health board’s gloomy financial situation.

A GROUP bringing patients with diabetes together with health officials was disbanded on the advice of the Welsh Government.

A GREGGS bakery intends opening until nine o’clock at night, six days a week, when it moves into new premises in a former bank. 

A COUNCILLOR appointed to speak up for the Gypsy Traveller community in Torfaen said she hopes to see the authority support a “transit site” in South Wales.

A free guided walk to learn about fungi takes place this weekend in Cwmbran.

TWO police officers are to be sent to work as part of a council team to target illegal off-road vehicles in the Gwent Valleys.