I’M passionate about sport and I’m passionate about the city of Newport. I want to see Newport and its premier sporting teams doing well and having a great reputation across Wales and the rest of the UK. So it pains me to see this city becoming the laughing stock of the rugby and football worlds – not because of performances on the pitch (although they’re nothing to write home about this season) but because of the state of the playing surface at Rodney Parade. The pitch is re

SO here we are less than a week into Donald Trump’s presidency and what have we learned? Well, it’s certainly going to be an interesting four years. If Mr Trump is to stay true to his inauguration speech – and keeping promises would be one way to differentiate himself from other politicians – then he will be the most protectionist, isolationist American president in living memory. President Trump said this last Friday: “For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the

WELCOME to Ward’s Week – a new opinion column that I hope will be thought-provoking, interesting and, now and then, might just annoy you. To paraphrase Troy McClure from The Simpsons, you might remember me from such opinion columns as The Editor’s Chair. This new weekly column is simply my view on the week gone by. It’s an opinion pure and simple. You don’t have to agree with what I have to say but, hopefully, you respect my right to hold the opinions I express – as I respect