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Griffiths and Brown deserve our thanks
STEP forward today two men who have brought a big smile back to Welsh sport. They are deservedly right up there in the spotlight for different reasons, but both are basking in the sunshine, and rightly so. One has proved Wales can beat the best in England
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Players want cut in games
Players' union chief Damian Hopley has called for urgent restructuring of the rugby season following breakdown a third British Lion in recent weeks. > Iain Balshaw became the third England man to succumb to injury with his collapse in the Zurich Championship
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Gough out as Wales change
NEWPORT lock Ian Gough is out of Wales' tour of Japan after dislocating his shoulder playing for Newport against Neath in the Principality Cup final on Sunday. The Welsh Rugby Union were told late yesterday of his withdrawal (predicted in the Argus) and
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Abertillery chief hits at criticism
"WAY is way off" says Abertillery chairman David Llewellyn after comments by Blackwood coach Nigel Way after his side's 45-20 win at Llanharan condemned Abertillery to Division One relegation. Despite winning five of their last seven games, Abertillery
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Superstar scouting for locations
GWENT will be making a pitch for location scenes Catherine Zeta Jones' new film.> Hopes are high that Gwent is on the Swansea superstar's list of possible sets for the money-spinning venture. Gwent, with historic settings like Caerleon, Chepstow Castle
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Plaid wants 'fair deal for Wales'
PLAID Cymru launched its election manifesto yesterday demanding "a fair deal for Wales".> The party wants the Assembly to be given the same tax varying and law-making powers as the Scottish Parliament. It also wants to scrap the Barnett formula, which
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'Raise tax to pay for nurses'
LIBERAL Democrat leader Charles Kennedy was due to launch his party's UK manifesto today. The 20-page magazine-style document A Real Chance For Real Change, outlines plans to raise income tax by a penny to pay for additional investment in education, health
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FAW reveal bid for Euro final
FOLLOWING on from the success of the FA Cup final at the Millennium Stadium, the Football Association of Wales has revealed a bid to host either the Champions' League or UEFA Cup final in 2004. The Welsh FA last night confirmed the duel bid and had even
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Llanwern are through, but made to battle
LLANWERN are through to the second round of Victory Shield foursomes golf tournament for club pairs, but only after a struggle with Gwent rivals Dewstow.> Stuart Westley and Jonathan Davidson won their second successive game at the 20th and will now
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Gwent aces on the move
NEWPORT outside half Scott Mitchell and Cross Keys back row pair Will Thomas and Rhys Williams have all signed for Ebbw Vale. Mitchell leaves Newport only days after appearing as a replacement in the cup final and after scoring 47 points in three games
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Evidence was lost after man had died
A MANSLAUGHTER charge against a Gwent man who admitted supplying heroin was blocked yesterday - because vital toxicology evidence had been destroyed. At Cardiff crown court William Joseph Smith, aged 37, pleaded guilty to supplying heroin to 47-year-old
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Holiday park is fined £19,000
THE owner of a holiday park where the son of a former Llanwern steelworker died has been fined £19,000. Three-year-old Nicholas Christopher died in a swimming-pool at the Fishguard Holiday Park a year ago. His parents, Terry and Mandy, lived in Newport
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Man attacked outside bar
A MAN celebrating his 37th birthday was left with a fractured skull after an attack outside a Gwent nightspot. The man from Caldicot, who has not been named by police, was struck to the floor in a scuffle outside Jimmy Dean's American theme bar in Chepstow
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Hague's pledge to Gwent
WILLIAM Hague returned to Monmouth yesterday and promised the area's voters an end to the council tax rises of the last two years. Since the Assembly was created the taxpayers in the Monmouthshire council area have seen one of the highest percentage rises
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Nightmares of hit-and-run victim
A GWENT teenager left unconscious in a New Year hit-and-run says she is still haunted by the crash. Natasha Jones was waiting for a taxi when Mohammed Shafiq ploughed into a crowd of people - and changed her life forever. The 19-year-old from Newport
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Child-beater is locked up
CHILD-beater Mark Wayne Hudd's ex-wife has welcomed the 12-month jail sentence he received for his reign of terror. Linda Ingles said she and her three children could now get on with their lives. Mrs Ingles, of Cefn Golau, Tredegar, said: "I'm relieved
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Axe falls on 350 jobs
THE axe has fallen on 350 jobs at the Gwent telecommunications firm Solectron. The jobs cut, at the fifty- year-old former Nortel Networks plant in Cwmcarn, will leave just 170 jobs in the manufacturing section of the factory - and a question mark remains
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Gough out as Wales change
NEWPORT lock Ian Gough is out of Wales' tour of Japan after dislocating his shoulder playing for Newport against Neath in the Principality Cup final on Sunday. The Welsh Rugby Union were told late yesterday of his withdrawal (predicted in the Argus) and
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Gwent aces on the move
NEWPORT outside half Scott Mitchell and Cross Keys back row pair Will Thomas and Rhys Williams have all signed for Ebbw Vale. Mitchell leaves Newport only days after appearing as a replacement in the cup final and after scoring 47 points in three games
