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No holds baa-ed
EBBW Vale loose head prop Iestyn Thomas has broken into the Wales team for Sunday's game against the Barbarians at the Millennium Stadium. Thomas appeared in all three of Wales' autumn internationals, the full game against Samoa and as a replacement against
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Why Baulch wants to get back on track
JAMIE Baulch pulls on the Welsh vest for the first time this season on Sunday declaring his intent to put the past behind him - and kick some butt. Having both returned from warm weather training in America, top sprinters Baulch and Newport's Christian
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No hard feelings as Rees quits
WALES Under-19's coach David Rees has quit his coaching role at Cross Keys after "six very enjoyable years" in charge. Assistant coach Geraint Jones and team manager David Thomas are expected to follow, either by resigning or by Keys releasing them to
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Hayward hopes to lift Pooler to top flight
WALES international Byron Hayward is joining Pontypool as player/fitness coach after turning down the chance to move to Cardiff. Hayward wants to help Pontypool back into the top flight of Welsh rugby, and in order to achieve that aim has opted out on
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Memorial to Ashley completed
A GARDEN created in memory of 14-year-old Ashley Burnett by his school friends was due to be opened on Friday night. Ashley, who was a pupil at Cwmcarn High School, died in January last year from the C strain of meningitis. Pupils in have been helping
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£7m boost for cycling
THE DECISION to back the velodrome project in Newport means a Gwent-trained cycle star will step onto the podium at a future Olympics. Newport council leaders have backed the £7 million project to bring the Welsh national velodrome to Spytty stadium.
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All stops are out to get Ryder Cup
GWENT electronics billionaire Terry Matthews says he will "spare nothing" to bring the Ryder Cup to Wales. Mr Matthews, chairman of the £100m Celtic Manor Resort, has revealed a £12m revamp of the challenging Wentwood Hills golf course. And included in
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Communists set out policies
WELSH communists are due to launch their manifesto today promising an alternative to pro-big business policies. Lecturer Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, will launch the document at the Cardiff centre for trade union
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Champ defends Prescott
WORLD boxing champion Joe Calzaghe has leapt to the defence of John Prescott after he punched a protester who threw an egg at him. The Newbridge fighter, the WBO super-middleweight champion, was impressed by the deputy prime minister's skills and said
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Lib Dem cash promise
WELSH Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto promising a referendum on giving the Assembly tax-raising powers. Combining a reform of the way Wales is funded with their UK-wide pledge to raise income tax by 1p, the party claim there would be an extra
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Tumour kills mum, 30
A 30-year-old mum of two daughters has tragically died two years after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Cath Lewis, from Garndiffaith, has been praised for her involvement in the community. Last year she helped set up the Cath Lewis Trust Fund which
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Racist insults had police clerk in tears
A GWENT woman who was subjected to five years of racial harassment by a colleague at a Newport police station today tells the Argus about her ordeal. Noellar Huggins, aged 34, a courts clerk in an office of the criminal justice de-partment at Newport
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Blackwood sack 'unpopular' coach
BLACKWOOD'S backs coach Nigel Way has been sacked by the club for his side's poor performance in the Welsh First Division and comments made in the Press. The club's committee decided last night to dispense with Way's services after Blackwood narrowly
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Deano calls it a day
VETERAN Wales striker Dean Saunders name will definitely be missing from Mark Hughes' squad named today for the World Cup qualifiers against the Ukraine and Poland. Although Hughes will name his squad at the Vale of Glamorgan Hotel, Saunders is stepping
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Just impediment for the newlyweds!
HELLO, hello, hello - what's all this, then? Gwent Police detective and new bride Judith Roberts, along with police worker husband Clayton, have been left with a "whodunnit" on their return home from their Las Vegas wedding. Someone has bricked up their
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Mum's plea to missing daughter
A GWENT woman is pleading for her daughter to come home, nearly a week after leaving her house to go to a barbecue. Single-mother of two Caro-line Thomas, aged 39, has been missing since leaving the home of her mother at Mountain View, in Markham, Blackwood
