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Win eludes Wasps
THE Wasps' latest 43 points to 47 setback leaves them as holders of the wooden spoon in the Premier Trophy Southern Group qualifying table and unless changes are made pretty soon, it's going to be a long, hard and pretty fruitless British Premier League
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Marathon effort to help plucky Adam
A CWMBRAN boy who is on oxygen 24 hours a day has been given £2,400 by a London Marathon runner. Adam Leighton, 10, a Fairwater Junior School pupil, was diagnosed with Freeman Sheldom Syndrome when he was 18 months old. It is a rare condition and Adam
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Gadget detects cigs in school
A GWENT school has a new weapon to use in the fight against pupils taking up smoking. Blackwood Comprehensive School has bought a new machine, called a Smokerlyser, which can detect minute levels of carbon monoxide in breath. The machine is being used
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Anger as BNP enters contest
THE FAR Right British National Party has declared it will stand in Newport at the General Election. The decision by Chepstow farmer Terry Cavill to challenge for the Newport West seat has been condemned by the mainstream parties. The tiny party's attempts
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I love you, Newport says Mel C
IN the week that Liverpool completed an historic cup treble, one of their biggest fans completed a hat-trick of her own. Friday night in Newport Centre was Mel C's third South Wales appearance in under a year - and they keep getting better. She shouted
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Dad who will never see his son
A GWENT father who helped survivors of the M4 coach crash was killed in a motorcycle accident on the day before his wife gave birth to their son. Now the family of Daniel Conlin, one of the men who helped survivors of the 1995 coach crash in which pensioners
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Killer wife gets two years
A MOTHER of five sobbed as she was jailed for two years today for killing her husband. And the court heard how the family of Anne-Marie Hayward's husband have forgiven her for stabbing him to death - writing "poignant" letters as court references for
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Baulch flexes muscles to no avail
FORMER World Indoor 400m champion Jamie Baulch flexed his muscles for Wales in the 4x100m relay - but could not stop them coming third. Baulch joined double Loughborough winner Christian Malcolm in the relay and the pair both impressed in their legs,
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Injury-time drama seals win
RETIRING Newport captain Gary Teichmann lifted another cup in his final appearance Wales yesterday. As skipper of the Barbarians team which gained a last-kick 40-38 victory over Wales at the Millennium Stadium, Teichmann was presented with the Scottish
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It's magic Malcolm
"NO complaints' - was Christian Malcolm's verdict on his opening race of the outdoors athletics season as he destroyed the field to win both the 100m and 200m titles at the Aqua-Pura International. Having returned from warm-weather training a week ago
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Blame me, says Henry
BLAME me, insists Wales coach Graham Henry for the fiasco surrounding caps for yesterday's game against the Barbarians. The Welsh Rugby Union had said caps would be awarded for the match, and only on Thursday Henry said the question of whether it was
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Missing woman found
A GWENT woman who went missing from her mother's home has been found safe and well. Caroline Thomas, 39, had not been seen since leaving her mother's house in Mountain View, Markham, at around 7pm on Saturday, May 12. On Friday her mother, Pauline Thomas
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Nurses' fears over future of NHS
ONE-in-three nurses in Wales believe the NHS will not provide free healthcare by 2010 - and 70 per cent believe patients will have to pay for some routine operations, like hip replacements. The findings have emerged from a snapshot survey of nurses' views
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Prescott back in Wales
JOHN Prescott was returning to Wales today for the first time since his scuffle in Rhyl last week. The deputy prime minister was hitting the campaign trail in South Wales with Welsh secretary Paul Murphy. A Labour spokesman said security would be tight
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Call for steel renationalisation
A GIANT dragon was introduced to shoppers in Newport over the weekend in an attempt to breathe some fire in to the campaign. The mythical beast was part of an event organised by Welsh Communists to test public opinion on the renationalisation of Llanwern
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Sex attack on stranded woman driver
A FEMALE motorist was indecently assaulted by a man pretending to be a Good Samaritan when her car broke down. Gwent Police are hunting for the "well-spoken" attacker who terrorised her when she pulled over on Caerleon Road, Newport, on Thursday. The
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Decision time looms on Tesco plans
TESCO is under starter's orders to expand the size of its store in Chepstow - three years after opening. The store, at Station Road on the former lorry parkon the edge of the border town, could hear next week whether it will be allowed to expand its 34,000sq
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Injury-time drama seals win
RETIRING Newport captain Gary Teichmann lifted another cup in his final appearance Wales yesterday. As skipper of the Barbarians team which gained a last-kick 40-38 victory over Wales at the Millennium Stadium, Teichmann was presented with the Scottish
