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'I'm loving life with the stars'
IAN Virgo can't stop smiling. On a night out with friends in Caldicot his life changed forever - with one phone call. It all started when the 20-year-old was spotted by movie moguls when he was performing in a play during his college days. Ian was spotted
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Wales still looking at poor crowd
WALES are facing the prospect of playing their most crucial international game in years in a half-empty Millennium Stadium. Less than 30, 000 tickets have been sold for the game which Wales must win if they are keep alive their hopes of qualifying for
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Row over new waiting list figures
WAITING list figures published yesterday have sparked an election row over health provision. Assembly Health Minister Jane Hutt tried to focus on the positive news emerging from the new figures, which showed the first rise in those waiting for inpatient
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'Doctor left patients and went out to eat'
AN ACCIDENT and emergency department doctor put the needs of his stomach before his duty of care to sick patients at two hospitals in Wales, an inquiry heard yesterday. Suresh Siddappa Kudari, aged 54, who has worked at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport
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Shock at new virus outbreak
LORRIES were yesterday lining up to take animal carcasses from the latest Gwent area to be hit by foot-and-mouth disease. The outbreak was confirmed at Lower Pant-yr-Esk Farm in Abercarn on Monday. The culling of 76 cattle and 116 sheep there ended on
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Celtic League green light
AFTER months of negotiations the Celtic League has finally been given the go ahead to start next season. Wales, Ireland and Scotland met this week and signed the Celtic Accord, ratifying the decision to start the new league in August. It will mean nine
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Brush with fame for arts head
FOUR paintings by a Monmouth teacher form part of a Wales-USA art exhibition in Cardiff. The paintings by Jane Boswell, who exhibits under her maiden name of Greenslade, feature among the work of ten other artists which is on show at the Art Education
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Flynn cracks joke - at own expense
NEWPORT Wastesavers provided the background for Paul Flynn to crack a joke at his own expense yesterday. "This visit isn't meant to show that the politicians are rubbish," he joked. "It's just that the best ones have been recycled four times." Mr Flynn
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There's something in the water
"IS there something in the water in Newbridge?" First Minister Rhodri Morgan, who has built up a reputation for his off-the-cuff remarks, took this reporter by surprise when he posed that question. But it all became a little clearer when Mr Morgan explained
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Big dilemma on Helen's 23rd
GWENT Big Brother contestant Helen Adams faced a dilemma last night as she celebrated her 23rd birthday. The Cwmbran hair dresser was called into the Big Brother diary room and asked to chose between a party for all the contestants - or a pair of Gucci
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Son hits at hospital over death of mother
A GWENT pensioner died after being sent home with pain-killers following a five-hour wait at a hospital, her family claim. Mrs Edith Palmer, 78, Beacon View, Nantyglo, was involved in a freak accident at Cardiff Airport after returning from holiday in
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Accident victims 'all stable'
THE Gwent woman who was seriously injured in a minibus crash on Bank Holiday Monday is now out of intensive care. She and three other women from the crash are now "stable and comfortable" at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter. There were 12
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We need to get a win under our belts
WHAT a ridiculous start to the season. Rain seems to have followed us everywhere and we've been really fed up. We were supposed to have played 16 days of championship cricket before the Yorkshire game but we lost nine days. We have been the worst hit
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Trade is booming for technology firm
BOOMING Gwent firm Surface Technology Systems is finding it hard to keep up with red-hot global demand for its leading-edge products. The firm, which has space-age office and production facilities at Newport's prestigious Imperial Park, makes machines
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Report due on school
WALES' children's commissioner is to publish his conclusions next week about plans for a Gwent school to be built on contaminated land. In a letter written on May 21, Commissioner Peter Clarke said he hoped to reach his conclusions about Newport council's
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Welsh prop signs two-year deal at Newport
WALES and Swansea prop Chris Anthony has joined Newport, signing a two-year contract before he left for Japan. Anthony has won eight caps for Wales and was a regular member of the squad for the Six Nations Championship last season, featuring on the bench
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First flush of success!
LESS than a year after leaving university two Cardiff graduates who formed their own Internet business are in the pink - as the first company to receive an Entrepreneurship Scholarship from the new Know-ledge Exploitation Fund. John Schlamm and Steven
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Three rescue drowning driver
A DRIVER whose car was fast sinking in the freezing water of a reen owes his life to the bravery of three Gwent men. Bristol man Alan Carter was driving along the Broadway link road between Peterstone Golf Club and Marshfield, near Newport, when his Proton
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Hughes blasts Coventry
WALES boss Mark Hughes has become embroiled in a row with Coventry City after he lost a tug-of-war over the services of influential striker Craig Bellamy. And Hughes has laid the blame for the loss of his striker at Coventry's feet. "Our medical people
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We'll fight inequality, says Plaid
PLAID Cymru leader, Ieuan Wyn Jones last night pledged to fight the "inequality" which exists in Wales if his party win seats at the general election. Speaking as a guest of the Pill Asian community at the Millennium Centre last night, Mr Wyn Jones said
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Welsh prop signs two-year deal at Newport
WALES and Swansea prop Chris Anthony has joined Newport, signing a two-year contract before he left for Japan. Anthony has won eight caps for Wales and was a regular member of the squad for the Six Nations Championship last season, featuring on the bench
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Cricketer frames career with vision
KEEN cricketer Jonathan Evans has his eye on the ball now that he has been appointed as partner at a Gwent opticians. Mr Evans, a fully qualified practising optician, has joined Bill Cawley at Specsavers Opticians in High Street, Blackwood. Mr Evans,
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Glyn and Becky stars of rescue
A NEWPORT teenager and his dog helped save the life of a man stuck on a River Usk mudbank for eight hours. The drama started shortly before midnight on Bank Holiday Monday, when 16-year-old Glyn Richards (pictured above) was at his home in Colne Street
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On the scent of patent advice
FANCY beer-scented darts or perhaps rose- perfumed car tyres? No, perhaps not. But as perhaps expected the darts are doing huge business Down Under for both the manufacturers and even more importantly the inventor. Getting protected is patently good advice
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Calzaghe to storm the castle next
JOE Calzaghe, Newbridge's undefeated WBO world super-middleweight champion, becomes King of the Castle when he defends his title at Cardiff Castle on Saturday, July 21. Calzaghe, the world's best super-middleweight, makes the ninth defence of his title
