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Killer welcomes forgery court case
A SCHIZOPHRENIC Gwent father who killed his 12-year-old daughter has welcomed the police decision to prosecute three defendants alleged to have sent him a hoax e-mail sending him on a wasted business trip to India. Philip Hall, (pictured) a 42-year-old
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Wasps win is crucial
NEWPORT Wasps travel to Premier League rivals Arena Essex on Friday desperate for a win to lift them into contention for a play-off place. It will be the first time in a fortnight that Newport have been able to race competitively and owner Tim Stone says
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Superstore plan for town
A MAJOR superstore is earmarked for a former car park site in Pontypool, as the centrepiece of a regeneration of the town. Torfaen county borough council is in talks with the leading supermarket chains to find a new occupier for the top car park above
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The A-levels Vicky can never use
TODAY, Victoria Green (pictured) should have been picking up her A-level results and looking forward to a bright future at university. Instead, her grieving parents Anthony and Frances, sister Kate, 21, and brother James, 16, are preparing for her funeral
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McGeechan: We can bridge gap
SCOTLAND coach Ian McGeechan believes that the introduction of the Celtic League can help bridge the gap between England and the rest of Britain. Clive Woodward's side have swept all before them in recent seasons to leave the Irish, Scottish and Welsh
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Rogue drug alert after two die
POLICE are warning that a rogue batch of heroin may be in circulation, following two deaths in 48 hours. South Wales Police said there were also two non-fatal overdoses in the same period and warned the drug could put users in the area under extra risk
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Strange: Why I jumped ship
OUTSIDE-half Jason Strange has revealed that the lure of European Cup rugby saw him finally join Newport. The Wales A centre (pictured above) completed a controversial move from Pontypool to join the Black and Ambers yesterday - just two weeks after joining
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Glam fail to press home advantage
STUART Law and James Foster forged a fifth-wicket partnership of 119 in 36 overs to revive Essex's fortunes after Glamorgan had claimed their first four wickets for just 55 runs in CricInfo County Championship Division One in Cardiff. Essex closed the
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Counting cost of winter clean-up
A COUNCIL looks set to raid its reserves to fund the cost of cleaning up after last winter's bad weather. Caerphilly council members agreed last December to transfer £161,000 from its reserves to foot the bill run up by a ten-day period of severe weather
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McGeechan: We can bridge gap
SCOTLAND coach Ian McGeechan believes that the introduction of the Celtic League can help bridge the gap between England and the rest of Britain. Clive Woodward's side have swept all before them in recent seasons to leave the Irish, Scottish and Welsh
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Strange: Why I jumped ship
OUTSIDE-half Jason Strange has revealed that the lure of European Cup rugby saw him finally join Newport. The Wales A centre (pictured above) completed a controversial move from Pontypool to join the Black and Ambers yesterday - just two weeks after joining
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All-clear on typhoid test man
TESTS on a man suspected of being the fifth person to catch typhoid in Newport have proved to be negative. The 18-year-old, from St Mellons, an insurance worker at Lloyds TSB in Duffryn, has been diagnosed as having a severe stomach bug which he contracted
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Triumph for Gwent's students
A-LEVEL students in Gwent were today collecting their results, as education bosses denied that another year of record passes showed a 'dumbing down' of the qualification. Figures from the Welsh Joint Education Committee show the overall pass rate has
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Wales no soft touch, says Hughes
MARK Hughes claims Wales are no longer a soft touch at international level and refuses to accept that their World Cup challenge has achieved little. He believes Wales did not get enough credit for holding a powerful Ukraine side in Kiev in their last
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Rookies square up to challenge
KINGS, queens and bishops took centre stage at Caldicot Castle as visitors got the chance to challenge a chess master. Expert chess player Leighton Williams, from Abercynon, is a Welsh and international chess player, and demonstrated his experience at
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'Six months to knee op'
A FORMER steelworker who has waited four painful years for a knee replacement operation should have his surgery "within the next six months". Sixty-one-year-old James McCarthy's furious family told the Argus on Tuesday that he had been told he had been
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Calzaghe fight put back
WORLD champion super-middleweight Joe Calzaghe has told his fans he wants to fight every three months - and will start with a defence of his title against American Antwun Echols on October 13. The Newbridge boxer was due to fight a week earlier but Sports
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Rapist is bad not mad. says expert
'EVIL' Michael Podmore (pictured) is bad, not mad, according to top forensic psychologist Dr Ian Stephen. Podmore, 39, of Risca Road, Newport, faces life in prison for the rape, torture and abuse of a terrified woman whom he held captive in his home for
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Street footie ended in jail!
THE story of a Gwent boy jailed in 1901 for playing football in the street is being played out on stage. Timepiece, written by Liz Davies, centres on the history of Abergav-enny and includes the story of an 11-year-old, played by Olaf Jones (pictured)
