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Jumping from rap to rock
AFTER a year in the making, the Kennedy Soundtrack has finally landed a record deal with Sony subsidiary, Instant Karma. Matthew Blythe heard the bands story before fame and fortune whisks them away. There's always been rap, it seems, and rock even longer
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Miners: 'They're waiting for people to die'
A MINER'S son has been told he is unlikely to receive a bereavement payment sent to his mother two months after she died. Muriel Harris died in March, aged 86, without receiving a penny in compensation for the suffering endured by her husband, William
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Riverside double bill to catch
A DOUBLE bill of home-grown talent plays the Riverside Tavern, Newport, next week. Schaffer from Cwmbran and Death of Cool from Newport play on Tuesday, September 4. Schaffer make a quick swoop south from the Valley of the Crows, where they have played
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Vale back winning team
EBBW Vale revert to the side which beat Pontypridd for tomorrow's clash with Welsh/Scottish League champions Swansea at Eugene Cross Park. Vale have lost heavily on the road at Llanelli and Leinster, but they rallied to the cause to gain a fine victory
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Mother of disabled boy shuns new bus service
A MOTHER says she will stop her disabled son using his school transport after the service contract was given to another firm. Claire Thomas, 26, of Newport Road, Cwmcarn, says next Tuesday she will stop her eldest child, Thomas Davies, nine, from using
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Jay with a secretive call
NOT all popstars like moving too fast, loose women and drugs. Matthew Jay is one of them, the kind of crooner you could take home to your mum but with enough knowledge of rock and hip hop not to shame you in front of your mates. Like a folk star plucked
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Film studio plan 'not Legend Court II'
THOUSANDS of film studio jobs which could have been created in a £1bn Gwent theme park scheme may instead now be heading west down the M4. But Dragon International Studios, backers of a proposed 2,000-plus job £300m film studio and theme park for South
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Cycling: Cool Champkin sparkles
Newport Phoenix Cycling Club youth riders faced a tough challenge in round five of the 2001 Welsh Mountain Bike Series against some of the finest mountain bike riders in the UK. Paul Champkin, pictured, finished fourth at Margam Park. Ben Simmons was
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'We may lose 400 jobs'
A LEADING campaigner against plans for a controversial power station has warned of dire economic consequences if the project is approved. David Blanchard, 59, of Rowan Way, Rassau, says he has many letters of support from local firms who also oppose the
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Morrison plays one-off
NOT content with playing the leading festivals of Wales, Ross on Wye and Brecon Jazz, Van 'the man' Morrison plays a one-off show in St David's Hall on Friday September 7. The acclaimed performer of many colours begins the autumn season with a celebration
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Policeman fights assault conviction
A POLICE constable brutally punched and kicked a man in a Newport street in an unprovoked attack, a court heard. Bradley Price begged PC Christopher Timmins, pictured, to stop and shouted for someone to 'phone the police as he tried to defend himself
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Pooler out to start with a bang
PONTYPOOL coach Steve Jones today poured cold water on claims tomorrow's big clash with Aberavon will have a bearing on this season's Welsh First Division title. A bumper crowd is expected at Pontypool Park as Pontypool bid to start the season with a
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'I'm scapegoat in typhoid outbreak'
THE OWNER of a kebab shop at the centre of the typhoid probe in Newport claims he has been made a scapegoat for the outbreak. Newport council allowed Sam's Kebab House in Commercial Road, Pill, to re-open from today after it closed voluntarily on August
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Hi-tech weapon in steel closures jobs battle
A GROUND-breaking internet link has been unveiled as a new weapon in the fight to save Gwent's steel communities. The Corus Extra-net has been launched by partner agencies working to bring regeneration to areas hit by the closure of steelworks. The innovative
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Sentence passed on court tea service
THEY have kept magistrates, lawyers and defendants fed and watered for years - but now members of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service are to disappear from some of Gwent's courts. The Gwent Magistrates' Courts committee has decided to install vending
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Over to you Joost
JOOST van der Westhuizen has days rather than a week to make his mind up whether to join Newport or stay in South Africa. The ball is now firmly in his hands after a meeting with the South African Rugby Union which lasted over five hours yesterday. They
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Figaro, Figaro - it's a scream
FIGARO is a barber who offers customers more than 'something for the weekend'. He can actually set them up on a date. First performed in Rome in 1816, The Barber of Seville established the young Gioacchino Rossini as the main man of Italian comic opera
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Town centre set for Roman invasion
PREPARE to meet the Romans in Newport tomorrow. They will be everywhere, showing us how proud they were to have lived in a city. Not Rome, of course - although many of them may well have come from the Eternal City - but Caerleon. It may be a town now
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Over to you Joost
JOOST van der Westhuizen has days rather than a week to make his mind up whether to join Newport or stay in South Africa. The ball is now firmly in his hands after a meeting with the South African Rugby Union which lasted over five hours yesterday. They
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Young louts bring terror to elderly
A GROUP of pensioners say they are being terrorised by youths who climb on their roofs late at night. Now some residents say they are too scared to sleep at night after a recent spate of problems at the bungalows in Chartist Way, Blackwood. Kenneth Etheridge
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New gallery for Pontypool
A NEW venue for the arts in Torfaen will be launched at Pontypool Museum on Wednesday, September 21. The new gallery, supported by a lottery grant from the Arts Council of Wales, is to be named The Barker Gallery. This is in honour of Pontypool's famous
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Ryder Cup: Shortv odds on Welsh bid success
THE CELTIC Manor's bid to host golf's Ryder Cup has been given a timely boost by bookmakers William Hill. The decision on which British course will win the right to stage the prestigious challenge match between Europe and America in 2009 is expected to
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We offer reward as big cat seen again
CALLING all big cat hunters - we want you to come up with a photograph of the mystery beast wandering the Gwent countryside. Another panther-like creature has been spotted in Gwent, and now the Argus is offering a reward for the first photograph that
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Brew poised for Newport debut
NEWPORT draft teenage threequarter Nathan Brew, pictured, into their squad for tomorrow's Celtic, Welsh/Scottish League game against Edinburgh at Rodney Parade. But a big blow is the loss of number eight Joe Powell for at least a month with suspected
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Brew poised for Newport debut
NEWPORT draft teenage threequarter Nathan Brew, pictured, into their squad for tomorrow's Celtic, Welsh/Scottish League game against Edinburgh at Rodney Parade. But a big blow is the loss of number eight Joe Powell for at least a month with suspected
