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Coronation Street's 'Bett' at New Theatre
POPULAR musical La Cage aux folles makes a much-anticipated visit to Cardiff's New Theatre in January featuring real-life icon Julie Goodyear (Bett Lynch) of Coronation Street fame. This is a rare chance to catch Jerry Herman's seldom performed, glamorous
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Points win prizes
TIM Harris' New Year's resolution is quite simple - to keep picking up points to push his Newport County side up the Dr Martens Premier League. The Exiles can still mathematically gain promotion to the Nationwide Conference but even the most ardent of
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Passport costs rise
SOME passports will be issued faster under a new system to be introduced in the New Year - but they will cost more. The new service will be introduced at Passport Office public counters from January 14. Travellers requiring passports urgently will be
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Recovery firms will not be prosecuted
TWO Gwent firms will not be prosecuted over their part in the Gwent Police vehicle recovery scheme. The move comes after the Crown Prosecution Service in Wrexham, which had been probing the case, decided that charges should not be brought against Newport-based
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Chance for lostprophets
DESPITE selling out Cardiff University union this year, the NMW Carling Awards tour will miss Wales next year. 2001 showcases helped spring board the careers of Starsailor and Amen. Next year it might be the turn of Pontypridd-based rockers, lostprophets
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Terris will go back to their roots
ON Saturday. March 31 Terris finished their UK tour in TJ's. Nine months later Warner Music dropped them. Matthew Blythe found out how Terris learnt to let go and start all over again. NEWPORT'S darlings one minute, NME cover stars the next - until Spring
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£5m of Euro aid on table
A RENEWED call for applications to use more than £5 million of Euro-pean funds in Newport will go out in the New Year. There was a very poor response to offers of Objective Two funding in 2001 and Newport council's European Unit hope to receive more applications
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Ebbw Vale sweat on Edwards
WALES A lock Neil Edwards (pictured) is the main injury worry for Ebbw Vale as they prepare to take on Cardiff at Eugene Cross Park tomorrow. The Steelmen are looking to break their recent run of defeats against city-slickers Cardiff and will be hoping
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Sales bonanza - at last
AFTER a slow start, the post-Christmas sales got into full swing. TELOR IWAN reports from the High Street. IT was spend, spend, spend in Newport yesterday as the Christmas sales finally took off. After a slow start on Boxing Day with few stores open,
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New Year bash? Take your pick
STILL haven't decided what you are doing for New Year yet? You must be as disorganised as me, so to help us decide, I thought I would make the last Sounds of 2001 a bit of a New Year special. If you are staying in Newport, you cannot go far wrong with
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Pet ducks may have ended up as dinner
TWO pet ducks have mysteriously disappeared from a garden in Newport - and their owner is hoping they did not become somebody's Christmas dinner. Stuart Szymanski, (pictured) of Lambourne Crescent, Bettws, has had the two ducks - Quincy and Crispy - since
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Making a first appearance in Cardiff
THE RENOWNED Dresden Staatskapelle of Saxony make their first concert appearance in Cardiff this January with a recital of Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, and Brahms' Symphony No 2. Brahms' second symphony is one of the sunniest and relaxed of all his
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Pontypool's target
PONTYPOOL team manager Tony Clark is blunt and straight to the point when he says: "We want promotion." He does not mix his words and adds: "On our day we can beat anyone." Pooler are three points behind Welsh First Division leaders Aberavon with a game
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Rescue firm quits scheme
A MAJOR player in the Gwent Police vehicle recovery contract has pulled out of the scheme. Dragon Rescue have told Gwent Police they no longer want to be part of the contract in a major show of support for Walls and WG Lane. Gwent Police Authority decided
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Crowded house at Chepstow
CHEPSTOW'S Welsh National meeting attracted a slightly above average Christmas crowd of 8,100 yesterday, but not everyone went home happy. For the first time, Chepstow's new parade ring in front of the main stand was in use alongside a winners' enclosure
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Delight at flood curb go-ahead
RESIDENTS and shopkeepers in Blackwood are celebrating after the local authority agreed to measures to stop a road flooding. A new trash screen and a primary screen will be placed on a culvert which, when blocked, floods houses in Wesley Road as well
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Cwmbran face tough test
CWMBRAN Town have the players to beat League Of Wales table-toppers Total Network Solutions tomorrow (2:30pm), according to Crows coach Roger Gibbins. The North Walians are unbeaten in nine matches, unbeaten at their Recreation Ground home and have only
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Popham on the move
NEWPORT'S Wales A back row forward Alix Popham has joined Zurich Premiership new boys Leeds on a month's loan. He is expected to make his debut for Leeds, coached by ex-Wales forward Phil Davies, against Wasps on Sunday. But Newport, though willing to
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We'll keep singing
GWENT'S very own Steps tribute band have revealed they will not be splitting up following their inspirations' shock decision this week. Teen pop sensations Steps yesterday announced they were calling it a day after five years at the top of the charts.
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Pets still being dumped
DESPITE countless campaigns, Gwent animal welfare groups have yet again been left to find homes for dogs and cats unwanted at Christmas. At Llanfrechfa-based All Creatures Great and Small, its inhabitants are having to double-up or even treble-up in their
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Caerleon boss wants to stop the rot
CAERLEON boss Denis McCoy has called for his side to stop the rot, starting with their Division One game at Cardiff Corries tomorrow. And McCoy could well make his comeback in a bid to end a run of four successive Division One defeats. Defender McCoy
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Book early - that's the Beaufort message
FOLLOWING a hugely successful autumn season at the Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale, including a record number of sell-outs, the message is to book your tickets for the spring season now! There is something to suit all tastes, including more high profile music
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Currying favour over Christmas
Jewel Balti, Chepstow Road, Newport. IN a town with a multitude of Indian restaurants, The Jewel Balti, on Chepstow Road, Newport, is a real diamond. Boasting a promise to "see your meal freshly prepared in our open kitchen" and having recently been awarded
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Popham on the move
NEWPORT'S Wales A back row forward Alix Popham has joined Zurich Premiership new boys Leeds on a month's loan. He is expected to make his debut for Leeds, coached by ex-Wales forward Phil Davies, against Wasps on Sunday. But Newport, though willing to
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Scaling heights in memory of twins
DENISE Challenger is aiming to scale a mountain in the world's highest range to help research into the disease which killed her two sons. In fact, in a cruel twist of fate, all three of her sons contracted forms of meningitis - but her eldest, Stephen
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The war in the wards
A ZERO tolerance approach to tackling violence against NHS staff is being recommended in a draft National Assembly for Wales report sent to all trusts and health authorities. The approach, exclusively revealed in the Argus earlier this month, falls short
