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Mum's Smart move delights
NEWPORT'S Frank Smart is hoping to spring a surprise of his own tonight against Swindon (7.30pm) after having an unexpected guest turn up at his wedding, writes Ryland James. The Australian said the Newport team are smarting after reading that the Speedway
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Friends pay tribute to murder victim
FRIENDS today paid tribute to Newport man Paul Scott (pictured) as detectives launched a murder probe. Mr Scott was found dead at his home in Ifton Place, Somerton, by friends on Tuesday morning. Newport police confirmed a murder inquiry was under way
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I want Everton, says Koumas
WALES starlet Jason Koumas is poised to join Everton - having sensationally stopped talks about his proposed move to First Division play-off hopefuls West Bromwich Albion. The 22-year-old Tranmere Rovers playmaker capped once by Wales, who hinted last
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'Cool three deserve awards'
THREE police officers who rescued a man from his blazing home are being nominated for a bravery award. Newport police officers PCs David James, John Jefferies and Mark Morgan pulled Martin Lewis, 41, from his burning home in Glassworks Cottages, Crindau
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Cwmbran out of title race
HAVING gone 33 games without a draw Cwmbran Town notched up their third in a row at home to Haverfordwest County yesterday. The 2-2 draw stretches their run of matches without a win to six and it is the first time since October 1999 that they have drawn
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Club stands by 'cowardly' attack player
A VALLEYS rugby club pledged to stand by a player who launched a "cowardly and unprovoked" attack on a Royal Marine. Tongan rugby international Sisi Fonua, 34, was yesterday ordered to serve a 150-hour community punishment order, for punching 21-year
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'I'll fight to save schools'
A MONMOUTHSHIRE councillor has hit out at plans by the authority to close two primary schools - both in areas of deprivation in the county. Councillor Giles How-ard has expressed his shock at the proposals and has vowed to fight with the governing bodies
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Film buff in foreign fields
AS the Wales One World film festival arrives in Newport, MIKE BUCKINGHAM talks to David Gillam, the man who made it happen. David Gillam (pictured, left) has a deceptively languid appearance - but looks are deceptive. He is pure whipcord energy, a red-hot
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Newbridge go marching on
ACE Newbridge marksman Jason Williams topped 300 points for the season as the Welfare Ground side romped through the mud for eight tries against Llanharan last night and 50-10 victory . Williams converted five of the touchdowns to reach 301 points in
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'Handshakes' dispute
COUNCIL leaders in Wales are unhappy with proposals to award "golden handshakes" of up to £15,000 to retiring councillors - because the pay-offs would be taxed. Representatives of the 22 local authorities in the Welsh Local Government Association, led
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Tug-of-love dad loses fight
A FATHER involved in a desperate tug-of-love battle with his runaway Czech wife had his hopes of bringing his son home crushed by a court. The Argus revealed in January 2000 how Newport dad Gareth Williams, (pictured) 43, was left reeling when his wife
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Boundary must stay where it is
PROPOSALS to change the boundary between New-port and Torfaen have been rejected. The owner of a strip of wasteland between Llantarnam, Malpas and Caerleon had requested the area be transferred to Newport council after Torfaen council refused permission
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Calzaghe Brew-ing up a storm in NY
JOE Calzaghe got his slice of the Big Apple yesterday - but he's warned he'll get a bigger bite back home in Wales. The Newbridge star was talking the talk in New York where he came face-to-face with the tenth challenger to his WBO super-middleweight
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Celtic's late, late show
COUNTY Motors Cup holders Cwmbran Celtic won through to the semi-finals - but they left it late. Blaina Westside gave them a fright as they took the lead through Kristian Hapgood. However, two minutes from time when Niki Villars sent the game into extra
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This is the one that matters - Marinos
THE biggest game in world rugby -- that is how Newport centre Andy Marinos (pictured) rates Saturday's Wales-England showdown. It will be Marinos' first visit to Twickenham, but he still rates the game that highly though he comes from the Southern Hemisphere
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Power station to close
DEJECTED workers at the Fifoots Point power station - known locally as Uskmouth - in Newport fear they may not get paid at the end of the month after being given redundancy notices. As revealed in later editions of yesterday's Argus, the entire 100-strong
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'Fair is not fun for me'
A CHEPSTOW man says Monmouthshire council is acting "unreasonably" - after it allowed a funfair to return to fields behind his home. Andrew Gay, (pictured) who lives in Lord Eldon Drive - in front of the rugby club where the fair is due to be held - said
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'The end of our game'
WELSH rugby will be dead if the First Division proposal to increase the premier division to 12 clubs is accepted at the extraordinary meeting of all the clubs on April 7. That is the stark warning from Newport chief executive Keith Grainger (pictured)
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Seventy years and no regrets!
MOST of us know that 50 years of marriage are marked by a golden wedding anniversary, and 60 by a diamond anniversary. But what precious offering can a couple who have been married for 70 years expect? Newport couple William and Edna Lewis know - because
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A farewell to Peggy
THOSE who walk in the corridors of power at Westminster joined Newportonians of more workaday callings in saying farewell to Margaret 'Peggy' Morris, the mayoress of Newport who died on March 12. St John the Evangelist Church, Maindee, began to fill almost
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Will top awards put Kim in a spin?
KIMBERLY Unsworth is hoping to cycle away with Most Promising Young Sportswoman of the Year at the 2001 Newport Sports Awards. The 15-year-old from Henllys, near Cwmbran, is a highly-promising member of the Newport Phoenix Cycling Club and holds a number
