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Births test 28
South Wales Argus Births TEST 28 BARTLETT LEEHappy 1st Birthday. Have a super party lots of Love Mummy, Nan, Grandad, Aunty Victoria, Uncle Paul xx PORTER TRUSCOTT-JONESCongratulations Gareth and Lisa on the birth of your beautiful baby boy RHYS WILLIAM
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Jan's in luxury dreamland
LIMOUSINES, champagne, private boats, luxury villas - sound like a dream? Well two women from Newport have been enjoying all this and more on a holiday of a lifetime in Mexico. Jan Flanagan, 45, pictured, and Diane Stokoe, 44, got whisked off last Saturday
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Laundry stars in a spin
BREAKING taboos in true Bollywood-style, Snap Theatre Company present My Beautiful Launderette at the Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale on Thursday, April 18 at 7.30pm. Set within the Asian community, My Beautiful Launderette is an unusual story concerned with
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JP threatens op sit-in
A MAGISTRATE is threatening to stage a sit-in at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital in protest over his long wait for a vital operation. Newport justice of the peace Bob Effingham, who desperately needs a joint replacement in his right knee and recently discovered
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Arson probe after factory destroyed
AN ARSON probe is under way after fire gutted a disused Gwent factory - causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage, pictured. The fire at the former site of Bairdwear, on the St David's industrial estate in Pengam on Wednesday night, is a massive blow
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Hayward looking to add to tally
PONTYPOOL flyhalf Byron Hayward will be looking to add another flurry of points to his season's tally away at Merthyr tomorrow. The inspirational points-scoring machine broke through the 300 barrier for the first time this season when he nailed 16 of
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Burglaries still hitting town
A GWENT town has been hit by a new wave of burglaries. Blaenavon was blitzed by a spate of incidents last week, and the crime wave follows four unsolved night-time burglaries in the space of a fortnight in February. At the weekend, a dumper truck was
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Film review: K-PAX
K-PAX (12) K-PAX, the unusually titled new film from Kevin Spacey, is a real space oddity. Spacey's character Prot (which rhymes with boat) is arrested by police officers at a New York subway after professing to being a visitor from another planet. He
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Slick SkinDred
SkinDred (BMG) Out this summer Skindred's debut album is the slickest, most diverse collection of songs you'll hear this summer. Eponymous, it's the first from Newport's Benji Webbe and co since they stopped being Dub War and started the slow morphing
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Llanelli hit cup problems
EUROPEAN Cup hopefuls Llanelli are waiting on some of their big guns before naming their team to play Ebbw Vale in tomorrow's Principality Cup semi-final. Injuries to Wales stars Chris Wyatt, pictured, and Robin McBryde, among others, means they have
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Superb meal if feeling Hungary
The Lion Inn, Trellech, near Monmouth After a lifetime of having Sunday dinners cooked for me by my parents I decided that, at the age of 28, it was probably about time that I took them out for lunch. We went, with my partner Maria, to the Calor Gas/South
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Coming of Age test 2
South Wales Argus Coming of Age test 2 BARTLETT LEEHappy 1st Birthday. Have a super party lots of Love Mummy, Nan, Grandad, Aunty Victoria, Uncle Paul xx PORTER TRUSCOTT-JONESCongratulations Gareth and Lisa on the birth of your beautiful baby boy RHYS
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Howarth eligibility back on agenda
Newport outside half Shane Howarth's Wales eligibility is back on the agenda as the Welsh Rugby Union set a date of Sunday, May 26, for their extraordinary meeting to decide the future structure of Welsh rugby. The WRU have formed yet another committee
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Calzaghe - I'll make up for Wales' flops
NEWBRIDGE hero Joe Calzaghe, pictured, emerged from a very public work-out yesterday and told Wales' fallen rugby stars: "It's my job to lift the nation now!" Like many, the 30-year-old WBO super-middleweight champion has been disillusioned with Wales
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Extra cash for crime hot spots
A LARGE share of an extra £1m in Home Office cash coming to Wales to fight crime will go to Caerphilly and Newport, it was revealed yesterday. The Safer Communities Initiative means all 22 crime and disorder reduction partnerships in Wales will get a
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Young firefighters give baby unit a lift
A total of 14 members of the Newport young firefighters' organisation raised more than £200 by pumping iron. The cash will help to buy equipment for Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital's special baby unit. The youngsters, pictured, from the branch in Malpas
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Anne Frank display bid
A RENOWNED Anne Frank exhibition is set to return to Gwent next year, the Argus can reveal. But organisers need the help of the community to raise £9,000 in sponsorship to ensure the travelling exhibition - A History For Today - comes back. Councillor
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Appearance is a real treat
THE chance to catch the Lo Fidelity Allstars playing live is the rare treat on offer for Newport music fans this week. The flamboyant pioneers of dance/rock fusion play in TJ's this week on the back of their critically acclaimed new album 'Don't Be Afraid
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Graffiti made duo see red
JULIE Cankett and her boyfriend have only lived on Newport's Bettws estate for six months, but they have already made a big impression. The couple, from Monnow Way, have managed to get most of their neighbours involved in painting the council flats bright
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Village pins hopes on shop
A VILLAGE near Chepstow which is fighting to open a shop for the first time in more than two years is hoping for a cash boost from the rural affairs ministry. But while many villagers wait to see if Defra (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural
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Harris puts faith in County youth
NEWPORT County manager Tim Harris was still singing the praises of his academy youngsters today ahead of a tough home clash against long-time Dr Martens League Premier Division leaders Crawley tomorrow. Harris has been forced to blood a number of teenagers
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Coming of Age test 3
South Wales Argus Coming of Age test 3 BARTLETT LEEHappy 1st Birthday. Have a super party lots of Love Mummy, Nan, Grandad, Aunty Victoria, Uncle Paul xx PORTER TRUSCOTT-JONESCongratulations Gareth and Lisa on the birth of your beautiful baby boy RHYS
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'Please stop this traffic'
A NEWPORT street is dangerous to use because of the amount - and size - of vehicles using it, claim residents. People living in and around Mendalgief Road, Pill, want to see it closed at its junction with Docks Way. And they say plans to introduce traffic-calming
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Howarth eligibility back on agenda
Newport outside half Shane Howarth's Wales eligibility is back on the agenda as the Welsh Rugby Union set a date of Sunday, May 26, for their extraordinary meeting to decide the future structure of Welsh rugby. The WRU have formed yet another committee
