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Elegant schooner slips into Haven
Brilliant sunshine greeted the Sea Cloud II and her American passengers when they entered the Milford Haven Waterway on Monday. The 384-foot luxury yacht - powered by 29,687 square foot area of sails supported by two four-stroke engines - is on a British
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I'll walk behind Winstone, says Arthur
GWENT'S lightweight Commonwealth Games boxing champion Jamie Arthur (pictured) says he has a tough decision to make - whether to box at the 2004 Olympics or turn professional. Arthur returned to a hero's welcome in Cwmbran yesterday. And while he has
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No bar to being bard, says Williams
SOME said it was a pagan ceremony, but yesterday the next Archbishop of Canterbury joined a long list of notable Welsh people in the Gorsedd of Bards. Archbishop of Wales Dr Rowan Williams, who will move from Newport to Lambeth Palace in the autumn, joined
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New figures on perverts
THERE are 234 registered sex offenders living in Gwent, the Argus can reveal. New figures released for the first time by Gwent Police and the area's probation service show how registered sex offenders are managed in our communities - and the extent of
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Claims over firm's loans denied
ANGRY workers sacked without pay and redundancy packages at a Newport factory are accusing the Welsh Develo-ment Agency of precipitating a withdrawal of the bank loans that led to the company's collapse. But the WDA describes the claims as nonsense and
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Glory daze for Gwent's golden boy of boxing
TRIUMPHANT Gwent boxer Jamie Arthur brought his Commonwealth Games gold medal home - and vowed to take a well-earned break. Lightweight fighter Jamie, 22, was proud to be part of the most successful Welsh team ever to visit the Games, with a combined
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Death of animal rights champion
GWENT animal rights campaigner Bernice Jones (pictured) has died in hospital at the age of 80. Mrs Jones ran Gwent Animal Rescue, at Llanhennock - which she set up in 1986 - until very recently. She went into hospital two months ago after suffering a
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Stone find is hole in one
Clearing the growth from a hedge surrounding his property a resident of Berea near St Davids, discovered an unusual shaped stone. It is nine inches in diameter with a thickness of four inches, with a central hole with a diameter of two-and-a-half inches
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Wonder Wall lands the Newport Open
CWMBRAN Park's Kevin Wall came through intense pressure to clinch the top prize Open Singles championship at the 74th Newport Open Bowls tournament last Sunday. Wall was up against Paul Edinborough, of Whiteheads, for the crown and managed to get away
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Local history proves a winner
London book publishers are forever bemoaning the difficulties of their trade, the decline in literacy and their weekly delivery of unpublishable manuscripts. NIGEL JARRETT visits a Gwent one that harbours no such resentments MALCOLM Thomas, pictured,
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STS slips into the red
A high-flying Newport company which expected to make a profit this year has plunged into the red . Shares in Surface Technology Systems, pictured, makers of the machines that etch silicon wafers for microchips, have slumped. But the news has not come
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Today's ads: DAVIES Tara Congratulations on passing your Driving Test first time Love M.M & PJ. XX
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Malcolm's Euro final ambition
NEWPORT sprinter Christian Malcolm's European Championship aim is simple - a place in the 200m final. The 23-year-old from Eveswell is in Munich for the start of today's Championships and on Thursday begins his bid to reach Friday night's final - but
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Council strike plan called off
COUNCIL workers preparing to strike next Wednesday in protest over pay have called off their action. Gwent was preparing for a second 24-hour stint of industrial action by council workers fighting for a six per cent pay increase. A three per cent rise
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Dedge's dream
GWENT'S in-form golfer Bradley Dredge (pictured) has a burning ambition -- to win a European Tour event. If he achieves that aim on home territory in the Wales Open at the £140m Celtic Manor Resort starting on Thursday it would be a dream come true. Dredge
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Travellers can now use Welsh language service on internet
NEW businessman Keith Roberts, pictured, is helping to encourage Welsh as a practical, workaday language in a place where relatively few of his fellow citizens can speak it at all. Travellers and holidaymakers can ring him on his dedicated Welsh phone
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Today's ads: BUSSY (nee Drury) Congratulations to Gemma and Jonathan on the birth of their beautiful daughter FREYA JENNIFER on 30th July 2002 at the Royal Oldham Hospital Love and best wishes, Mum and Dad Drury and Jennifer and Mum and Dad Bussy WATKINS
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Exiles sign ex-Villa striker for free
NEWPORT County have snapped up former Aston Villa and Walsall striker Neil Davis on a free transfer. The prolific forward, who's 29 next week, has played for County's Dr Martens Premier League rivals Hednesford Town for the past three seasons until his
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Bluestone presents plans to tourism trade
Two of the principals of the proposed Bluestone Project, William McNamara and Pamela Joseph, gave a comprehensive presentation to the tourism trade at the Queens Hall, Narberth, on Wednesday. Arranged by Pembrokeshire Tourism, the presentation allowed
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Alex on voyage to help others
A NEWPORT man is set to sail around South and Central America - but the charms of the Copacabana beach will seem a long way away. For Alex Burton, (pictured) age 24, of Pontfaen Road, the next two years will be no holiday - he is about to join a charity
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Bakery bosses determined to keep business expanding
Brace's, the Gwent baker, is celebrating a hundred years of production and growth. Business Argus looks at the company today EXPANSION, innovation and bringing in new business are the guiding principles of Brace's, the largest independent bakery in Wales
