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Today's ads: BLANDFORD (Rachael) Congratulations on your '21ST' birthday Love and best wishes Mum, Dad and Gareth XXXX BLANDFORD (Rachael) Happy '21ST' birthday Mummy Lots of love Your little darling Sheridan XX BRADY / NICHOLAS Happy 18th Birthday Lots
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Jetting golfers to the Manor borne!
THE BEST golf field ever assembled in this part of the world goes for the Wales Open title at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, starting tomorrow. Gwent business tycoon Sir Terry Matthews has made certain there is no repeat of last year when most of the
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Newport welcomes top stars
WALES' top snooker players are making a bee-line for Newport. As the Tredegar Constitutional Club in Oakfield Road is staging the second annual TCC Pro-Am Snooker Championship on Thursday evenings August. The prestigious invitation event is a great starter
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Fresh twist in schools battle
THE fight by two Abergavenny infants schools to stay open took another twist yesterday. Monmouthshire county council's two Liberal Democrats, Councillors Duncan Anstey and Sylvia Heighton, have asked for the decision by the cabinet last week to close
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Ryder Cup chase took toll on Bassaleg star
IT seems only yesterday that Phil Price was grimly hanging on to the last automatic Ryder Cup spot. Intense pressure followed the Welshman everywhere and a succession of missed cuts and finishes near the wrong end of the leaderboard left the Bassaleg-based
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Restaurant owner says he may move
A BUSINESSMAN who has brought three successful new restaurants to Newport in six years, says he may be forced to move away because of council restrictions. Iftekhar Haris has opened La Bamba - the first Mexican restaurant in Gwent, Bombay Bicycle Club
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Scandal to bury ship, says expert
NEWPORT would become the centre of a national scandal if a ship found at a building site is not recovered and displayed, an expert claims. Charlie Barker, managing director of Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Archaeological Services, said the ship was a treasure
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Rugby super league
THE new rugby season will produce a super league winner, and there will be a possible 86 points on offer from all competitions, the Argus can reveal. The Welsh Rugby Union and the Premier Division clubs have combined to produce a new bonus points system
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Today's ads: HOPKINS-KNORZ Cheryl & Shane Congratulations to you both on the birth of your beautiful Baby Girl CAITLIN 6-8-02 First grandchild for Jane & Mac Welcome niece for David Third great grandchild for Eileen & John Barrell Love to
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AM backs call to save bus service
NEWPORT East AM John Griffiths has joined calls for the Llanwern bus service - set to be axed from August 18 - to be retained. The Argus revealed on Saturday how the end of the Number 12 Corus/Llanwern bus service was among a number of cutbacks being
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Today's ads: DEEKS (Paul Graham) Happy '13th' BIRTHDAY Love Dad.
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Newport bond before title onslaught
NEWPORT'S rugby squad are off to North Wales on a pre-season summer camp on Sunday. They will be based at Wrexham until next Wednesday, returning for their second friendly, a tough one at Gloucester a week Friday. Gloucester finished third in the Zurich
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Great to be home, says Dinsdale
THE CELTIC Manor is home from home for Welsh golf professional Richard Dinsdale. Used to travelling the world on the Challenge Tour, at home Dinsdale is based just ten minutes from the first tee of the Wentwood Hills championship course. Tomorrow, the
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Builders' plea angers grandad
A PLEA for parents to keep children away from construction work on Newport's new road has angered the grandfather of a schoolboy injured while playing there. Ben Edwards, aged eight, (pictured with grandparents Donald and Audrey Brown) suffered burns
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Newport bond before title onslaught
NEWPORT'S rugby squad are off to North Wales on a pre-season summer camp on Sunday. They will be based at Wrexham until next Wednesday, returning for their second friendly, a tough one at Gloucester a week Friday. Gloucester finished third in the Zurich
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Boost for Gurkhas' legal battle
A CWMBRAN Gurkha claiming racial discrimination against the Army was given a boost in his legal battle when lawyers won the right for 30,000 similar cases to go to the High Court. Former Lance-corporal Hari Thapa, (pictured) 38, of Hollybush, Cwmbran,
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Tributes to devoted animal carer
TRIBUTES are being paid to a Newport woman who spent 50 years devoted to the welfare of animals. Bernice Jones, who died last Thursday aged 80, spent the last 16 years of her life running Gwent Animal Rescue, at Llanhennock, which she founded in 1986.
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Patients' rage at 'cheek' of NHS
ANGRY patients have blasted claims that no one in Gwent is waiting more than 18 months for orthopaedic treatment. Last week health chiefs announced they had met Assembly targets of no-one waiting more than 18 months for orthopaedic procedures. And Assembly
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County youngster back after scare
ALLAN Stevenson will watch Newport County's pre-season friendly clash with Gwent rivals Cwmbran Town tonight (7.45pm) on the sidelines. The 18-year-old midfielder, (pictured left) who was one of Tim Harris' finds of last season, spent four days in hospital
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Des res - at the pub
IT'S every drinker's ideal home - a country cottage attached to the local pub. Several rural Monmouthshire watering holes have closed recently, with pubs pushed to the brink after falling visitor numbers through last year's foot- and-mouth crisis. But
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Today's ads: HOPKINS-KNORZ Cheryl & Shane Congratulations to you both on the birth of your beautiful Baby Girl CAITLIN 6-8-02 First grandchild for Jane & Mac Welcome niece for David Third great grandchild for Eileen & John Barrell Love to
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'Floods town is open to disaster'
A GWENT town where flooding caused millions of pounds' worth of damage could be without adequate defences for another two years, fears an AM. Monmouth was devastated by flooding in the winter of 2000, and some areas were under water again last winter.
