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Eight clubs is the way forward now
HAVING blasted provincial rugby in last week's column, and gained a certain notoriety - not to mention support - as a result, it is only right that I come up with an alternative. Obviously, it must be based on club rugby which I advocated so strongly
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WRU bank new Lloyds TSB £1m sponsorship deal
THE Welsh Rugby Union today announced a £1 million deal with Lloyds TSB to sponsor the national leagues for a three year period. The deal covers division one to seven, excluding the premier because of the uncertainty over what is going to happen at the
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Today's ads: Bronwen Hall It's the big '1' - Happy 1st Birthday, Our 'ickle Pickle Nookster. With lots and lots of love, hugs and kisses. Mummy, Daddy, Granma, Grandad, Great Nanna, George, Jack, Tom, Aunty Ju-Ju, Uncle Neil, Auntie Lou, Uncle Scott,
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Sick miners hit by another delay
MINERS seeking damages for debilitating lung diseases are facing yet another delay, the Argus can reveal. Around 15,000 claimants for chest diseases in Wales are still waiting for their medical assessment, but only between 30 and 40 have appointments
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Today's ads: NICHOLLS (nee Mort) James & Frances are proud to announce the Birth of their precious Baby Son Eric Clifford James Born on 11th October 2002 Weighing 7lb 8oz at R.G.H.stork NICHOLLS (nee Mort) James & Frances are proud to announce
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Glam man Jones could be a world star - Akram
WORLD cricket star Wasim Akram says the next two years will determine whether Glamorgan's Simon Jones becomes the fastest bowler in the world. At the launch of Power Cricket's next major indoor tournament at the Millennium Stadium on January 25-26 featuring
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Job boost hopes
COUNCIL chiefs in hard-hit Blaenau Gwent have welcomed the promise of a job-boosting Budget for areas like theirs. Yesterday, the Argus revealed that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made the pledge to help areas struggling to attract new
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Search for Jenna shifts
THE SEARCH for missing teenager Jenna Baldwin shifted yesterday from a quarry and woods near her home to land north of Abersychan. One search team spent yesterday scouring a refuse tip around Pwllddu situated opposite Keeper's Pond near Blaenavon. Another
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Cinema scheme goes to the wall
AN £8.5 MILLION multi-screen cinema and 'super-pub' scheme for Cwmbran town centre has fallen through - because no- one would come forward to operate it. The town looked set to be getting a new six- screen cinema when planning chiefs gave the green light
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Pill welcome new TSB cash injection
PILL Harriers have welcomed the £1m cash injection over three years by Lloyds TSB to sponsor the nationals leagues from division 1-7. Pill were the only Gwent side to earn promotion in the seven divisions at the end of last season. They are now lying
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Round-world couple get bike back
An Australian couple whose motorbike was stolen in Gwent were due to be reunited with their machine today. Ralph Dixon, 42, and Fionnuala Livingston, 40, were on the last leg of a five month, 19,000-mile journey to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis
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Street in dread as lamppost blown up
PEOPLE living in a Cwmbran street say they are living in fear after a metal lamppost was blown up with a home-made pipe-bomb. The pipe-bomb was set in the base of a lamp post at the back of the Leadon Road flats at Thornhill. It exploded at 2.07am on
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Griffiths' World Cup claim
ENGLAND have a moral obligation to allocate at least two matches to Wales if they stage the 2007 World Cup, insists WRU chairman Glanmor Griffiths. There is an agreement in place that if England stage the World Cup finals Wales will receive 20% of the
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MP warns Blair of his nuclear war concerns
GWENT MP Llew Smith headed demands today for Tony Blair to pull back from the brink of conflict with Iraq warning it could lead to nuclear war in the Middle East. Other South Wales MPs backed the Blaenau Gwent MP who put down a Common's motion calling
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Deer plan scrapped
PLANS to bring back deer into Pontypool Park have been dropped after local people say they fear for the animals' safety. A feasibility study had been proposed as part of park-wide improvements. Deer have been absent from the park for decades. But residents
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Wales' Euro fightback
MARK Hughes and Welsh football chiefs last night hit back in the wake of FIFA's dramatic about turn over the infamous four-day ruling and told clubs: 'We were only protecting your players.' After directions from world football's governing body, Hughes
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Jones to make his Ashes debut
GLAMORGAN paceman Simon Jones makes his Ashes debut against Australia in the First Test in Brisbane tomorrow. But England will be without Lancashire allrounder Andy Flintoff because he is not yet fully fit while Kent batsman Robert Key is the other member
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'Big break' forces group to axe gig
PONTYPOOL band The Kennedy Soundtrack, pictured, have had their biggest break yet - supporting top American artist Pink at sell-out gigs in Manchester and Dublin. The band cancelled a show last night at Blackwood Miners' Institute after being invited
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Rugby chief tries new science lab
A CWMBRAN school's £245,000 science block extension was opened yesterday - after a little help from a work of art. A painting which hung at Llantarnam Comprehensive School for many years - Daughters of Eve by G D Leslie - was sold for £170,000 at auction