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Songs you won't forget

AUDIENCES may not know the story but the songs in Newport Operatic Society's production next week will definitely be familiar. You Made Me Love You and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows are just two of the numbers in Irene. It was originally created for star

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Classic ballet treats

The Siberian State Ballet Company and Orchestra make the first-ever visit to the UK with a performance of two of Tchaikovsky's best-loved works, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, at Cardiff's St David's Hall. The ballets, running from December 18 to January

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Today's ads: PERRY-BLACKWELL Congratulations to Emma and Nathan on the birth of baby ROSIE FIONA born on 11th November 2002 "From a ray of sunshine, we now have a little sunbeam" A first granddaughter for Vanda and Anthony, niece for Christopher, Clare

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I never wanted to stay away, insists Perry

JASON Perry last night hit-back at claims he has been lining his pockets during his eight-month exile from Newport County - and insisted: "I never wanted to stay away from the club." The 32-year-old, who was relieved from his assistant managerial duties

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Today's ads: STEED (Kate) To our darling daughter Kate on your 18th birthday Love, Mum and Dad XXX STEED (Kate) To our special big sister happy 18th birthday Love, Louise, Michael and Kimberley. XXX

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Urban landscape art

When we think of landscape painting, we always have a landscape in mind - rolling green hills, maybe mountains, usually trees - in short something suitably idyllic and pastoral. Penarth-born artist Mark Samuel, despite being raised within sketching distance

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Endearing tale of tolerance and friendship

A pig without a mother - and a sheepdog who lost her pups. It's hardly a match made in heaven, but as any child who knows the story of Babe the sheep-pig through the book by Dick King-Smith or the film could tell you, pig, dog and farmer end up learning

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Today's ads: WASHBROOK (Lewis) Happy '8th' BIRTHDAY Have a wonderful day All my love, Dad. XX WASHBROOK Happy '8th' BIRTHDAY LEWIS Lots of love, Nan and Grandad Washbook, Uncle Tim, Aunty Sue, Michael, Thomas and Joshua. XX

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Residents vow to fight appeal

PEOPLE in Crumlin say they will fight any appeal that may be lodged over a controversial plan for an historic site which was rejected by councillors this week. Residents have been fighting plans for an aggregate store on the site of the old Navigation

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Bows and blades in ice gala

HOLIDAY on Ice, the most popular live entertainment show in the world, will celebrate its tenth anniversary in Wales when it returns to Cardiff with its groundbreaking new spectacular, In Concert, at Cardiff International Arena from Tuesday, February

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Kirsty's walking taller after op

Kirsty Roberts (pictured) is feeling ten foot taller after pioneering surgery. For the Abertillery teenager has grown four inches after undergoing an operation in a French hospital to lengthen her legs. Kirsty, who is 16, has just returned from a three-month

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Gold Chains impossible to pin down

Gold Chains, the rapper from San Francisco, plays TJ's next week. He spoke to Matthew Blythe about technology and sleaze When Gold Chains supported Kid 606 in Clwb Ifor Bach earlier this year the first sound to come from his microphone via his laptop

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Tackling is key to success for Vale

EBBW Vale coach Mike Ruddock is looking to see his side slash the number of missed tackles against Neath at the Gnoll tonight as the Steelmen look to make amends for their 'horror show'. Vale were torn to shreds by the Welsh All Blacks at the end of September

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Much-acclaimed chorus at Beaufort

THE chorus of the Welsh National Opera - according to the Daily Telegraph - is the best in Britain, if not in Europe. And next Thursday they make a welcome return to Ebbw Vale's Beaufort Theatre. The 40-strong chorus, formed originally as an amateur group

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Hansen urges Quinnell to carry on

WALES coach Steve Hansen wants talisman number eight Scott Quinnell to carry on playing - but it looks like a forlorn hope. "We would like him to keep playing, but at the end of the day it'll be his knee which dictates that, and his mind," said Hansen

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'Quarrying is not being promoted'

WALES' environment minister has pledged there are no plans to promote sand or gravel quarrying in the Usk Valley. Sue Essex, responding to a question on the issue from Monmouth AM David Davies, said the Assembly was not pressing for the area - or any

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Charity thieves branded 'sick'

A CHARITY shop worker has branded thieves which broke into a hospice shop as sick. As later editions of the Argus reported yesterday thieves broke into the Friends of St Anne's Hospice shop in Risca Road on Wednesday night. They stole jewellery, a portable

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Today's ads: CLAYDEN Andrew Charles CONGRATULATIONS "21" TODAY Love Mum, Dad and Michael. Big Pearl Happy 63rd Birthday

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GP surgery faces axe

THE future of a branch GP surgery in Gwent appears doomed despite widespread public opposition to closure. Bro Taf health authority board is today being asked to approve the closure of the Castleton branch surgery of Dr R P Edwards and Partners, leaving

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Farce with a twist

The career of Joe Orton is precisely three plays long, but those plays have had an enormous influence on the British theatre. The Leicester-born playwright intended to shock audiences when his work was first performed in the 1960s - and he certainly succeeded

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Style masters are back

Ladytron are a pop band with the emphasis on style. It has been three years since their first singles and album and the tightly knit clique of four are set, they say, to take on the world. The debut, 604, and the singles Playgirl and He Took Her to a

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Stars of wonder

SANTA got it wrong. He called Newport his "favourite town," but the huge crowd soon put him right. "Of course, it's a city now." he chortled before launching into a carol at the official kick-off of Christmas in Newport. John Frost Square had never seemed

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Peter Nicholas replaces County's Harris

NEWPORT County will today announce former Welsh international Peter Nicholas as their new manager after Tim Harris resigned yesterday. In a dramatic 24 hours at Newport Stadium, it has just emerged that Nicholas, capped 73-times, the third most capped

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Today's ads: FOX (John James) Congratulations on your 18th birthday Have a wonderful day Lots of love, Mum, Dad and Chris FOX (John James) Happy 18th birthday Health and happiness always Love from Nan, Grandad, Auntie Elaine, Uncle Peter, Robert and Becky

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Today's ads: DAVIES (Moll & Elfryn) To a wonderful couple on their GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Have a lovely day. Love as always, Neal, Vicky, Alicia and Hannah. XXXX

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Residents win housing battle

MONMOUTHSHIRE residents are celebrating today after winning their fight to stop 240 houses being built on a flood plain near Usk. The National Assembly yesterday agreed to block the plan by building firm Bovis for land at Woodside, Llanbadoc, because

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Green Goddess tackles car blaze

A GREEN Goddess fire-engine was called into action in Newport last night as the 48-hour firefighters' strike continued. The 50-year-old vehicle, manned by six RAF personnel, took just over ten minutes to travel from Raglan Barracks, Newport, with a police

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Wales get their big Snow warning

IT'LL be physical, promises Newport prop Rod Snow, who wins his 48th cap for Canada when they face Wales at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Wales are expecting a tougher challenge than the one presented by Fiji, and Snow says they'll get just that

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Anti-Yardie op 'huge success'

NEWPORT police have hailed an operation aimed at stopping a drug-trafficking ring in the city a success. Operation Corolla ran over three days and involved more than 250 officers from four forces. The police operation was aimed at breaking up an extensive

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Calzaghe nearer to Hopkins

NEWBRIDGE hero Joe Calzaghe is lining up a sparkling New Year with undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and German champion Sven Ottke now firmly in his sights. In this week's exclusive Argus column, the WBO super-middleweight champion reveals

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Ballet's Shrew-d moves

IT'S been criticised as sexist, remade as a teen movie, and now a new incarnation of one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays is returning to Gwent. The Taming Of The Shrew which visits the Beaufort Theatre in Ebbw Vale on Wednesday is a new two-act

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Level playing field plea by developer

DEVELOPERS promising over 300 jobs in plans for a multi-million pound retail centre at Newport say they were shocked to discover the council favoured an alternative scheme. The Raven Group wants permission for a supermarket, hotel, restaurant and other

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Joe Calzaghe's column

After a weekend of intensive (care?) talks with Don King in New York, Frank Warren reports to me that the Bernard Hopkins fight is now very much on and that the Millennium Stadium, sometime in early to mid-2003, is the likely venue. For something that's

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Lucky escape for crash victims

EMERGENCY services say it is a miracle no-one was seriously injured after a crash left a van on fire and a car overturned in a garden. But angry residents say it is more evidence the area of Bloomfield Road and Cefn Road, Blackwood, is an accident blackspot