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It's all go for city's £1m music show!
MUSIC-lovers will be rocking around the Christmas tree this year after developers received final planning approval for the Newport City Live Arena. The £1 million live music event was on hold until Welsh historic monuments conservation body Cadw approved
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Wasps to face Elite opposition
NEWPORT Speedway will host Elite League opposition next year with the introduction of the new British League Cup competition. The cup takes the place of the old Premier Trophy and for the first time will see clashes between teams from speedway's Elite
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'Barry owe me £2,000' - Flynn
MIKE Flynn today revealed Barry Town still owe him £2,000 despite having moved to Wigan Athletic five months ago - sparking major fears that the cash crisis in Welsh football is deepening. Newport-born Flynn (pictured in his County days), who branded
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16,300 pledge to donate organs
MORE than 16,300 people have pledged to help save a life by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register after a push by a Gwent council. The huge success for Monmouthshire council's plea for donors comes after appeals were sent out with electoral registration
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Diocese gives its blessing to bishop
GATHERED under the rafters of its ancient cathedral church, Gwent and the Diocese of Monmouth bade its Bishop God Speed in his new ministry as leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans. After almost 11 years as Bishop of Monmouth Dr Rowan Williams (pictured
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Cash still favoured method of payment
RESULTS of a survey on how we pay for things are music to the ears of an award-winning Gwent company. Notes and coins remain the UK's favourite method of payment, according to the annual Alliance & Leicester Cash Usage Survey. It found that cash has
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It will be physical - Monty
SPRINGBOK Percy Montgomery may be a world superstar but he expects no favours when he lines up in Newport colours for the first time tonight (7.30pm). Monty fever has reached boiling point and the Black and Ambers expect a bumper Rodney Parade crowd when
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Saran knows her business
SARAN Allott-Davey's employees know a good boss when they see one. The founder and managing director of Heron House Financial Management in Newport came second in a premier UK competition - and she was nominated by one of her staff. Mrs Allott-Davey was
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Attractions of borough set to be promoted
A BLACKWOOD pub landlord is one of several new members who have boosted the work of Caerphilly Tourism Association in highlighting the district's attractions. Caerphilly includes the old Islwyn borough council and Paul Taylor, of the Cross Oak pub, is
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Competitors in a spin over laundry firm
A NEW laundry service in Tredegar is literally a dream come true for owner Jacqueline Rees. She had been thinking of taking her career in a new direction for some time when the answer came to her from an unexpected quarter. "One night I dreamt that I
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Council 'no' to extra hours bid
AN HISTORIC Gwent town is becoming embroiled in a trading dispute which is threatening to result in business closure. Caerleon restaurant owner Ashuk Miah wants to stay open late but says the local council's "unprecedented" refusal of his request is encouraging
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Reality hits home against 'baby' Blacks
WE'VE had the sympathy, we've had the understanding, we've had the hard luck stories. Now let's have a bit of reality. And that REALITY is Wales shipped 43 points against the All Blacks - it doesn't matter whether 21 came in the last 10 minutes, 14 of
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80,000 ties for gifts
A GWENT factory employing people with disabilities will be helping to fill 80,000 stockings this Christmas by preparing ties which will be bought as gifts. Remploy, of Abertillery, which employs people with disabilities, is packaging the ties for supermarkets
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'It's essential this rail line reopens'
REOPENING the passenger railway line from Ebbw Vale to Newport is an "urgent priority", the under secretary of state for Wales has stressed. Don Touhig, who is MP for Islwyn, also said that Newport is the natural city destination for passenger trains
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More help for our business builders
AN EXPANDED team of advisers giving business help to young people in Gwent is celebrating remarkable success in raising the numbers of local young entrepreneurs. The Prince's Trust-Cymru set up a regional office at Newport in May, serving the city, Torfaen
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Paul goes from steel to nails...
WHEN Paul Baldwin (pictured) was made redundant from Llanwern Steelworks, he knew he wanted to stand on his own two feet. So, in a complete change of career direction, he decided to help other people do the same. After being made redundant by steel firm
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Car sales firm on road to new base
A CWMBRAN car sales firm is planning to relocate its business - and create 52 extra jobs. Autopia Motors, currently based in Llantarnam Road, was recently given permission to convert the vacant Siebe Gorman factory near Avondale Way into a car sales site
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Diocese gives its blessing to bishop
GATHERED under the rafters of its ancient cathedral church, Gwent and the Diocese of Monmouth bade its Bishop God Speed in his new ministry as leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans. After almost 11 years as Bishop of Monmouth Dr Rowan Williams (pictured
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Explosion victim in 'stable' condition
A GWENT businessman is recovering in hospital after being burned in an explosion at his garage. Gwent Police said Marcus Ostler (pictured), who runs Ostler's store in Magor, received 20 per cent burns and is now in a stable condition in Morriston Hospital's
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Nicholas ready to give youth its head
PETER Nicholas is mightily impressed with Newport County's youth academy set-up - and he'll give a few more vital first-team action at Sutton Coldfield Town in the Dr Martens Cup tonight (7.45pm). The league cup was never high on Tim Harris' pecking order
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Clergy on the path to job rights
THE clergy could be one step closer to gaining employment rights after the case of a Gwent Salvation Army captain was raised in Parliament. Monmouth MP Huw Edwards made an appeal at Westminster for ministers of religion to be legally protected against
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RAF officer's stern warning on fire danger
AS THE fire strike continues, reporters Edward Davie and Rita Bartolomei visited Gwent's biggest temporary fire station at Newport's Raglan Barracks to talk to the troops who are dealing with fires and rescues - and the man in charge of our fire cover
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New Euro deal on beef
CONSUMERS in Gwent will soon be able to see where the beef they are buying has come from. Food officers in the five local authorities are helping butchers, meat wholesalers and shop managers prepare to comply with new European laws. Under the new beef
