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Disciplinary record threatens Newbridge's funding

NEWBRIDGE Rugby Club face losing thousands of pounds of Welsh Rugby Union funding unless they clean up the worst disciplinary record in Welsh rugby. But team manager Keith Westwood claims his outfit are not a dirty side, accuses referees of inconsistency

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I will sign for Wales: Hughes

MARK Hughes today reassures Welsh football fans: "I will sign my new contract." And Hughes, who has turned Wales into a European footballing force from relative obscurity, insists: "I will see the job through." The Football Association of Wales and Hughes

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'Meter's beyond my reach'

A CWMBRAN woman says she has had to move back in with her ex-husband - because she cannot reach an electricity meter in her own home. Pamela Prosser, 59, who suffers from asthma, moved into a privately rented flat on Two Locks Road, Cwmbran in July, but

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Claim of price list for sex denied

A FORMER award-winning Neighbourhood Watch chief denied asking a teenaged girl to draw up a price list for sexual services, a court heard. Charles Anthony Lane, (pictured) 56, a former Gaer Neighbourhood Watch leader, denies 24 sex and violence charges

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The last sketch in steel town drama

A DRAWING depicting the last days of Ebbw Vale steelworks has been bought for the local community. Blaenau Gwent councillors have agreed to buy the charcoal drawing entitled The Final Corus. The cost of £200, which will be donated to the Hospice of the

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Police fire on swordsman

POLICE fired plastic bullets for the first time in Gwent after officers were threatened by a man waving a sword. The 36-year-old man received a minor injury in the incident but did not need hospital treatment, said Inspector Steve Taylor. Police went

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Call us again, urge police

DETECTIVES say an anonymous caller may hold vital information in the Jenna Baldwin murder inquiry. At 10.30am yesterday, Gwent Police received a phone call from a man claiming he knew the whereabouts of a steel, green 'Bulldog' shovel linked to the investigation

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Gwent's waiting lists shocker

SHOCK figures show more people are waiting for orthopaedic surgery in Gwent than anywhere else in Wales. Of the 205 patients in Wales who had waited more than 18 months for such surgery by the end of October, 173 - 84 per cent - are from Gwent. Now an

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Samuels on course for title

NEWPORT light-middleweight Paul Samuels has shrugged off a couple of injury scares and is bang on course for his IBO title rematch with champion Richard Williams at the Brentwood International Centre on December 7. Samuels is confident he can lift the

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Top athlete goes back to school

FORMER world junior champion athlete Anneliese Heard braved the rain to cut the ribbon to open her former school's all-weather pitch. Anneliese, 21, officially opened the pitch at Bassaleg Comprehensive School. The ground will be used by pupils and the

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Probe into schools row

THE Ombudsman is investigating a complaint against Monmouthshire county council over their handling of the schools' closure programme. Mrs Norma Watkins, who chairs the governors of closure-threatened Park Street Infants School, Abergavenny, told a packed

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Third Test: How England could do with Simon's enthusiasm

It was strange meeting up with Simon Jones last Thursday. This was, you may remember, the first day of the second test in Adelaide. And as we talked about the events of the previous night (which, remarkably, had gone exceptionally well for England, with

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Williams wants a repeat of 1999 win

EBBW Vale flanker Paul Williams is hoping the Steelmen can resurrect the ghosts of 1999 when they face Llanelli at Eugene Cross Park on Saturday. With neither side playing in the Celtic League quarter-finals, the clubs have arranged a friendly to give

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Hard-hit areas are promised extra aid

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has handed out a cash boost to Newport to help Gwent recover from the loss of steel jobs. His pre-Budget statement announces plans for a new tax incentive to help the Newport Urban Regeneration Company, established in the wake

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Motorists in call for M4 to be widened

MOTORING organisations and drivers are calling for the M4 in Newport to be widened to ease rush-hour traffic problems. A national traffic survey has identified the Newport section of the motorway as a problem area. Trafficmaster's Journey Time Index states