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Heads must roll after French blitz
Toulouse 70, Newport 18 HEADS have got to roll at Rodney Parade or contractual obligations have got to be slashed - or both - after this slaughter in Toulouse on Saturday. Maybe it's about time Newport benefactor Tony Brown stopped being such an honourable
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'Devoted' partner dies after lifting weights
DEVOTED partner Ben Watkins collapsed and died after suffering a brain haemorrhage, aged just 19. He and fiance Kerryanne Davies, pictured, had just celebrated their first year together, and planned a dream wedding in Cancun, Mexico, later this year.
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'Dead baby's mum may not be found'
THE detective leading the investigation into a dead baby discovered beside a Gwent canal says he fears the infant's mother will probably never be found. Gwent Police remain baffled as to the identity of the stillborn baby boy, whose body was found beside
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Fan power tips the balance for Hughes
WELSH fans' love affair with Mark Hughes twisted the arm of soccer chiefs to offer him a lucrative four-year deal as national team boss, writes Peter Shuttleworth. The new Welsh FA management committee chairman Ken Tucker admitted the Football Association
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Jones to set out plans for Welsh parliament
Plaid Cymru will immediately draw up plans for a full Welsh parliament if it wins power at May's Assembly election, Ieuan Wyn Jones said today. The Plaid leader, pictured, said a Welsh nationalist government would start work straight away to secure the
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Welsh pride woven into Archbishop's robes
WHEN Dr Rowan Williams is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury next month, a Gwent couple will have every reason to feel a very special twinge of pride. For Dr Williams will be wearing robes woven by husband-and-wife team Gilbert and Wendy Kilbride.
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Vale set to go on Parade - at last!
EBBW Vale's much-postponed Parker Pen European Shield quarter-final goes ahead at last tonight at Newport's Rodney Parade ground (7.30pm). And as a gesture of goodwill after a chaotic weekend, season ticket holders of both Ebbw Vale and Newport will be
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Residents face 19% tax hike
COUNCIL tax in Torfaen borough is set for a massive rise - to cover a £1.7 million shortfall in the council's budget. Finance bosses warn a rise of 19 per cent is necessary, meaning the average band D taxpayer will face a rise of approximately £134 over
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Toxins hit salmon reserves in Wye
ANGLERS on the River Wye are being encouraged to return salmon alive to boost stocks and encourage tourism. Numbers of the migratory fish caught in the Wye. pictured, have nosedived from 6,500 in 1988. The Wye and Usk Foundation fears the figure this
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Heads must roll after French blitz
Toulouse 70, Newport 18 HEADS have got to roll at Rodney Parade or contractual obligations have got to be slashed - or both - after this slaughter in Toulouse on Saturday. Maybe it's about time Newport benefactor Tony Brown stopped being such an honourable
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We're a disgrace, blasts angry Forster
NEWPORT'S experienced flanker Jason Forster has blasted his side's humiliating 70-18 Heineken Cup defeat at Toulouse - and fumed: "We should hold our heads in shame." Newport conceded ten tries, five in a ten-minute spell, as they crashed to their heaviest
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New leads in hunt for missing man
POLICE say an appeal by missing man Richard Davies' wife Michelle has created new leads in the inquiry. Mrs Davies made a personal appeal on Friday night for anyone with information on the whereabouts of her husband to come forward. He was last seen at
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Joel learns 'lesson of ring'
AN OVER-ACTIVE imagination landed a schoolboy in trouble when he tried to emulate his Lord of the Rings hero Frodo Baggins. Seven-year-old Tolkein fan, Joel Withey, of Eureka Place, Ebbw Vale, got a 15mm copper 'olive' used by plumbers to seal pipes,
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We're a disgrace, blasts angry Forster
NEWPORT'S experienced flanker Jason Forster has blasted his side's humiliating 70-18 Heineken Cup defeat at Toulouse - and fumed: "We should hold our heads in shame." Newport conceded ten tries, five in a ten-minute spell, as they crashed to their heaviest
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County's Cup date with Margate - if they beat Worcester tonight!
Newport County will meet Margate at home in the fourth round of the FA Trophy - if they overcome Worcester City tonight at St George's Lane (7.45pm). The Exiles travel to Worcester in their rescheduled third match sweating on the fitness of tough-tackling
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Battle ahead for airport backers
PLANS for a new £2 billion international airport in Newport, were today being formally submitted to the government. The Severnside airport plan, serving Wales and the west of England, proposes an airport with runways on a manmade island in the Severn
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Ship: Pub chain adds weight to battle
CAMPAIGNERS calling for the bow and stern of Newport's medieval ship, pictured, to be saved are to present a 6,000 signature to council chiefs tomorrow. And The Friends of the Newport Ship group have a new backer - national pub chain JD Wetherspoon. Campaigners
