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Power Cup called off
CRICKET'S Pertemps Power Cup, planned for the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this weekend, is off. Organisers DP Cricket have decided to re-schedule the indoor event, the second of its kind in the last three months, to the Spring. Problems with getting
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Victim of horror rape offered just £8,250 compensation
THE victim of a terrifying rape and kidnapping ordeal is being offered an "insulting" £8,250 as compensation for her suffering, the Argus can reveal. Evil Jaswinder Grewal, 30, pictured, formerly of Garden Suburbs, Pontywaun, Cwmcarn, kidnapped the young
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Crime cut hopes as towns secure CCTV
FOUR Monmouthshire town centres are to get CCTV cameras next month - thanks to a £440,000 National Assembly grant and £90,000 from the local council. The CCTV system, which is set to 'go live' in February, will be put in place in Abergavenny, Caldicot
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Two Iraqis killed in M4 accident
IMMIGRATION officials were today continuing investigations into a motorway crash which claimed the lives of two Iraqi men. The two died, and three of their friends, also Iraqis, were injured when their Mercedes crashed on the M4 near Newport on Saturday
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Steelmen go from heroes to zeros
"THEY were the best side I have ever played against" said a glum Tyron Morris after the Ebbw Vale flanker saw his team's hopes of reaching the Parker Pen Shield semi-final dashed in a 63-17 Pau hammering. Ebbw Vale blew their chance of reaching the European
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Jones wants Euro triumph to inspire league bid
NEWPORT aim to use their exciting 42-32 Heineken Cup victory over Edinburgh on Saturday to launch a Principality Cup challenge and climb towards the top of the Welsh League table. "The Premiership and the Principality Cup are our last chances to aim for
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Town gets behind crusade to reopen rail link
PEOPLE in Ebbw Vale are backing our Get Us Back on Track campaign to open the rail link from the town to Newport at the same time, or before, the Cardiff link. The backing came on Saturday, at the start of a series of exhibitions to be held across Blaenau
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Parade honours brave soldier
MORE THAN 100 former servicemen turned out in Cwmbran on Saturday to honour a brave son of Torfaen. The John Fielding Memorial Parade, pictured, held at St Michael's Church, Llantarnam, at 11am, payed tribute to a local hero decorated for his part in
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OAP: I had stroke after gang abused me
DUFFRYN man Douglas Forshaw, pictured, claims he suffered a stroke after a gang of youths abused him - less than two hours before a young father died in similar circumstances. Now police probing the death of young father Simon Gibbons last Wednesday are
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Council appoints 'green' rubbish warden
A NEW recycling warden will encourage Newport residents to recycle more of their rubbish. Newport city council has appointed Mike Johnston, 54, from Cwmbran, to the role which was designed to support the council's Rethink Rubbish campaign, launched last
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Alicia lands a choice role
A NEWPORT schoolgirl will be taking her first step to acting success when she appears in a children's television drama tomorrow. Alicia Hooper, of Oakfield Road, Newport, pictured, has been performing since she was five, but tomorrow could be her first
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Idea spreads like wildfire!
A YOUNG firefighter scheme which has proved a huge success in Monmouthshire is being extended to another Gwent county. Teenagers in Caerphilly have the opportunity to take part when the scheme, run jointly between the youth service and South Wales Fire
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Local groups share £1m European cash
THREE disability projects in Gwent will be awarded a share of £1 million today to mark the European Year of Disabled People. They are among 78 projects in the UK - including ten local projects in Wales and three Wales-wide projects - to successfully bid
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Five club deal is dead, says Russell, as parties talk again
EBBW Vale boss Marcus Russell insisted today that Welsh Rugby Union chief executive David Moffett's four regional sides plan for the future of Welsh rugby is the way ahead. Russell was not at a meeting between Moffett and the Premier Welsh clubs this
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Dredge still waiting for Tour win
BRADLEY Dredge's first European Tour win still eludes him. The 29-year-old Blackwood golfer entered the club house at the Dunhill Championship in South Africa after the third day sharing the lead with home favourite Bradford Vaughan. But after being 13
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Five club deal is dead, says Russell, as parties talk again
EBBW Vale boss Marcus Russell insisted today that Welsh Rugby Union chief executive David Moffett's four regional sides plan for the future of Welsh rugby is the way ahead. Russell was not at a meeting between Moffett and the Premier Welsh clubs this
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Newport end European campaign on a high
Newport....42 Edinburgh....32 WHAT a difference a week makes! Seven days before Newport had suffered a record 70-18 defeat in France and on Saturday they completed their European campaign with their biggest score of the season. Edinburgh may not be Toulouse
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Jones wants Euro triumph to inspire league bid
NEWPORT aim to use their exciting 42-32 Heineken Cup victory over Edinburgh on Saturday to launch a Principality Cup challenge and climb towards the top of the Welsh League table. "The Premiership and the Principality Cup are our last chances to aim for
