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Walker hits road to Sheffield
SNOOKER ace Lee Walker is back on the road to the Crucible after winning his opening match in this year's Embassy World Championships qualifiers in Blackpool last night. The 26-year-old from Newbridge, who was a quarter-finalist at the Sheffield venue
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'Robbed of a home that I need'
A SERIOUSLY ill woman says she feels robbed after a council offered her a a specially adapted bungalow, then gave the property to someone else. Ivy Craven, (pictured) 49, of Liswerry Close, Cwmbran, suffers from a catalogue of complaints, including diabetes
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Pooler star Daniel thought a bus parked on his knee
THOUGHTS of next month's Principality Cup game against Llanelli have been banished to the touchlines after a nasty injury to young Pontypool winger Nathan Daniel in Saturday's game against Maesteg. The rising star suffered a dislocated knee and doctors
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Nicholas pledge: Swansea win is just the beginning
NEWPORT County's 3-1 success against Swansea City in the FAW Premier Cup quarter-final last night created history by claiming their first Football League scalp - and boss Peter Nicholas vowed 'it is the shape of things to come.' Nicholas' blueprint is
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Fire crews' rage over settlement move
GWENT'S firefighters reacted angrily last night to the news that John Prescott was introducing emergency legislation to try to break the deadlock in the dispute. In a statement to the House of Commons the deputy prime minister said: "This latest round
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Leader supports drink-drive Tory
A TORY candidate who admitted drink-driving was given the guarded support of the party's National Assembly leadership yesterday. The Argus revealed exclusively last week how Laura Anne Jones, (pictured) 23, of Llanbadoc, near Usk, is standing against
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It's a 'terribly polite' protest
IT was not so much a gauntlet, more a cosy woollen mitten that Newport councillors gathering for their full meeting ran yesterday morning. Impeccably behaved placard-carrying members of The Voice of Pill Action Group clustered round the entrance to the
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'Cyclists could be the best in Britain'
NEWPORT'S new state-of-the-art velodrome is set to be the best equipped in Britain - and make the city the centre of cycling in the UK, according to Welsh cycling chiefs. The facility in Spytty Park will open this autumn, thanks to a Sports Council for
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Council tax hike is on the cards
COUNCIL taxpayers in Monmouthshire could face a rise of around 10 per cent in their bills from April. The average Band D home in the county currently has a £730 council tax - and a 10 per cent rise would mean the bill going up to £803. But the final figure
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Sparky eyes-up whizz kids
Mark Hughes is battling to convince three bright young England prospects that they should join his Wales revolution. The Wales chief has been trying to persuade three lads with duel qualifications to turn their back on England. Two of them, Aston Villa's
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Mum's prayers for a miracle for Amber
TOMORROW Lesley Gronow should be celebrating her 38th birthday. But it will be a day without joy that she will spend anxiously in hospital at her baby daughter's side, praying for a miracle. Little Amber Hartland (pictured) undergoes a brain scan tomorrow
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Shephard the star as County qualify for semis
NEWPORT County's heroic success over Swansea City in the FAW Premier Cup quarter-final last night could be a taste of things to come. With full-time football very high on manager Peter Nicholas' County agenda, he is desperate for Newport to be playing
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Funding on its way to cut waiting lists
MONEY will be made available to start to tackle the crisis in orthopaedics in Gwent - but we will have to wait a month to find out how much. Assembly health minister Jane Hutt said targeted investment will form part of her response to a hard-hitting report
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Hughes is a living legend - Hartson
MARK Hughes has been dubbed a legend - by the man 'Sparky' hopes will fire Wales to their first championship finals in 44 years. Manager Hughes has guided Wales to pole position in Euro 2004 qualifying Group Nine - and targetman John Hartson said: "The
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Cabs ban 'threat to business'
A TAXI driver claims a ban on cabs using Monmouthshire car parks is putting him out of business. And Melvyn Morgan, (pictured) of Trinity Street, Abergavenny, says the ban effectively means he cannot take his wife shopping anywhere in the county, because
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Clubs plea for games
FIRST Division clubs meet WRU supremo David Moffett tonight urging him to increase next season's planned top domestic league from 12 to 16 teams. Moffett's plan for the future of Welsh rugby calls for four franchised provincial teams playing in the Heineken
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I won't be gagged, says councillor
A CONTROVERSIAL councillor was told he is costing his local authority highways department more than £6,000 every year through his inquiries. It has also been suggested that Blackwood councillor Kevin Etheridge (pictured) is impinging on the work of the
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New life for eyesore
A RUNDOWN Pontypool hotel is to be turned into a conference centre with offices and flats. The four-storey Clarence Hotel - seen as a key site in regenerating the town - has been sold to the Eastern Valley Housing Association who are to spend between
