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More go on the run
MORE THAN 250 runners took part in the fourth annual Islwyn half-marathon at the weekend. Around 270 competitors, some from as far afield as Birmingham and Kent, ran the 13.1-mile course, which snaked through the Islwyn Valley. The course began and finished
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Door smashed to save 82-year-old
FIREFIGHTERS had to break down sleeping Olwyn Parker's front door before thick, black smoke suffocated her. The 82-year-old lives in a semi-detached house and was unaware a blaze had broken out next door at Mr and Mrs Morgan's home. A firefighter had
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Learning stops greys getting the blues
GWENT pensioner Anne Price has told Assembly Members why expanding learning opportunities for all adults - not only those in the employment market - is so important. Mrs Price, (pictured) a retired speech therapist from Caerleon, said learning was the
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Jones in the shop window
Goalkeeper Paul Jones (pictured) admits his next games for Wales are the perfect opportunity to put himself in the shop window for next season. Jones, with 29 caps, has been a frustrated spectator on the Southampton bench for much of the season, the 35
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STOP PRESS : WALES v SERBIA MATCH OFF
WALES' Euro 2004 Group Nine qualifier in Serbia and Montenegro's has been postponed until August 20 because of fears over the political climate.
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'Last-ditch' bid to save cinema
NEWPORT'S last city centre cinema is being run by the owners of its building - after the collapse of the cinema management company. City Cinema, on Bridge Street, was being run by a company called Zoo Cinema (Wales) Ltd, whose directors were Clare Binns
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Cambridge wants to be a Maverick
NEWPORT reserve Matt Cambridge (pictured) has asked promoter Tim Stone to let him ride in the Mavericks' meeting at home to Wimbledon on Sunday. The visit of the Dons to Hayley Stadium will form part of a double header, Wolverhampton the main attraction
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You must believe - Charvis
BELIEVE in yourselves and you will start winning - that will be the advice of flanker and former skipper Colin Charvis (pictured) to the Wales youngsters ahead of the France game this weekend. The 54-times capped Swansea man will put his future at Swansea
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Cash for County player kitty
NEWPORT County's heroics in the money-spinning FAW Premier Cup will swell Peter Nicholas' transfer kitty next season. Stan Berry, co-ordinator of the club's strategic management team, vowed that Nicholas' transfer coffers will be the ultimate beneficiary
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Savge can't wait for pay-back time
MIDFIELDER Robbie Savage (pictured) insists that on Saturday it's pay-back time to the Welsh public for their letters of support over the last few weeks. Since Savage was involved in the unsightly incidents in the Birmingham derby at Villa Park three
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Hughes won't curfew players
WALES boss Mark Hughes insisted yesterday that he would not slap a curfew on his players despite the Craig Bellamy race row storm. But Hughes hinted that he may have lost some of the sacred trust he had placed in his international stars. Newcastle United
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Weston hoping for another chance
DEFENDER Rhys Weston, recovered from a back injury, is hoping he will get the call for Wales' Euro 2004 qualifier with Azerbaijan at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The 22-year-old Cardiff City right back said: "If the opportunity
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I will quit for my lover, says mayor
THE mayor of a Gwent town says he and his fraudster lover are determined to make a life together after she was released from jail on licence yesterday. Chepstow mayor Alun Fuller is offering his resignation to the town council tonight over his affair
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Blueprint for a thriving city
WALES first urban regeneration company is being launched today, promising to bring new opportunities to Newport and the whole region. ASHLEY NIELD and EDWARD DAVIE report. There is unlimited potential in Newport - and the sky is the limit when it comes
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Heroes rescue family from fire
A QUICK-thinking neighbour and an off-duty firefighter today risked their own lives to save a trapped Cwmbran family from their burning home. Dad-of-two Ashley Sulway and Mark Hopkins made the dramatic rescue at a house on Llantarnam Road early today.
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A rose for Amber
ENGLAND coach Clive Woodward is helping out a Wales fan - because news of his sick daughter's plight has touched the rugby boss's heart. Nick Hartland, a school pal of Welsh international and Newport RFC star Ian Gough, and wife Lesley were delighted
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Young guns going for it!
WALES' young squad won't fear France or the dreaded 'whitewash' threat when they travel to France to try avoid the Six Nations wooden spoon on Saturday. Instead they will go there with a real belief they can complete a rare Welsh hat-trick on Gallic soil
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Ex-nurse handbags speeding drivers
A RETIRED nurse from Monmouthshire has a secret weapon against speeding drivers - her shopping bag. So incensed is Jean Sheldon, of Tintern, by drivers who break the speed limit that she carries a big white carrier bag emblazoned with a 30mph sign whenever
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Three of the best for award-winning Argus
YOUR Argus was named Britain's fast-est-growing evening newspaper of the year at a national awards ceremony. We scooped the three major awards for evening newspapers at the News-paper Society Newspaper Sales and Promotion Awards held in Birmingham. The
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Jailed heroin runner to sue
A MAN who staged a terrifying 31-hour siege 12 years ago - and smuggled £250,000 of heroin into Britain a decade later - is suing Home Secretary David Blunkett for £15,000. Roger Amos was jailed for nine years after kidnapping a Newport man and holding
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Magnificent effort to aid cancer mum
THE CAMPAIGN to raise £20,000 for a Newport mum who needs specialist treatment for cancer has reached its target. In January, the Argus exclusively revealed how terminally ill Louise Canning, 31, from Stockton Road, needed the money to undergo alternative
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Harris set to start
IESTYN Harris and Mefin Davies are set to start for Wales in Saturday's Six Nations Championship finale against an unchanged France team in Paris. Harris is likely to be named at inside centre when the side is announced this evening after impressing as
