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Helena caught in the crossfire
GWENT Army officer Lieutenant Helena Bevan told yesterday how she led more than 60 British men into the thick of a Gulf War tank battle. Helena, 26, from Abergavenny, pictured, manned a machine gun on an armoured vehicle as she guided eight huge AS90
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Now it's back to nine!
A NINE-team Premier Division -- that is the doomsday scenario facing Welsh rugby today when WRU group chief executive David Moffett and the clubs meet for perhaps the final time. The deadline for entry into European competitions next season is Wednesday
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Boy killed in blaze horror
A SCHOOLBOY died in an horrific fire that left his best friend fighting for his life. Neighbours battled desperately to reach Richard Hawrot and his best friend Toby Mills, both 13, as fire raged at the rear of a house in Newport on Friday night. Rescuers
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Council to discuss headstones furore
UNDER-fire council chiefs are holding an emergency meeting following the Monmouthshire graves row. The special cabinet meeting follows a storm of protest over the county council's policy of laying flat potentially unsafe headstones. As reported in the
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Residents call for plant's demolition
A YEAR ago campaigners celebrated the end of a long battle to close a controversial waste incineration plant. Now, on the anniversary of the closure, residents living near the Shanks site at New Inn say the deserted plant should be demolished. The plant
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Last shift at textile factory
THE FINAL few workers at a Pontypool textile factory which once employed 8,000 people worked their last production shift today. Sixty permanent staff and 30 contract workers, who manufactured polyester fibres at the DupontSA factory in Mamhilad, will
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Mum on a mission
A MUM who has battled breast cancer is now planning to help others by organising a half- marathon walk in Newport. Sarah MacCallum, from Mardy Lane, Llangynidr, was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago, just four days after her son, Angus, was
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Rail link: put city first, say council leaders
NEWPORT should have the rail link with Ebbw Vale - not Cardiff, say the city's leaders. Councillors were backing the cabinet's decision to only co-operate in the joint Ebbw Vale railway project if services come to Newport before the capital. The Argus
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Calm Down
WELSH skipper Gary Speed has told his international team-mates: "The hard work starts here." Wales, who thumped Azerbaijan 4-0 in Cardiff on Saturday, are flying high in Euro 2004 qualifying Group Nine with four wins out of four but the experienced campaigner
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Gwent Police fail to hit crime target
GWENT Police are dramatically failing to meet crime-cutting targets, the Argus can reveal. The force has a target to reduce all recordable crime by 40 per cent from April 1, 2000. But new figures show it has so far only managed to cut it by one per cent
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New bishop enthroned
"THE time has come for change," declared Dominic Walker, pictured, as he was enthroned as the new Bishop of Monmouth on Saturday. Giving a sermon at his installation ceremony at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport, he spoke of a need to reverse the decline in
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Safety first for toddlers
TINY tots welcomed some special visitors to their playgroup - a local fire crew. Children aged two and three received their first safety lessons when firefighters from New Inn fire station visited the Little Sunbeams playgroup. The children were given
