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Cycle race: Gwent ace aims to be champ
ABERGAVENNY cyclist Julian Winn is chasing a first this weekend - his first ever win in front of a home crowd. The 31-year-old won the 2002 British Road Race Championship in Manchester last year just before his gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. And
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Wing opens in tribute to governor
A NEW prison wing opened yesterday in memory of a former prison governor who died suddenly last year. Ray Comber was the governor of Usk and Prescoed prison from 1998 until his death on New Year's Eve last year. He died of a heart condition, aged 57,
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La dolce vita means chocolate
NESTLING beside the old railway bridge on Newport's Bridge Street is an Aladdin's cave of colour. The windows are filled with shining panettone wrappers. Plump marzipan teddy bears lounge on heart-shaped cakes, and fantastic concoctions of whipped cream
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Householder is bound and robbed
DETECTIVES are hunting knife-wielding robbers who tied up a Gwent householder as he slept in his home, put a hood over his head and robbed him of items worth £100,000. The items stolen from the house in Llanbadoc, Usk, yesterday morning - including a
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Ancient art called on
SOUTH East Wales call centres are being urged into adopt a bit of oriental mysticism for the good of their businesses. Raymond Catchpole, chairman of the UK Feng Shui Society, recently addressed the South East Wales Contact Centre Employers' Forum. He
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'Sort it!'
WELSH Rugby Union chief executive David Moffett (pictured) was today due to hold a compulsory meeting of both sides to try to sort out the mess which is the new Gwent regional set-up. "Put your egos to one side and get on with it," was Moffett's message
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Wife held captive on desolate moor
A TERRIFIED Newport woman was kidnapped, kept on a bleak mountainside for 32 hours and threatened with a shotgun and stun gun - by her husband of 20 years. Diane Barry thought she would not get out of the ordeal alive, Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones
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'Sort it!'
WELSH Rugby Union chief executive David Moffett (pictured) was today due to hold a compulsory meeting of both sides to try to sort out the mess which is the new Gwent regional set-up. "Put your egos to one side and get on with it," was Moffett's message
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West End is in sight
A CWMBRAN thespian is off to make his fame and fortune after he successfully auditioned for West End box-office hit Les Miserables. John Williams, 25, of Maesgwyn, will tread the boards of London's The Palace Theatre in late July as an ensemble member
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Gateway to Conference
NEWPORT County will play in the newly-formed Conference South League next year if they repeat last term's Dr Martens League campaign in the forthcoming season. The Exiles finished tenth in the premier division - and if Peter Nicholas' men achieve that
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'Her behaviour went downhill'
STATEMENTS from four teenagers were read out at the trial of Michael Baldwin yesterday, the man accused of murdering his 15-year-old step-daughter, Jenna Brookfield, pictured. The jury at the Cardiff crown court trial heard of the last time the youngsters
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Big Pit boost
BLAENAVON is to get a second economic boost this summer with the completion of a major refurbishment at its biggest tourist attraction, Big Pit. With the launch of Blaenavon's book town just days away, managers at Big Pit say the mining museum's £7 million
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Toddling tots field the funds
THEIR steps were unsteady, but a group of Gwent toddlers rose to the challenge of walking twice around a field for charity yesterday. The toddler group at Magor Baptist Church, all of whom are three or younger, were sponsored to raise money for children's
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From pop star to PR
MEET Chris Duffy today, pictured, and the impression you get is a smartly-dressed, enthusiastic PR boss, a bit more savvy than most of his contemporaries. He specialises in the hospitality sector and his company Ten 4 Public Relations represents around
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World of pop 'in the roar'
WALES' very own girl band, Dragonheart, set Newport on fire, shooting a video for the group's debut single. The teenage dance act's first single, Hey Mr Radio, is to be released on Monday, July 21, and follows on the heels of the band's second appearance
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Youths shopped by own parents
TWO Newport youths were handed in to the police by their own parents after the car they were travelling in crashed into a lampost, police say. The incident happened on Gainsborough Drive, St Julian's, where it joins Beaufort Road, on Sunday afternoon.
