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New town market opens stalls
THE only new outdoor market to open in Wales so far this year was launched in Tredegar yesterday. A variety of stalls are now at the specially designed market square, near the Gwent Shopping Centre, every Wednesday. The new market has been organised by
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Farmer 'killed himself'
A GWENT farmer who killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning may have changed his mind in the last moments of his life, an inquest heard. The hearing in Newport was told that George Willie Radnor, 57, had just split up with his partner of five years
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Police check CCTV for signs of Sam
THE parents of missing teenager Sam Collins may be asked to view CCTV footage from a supermarket in Plymouth to see if their daughter was a customer. Police are examining CCTV footage and receipts from a Tesco store in the Devon town in a bid to discover
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Site for hospital still in limbo
UNCERTAINTY over a site for the proposed new community hospital for Blaenau Gwent will drag on for at least another month, and possibly into 2004. The only thing certain about the location of the £36.5m project - which will transform the area's hospital
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A nation's dream is over
AS THE old Roy Orbison song says: "It's over." Like their counterparts back in 1993, Mark Hughes' side of 2003 will go down as the nearly men of Welsh football after a 1-0 defeat in Cardiff last night. For some such as Andy Melville, Paul Jones and maybe
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Bang goes the past
REMINDERS of Newport's steelmaking past were set to go out with a bang today when three coke furnaces were due to be demolished. Explosives experts were being called to the Corus site at Llanwern to destroy the buildings, which were last used just before
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Town in fear after third raid
POLICE are to hold a public meeting to reassure the fearful residents of a Gwent town hit by three armed robberies in the past five months. They have stepped up high-visibility patrols in Usk and are keeping the town's police station open throughout the
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Lure of cars costs youth his freedom
MAGISTRATES locked up a teenager whose fascination with cars led him to go on a crime spree. The 17-year-old Pontypool youth, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty at Cwmbran youth court to two counts of aggravated vehicle taking, one count of taking a
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Original spinner!
THERE'S plenty to talk about this week for sure. Before I forget, I must mention that Glamorgan CCC are playing their first game of the winter on Sunday! Football that is - at Spytty Park against Warwick-shire. Should be good fun with Glamorgan under
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Student parking protest widens
CAR PARKING policy changes at Newport university have sparked protests of traffic chaos from a second group of residents. The introduction of parking charges at the University of Wales College, Newport (UWCN) Allt-Yr-Yn campus has caused a spillover of
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'Bottlers'
WALES manager Mark Hughes' assessment of his side's performance last night was damning and honest as he blasted: "We lost our bottle." When it mattered most, Hughes' brave side just weren't up to the challenge and went down 1-0 at home to Russia to crash
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More cash for Gwent Police
GWENT Police will see their Home Office grant increase by £2.2 million - 3.25 per cent - next year, it was announced yesterday. This will take the grant for the force up to £71.8 million for the year 2004 to 2005. But chief officers at Gwent Police have
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FAW reveal wish-list
WELSH football's top brass have secretly drawn-up a wish-list of managers they want to replace Mark Hughes if he is lured to the Premiership in the wake of Wales' Euro 2004 play-off heartache. The Football Association of Wales are well aware that Hughes
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Lifesaving police up for award
A TEAM of Chepstow police officers who saved a man who attempted suicide should get a top police award, a leading councillor says. Sergeant Terry Lowman, aged 38, PC Mark Madley, 37, and PC Gareth Brown, 25, responded to a 999 call made by walkers in
