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Recipe for success
TWO women, whose interest in community work first brought them together, have combined a building, dating back to the sixteenth century, and good home cooking into a winning formula. Their caf, Wedges, was started with the help of local business support
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Hospital project concern
PATIENTS' watchdogs and Gwent health bosses are clashing over delays in asking people's views on plans for a multi-million pound hospital project in the Valleys. Consultation on a scheme to revamp the Caerphilly county borough hospital and community services
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Hurled brick injures bus driver
A BUS driver needed hospital treatment after a brick was thrown through her window - shattering glass in her face. Driver Sheila Watkins suffered cuts to her face and neck just hours after the Home Secretary met her colleagues to hear how they are regularly
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Damian's new buzz
DAMIAN Cole (pictured) has been Welsh Tarmac Rally Champion since 2000. And when not piloting his Toyota Celica around the stages, he's working on developing the corporate market for his Get Connected (www.getconected.co.uk) mobile phone company. Formed
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Bogus caller attacks woman, 77
A BOGUS caller stole £500 from a Newport pensioner's wardrobe after telling her he had come to check the taps. Leah Jones, who is aged 77 and lives in a prefab on the Gaer while she waits to move into a new home, was expecting a call from someone to check
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Gabbidon fears French
DANNY Gabbidon is usually calmness personified but even he is quivering in his boots at the prospect of facing the mighty French forwards! The Football Association of Wales last night confirmed they are keen to arrange a tantalising pre-Euro 2004 friendly
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Gwent Police 'wasting money'
GWENT Police are being accused of wasting money by employing new community support officers instead of those with full police powers. Chief Constable Keith Turner wants more funding for up to 400 extra police staff to cope with an increase in crime in
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Now it's time to get on board
THE decision has been made and there is no going back on it, the future of Welsh rugby lies in the regions and now is the time for the people of Newport and Gwent to vote with their feet. Any by that I don't mean continuing to stay away from Rodney Parade
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Ruddock in Wales frame
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons coach Mike Ruddock's chances of becoming the next Wales coach have further increased. WRU group chief executive David Moffett repeated yesterday that, ideally, the new man would be Welsh, but they want the best man for the job. If
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Candle started fatal house fire
A HOUSE fire which claimed the life of a Cwmbran woman was started by a candle, an inquest was told. Caroline Elizabeth Kemp, aged 34, died in July this year when fire swept through two floors of her house in Porth Mawr Road as she slept. The inquest
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Shephard's comeback
BIG kid Garry Shephard is itching with excitement and desperate to remind Newport County fans why he is classed in the non-league's striking elite. The Welsh semi-pro international aims to end his nightmare of a season when the Exiles host second-placed
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Rugby hero delivers gift
CHILDREN at a Torfaen centre for the disabled had a very special visitor - one of Wales' Rugby World Cup heroes. Wales prop Iestyn Thomas visited the TOGs Centre in New Inn on Saturday to give them a rugby ball signed by every member of the squad that
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Fencing clever lifts title
PAMELA HOLE of Ridgeway Contractors, Tredunock, has won the 14th annual Gwent Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. At a winners' lunch at Cwrt Bleddyn Hotel near Usk, Welsh Development Agency chairman Roger Jones presented Pamela with a silver
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Christmas Cavalcade
DESPITE the rain, Santa Claus was greeted by hundreds of people when he rode into Pontypool in a horse-drawn carriage for the annual Christmas Calvacade. A delighted eight-year-old Keelley Quigley, last year's competition winner, did the honours and switched
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Family smiles through strain
DEVOTED Cwmbran mum and dad Emma and Gareth Morgan were overwhelmed when they had twin girls. After an emergency Caesarean Bobbi and Danielle were born tiny but healthy. "When I first saw them I thought they were perfect," Emma said. But aged just five
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Long story for bookworms
PUPILS at a Newport school proved their love of the written word yesterday - by attempting to make Gwent's longest bookworm. Headed and tailed by the friendly worm leading the BBC's Big Read campaign, the worm had a midsection 116.5ft long made entirely
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Police staff celebrate pay rise
CIVILIAN police staff who say they were undervalued by the Gwent force are celebrating a pay rise. The Gwent Police branch of Unison appealed against a recent job evaluation which confirmed Gwent's 67 station enquiry officers (SEOs) as a grade three.
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Dragons plea to Gwent rugby fans
DRAGONS director Martyn Hazell today urges supporters throughout Gwent to get behind the regional team now that peace has broken out. He encourages fans from Newport and the Gwent Valleys to turn up in their thousands at Rodney Parade on Sunday when Newport
