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Front line protest
BLACKWOOD residents took to the streets last night, pictured, to protest against the area's 'boy racer' problem. The group, led by local councillor Kevin Etheridge, staged a peaceful protest and occasionally blocked the town's High Street between 7.30pm
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Post-war challenge
THE PANTOMIME season is fast approaching - so this weekend at the New Theatre is one of the last chances to exercise your brain before it goes into hibernation. Taking Sides, on tonight and tomorrow, is the story of William Furtwngler, one of the greatest
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No flock, just perfection
Juboraj, Commercial Road, Newport WHEN I was asked to review my favourite Indian restaurant in Wales, I thought Christmas had come early. Newport's Juboraj, on Commercial Road is part of a group of four restaurants in South Wales. I still get nostalgic
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Saving club is our goal
A RESCUE bid is being launched to save one of Gwent's oldest football clubs from extinction. A bid to save Abergavenny Thursdays Football Club and make it a community facility has been drawn up by a steering group of ex-players and local businessmen.
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Hospital walk raises a Beefy £430,000!
FORMER cricket star Ian Botham's Valleys Walk raised £430,000 for the Noah's Ark Appeal. Beefy completed his Valleys Walk to raise money for the new Children's Hospital for Wales when he arrived back at Newport Rugby Club on the afternoon of October 11
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Pete's Sake - on the up
PUNK band Pete's Sake have recorded their latest single, If That's What You Really Want, in Newport's Notting Pill Studios. It was engineered by the Dub War/Skin Dredd posse, with Richard Jackson (Crashland, 60ft Dolls, Brave Captain) producing. The Dredds
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Let's go up, up in the air
THRILL-seekers from Gwent looking for the ride of their life should look no further. The chance to reach for the skies is only a stone's throw away in the Usk Valley. The increasingly popular hot air ballooning become a real favourite with both extreme
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Parents protest at footbridge removal
FAMILIES in Marshfield are using people power to try to force Newport council to reverse a decision to remove a footbridge. Residents say their children's safety is being compromised by the decision, which means they have to walk along a busy main road
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Explosive movie that could bomb
Film review: S.W.A.T. (12A) THE familiar body armour, the dark vans, the macho grunts into radio mikes..... I've seen SWAT teams in a hundred other films but I still didn't know what it stands for. Here those crazy people from Special Weapons and Tactics
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Staff are given attack alarms
POLICE have been issuing staff at Monmouthshire stores with personal attack alarms following the two armed robberies in Usk last month. The post office and Spar shop, both on Bridge Street, were targeted by armed raiders a month ago. Now police have stepped
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Trauma goes on for mother of dead baby
A GWENT mother whose son's tissues were retained by a hospital says she is still struggling to put the trauma behind her. Sue Rogers discovered in 2001 that the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, had kept tissue from her son Gareth Freeman, who died in 1981
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Upstarts bounce back
Joyous punk upstarts Bouncing Souls support Strike Anywhere in TJ's next week. The New Jersey quintet is on the road plugging their Anchors Aweigh album, out now on Epitaph. The band, which has been on the road since 1987, has become a staple of punk
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Sacks full of festive cheer
AS the movement of Christmas mail approaches its zenith, Gwent scouts and guides are getting it sorted. By Tuesday, which is the last day of the Newport Scout and Guide Christmas Post, some 400,000 items will have been handled and £30,000 raised for Scout
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Mercy mission can be a ride to danger
AN AMBULANCEMAN is knocked unconscious by a driver at a traffic accident, a crew member is lucky to escape unhurt after a patient turns on her, an ambulance is stoned on the way to a call. These incidents all happened recently in Gwent, and are part of
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Disabled register their rage
FOR wheelchair user Nicholas Vaughan, his local post office is a lifeline. And the 35-year-old multiple sclerosis sufferer was among scores of angry campaigners who turned out yesterday to protest at plans to close seven sub-post offices in Blaenau Gwent
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Standard raised in schools
EDUCATION standards in Newport are improving all the time - despite the city having schools in some of Wales' most deprived areas. A new interim report shows exam results in the city's schools in 2003 have improved across four key stages of children's
