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Joy for Leeson
Dursley and District Athletic Club THURSDAY, December 18, was the date for another Weston AC evening five mile prom race. A large number of runners took part, trying to get under the magic 30 minute mark. Sixteen-year-old Kieran Leeson was first home
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County to stage big cup tie
NEWPORT County will play Cardiff City at Spytty Park in the FAW Premier Cup quarter-finals. The club are set to take a financial gamble and play the all-ticket tie at home, despite being landed by a police bill of over £10,500 last year when the sides
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Moralee joy
NEWPORT County new boy, Jamie Moralee opened his scoring account yesterday as the Exiles edged out Bath City in the Dr. Martens League, Premier Division, clash. New Year's Day is a day when hangovers are nursed and for the first half at Spytty Park, yesterday
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Owen is putting the Dragons first
MICHAEL Owen is targeting a regular place in the Newport Gwent Dragons team before even considering a return for Wales. Owen is highly-rated by Wales coach Steve Hansen, who converted him from number eight to lock for the August internationals against
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Love drives brothers to look after big sister
CARING for their older sister Charlotte comes naturally to Joe and Rupert Civil. Neither boy feels any resentment about helping their mother, Michelle, to care for 15-year-old Charlotte, who is severely disabled. "I do it because I love Charlotte and
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Demi's fans must wait for new CD
PONTYPOOL 'Tot-star' Demi Holborn will not be making a new album this year, say her parents. Fans of the ten-year-old singer, from Trevethin, will now have to wait until next year for any new releases. Since winning GMTV's Totstar competition last year
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Appeal gets £5,000 boost
OUR Sparkle Appeal is off to a flying start, with money and support already starting to arrive. And now the bid to raise £250,000 towards a new £6m centre for disabled children has received a wonderful boost - a £5,000 donation from Monmouthshire Free-masons
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Badham's blitz downs Juniors
Hellenic League Premier Division Pegasus Juniors 0 Slimbridge 4 SLIMBRIDGE looked refreshed after their week's enforced lay-off due to the weather to turn in an excellent team performance to win 4-0 at Pegasus Juniors. A brace from Steve Badham and a
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Our reporter found a different tale...
NEWPORT may be hit by more roadworks and traffic closures than almost any town in Wales - but traffic jams are still much less widespread than in most British cities. Armed with a stopwatch, the Argus set out to drive through Newport's most congested
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Love drives brothers to look after big sister
CARING for their older sister Charlotte comes naturally to Joe and Rupert Civil. Neither boy feels any resentment about helping their mother, Michelle, to care for 15-year-old Charlotte, who is severely disabled. "I do it because I love Charlotte and
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It's the city of gridlock
NEWPORT motorists are hit by far more roadworks and closures than drivers in most of Wales, new figures reveal. The city council came second last out of a league table of 22 Welsh authorities for causing six days of disruption per kilometre of road. The
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Learning unit work to begin
WORK to build an environmentally friendly £1.8 million family learning centre in Cwmbran is set to start early this year. Details about the innovative Power Station, so called because it will "give power to the community", have just been released by Torfaen
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Man is robbed in street of laptop
POLICE are investigating after a man was robbed as he walked in a Newport street on New Year's Eve. One man held the victim as another searched his bag and took a Compaq laptop computer before pushing the man to the ground in Tredegar Street, Pill. The
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Rees has eyes on a second big pay day
CROSS Keys coach David Rees doesn't expect there to be much between his side and visitors Carmarthen Quins in their cup clash at Pandy Park tomorrow. But he is more than hopeful that the prospect of a second lucrative clash with Newport plus home advantage
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Derby delight for the men in white
Kingswood 3 Charfield 1 WITH Kingswood not having played for three weeks, and Charfield fresh from two good results, a sizeable crowd gathered for this holiday local derby. Heavy overnight rain had made the pitch soft and leaden skies threatened every
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Hidden plight of caring kids
HUNDREDS of children, some as young as five, are caring for sick or disabled relatives in Gwent, an Argus investigation reveals. And while more than 300 children in Greater Gwent are classed as young carers, with responsibility for looking after someone
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A little New Year Snow
ROD Snow lovingly cradles his new-born son who was "made and born in Wales". Dakota, the first child for Newport Gwent Dragon's popular prop and his wife Elizabeth, is believed to be the first baby born in Gwent on New Year's Day. He made his entrance
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See you in court
CWMBRAN Rugby Club are taking the Welsh Rugby Union to court over its decision to throw them out of the Konica Minolta Welsh Cup. The WRU took the action after upholding a complaint that Cwmbran fielded an ineligible player two rounds ago against Denbigh
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Just not good enough
NEWPORT County boss Peter Nicholas blasted his players for their "worst display" since he joined the club - even though the Exiles edged a 2-1 victory over Bath. Nicholas was understandably pleased to get the three points put with precious little else
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Long voyage to glories of past
THE painstaking work to preserve the Newport ship is under way - but it may be three decades before the historic vessel is restored. Now Newport city council is shortly to publish plans for the conservation and rebuilding of the city's medieval ship.
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Darts dream is all over for O'Neill
LEONARD STANLEY-BASED thrower Henry O'Neill was involved in the match of the first round at the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championships - but ultimately bowed out of the competition. Up against the experienced and heavily backed Robbie Widdows, O'Neill
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See you in court
CWMBRAN Rugby Club are taking the Welsh Rugby Union to court over its decision to throw them out of the Konica Minolta Welsh Cup. The WRU took the action after upholding a complaint that Cwmbran fielded an ineligible player two rounds ago against Denbigh
