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Dragons back Blues/Warriors merger bid
THE Newport Gwent Dragons have backed merger talks between Cardiff Blues and Celtic Warriors. Plans for the merger rocked Welsh rugby yesterday after respective financial backers Peter Thomas and Leighton Samuel held exploratory talks. They then held
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Asda staff to check out the pounds
WHAT'S got 34 arms, 34 legs and weighs 218 stone? The answer is: members of Asda Cwmbran's newly formed slimming club and they are determined a team effort will help them lose the lard. The 17 members gritted their teeth and endured their first weigh-in
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Cup glory beckons
The rigours of the league are left behind tonight as Newport County face Chippenham Town in the Dr Martens League Cup third round tie, at Spytty Park (kick-off 7.45pm), writes Michael Gannon. County have been under pressure of late, and have responded
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It's finally D-day for Jones
Glamorgan paceman Simon Jones was finally due to find out today if he is going to the West Indies with the England touring party. Selection was delayed from yesterday for crucial fitness tests to be carried out on the fast bowling contingent. Jones, sidelined
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Writer's bid to create authors
IT'S NO Chicago - but Blaenavon could take centre stage when it gets its own resident playwright this month. Writer Louise Osborn was drafted in to encourage budding teenage writers. Louise took on the role as part of an Arts Council-funded project. Based
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Tough test for two in charity challenge
A CANCER survivor will put his body through one of the toughest training tests in the world to raise money for the hospital where he was treated. Malpas firefighter Rick Evans will train with the Royal Marines for a 380-mile trek from Edin burgh to London
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Shotgun pair spark police hunt
ARMED police were called to a Valleys town after two men - one masked and brandishing a sawn-off shotgun - were spotted outside a pub. Police are hunting the two men who they say could be dangerous. The incident happened in Blaina in the early hours of
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FBI mistook me for Mid-East terrorist
A GWENT fish and chip shop owner was interrogated by armed FBI agents at a New York airport - after being mistaken for a Middle East terrorist. James Harris, who serves on Caldicot town council, was detained for an hour and almost missed his flight home
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Power to the people works
A CENTRE set up to transform some of Pontypool's most blig-hted communities is proving a real hit with residents. The Trevethin, St Cadocs and Penygarn community centre was built at a cost of £350,000 as part of the National Assembly's Com-munities First
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Police to crack down on scooter menace
POLICE are promising a clampdown on petrol-driven scooters causing havoc on Newport's streets. The scooter riders are zooming along the roads and pavements on the Ringland and Alway estates at speeds of up to 20mph. The scooters, made by brands including
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Discipline is the key
GIVE penalties away at your peril against Stade Francais at Rodney Parade on Saturday, James Richards, the Leicester hooker on loan from Newport, warns the Dragons. And Richards also tells his former team-mates to be wary of the French line-out in the
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Sparks to fly again over a history man
HAILED as the greatest ever Welsh patriot and condemned as an barbaric self-seeker, the legacy of Owain Glyndwr has provoked fierce debate amongst historians for generations. And that argument is set to be reignited ahead of this summer's Eisteddfod in
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Arson attack: Family homeless
A MOTHER and her children are living with relatives after an arson attack gutted the ground floor of their Newport house. Sharon Davies, aged 42, and her two sons Wesley, 13, and Shane, 14 , returned home on Monday evening to find their house in Dolphin
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Stabbed woman's boyfriend arrested
A GWENT man was arrested in Goa after his girlfriend was stab-bed to death on Chri-stmas Day, the Foreign Office confirmed last night. The Argus exclusively revealed last Thursday that Adrian Duggan, 36, from Blaina, was seriously injured in the incident
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Vale bring in old heads to stay up
EBBW VALE boss Marcus Russell, pictured, reckons sticking to the guidelines this season on the way the Welsh Prem-ier League should be run is the reason why his club prop up the division. The Steelmen, therefore, have decided to ditch that policy and
