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New city sculpture unveiled
A NEW piece of public art was unveiled by the Newport's mayor yesterday. Newport Castle, a relief sculpture of the Great Western Railway locomotive, was unveiled by Councillor Ray Truman in the square next to the Corn Exchange. The brick bas relief sculpture
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41,000 ex-pitmen's claims yet to be paid in full
SIX years after miners won the right to claim compensation for chest diseases, almost two- thirds in Wales are still waiting for their claims to be settled. The Argus is fighting for compensation payments to miners, or to their widows, to be speeded up
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Death knell for yet more post offices
HALF of the 16 urban post offices proposed for closure two months ago will shut permanently next month, it was announced yesterday. They will join nine more which have closed their doors in the last six months - and another eight offices remain under
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Chancellor's 'hands tied' in cash row
GORDON Brown said yesterday he was helpless to intervene in the row over the Assem-bly's decision to ring-fence his £22m windfall for Wales for social care. Monmouth MP Huw Edwards confronted the Chancellor when they both arrived for Prime Minister's
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Friend devasted by woman's death in Goa
A CLOSE friend of an Abertillery woman fatally stabbed in Goa told of his shock after her boyfriend was arrested by police. Mother-of-four Catherine Campbell, 43, was found dead in a hotel room at the resort of Vagator on Christmas Day. Blood-stained
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Thanks for my chance, says Jones
CERI Jones, the Harlequins and former Newport prop from Usk, says he is shocked and overwhelmed at his inclusion in the Wales Six Nations training squad. Only nine days ago the Argus urged Wales coach Steve Hansen to consider Jones after his performances
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Bridge fit for a lord?
HIS tireless campaigning spirit earned him the tribute of "a warm-hearted fighter for Wales". Now calls are growing for the Second Severn Crossing to be renamed after the man who battled so hard for its creation - the late Lord Islwyn. And today the Argus
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Legionnaires: six face charges
SIX people appeared in court yesterday in connection with an outbreak of legionnaires disease during which a Gwent man died. Three staff from an engineering firm are charged with the manslaughter of a Philip John Roberts, from Cross Keys, following an
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Addict is jailed for peddling
A DRUG addict involved in a Yardie-run conspiracy to peddle heroin and cocaine on the streets of Newport was yesterday jailed for two years. Darren Roberts, 32, of Van Dyke Close, New-port, was imprisoned after pleading guilty at Newport Crown court to
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Isolated in squalor of decaying flats
IT'S a squalid, rubbish-strewn shell of empty flats - but for the last remaining residents, Newport mum Emma Talbot and her toddler son, it is still, unfortunately, home. Nearly every door and window of the 16 mais-onettes at Lambourne Walk, Bettws, is
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Malcolm has his sights set on Athens
NEWPORT sprinter Christian Malcolm flies out to South Africa today to start his preparations for the Athens Olympics. Malcolm will be warm weather training in a specialist sprinting base near Cape Town with fellow Great Britain star Mark Lewis-Francis
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Dragons worry Mallett
STADE Francais will have a huge job on their hands when they face Newport Gwent Dragons in the Heineken Cup on Saturday, says coach Nick Mallett. "Of course I'm looking forward to coming back to Wales, but it's a pity about the weather as we were looking
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Human shield home safe
ELAINE West blade is home safe after three months as a human shield in the Middle East. The Monmouthshire 27-year-old stayed for a time at Palestinian president Yasser Arafat's crumbling headquarters in Ramallah in the West Bank. She and other international
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Woods to take his chance with Keys
CROSS Keys have given former Cardiff hooker Greg Woods the chance to resurrect his professional career. It was thought the 23-year-old, formerly number two at Cardiff to firstly Jonathan Humphreys and then Andrew Lewis, might not play again after a serious
