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Success of pioneering drug group
THE waiting list for drug addicts to get treatment in Gwent has been cleared in just three months, thanks to a pioneering new facility. And police say the Kaleidoscope programme, which started late last year, has had a major impact on reducing drug related
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Bardic chair on display
A CEREMONIAL bardic chair featuring images of Gwent was presented to the National Eisteddfod committee for use in this year's festival in Newport. The chair is one of the foremost honours of the eisteddfod and must be crafted to strict standards of design
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Film star Hayley Mills is city's Friend for life
THE camera pans across the faces and places of Cardiff's docklands, following actors through one of the most cosmopolitan places in Britain, 1959. Cut to a shot of traffic and people crossing the River Usk on Newport's famous Transporter Bridge - 'magically
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Trader sold alcohol to 15-year-old girl
TORFAEN council is pro-mising a crackdown on shops selling alcohol to under-age youths as a Blaenavon shopkeeper was fined for supplying alcohol to a 15-year-old girl. Abergavenny magistrates yesterday found Albert John Bright, licensee of Elgam Stores
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Meta-moaning
WE'RE a funny old bunch in England. Forget the old cliche about us being animal lovers, I fear we could be a nation of moaners. For as long as I can remember we have been grumbling about one thing or another. We have highbrow, political 'observations'
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Expert says oil's future is clouded
THE WORLD could run out of oil in at little as 20 years according to geologist and petrochemical consultant John Roberts. The Rhymney-born man is co-founder and technical director of Usk-based Cambrian, a consultancy employing 100 professionals around
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Withdraw 'suicide' drug, says MP
NEWPORT MP Paul Flynn yesterday called on the government to ban doctors from prescribing a drug to patients, claiming that it has led to suicide. He told Health Minister Miss Melanie Johnson that the drug, Seroxat, "has turned mild stress into suicidal
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Praise for conveyor firm
A TREDEGAR-based conveyor belt specialist is being hailed as a model Valleys enterprise by Tower Colliery chairman and Welsh Development Agency board member Tyrone O'Sullivan. M&J Europe is one of the UK's largest independent manufacturers and stockists
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Malcolm's golden ambition
NEWPORT sprinter Chris-tian Malcolm wants to go down in history as the last ever winner of the 200m at a World Indoor Championships. The event which is due to be scrapped after this year's championships in Budapest next month has been good to Malcolm.
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County can't wait for action to begin
IF a week is a long time in politics then two and a half weeks is a mighty long time in football , especially for Newport County. The Exiles were last in action two Saturdays ago in the 2-2 draw at home to Grantham Town, but they finally return to action
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Watch your work-life balance
LIKE Iain Duncan-Smith on speed, management coach Gerard Hargreaves barked out instructions on how members of ELWa's People in Business Club could rescue their work/life balance. Mr Hargreaves, who is a graduate of Swansea University, revealed that part
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Make your mind up over James' song
European dream HE put Bargoed on the musical map after making it into BBC's Fame Academy. Now Wales' James Fox is aiming to fly the flag for the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The talented singer-songwriter took time out to of his hectic schedule
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Indoor snub
GWENT'S Jamie Baulch is set to snub this year's World Indoor Champion-ships in Budapest claiming he no longer takes the competition seriously. Baulch is one of Britain's most successful indoor athletes but is yet to decide whether he will travel to Budapest
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Couple's anger over lost tape
A CALDICOT woman has hit out after a CCTV tape of an attack on her husband was lost - leading to a court case against two people accused of the assault being dismissed. Mel Samuel, 36, and husband Simon, 27, of Elm Road, were attacked as they left a club
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Line-up makes sure our Sparkle shines
PEOPLE of all ages have honed their fundraising skills for our Sparkle Appeal over the past two months. And now even more events and activities are planned to ensure everyone keeps shining through. Last December we launched the Sparkle Appeal to raise
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Killer driver gets 42 months in jail
A PONTYPOOL lorry driver who ploughed into an ambulance on a motorway, killing a man being treated, was yesterday jailed for three and a half years. As later editions of yesterday's Argus reported, James Kelly, aged 54, of Fairview Court, Pontnewynydd
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Kerosene fumes pair 'refugees'
A GWENT man says he is living "like a refugee" after being forced from his home by poisonous fumes from a faulty heating system. David Childs, 32, and his mother, Ann Broben, of Coedypaen, near Pontypool, had to move out after kerosene from the heating
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Edmonds gets another chance
GWENT boxer Matthew Edmonds will have another chance to push his claims for a Great Britain Olympics place in Poland on March 29. That is when the next Olympics qualifying event takes place in Warsaw following the European amateur championships in Croatia
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Girl, 12, raped three times
THE rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl in public toilets in Risca was "the most horrendous sexual assault - one of the worst in Gwent", said the police officer who led the investigation. After the hearing, Detective Superintendent Ray Wise said: "The girl
