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Wasps can get through bad patch
Newport promoter Tim Stone is hoping that his injury-stricken team can battle their way through the current bad patch, hopefully turning the corner in the rearranged Premier Trophy meeting at King's Lynn tonight. Wasps lost by a 13-point margin last time
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Forgotten man in line for title crack
CWMBRAN middleweight Gary Lockett has been handed the chance of the fight he has long been waiting for - a crack at WBU world champion Anthony Farnell. The once beaten 27-year-old (from 22 contests) has been promised the Farnell match if he beats Wayne
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Knife attacker locked up
THE victim of a frenzied knife attack yesterday told how he thought he was going to die as his attacker was locked up for five years. Craig Harwood, from Tredegar, was stabbed twice in the thigh and once in the ribcage when 18-year-old Daniel Cullen went
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Monsters of rock Rhapsodise again
A BBC DOCUMENTARY is to be screened in August to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the recording of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at a Gwent studio. Guitarist Brian May and fellow band member Roger Taylor spent a day at Monmouth's Rockfield Studios to mark
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Garage forced to move again
A NEWPORT garage faces relocating for the second time in two years because of redevelopment. Repair shop BN Gibbs will be forced to move from its Maindee base in Phillip Street to make way for flats. Less than two years ago they were ousted from Mill
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City freedom for Sir Harry
NEWPORT council leader Sir Harry Jones has officially been given the Freedom of the City. The council awarded its highest honour in an elaborate ceremony to its leader of 17 years. Sir Harry swore an oath of obedience to Newport before he signed the Roll
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Farewells to a beloved father
HUNDREDS of people crowded into a Newport church yesterday to say farewell to a much-loved relative and friend who died aged just 34. Devoted father of two Gareth Evans lost his fight for life on May 3, just three days after he was struck by a car in
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Smoke covers city in tyre blaze
HUGE clouds of black smoke covered Newport last night after several tyres caught fire. The blaze broke out in Corporation Road, near the Alphasteel site, where controlled burning of rubbish spread to a pile of rubber tyres which created the thick smoke
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I'm still waiting to move - six years on
A GWENT man with serious heart problems says he feels he is being treated like a 'second class citizen' after waiting on the housing list for six years. Douglas Partridge, 61 and a former lorry driver, says he has been waiting for a two or three-bedroom
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Fire hoaxer can kill him
ALMOST half the emergency calls to fire crews in Gwent are hoaxes, new figures released today reveal. And South Wales fire chiefs are warning that lives could be lost as vital resources are wasted attending bogus call outs. A fire crew in Gwent attended
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Ruddock in 'no lose' situation
MIKE Ruddock, pictured, may be genuinely disappointed the build-up to his first test as new Wales coach has been severely disrupted this week, but in fact the problems are a blessing in disguise. The former Newport Gwent Dragons chief might have expected
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Kidney gone
NEWPORT Gwent Drag-ons today began the search for a new head coach after Irishman Declan Kidney confirmed he was leaving to take up the post at Leinster. Dragons chief executive Andy Marinos was still denying the story today and said the board had not
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Jail warning to 'neighbour from hell'
A GWENT widow once described by a judge as "the original neighbour from hell" is facing jail after being convicted of breaching a restraining order. Dorothy Evans, 78, of Park Crescent, Abergavenny, was convicted of one breaching the order made at Cwmbran
