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Wasps pair in bid to lift new trophy
NEWPORT Wasps captain Craig Watson and number one Pavel Ondrasik will compete in the Premier League Championship Chase at King's Lynn on July 28. The top two riders from every Premier club will take part in the inaugural event being staged at the Norfolk
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Teenagers turn tribal
PUPILS at a Newport school were able to unmask their talents during a visit by artist Patricia Clifford. Mrs Clifford, of Newport, worked with Year 9 pupils at St Julians High as part of the Big Arts week. She helped the youngsters turn ordinary corrugated
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Plan to speed up ops
THOUSANDS of Gwent patients are set to benefit from this unassuming new £7 million building which could dramatically cut orthopaedic waiting times. Patients can look forward to shorter waiting times for surgery, without having to travel outside Gwent,
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Charity at St Trinian's
THE schoolgirls of St Trinian's were best known for causing trouble wherever they went. But members of Newbridge Ladies Choir, who dressed up as the notorious pupils, were helping two good causes. They sang with the Newbridge Junior Silver Band in the
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Brave dairy sister
BRAVE Doreen Willett was back out delivering milk just 24 hours after her sister was brutally attacked as she was preparing for their usual early morning round. Nancy Willett, 67, was seriously injured after being beaten up by a thug at the dairy the
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Gwent winning MRSA batttle
THE number of patients who caught the potentially fatal superbug MRSA in Gwent hospitals fell by almost a fifth last year - and the infection rate is well below Welsh and English averages. But though Gwent Healthcare Trust's infection control chief said
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Plea over Goa death trial
THE estranged wife of a Gwent man being held on a murder charge in an Indian jail says she still does not know when he will face trial. Adrian Duggan, 36, from Blaina, is accused of killing girlfriend Catherine Campbell at the paradise resort of Vagator
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Price adds his weight to Open row
Phillip Price begins his quest for the Open today by joining the row over qualification for the event - admitting to the Argus that it is simply too hard for European players to qualify. Newport-based Price, 37, is the sole Welshman in the field for Troon
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Funeral bills problem
ON Tuesday the Argus reported the case of a Pontymister family who were overcharged for pensioner Charles Bromley's funeral arrangements. When 70-year-old Mr Bromley died last year Penmaen's Woodfield Park Funeral Home charged £150 more than their original
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Harpist plucked for princely post
A GWENT woman is the new official harpist for the Prince of Wales. Jemima Phillips, 22, whose family are from Ebbw Vale, is currently living in London, completing a course at the Royal College of Music. The traditional post of official harpist to the
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Travellers return to old haunt
A GROUP of gipsies who controversially set up camp at Tredegar House returned to one of their old sites yesterday amid accusations that they are giving Newport council the runaround. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Argus, the travellers moved
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A billion years is telescoped
THE amazing journey of our galaxy, spanning six billion years, has been recreated in the valleys this week. The Travellers Through Space exhibition is one of the largest that the Ebbw Vale Institute has ever housed and is being attended by primary school
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CRUNCH TIME
NEWPORT'S Christian Malcolm, right, is a relieved man after clinching his seat on the plane to Athens for the Olympics, but admits the real work starts now. Malcolm, 25, was selected for the 200m after finishing second behind Chris Lambert in the Great
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Matt the bat simply sublime
Having lauded one century last week in these pages it is my pleasure to laud another this week, although unfortunately it came in a losing cause rather than Ian Thomas' winning one at Taunton. Of course I am talking about Matthew Maynard's sublime effort
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Glamorgan close in on last eight spot
Glamorgan took a major step towards next week's Twenty20 Cup quarter-finals by securing their third victory from four group outings with a 32-run win over Gloucestershire at Sophia Gardens last night. It put them top of the Wales and West group and even
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Gearing up for big ride
MAINDEE firefighters set off on a training cycle ride to Swansea before taking part in a gruelling 850-mile cycle in September. The Newport firemen will cycle across Spain from Santander to Gibraltar in September to help raise money for our Sparkle Appeal
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Pit leader speaks out for Memo
THE director and chairman of Tower Colliery will be in Newbridge tonight to support the campaign to save the Memo. Tyrone O'Sullivan led the successful campaign to buy-out the Hirwaun pit - and helped turn it into a profit-making business over the last