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The Industry's first MPV celebrates 20th Birthday
AFTER four generations of the Renault Espace, this month marks its 20th anniversary. The ground-breaking Espace, which started the MPV revolution back in the early 80s, has also reached another major milestone with the one millionth example having just
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Price's tough opening round
Phil Price admitted he was out of form before the championship began and true to his word the Newport star suffered a disappointing first day at Royal Troon. The sparkling strokeplay which won the 37-year-old a place in the 2002 victorious Ryder Cup side
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Kawasaki riders go naked across the land
THE better weather has proved once and for all that summer is now with us. To celebrate, along with all those proposing to go topless in the sun, Kawasaki has just announced a finance campaign for its two popular "naked" motorcycles, the Z1000 and Z750
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CASEY - CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Newport-based Phillip Price is in danger of missing the cut after a slow start to his second round at Royal Troon. Price, 37, yesterday carded a three-over-par 74 but he was looking to improve on that with a much earlier start time today. Both overnight
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Bold new advertising approach from Hyundai
HYUNDAI'S all-new advertising campaign is all set to cause a stir in the marketplace - to reflect the modern, bold attitude the fast growing company now has. The new campaign, which will be seen on poster sites, newspaper advertising and on radio from
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The Alarm ring bells again
It came to this: Mike Peters of The Alarm wrote his best song in years and realised it would sell better under a different name. So he drafted a bunch of actors to form a fake group dubbed The Poppy Fields, who released a song called 45 RPM. It made the
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Pedestrian dies at blackspot
A GWENT man died last night after a car crash on an Ebbw Vale street. The man, in his early 50s, died after he was in an accident with a Land Rover Freelander, at Church Hill. The local man, who is not yet being named, was taken to Nevill Hall Hospital
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All aboard a mountain thriller
SNOW, SKATE, surf, ironing - there's no kind of board that can't be used in an extreme sport. But the latest craze to hit Wales has one advantage over all of them. Mountain boarding, in simple terms riding a plank with four wheels nailed to it down a
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Thieves grab garden antiques
AN ANTIQUES collector had more than £1,000 worth of fittings stolen from his Newport garden in less than a week. And Rex Moreton and his wife Margaret, who live in Stow Park Crescent, fear the burglars might come back for more. A pair of antique terracotta
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Ex-Bluebird skipper set for County
Several new faces will line-up for Newport against Bristol City at Newport Stadium tomorrow, hoping for the chance to impress County boss Peter Nicholas. The list includes former Cardiff skipper Scott Young and Jonathan Coates, the ex-Swansea midfielder
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Sprinter runs away with the prize again
THE Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van carried off the industry's top trophy for an unprecedented second year running, at the annual Motor Transport Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane. In a repeat performance of the 2003 awards, the
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Summer Fun at the Roman Legionary Museum
You won't be stuck for things to do this summer down at the Roman Legionary Museum, Caerleon. There's a variety of activities to keep everyone entertained. You can be a detective and solve a dastardly murder at the museum. Join up with the SPQR police
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Game on for Monaro VXR track days
MONARO VXR: 0 to 60mph - 5.4 seconds; top speed - 170mph. VXR220: 0 to 60mph - 4.2 seconds; top speed - 153mph. Performance figures to make the soul sing ... but common sense and the highway code mean that VXR drivers are limited in their pursuit of the
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Spreading the word
POLITICIANS from across Gwent are supporting the campaign to restore the Newbridge Memo. Newbridge councillors Lyn Ackerman, Kath Baker and Mike Davies say that they have been helping to spread the word and are urging as many people as possible to vote
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'Dropped cigarette started death blaze
A MAN once arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of a friend told an inquest yesterday how he battled to save him from a hostel fire. Yesterday, Philip James Hawkins said heat and smoke stopped him rescuing Sean Anthony Barrett, aged 38, from the
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Menu will suit all tastes
Tredegar Arms, Bassaleg. WHETHER you are looking for a bar snack, a three-course meal or just mulling over a quiet pint of real ale with a book, the Tredegar Arms in Bassaleg is a public house and restaurant to suit all tastes. We visited on a busy Tuesday
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Calzaghe speaks of relief as threat complaint is dropped
A COMPLAINT against world champion boxer Joe Calzaghe has been dropped. The unbeaten WBO super-middleweight champion was arrested at his Cwmbran home in May after an alleged domestic incident. But on the day he was due to answer bail at the police station
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You'll be paralysed by pleasure
Review: Spider-Man 2 (15) "With great power comes great responsibility" is what Spidey's uncle told him, but the same could apply to director Sam Raimi. After the massive success two years ago of Spider-Man, he faced a sticky task in making a worthy sequel
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Call for youth leaders
YOUNGSTERS in Cwmcarn are desperate to find new leaders for their popular youth club. They need people to supervise their twice-weekly sessions - or the club might have to close. Now they are appealing to adults in the village to help out, so that a rota
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Taking things to the limit
BMW Great Britain has announced first details of the forthcoming BMW M5. Faithfully resembling the Concept M5 revealed at the Geneva Motorshow in March 2004, the fourth generation of 'businessman's express' will be the most powerful BMW road car ever
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Carnival says thanks as head retires
HUNDREDS of parents and pupils wore fancy dress costumes and marched through a village to mark the retirement of a popular head teacher. Joyce Dunn, head teacher at Cefn Fforest Primary School and a former pupil there, was given the best possible send-off
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Chrysler group showcases new vehicles for UK military
A MILITARY version of the Jeep Wrangler has had its UK debut at the Defence Vehicle Dynamic show, together with a hybrid-powered version of the Dodge Ram, which showcases the very latest DaimlerChrysler hybrid power-trained technology. The military version
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Dragons to meet best of Premier
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are to kick-off the new season with a special game against a Premier Select XV made of players from all the Premier Division sides in their region. The pathfinder fixture will be the Dragons' first in the region away from Rodney
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Lexus breaks cross-continental record
A LEXUS IS300 SportCross has completed the annual Cape-to-Cape Challenge in a new record time. The standard, road-going car covered the 3,463 miles from Nordkapp in Arctic Norway to Cape Tarifa in southern Spain in 55 hours 24 minutes, averaging 62.51mph
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Keep your keys out of reach
WARNINGS that motorists should keep their car keys out of view are not being heeded as TRACKER reports that so far in 2004 a massive 80% of the stolen vehicles the company has retrieved have been stolen with the keys. Since 1999, when car key thefts accounted
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Soft-voiced harpist on tour
Joanna Newsom is a pixie-voiced harpist from the gold-rush town of Nevada City, California. She sings disconcertingly like a ten-year-old but plays the harp like she was ringing a bell. Next month she embarks on her debut UK tour to promote her debut
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Street nuisance on the rise
NEWPORT'S community safety wardens are expected to deal with 50 incidents of anti-social behaviour in the city every day over the next year - a total of 18,000 cases. New figures in a report released by the council reveal that the number of cases wardens
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John's Bullish about buying British Rover
RAY Egan, otherwise the acting character figure 'John Bull', has recently taken delivery of a low-mileage, used, but perfectly prepared and maintained, Rover 25 car from MG Rover Direct - the Longbridge based used car operation. Until now, Ray has been
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'Other OAPs will now live in fear'
THE director of Age Concern Gwent has condemned the "despicable" attack on dairy owner Nancy Willett, and said it will cause many elderly people to feel like prisoners in their homes. David Murray said: "It's this kind of episode that makes all older
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Special edition Pluriel for the summer
WITH the summer well and truly here, Citroen is introducing a new top-of-the-range version of its unique C3 Pluriel supermini convertible. Featuring leather upholstery, air conditioning and stylish 'aluminium' exterior trim, the newcomer is priced at
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Anatomy of a pit stop
THERE are only three situations when TV directors will never cut to adverts during a Formula 1 race, just before the start, as the leader approaches his final lap; and during a pit stop window. That's how important pit stops have become. Since mid-race
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Pupils sit pretty thanks to sculptor
WOOD you believe it? An Abergavenny school has a new bench thanks to a link-up with a sculptor. Park Street Infants School's Year Two pupils worked with a sculptor, the forest education initiative and Monmouthshire Countryside Services to create a sculpture
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Air your opinion on sex offenders
GWENT people are being invited to join a panel that decides on how the area's 319 sex offenders are dealt with in the community. Two posts for 'lay advisers' on a multi-agency strategic management board are to be advertised next month. Police say the
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Piaggio launch Vespa PX 150cc
TO coincide with the 25th anniversary of the cult film Quadrophenia, whose famous Brighton beach-front battle scenes between Mods and Rockers earned the Vespa PX a place in movie history, Piaggio announces the arrival of the new Vespa PX 150cc. The Vespa
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Johnson's one who got away
I have reluctantly accepted this week that my fight against Glen Johnson for the IBF world light-heavyweight title is not going to take place. It means my next fight, almost certainly now in Cardiff in September, will be back at super-middleweight. When