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Leisure training firm splashes out
LEISURE specialist Icon Vocational Training has sprinted into larger offices in Caldicot to keep up with the pace of business. The firm delivers courses such as modern apprenticeships to the burgeoning sports and health sectors. Managing director Julian
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Bristol man to drive city forward
A BRISTOL man has taken over from Sir Harry Jones as the chairman of Newport's urban regeneration company. Chartered surveyor and English rugby fanatic Grant Watson became chairman of Newport Unlimited after joining the board in February. Mr Watson is
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High notes for jazz festival
BRECON Jazz Festival is getting some extra notes this year from the local business sector. Williams Medical Supp-lies of Rhymney has doubled its existing sponsorship of the festival to coincide with the event's 21st anniversary. The £30m turnover company
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Paint job's a winner
A GWENT student and businesswoman has become the shock world body painting champion after storming the annual championship in Austria at the end of July. Raphaelle Fieldhouse, a Coleg Gwent make-up and fashion student, astounded the judges and 15,000
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Curfew call to stop thugs
PEOPLE living in Blackwood today called on police to take trouble-making youngsters off the streets. But officers say they are not considering imposing a curfew in the town despite a recent wave of fighting and a new craze of youngsters "surfing" (riding
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Pride in our culture!
NEWPORT residents say they were thrilled and inspired by last week's National Eisteddfod at Tredegar Park. Student Kelly Amos, 18, of Prince Street, Maindee, said: "It's better than I thought it was going to be. It's an event that's friendly towards English-speakers
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Where have all the legends gone?
TEST match cricket and the Olympic Games - highlights of any summer along with the golf majors, or that used to be the case. No more, for much of it has become tainted either by drug abuse or lack of quality. Take the Olympics. From the dark days of Ben
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Cartoon capers afloat
CROWDS of people lined Blackwood High Street to see the annual carnival parade. The long procession was led by carnival queen Nicola Burley, 15, from Pontllanfraith, and she was followed by numerous floats and bands. Blackwood Cancercareline dressed up
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New road sinks
PART of the new Southern Distributor Road built over a rubbish tip has sunk into the ground. The drop of two to three cm means a 100-metre strip of dual carriageway is being torn up for repairs. The weight of the road on a stretch near the Big W store
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Restoration votes mystery
THE vote tally for the BBC Restoration programme final remained a mystery today - amid claims that supporters of the Newbridge Memorial Hall were unable to register their votes. Thirty-six hours after the winner was announced - and after numerous requests
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Residents in chemical fright
RESIDENTS have told how they were confined in their homes while a suspected chemical spill was investigated in Risca. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Argus, emergency services were called to New Park Road after a lorry driver transporting
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Fab five make it into beauty final
FIVE gorgeous Gwent girls have reached the final of Miss Wales 2004. Law student Catherine Pope, 19, from Caerleon; 21-year-old Victoria Carlin, a medical student from Langstone, Newport; 20-year-old Helen Batley, from Usk; Rachel Rice, 20, a student
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School dinner cash shock
TEACHERS have been reminded to ban pupils from having school dinners if their parents owe money. A child can be turned away if their family owes dinner money for more than 15 meals at Newport schools. Some head teachers have recently been reminded of
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Helpers give canal some TLC
THE NEWPORT to Risca stretch of the Monmouth-shire and Brecon canal has received some tender loving care at the hands of the Waterways Recovery Group. This national network of volunteers has spent a fortnight at Fourteen Locks re-building culverts, mending
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New faces on tax team
NUMBER crunchers Broomfield & Alexander would like to remind everyone that "there are only two things you can be certain of in life: death and taxes". And on that happy note, the accountancy practice has expanded its tax team with the addition of
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Hula girls say aloha
CARNIVAL-GOERS in Monmouth braved the rain to enjoy floats, racing terriers and local bands. Around 3,000 people who turned out were treated to the Exemption Dog Show and a church service was staged on the carnival field hosted by Monmouth Baptist Church
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Glam smiling in the rain
TITLE-chasing Glamorgan claimed that if they had lost their rain-affected totesport League clash to Kent at Canterbury yesterday it would have been a travesty. The league leaders beat Kent but only on the intervention of the Duckworth-Lewis Method. And
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Social housing plans deferred
PLANS to build affordable housing in Chepstow are on hold because councillors think the house designs are "banal" and "boring". Monmouthshire county council's planning committee decided to defer an application to build 21 homes at St Lawrence Park, Chepstow
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Leisure training firm splashes out
LEISURE specialist Icon Vocational Training has sprinted into larger offices in Caldicot to keep up with the pace of business. The firm delivers courses such as modern apprenticeships to the burgeoning sports and health sectors. Managing director Julian
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Sparkle kids in fashion mood
DISABLED children got creative yesterday as they came together to make items for a special fashion show for our Sparkle Appeal. Children who are set to benefit from the new centre to be built at High Cross worked together at Coleg Gwent's site in Nash
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Set to shine
UK Athletics performance director Max Jones has delivered his verdict on our Welsh track hopefuls as they gear up for the 2004 Athens Olympics. In an exclusive interview for the South Wales Argus at the Team GB preparation camp in Cyprus, Jones: l Revealed
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MStriker Moralee hopes bad times are over at County
STRIKER Jamie Moralee (pictured) has pledged to put his difficult first season at Spytty Park behind him and help put Newport County back on the football map. The 33-year-old is the first to admit that he was not firing on all cylinders last season but
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Gang-attack misery
A NEWPORT father says he is suffering from depression and acute anxiety after he and his two sons were subjected to a vicious attack. Philip Jennings, 47, was set upon by a gang of four after intervening when one of the gang, Kyle Gettings, started shouting
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Dragons upset over Irish player ban
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have hit out at the Irish Rugby Union for barring their leading players from the first three Celtic League matches of the season. That means Leinster will be without 10 players, including Brian O'Driscoll, Gordon D'Arcy, Shane Horgan
