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I'll get city buzzing
A NEW city centre manager is taking up the challenge of boosting the buzz about Newport. Susannah Bulpin will promote the city's regeneration and lay on special events to get more visitors in. Her role working for the council is part of the plan by regeneration
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Thriller on cards
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons lock Ian Gough is ready for one of the games of the season when they take on Irish aces Leinster at Rodney Parade tonight, and he is relishing the challenge. Gough remembers the final game of last season against Leinster which was
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Will law ease Sylvia's struggle?
SYLVIA Jones was surprised by the results of the investigation by the Disability Rights Commission which praised businesses in Newport, placing it at the top in a poll of disabled-friendly cities. "The other places must have been really abysmal or perhaps
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Pals mown down on way to barbecue
THE man who ran over three people in an horrific hit and run admitted the triple killing in court today. Steven John Price, of Ty Pwca Road, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran, admitted using his father's 4x4 to plough into Martin Connop, Emma Proctor and John Gibbings
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Please lend a hand
THE new director of Newport and Gwent Samaritans is tackling a volunteer shortage as his first priority. Roger Williams, 67, a retired tutor, has started the three-year position, running the Samaritans office in Stow Hill. The branch handles around 25,000
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Sci-fi fantasy on blue bedsheet
Film review: Sky captain and the World of Tomorrow (PG) OLD movie legends don't die, technology resurrects them as evil scientists who battle younger talent. Archived footage of Sir Laurence Olivier, spinning wildly in his grave no doubt, is used to make
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Rees wary of burn-out
NEWPORT coach David Rees is confident his 'completely drained' side will lift themselves once more to continue their winning run at Llanelli on Saturday. Rees was still adamant today that the current Welsh Premier Division fixture schedule is all wrong
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Top support for GLC
Well, we can't really tell you more about Goldie Lookin' Chain than we have done already but they are playing Cardiff tomorrow night so here's a few words about the acts brave enough to support them. Ahem, well, the show's going to start with the wonderful
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Kidney back on Parade
DECLAN Kidney returns to Rodney Parade tonight after his brief spell as coach of Newport Gwent Dragons in May. Kidney will be back but in charge of the high flying Leinster team, second in the Celtic League table and parading most of their Irish stars
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Burning desire to do Full Monty
SEVEN firefighters will prove they really are hot stuff when they peel off their uniforms and bare all for charity. The lads will get pulses racing when they perform the Full Monty at the NCLA in Newport on October 15. Leading the way is testicular cancer
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The mobile heroes
BRAVE Gareth Blackburn and Adrian Porter have received their prizes for winning the South Wales Argus Vodafone UK Life Savers competition. We joined forces with the mobile phone company to search for inspiring stories of men and women whose bravery and
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Soccer thug bites player's ear
A FOOTBALLER lost part of his ear when a match descended into violence. Milton Wilson was playing for Pill Harriers AFC against the Alexandra pub last Saturday at the rugby ground off Courtybella Terrace when a huge fight broke out. The 36-year-old from
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'Noise pollution is killing the whales'
EXPERTS believe sea noise pollution is behind a spate of whales being beached on the Welsh coast, including at Newport. Three of the mammals have been found washed up, including the 60-foot fin whale at St Brides. A Sowerby's whale was found stranded
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Potty for our prize
ARGUS readers have flooded us with entries after we teamed up with a new Newport shop to offer them the chance to win a special children's birthday party. That Pottery Place on Griffin Street is the new pottery shop in Newport which offers children and
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New boss after quick results
NEWPORT County's players have less than a month in which to impress or they will be out, says new boss John Cornforth. Cornforth, who took over at County on Wednesday, said: "The players have got three or four weeks to impress me and show me they are
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Bogdanov's take on Bard
THE WALES Theatre Company's debut last year was long overdue. Under artistic director Michael Bogdanov their production of Under Milk Wood, which visited Swansea and Cardiff before touring the UK, was an undeniable triumph. The superbly performed piece
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Johnson back on the agenda
GLEN Johnson is back on the agenda as a future opponent and I am confident I will beat him despite his shock destruction of Roy Jones junior last weekend. Promoter Frank Warren, with whom I signed a new contract this week, is speaking to the camp of both
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Been there, grown that, won the prizes
THREE Newport gardeners are certainly not has-beans, after their award-winning allotments were again ranked best in the city. Green-fingered Vincent Wilks, 67, came out on top, as the winners in the Newport Allotment Associations annual competition were
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Broadway belles in dazzling show
WITH 300 feather boas and an incredible amount of hard work, a Newport dance school raised a staggering £5,000 for the tragic families of Beslan victims. The Dolman Theatre was alive with colour, song and dance when the Vanessa Clarke School of Dance
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Choice of skipper defended
WALES coach Mike Ruddock, pictured, has defended his decision to choose Toulouse star Gareth Thomas as his new skipper with Newcastle Falcons forward Colin Charvis standing down to vice-captain. The former Dragons coach had come under criticism for choosing
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Beardy weirdies twinkle
The Soft Hearted Scientists have a great line on their new CD, The Bethesda EP. It's about German children and what they sing on birthdays. According to the North Walian band, they chirp "happy birthday" because it gladdens them that they were born because
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Riverfront culture and fun
IT'S BEEN lauded and derided by the Newport public in roughly equal measure. Love the sky-blue toy-block modernist building or hate it, the Riverfront opens for business in less than a month. And as well as being the eventual home for the city's celebrated
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Quality fare to suit all tastes
Bistro 10, Cardiff Bay IT looked for a while as though we might be out of luck, so busy was this eatery on a Thursday evening. But we weren't kept waiting long before being whisked to a quiet table at the back of the restaurant, and a look at the eclectic
