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Crisis fear for social service
NEWPORT council must pay more money to social workers or face a recruitment crisis, a boss has warned. Ellis Williams, director of social services, said his staff are leaving and their positions going unfilled because salaries are too low. He said that
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Vicar wins a peal as bells ring out
A VICAR has been told he can carry on ringing his church bell despite protests from locals that it was too noisy. Reverend Geoff Waggett of Christchurch, Ebbw Vale, was warned he could face prosecution after the tenor bell within the 19th century church
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Village says 'move over Spielberg'
THE magic of Tinseltown is coming to Machen as the village renowned for the completeness of its historical archive prepares to star in its own film. Machen's story will be screened free in the village hall on October 22 with the entire village welcome
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Former steelworker is the driving force behind range
FORMER steelworker Steve Dash is relying on a different set of irons for his future prosperity. The ex-Ebbw Vale employee has established a £130,000 driving range at Brynmawr. He is also planning a health and fitness club on the site and chalet accommodation
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Rival campus plan for city
A RIVAL multi-million pound super-university plan was unveiled today but it failed to win the backing of council and business leaders. Former rugby star Scott Gibbs revealed plans for a campus which would link lecture theatres with businesses. It is in
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Boot gang attacks disabled man,47
A DISABLED man said he feared for his life after being kicked by a group of men as he lay on the ground outside a Newport pub. Anthony Osmond, who has a false leg fitted above the knee, was waiting for a taxi outside the Merry Miller pub in Apollo Way
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Village out to save old farm
RESIDENTS of a Gwent village are putting their money where their mouth is to try to save an historic farm. Locals in Gilwern, near Abergavenny, want to buy Ty Mawr Farm from Monmouthshire council and turn it into a community-run business. Earlier this
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The future at his fingertips
A MAN who has led a company of soldiers through the Falklands battles of Goose Green and Wireless Ridge, and a climbing team on a winter ascent of Everest, needs fresh challenges. And in trying to bring a clever, mobile data product to the market with
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It's not behind you as panto returns
THE annual pantomime at Newbridge Memorial Hall is to be resurrected - after almost two decades. The Christmas panto was last performed at the Memo 18 years ago. But this year, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves will once again be pulling the crowds back
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Celebrations for our golden Gareth
GWENT'S gold medal-winning Paralympian athlete came home to a riotous reception in his local pub last night. Family and friends of Gareth Duke, who won an individual gold and a team bronze in Athens last month, gathered in The Yew Tree in Pontnewydd to
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Plans for city transformation
A SCULPTURE made of huge mounds of earth could form a dramatic "southern gateway" to Newport. The artwork, designed by a top international artist, would mark the entrance to a newly regenerated £175m Old Town Dock area. Regeneration experts hope that
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Tourism chiefs toast efforts to lift standards
TOURISM delivers £2 billion a year into Welsh coffers with £356 million of that coming to Gwent and Glamorgan. But tourism chiefs have warned that skills and facilities must keep improving for this performance to be sustained or improved. The Wales Tourist
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Army burns claim is denied by firm
GENERAL Dynamics has denied claims that its Bowman radios are causing radiation burns to soldiers using the new system. The Canadian firm, which has its UK headquarters at Oakdale, was responding to reports carried in the journal Defence Analysis that
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Gwent man heads Chinese company
THE FIRST Chinese company was admitted to London's Alternative In-vestment Market on Friday under the chairmanship of Draethen resident Peter Dellar. The Chinese economy is industrialising fast and within a single generation could eclipse the economic
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Mental health group wants public inquiry
THE DIRECTOR of a mental health trust has called for a public inquiry into the case of Cwmbran triple killer Stephen Price. Paranoid schizophrenic Price mowed down and killed friends Martin Connop, Emma Proctor and John Gibbings in April while driving
