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Burger king? Not Blaenavon's Elvis
ELVIS Presley was famed for his love of burgers - and plenty of them. But for Gwent's very own Elvis Aaron Presley, there won't be a sign of a cheeseburger on his plate. Because the Blaenavon man who has changed his name by deed poll to that of the late
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Grieving family tells of ordeal
FOR the family of John Gibbings, killed by paranoid schizophrenic Steven Price, the court case into the triple killings has left more questions than answers. The Gibbings family have had the hardest five months of their lives. John Gibbings was a popular
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We don't fear Becks and co
WELSH footballer of the year Robert Earnshaw says Wales have no fear of England ahead of Saturday's Old Trafford Battle of Britain. Hot-shot Earnshaw, who completed a £3.5 million move to Premiership side West Bromwich Albion from Cardiff City in August
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Giggsy's fear
RYAN Giggs admits his international career will be a "failure" if he doesn't get to a major championship finals. The clock is ticking for 30-year-old Giggs and he may be thinking that he will never appear at a World Cup or European Championships and Welsh
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Giggsy's fear
RYAN Giggs admits his international career will be a "failure" if he doesn't get to a major championship finals. The clock is ticking for 30-year-old Giggs and he may be thinking that he will never appear at a World Cup or European Championships and Welsh
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Top golfers in the swing for charity
A golf day to raise money for cancer charities in memory of top Gwent golf administrator Mike Cole was a huge success last weekend. Around £7,000 is likely to have been raised from the day, a tribute to Mike, who was president of the Welsh Golf Union
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On the right road
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are building nicely, so much so that they are moving into a position where they can mount a realistic challenge in the Heineken Cup. A month ago all seemed far from right as the Dragons fell to a bad defeat against Cardiff Blues
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Favourite haunt for ghosts of Rebekah
CLYDACH Gorge, the cleft in north Gwent's landscape where the characters in Alexander Cordell's novels lived, fought, worked and died, is inspiring a prize-winning young writer. "I am working on some more short stories set in the early part of the 19th
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Still failing the children
VULNERABLE children are still being failed by Blaenau Gwent social services, 17 months after problems were first identified, it was revealed today. And the woman who was brought in to solve the crisis admitted: "Children may still be suffering." But she
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Internet swindle warning
FRAUDSTERS operating on the internet are sometimes swindling people out of thousands of pounds, police warned today. Posing as buyers, the con artists target victims who advertise items for sale on legitimate websites. A Gwent Police spokeswoman said
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'We're pressing on with campus plan'
THE firm behind plans for a new super-university site in Newport said it is pressing ahead with the scheme despite opposition before the project was even launched. The multi-million- pound plans were unveiled yesterday by former rugby star Scott Gibbs
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We don't fear Becks and co
WELSH footballer of the year Robert Earnshaw says Wales have no fear of England ahead of Saturday's Old Trafford Battle of Britain. Hot-shot Earnshaw, who completed a £3.5 million move to Premiership side West Bromwich Albion from Cardiff City in August
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Disabled widower's car theft plight
A DISABLED pensioner is unable to visit his wife's grave after thieves stole his car. Denzil Scott, 84, of St Dials, Cwmbran, visits the grave of his beloved late wife, Thelma, in Panteg cemetery three times a week. The couple were only one month away
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Show's over for pirates of the Valleys
TRADING standards officers and police netted pirate DVDs, CDs and computer games with a street value of £40,000 during raids in Blaenau Gwent. Officers swooped at two addresses in Nantyglo and Bryn-mawr last week and confiscated more than 7,300 counterfeit
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Funding bid to treat more patients
TREATMENTS for almost 2,000 extra patients in Gwent, costing £6 million, are proposed by health chiefs to meet the maximum 12-month waiting time target by the end of next March. More than half of these patients will be offered the opportunity either of
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Skipper returns for Dragons
JASON Forster, pictured, returns to lead Newport Gwent Dragons in their quest for their fourth successive victory when they take on Ulster in Friday night's Celtic League clash at Ravenhill. The Dragons failed to win there last season, beaten comfortably
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Woman is banned from keeping pets
A NEWPORT woman was banned from keeping pets after abandoning her dog for days without food or water. Cheryl Denise Forster, of Christchurch Road, yesterday pleaded guilty to charges of abandoning the Staffordshire bull terrier, known as Tommy. The dog
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Cobner in quick return
TERRY Cobner is returning to rugby two months after quitting his post with the Welsh Rugby Union. The former Pontypool and Wales captain has decided to make a quickfire comeback in a role dear to his heart. He will become team manager of the newly created
