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Load falls on to play park
TONNES of steel crashed into a children's playground in Monmouthshire yesterday. The accident happened at 10.15am at the Raglan service station just off the northbound A449. The truck, a Mansel Davies and Son haulage vehicle, lost its load of steel coil
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Gently does it, Bet rounds up the flock
SHE may be a sheep dog, but Bet the border collie is using her skills to round up a very different kind of farm animal. Bet has been rounding up turkeys at Cefn Maen Farm near Raglan for the past two and a half years. Her owners, Sandy and Caroline Holt-Wilson
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Meet winning team
ACORN Recruitment and Training is bursting with pride after the success of its middle management team on a course with the Institute of Leadership & Manag-ement (ILM). Twenty managers and team leaders were successful in achieving the ILM's training
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OWEN BOOST FOR DRAGONS
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have received a huge boost with the news that key forward Michael Owen could be fit for Saturday's Heineken Cup tie against Newcastle at Rodney Parade. Owen is improving rapidly after damaging his back last week and says he feels
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Sweet taste of success
COMMENTATORS rec-ording the demise of the traditional sweet shop may have to rewrite their scripts. Husband and wife team David and Susan Hughes have taken the first franchise on the West Walian concept of Yum Yum Sweets, and are doing a roaring trade
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£7m new school replacement plan
PLANS to replace the fire-gutted Rogerstone Primary School, in Newport, have moved a step closer with the council now considering detailed plans for a state-of-the-art £7 million building. A single storey primary school with a floodlit all-weather pitch
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Pride of place for byone days caught on canvas
A PAINTING of Llanhilleth as it used to look now has pride of place in the village's new primary school. The picture - which includes the Central Hotel before it burnt down - was painted by Derek Hartshorn, from Rassau in Ebbw Vale. Mr Hartshorn died
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Market sets out its stall
NEWPORT'S newly refurbished indoor market is all set for a grand opening next month. The Grade II-listed Victorian building has been given a makeover costing around £4 million, and the refurbished bits can be seen by the public for the first time on Friday
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New life for town theatre
A £1.29m grant has been awarded to re-invent Abertillery's Metropole Theatre as a multi-purpose cultural centre. The grant has been secured by Blaenau Gwent council from the Assembly executive's Physical Regeneration Fund to redevelop the Metropole and
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We know it's an open prison but this is ridiculous
ONE prisoner goes missing every week from a Gwent open prison, the Argus can exclusively reveal today. The news came as a hunt was launched for a convicted fraudster from HMP Prescoed, Usk, who police want to question about the theft of hundreds of items
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Emotional return for Josefina
The red, yellow and purple flag of the Spanish republic fluttered in the breeze at Caerleon as, 65 years after the end of a bitter civil war, refugees returned to the village that had taken them to their hearts. Mrs Josefina Savery - formerly Alavarez
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WRU's shabby act
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons continue to blaze a trail in Celtic rugby, they are being touted as the Welsh team with the best chance of making progress in the Heineken Cup and the Welsh Rugby Union are happy to take some of the reflected glory. But still the
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Championing cause of disabled workers
MOST people have a vague idea about Remploy helping people with disabilities into the workplace. Few would know this is one of Britain's leading manufacturers or that its turnover is about £260m a year. The organisation claims to be the world leader at
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Riverfront steps into limelight
THEATRICAL tantrums and artistic tiffs will certainly not be aired in public as Newport's Riverfront arts centre makes its grand debut this week. As the £16 million venue steps into the limelight like a a vivacious young starlet there will be thunderous
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True blue Doris hits a century
A NEWPORT grandmother, who has been a member of the Conservative Party for more than 50 years, has celebrated her 100th birthday. Doris Rees, from Langstone, who has lived in the area all her life, marked the occasion with a party for family and friends
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Pryce vows to fight on
NEWBRIDGE'S Welsh welterweight champion Bradley Pryce, pictured, has vowed to prove the pundits wrong and bounce back from his latest crushing setback. The former British title contender has fallen down the ladder with five defeats in his last eight contests
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Have your say on school's future
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save a Pontypool school from closure are urging people to attend meetings about its future. The Community Action Team is campaigning to get as many local people as possible involved in the consultation process on the future of
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County may be on road again
NEWPORT County face yet another FA Cup away day, if they can beat Hellenic League outfit North Leigh in a replay tomorrow night. County were held 0-0 by the side three divisions below them at the weekend, but a win at Spytty Park tomorrow evening (kick-off
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'Investment key to economic growth'
AT LONG last the government is taking manufacturing seriously. That was the headline news from Nick Brayshaw, a former automotive engineer who is now chairing the CBI's manufacturing council. Mr Brayshaw was speaking at Celtic Manor at a Barclay's seminar
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'We'll withdraw co-operation'
RESIDENTS of Usk were left 'furious' after a meeting with a Home Office minister to urge him to stop sex offenders being housed there. David Davies, Assembly Member for Monmouth, Monmouth MP Huw Edwards, Paul Starling, chairman of the Usk residents action
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Hands-on help at festival site
I SPENT a day during the summer visiting the ex-tremely successful National Eisteddfod at Tred-egar Park in Newport. It impressed upon me the wide-ranging impact that information and computing technology (ICT) can have in the most unusual of places. The
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Anderson keen on cup test
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons will find out how good they are when they take on Newcastle in Saturday's Heineken Cup tie at Rodney Parade, says coach Chris Anderson. "This is the perfect way of finding out exactly how good we are," said Anderson at today's Welsh