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Motorist tells of lucky escape
A NEWPORT driver said he was lucky to escape being crushed by a scrap car that fell off a lorry onto the road. The incident involved a lorry carrying several scrapped cars as it approached junction 28 on the A467 Forge Road yesterday. A scrap vehicle
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Victim's daughter unaware of tragedy
THE daughter of a paraplegic driver killed with three other men when his car plunged into a quarry remains unaware of her father's death. Emma Magee is too ill to be told the devastating news about her father, her mother says. The 22-year-old, who lives
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£1m investment in water bottle market
IF WATER coolers become household style items a Cwmbran company will be laughing all the way to the bank. Big Bottles is investing £1m to put itself in the front window of this potential marketplace. Within three years the firm plans to have a turnover
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Grant helps gardening business take root
LIFE is coming up roses for Wayne Draper who has started a gardening business in Tredegar. The idea has been fertilised by a UK Steel Enterprise Kick Start grant of over £700. The grant enabled Mr Draper to get kitted out with all the essentials. "I was
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Big test of brainpower
TEAMS from eight Gwent companies are preparing to do battle tomorrow for the title of Gwent Business Brain. The teams are: House of Feathers, Hazrem Enviromental, Economically Challenged, fwdlawassociates, Silver Telecom, Dermashield Dynamos, Madlem (
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What a big let down
WHAT a sad anti-climax! It was going to be the Jonny Wilkinson show, a sell-out crowd and glory for the Newport Gwent Dragons as they vanquished a premier English team in the shape of Newcastle Falcons. But none of it happened. Wilkinson was the first
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Gwent couple's dinner party tongue-teaser
A CHEPSTOW man has created two new dinner party games. The games have been created and published by Benjamin Bolt and will hit the shops this week. Mr Bolt worked for KPMG, Chepstow, until forming his own company. The Wine Tasting Game and The Whisky
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Fraudster now back in custody
A FRAUDSTER who absconded from Prescoed open prison last month is back in custody after giving himself up yesterday. Gareth John Tuvnes, who was jailed for 27 months in August for conspiracy to steal and obtaining property by deception from customers
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Gwent pair ready to grab chance
TWO of the most promising central defenders in Wales - both from Gwent - are set to be paired together tonight for Cardiff City, 24 hours after Andy Melville brought the curtain down on his international career. James Collins and Byron Anthony are waiting
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Bank staff make blood deposit
BARCLAYS staff in Gwent got involved in a different kind of withdrawal last week when they gave more than 20 pints of blood to the Welsh blood bank. More than 25 staff members took part in the day-long event at Newport Leisure Centre as part of Barclays
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Hopes for Irish ayes at flagship building
LETTING agents in Newport and Cardiff are hoping that "the luck of the Irish" will rub off on them in their attempts to find a tenant for the flagship building on Celtic Springs business park. The Bank of Ireland has got the 60,000 sq ft CS 1000 building
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I want a repeat - Cornforth
JOHN Cornforth, pictured, will simply tell his players to produce more of the same when they entertain high-flying Grays Athletic tomorrow night in the Nationwide South (kick-off 7.45), despite County losing at home over the weekend. They were beaten
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Boss tastes defeat
THE rain fell from the heavens at Spytty Park on Saturday and how Newport County failed to beat Carshalton, God only knows. Despite the visitors being down to ten men for most of the second half and County dominating play for the entire match, Carshalton
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Traffic chaos as lights fail
THOUSANDS of commuters were caught up in five-mile tailbacks after traffic lights at a major junction went out of sequence. Traffic in both directions of the M4 motorway ground to a halt because the lights at the Coldra roundabout at Junction 24 failed
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MONTY CLASH
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons are hoping to avoid a damaging club v country row over star player Percy Montgomery. Not because of this Sunday's Heineken Cup-tie against Edinburgh at Murrayfield because Montgomery is definitely available for that, but because
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Contest winners set a high standard
A SPIRIT of well-being swept the 2004 Five Counties Business Awards along at such a pace it left the crowd baying for more. Under the stewardship of TV newsreader Jamie Owen eight businesses were recognised for their endeavors, each one chosen from three
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Star turn Jack Dee on way to Riverfront
DEADPAN comic Jack Dee is the latest star set to appear at Newport's Riverfront next year. The big name announcement comes after the Riverfront celebrated a bumper opening weekend with thousands of people visiting the theatre and arts centre. Riverfront
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Rich, delicious and different
FROM the outside, The Piercefield at St Arvans, near Chepstow, looks like a country pub, but once you are inside, its stylish interior reflects culinary ambitions that go well beyond simple bar meals. We started with a bowl of tomato and basil vegetable
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It's 'chav' as you knows it...
NEWPORT rappers Goldie Lookin Chain celebrated the release of their new single yesterday with a 'chav' rally in London. The band and hundreds of 'chav' fans descended on Leicester Square for what the band billed as 'a little jaunt around Soho'. Chav is
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MD putting his faith in new golf game
A SMALL manufacturing company based in Ebbw Vale has just patented a portable crazy golf game which it hopes will be sold all over the world. Advanced Quality Products (AQP) was formed in 2002 by Terry Crump, 45. It's a limited company with just three
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Pensioner fights off masked raider
A PENSIONER fought back when a masked raider trying to rob his partner's store smashed him in the head with a baseball bat. But former miner Cecil Wright, 66, who sustained a broken cheek-bone, bruised ribs and an injured shoulder in the raid on the newsagents
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Dusty the dog left tied to wheelie bin
A DOG was left tied up to a bin outside an animal rescue centre. Now RSPCA staff have called the terrier-type pooch Dusty and want his owner to call them so they can find out the dog's age. Staff at the RSPCA centre in Hartridge Farm Road, Newport, found
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Remploy spends £250,000 on factory and learning centre
ANYONE who is anyone in Gwent's employment and training sector turned out for the opening of Remploy's new factory and learning centre at Cwmtillery industrial estate last week. The guest list was headed by Jane Davidson, Assembly minister for education