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Chicago and all that jazz
IT ISN'T a musical about true love and pure hearts - which is precisely why Chicago is so much fun. Featuring murder, greed, violence, corruption, exploitation, adultery, treachery - as the publicity promises, "all those things we hold near and dear to
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Amy's set to pocket pool fame
IT is a game immortalised on the silver screen by Hollywood legends like Paul Newman and Tom Cruise portraying macho men hustling in smoky halls. But an Abergavenny schoolgirl is a pool-playing prodigy making a clean break with tradition. She has become
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Young lions to roar
HUNDREDS of youngsters from all over Gwent will be heading to London next week to raise the roof at the Royal Albert Hall. For the first time, primary school children from the area have been invited to take part in the renowned Schools Proms which this
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More dates for Pink Grease
PINK Grease have added new and rescheduled live dates to their current UK tour in October and November. The band, recent guests of the Blues Explosion, will play special all-ages shows around the country, including the Barfly. The Sheffield six-piece,
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Boklash
"WE were not prepared in the Millennium Stadium's opener five years ago, but we will be this time," Springboks legend Gary Teichmann warns Wales ahead of tomorrow's big game between two of the oldest rivals in rugby. In 1999 Wales sprung a big shock by
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Thrills and spills
POINT-to-point is an exciting sport which promises participants thrills and no shortage of spills. In a nutshell, point-to-point is steeplechasing for amateurs, and is one of the best ways for beginners to get into horse-racing. It is run under the sanction
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Wife accused of murdertng husband
THIS is Doris Keningale, the Risca woman charged with murdering her husband. Keningale, 43, of Snowdon Close, Ty Sign, is accused of stabbing to death 61-year-old Vincent Keningale on September 13. Keningale, who was bailed, appeared at Cardiff crown
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Big on quality and quantity
THE Dorallt Inn has recently had an extension to both the building and the menu. A new non-smoking seating area has transformed the Dorallt from a pub that serves food to a restaurant with a bar. The food is still of the variety you would expect to find
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Video talks tough on sex
A GROUP of Gwent teenagers fed up with the lack of information about HIV came up with their own hard-hitting video on safe sex. And now they've scooped a Europe-wide award and have been nominated for a top UK prize. The four boys, all from Blaenavon,
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Will right team please turn up!
THE task of predicting the outcome of a Newport County match has been nigh impossible this season, and tomorrow looks no different as they entertain Nationwide North high-fliers Kettering Town in the FA Trophy first round (kick-off 3pm). After last week's
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Councillor jailed for not paying fines
VETERAN peace campaigner and Caerphilly county borough councillor Ray Davies, pictured, was jailed for 28 days today for non-payment of fines. Davies, aged 74, of Pandy Road, Bedwas, was sent to prison by Caerphilly magistrates for wilfully refusing to
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Traders ban Usk jail jobs
TRADERS in Usk have withdrawn offers of work placements to prisoners at Prescoed open prison while sex offenders continue to be kept there. The news came yesterday as the Usk and Communities Action Group launched a website - www.nousksexoffenders.com
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Rally call from a Wales great
MIKE Ruddock will send his Welsh troops into battle tomorrow with a message from national legend Gerald Davies ringing in their ears. As part of Team Wales, Ruddock and his management team have produced a booklet for all squad members which is full of
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Vandal attack sparks anger
DOCTOR John Evans, clerk to Tredegar town council, sits by the bandstand in the town's Bedwellty Park which was attacked by vandals. The wrought-iron banister on the steps were damaged so badly that the supports were wrenched from the sockets. The cost
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Battle of weakened giants
SOMETHING has got to give at Rodney Parade tonight when Newport Gwent Dragons take on Neath-Swansea Ospreys in a Celtic League top-of-the-table clash. The Ospreys head the table with seven wins out of seven and a ten-point advantage over the Dragons,
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Room for melancholy
ONE of the most exciting and innovative bands coming to South Wales this month is The Upper Room. The band supports Hope of the States in Swansea union next Friday, November 12, and The Mooney Suzuki in Cardiff's Barfly on Saturday, November 27. They're
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Show's no drag
THERE'S a long tradition of men dressing up as women for entertainment, from the plays of Shakespeare to the Rocky Horror Show. But the true artists - the drag queens - put in a little bit more effort than a rugby club on a night out. Ceri Dupree, Cardiff's
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My time is almost up
GWENT snooker ace Darren Morgan, pictured, has opened his heart to the Argus, admitting he is finding the prospect of leaving the sport behind a real wrench. Morgan, 38, has been a professional for over 16 years but believes the slimming down of the professional
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Explore The Caves
WELSH band The Caves recruited Newport man Richard Jackson to produce their debut single Wow Machine. Jackson was one of the 60ft Dolls, one of the bands that were allegedly making Newport the new Seattle. He's since gone on to produce umpteen records
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Where are all the lollipop ladies?
A NEWPORT lollipop lady feels completely licked - she has to do the job of two people by covering five roads. Suzanne Eames was hired to cross three roads, but every day she rushes around five streets that converge on a mini-roundabout near St Joseph's
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Threat to green wonderland
BIRDS of a feather stick together and down on the Gwent Levels that means shelducks, shovelers and pintails, redshanks, skylarks and curlews. Look in the reens - the ancient man-made ditches designed to turn salt marsh into farmland - and you'll find
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Final farewell to quarry victim
HUNDREDS of mourners turned out to pay their last respects to a Newport man who died when the car he was travelling in plunged 100 feet into a disused quarry. Karl Devlin, 21, from Malpas was one of the passengers of a BMW car that left the Swffryd Road
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More traffic misery on way
DRIVERS in Newport face fresh traffic misery - even when the long-awaited new Southern Distributor Road is open - with the closure of a key city bridge. Motorists were hoping the opening of the Southern Distributor Road would end the huge jams caused
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Civil servants strike over job cuts
UP TO 4,000 Gwent civil servants were striking today as part of nation-wide industrial action against government plans to axe 100,000 jobs. Staff from the Department of Work and Pensions office in Kingsway, the Police Training College in Greenmeadow,
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Band's career move
INDIE upstarts The Open have reached that stage in their fledgling careers at which they re-release their self-made debut single on a record label. Never Enough was released on Loog Records on Monday, November 1. It was first released in October 2003
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Special channel island
THE landmark island of Flat Holm, just ten miles from Newport, lying in the middle of the Bristol Channel, offers visitors the chance to get close to one of our most diverse habitats. The island was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest 30 years
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Friendly and filling
TRAVELLING to the Waterloo Inn at Nash was quite a journey but after directions from the nearby sailing club we made our way - along with another car behind who had also made the same mistake. For a Friday night the pub wasn't too full but there was a
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Thrills and spills
POINT-to-point is an exciting sport which promises participants thrills and no shortage of spills. In a nutshell, point-to-point is steeplechasing for amateurs, and is one of the best ways for beginners to get into horse-racing. It is run under the sanction