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I'm staying
Springbok star Percy Montgomery has given Newport Gwent Dragons fans a boost after their Heineken Cup exit by saying he will remain at Rodney Parade. The 30-year old who has made a highly successful return to international rugby has been linked with Sunday's
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We just need more intensity says coach
We just weren't good enough - that was Chris Anderson's blunt verdict after Newport Gwent Dragons failed to reach the quarter-finals of the Heineken Cup. Though the Dragons scored three tries to Newcastle's three, they went down to a 25-7 defeat, Ceri
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Cup misery for Anderson's men
Falcons 25 Dragons 17 Newport Gwent Dragons crashed out of the Heineken Cup when they conceded the double against Newcastle at Kingston Park yesterday. The result put Newcastle through to the last eight of Europe's premier competition, but the Dragons
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Getting to grips with murderous Macbeth
PERFORMING arts students will get their first taste of acting with their presentation of Shakespeare's Macbeth at Newport's Riverfront. The students from the University of Wales, Newport, will perform the bloody tale of murder, power and guilt, and get
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Council post axed
NEWPORT council has axed the post of one of its top bureaucrats - saving £125,000 a year. The council has chosen not to replace one of its three corporate directors after Carol Leslie left last year. Instead, her role has been absorbed into the workload
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Taking safety steps
AN ANTI-SOCIAL hot-spot in a Gwent town is about to benefit from a 24- hour CCTV monitoring system. Campaigners and community leaders in Trevethin, Pontypool, have long been pushing for CCTV to beat the yobs in the community's central shopping centre
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Thanks for giving us quality of life
IT SEEMED a huge challenge, but now Gwent youngster Callum Arnold's life is a couple of weeks away from being transformed. With the help of Argus readers his parents are to carry out vital improvements to their home in Abergavenny - improvements that
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Forced from our home by terror
A WOMAN has told how her family were hounded out of Cwmcarn by a notorious mother of four. Jan Evans said she was prepared to make her family homeless just to escape the intimidation of Deborah Eyre, who last week was found guilty of breaching an anti-social
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The thin booze line open 24 hours a day
GWENT'S top police officer today said his resources would be completely overstretched if 24-hour drinking is introduced. Chief Constable Mike Tonge said if all-day drinking took off in Gwent he would not have enough officers to police the streets during
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Saracens on the up
Local rugby roundup - Newport Saracens are well in the hunt for promotion after Saturday's hard-fought 26-13 victory over Hirwaun in the Welsh League Division Two East. Ross Madden got Saries on their way with a first minute try, and he added another
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Bedblocking fears
BEDBLOCKING involving Newport patients will worsen during the next two or three months because Newport city council is running short of cash to fund care home places and support packages, a social services chief has warned. Newport bedblockers, officially
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We're here, give us some credit!
FIRST a Brussels bureaucrat told us Wales didn't exist by leaving it off a map - now an insurance company has followed suit. When Gwent pensioner Bernard Zavishlock received his renewal notice it informed him Gwent and Wales didn't exist. "It described
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Taye to meet the beautiful people
A GWENT model jetted to the States yesterday to rub shoulders with some of the world's most beautiful models and actors. Calvin Klein model Taye Lee Lopez is to mix with the likes of supermodel Naomi Campbell and American Beauty star Mena Suvari. He was
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Mother applauds new research on DVT
THE mother of Newport deep vein thrombosis victim Emma Christoffersen has welcomed a new report into the condition. Ruth Christoffersen has been campaigning for a change in the law to make airlines responsible for the health of their passengers since
