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Wasps' Danish delight
Dane Mads Korneliussen has signed for a second season with Newport Wasps and his fellow countryman Kristian Lund is expected to follow in his footsteps very shortly. Korneliussen, 21, joined Newport at the start of last season and took the number one
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SHOWDOWN
Newport Gwent Dragon Gareth Cooper is a leading contender to tour New Zealand with the Lions - but he might not start a game in this season's RBS 6 Nations Championship. Newport Gwent Dragons scrum-half Cooper provides proof of the enviable riches currently
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Dafydd gets a taste of TV fame
A RISING young star is to take to the small screen playing one of the Gwent's famous sons. Dafydd Price, from Wern Gifford, near Abergavenny, will be starring in BBC documentary Border Crossing which charts the life of Pandy-born Cambridge University
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Getting into the swing of things
WHEN Alun Pugh was asked to go and hang out with some gymnasts, he jumped at the chance! The Assembly minister for sport dropped into a Valleys gymnastics club and gave it a ringing endorsement this week. Mr Pugh visited the Cwmcarn Gymnastics club on
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Second person dies after crash
A SECOND person died yesterday following an alleged hit-and-run incident in Crumlin earlier this month. Ernest Daniels, 86, died in hospital yesterday, a fortnight after the crash that also claimed the life of his 80-year-old wife Jean Alberta Daniels
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New road bridge to be named after bulldozed woodland
THIS is the huge structure that is to form an impressive part of the new Sirhowy Enterprise Way in Blackwood. Caerphilly council says the new road is due to open on target next spring. The building of the road sparked a massive protest among local people
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Attack left me without smell or taste
A GWENT man today told how his life was devastated by a pub doorman who left him with facial nerve damage after "poleaxing" him to the ground. Robert Cook lost control of the nerves in the left side of his face after the attack in August last year. The
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Thomas happy to be lost in France
WALES captain Gareth Thomas is benefiting from being out of his native country - and not just for the rugby experience of playing for French club giants Toulouse. Thomas has spent almost a lifetime playing in the goldfish bowl of Welsh rugby, gaining
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Cornforth's call to his youngsters
NEWPORT County manager John Cornforth, pictured, has thrown down the gauntlet to his young squad to maintain the standard of the last two games. Goals from Darren Jones and John Phillips (two) were not enough to prevent County suffering 4-3 extra time
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Brave County pipped in thriller
NEWPORT County's young guns bowed out of the GLS Conference Cup in a blaze of glory last night, going down 4-3 at Forest Green Rovers after extra time. But County's patchwork side went out with heads held high after pushing the Conference side all of
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Viva Las Vegas for snapper
A NEWPORT photographer is set to show the world's wedding capital just how it should record the happy moment. Las Vegas has been the wedding venue choice of celebrities from Britney Spears to Joan Collins and even Elvis himself. Now award-winning snapper
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Changes on way for city way for city
WORK on the redevelopment of Newport's Cambrian Centre is due to start this summer. The re-development includes a 27-storey block of apartments, a hotel with more than 100 beds, 67,000 sq ft of office space, and a bigger car park. These images show how
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School to get a boost for sports
A Gwent secondary school is to receive a grant of £418,697 from the Big Lottery Fund to upgrade sports facilities. The existing athletics track at Brynmawr School is to be modernised and new changing facilities are to be built. The project is to provide
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'Miracle' baby who beat odds to be born
AS Catherine Gwynne cradles her six-week-old baby girl she gazes at her in awe. And it is little wonder because this tiny baby, named McKenzie Grace, defied all the odds to be born. Catherine, of Ebbw Vale, had weekly blood tranfusions in Bristol and
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Vote takes school closer to closure a step closer
THE CLOSURE of a secondary school in a deprived Gwent community moved a step closer yesterday. Torfaen council's cabinet voted to close Trevethin Community School and move pupils to two other Pontypool comprehensives, West Monmouth and Abersychan. But
