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Gav some of that!
A nation is today basking in the glory of Wales' first victory over England in Cardiff for 12 years - and they have found a new hero into the bargain. For Gavin Henson, just four days past his 23rd birthday, stepped up four minutes from the end of a heartstopping
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Henson to be given the boot!
WALES coach Mike Ruddock is considering giving Gavin Henson, hero of Saturday's mouth-watering victory over England, the kicks on a regular basis. Ruddock will talk with his fellow selectors this week and high on the agenda ahead of their next Six Nations
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Henson to be given the boot!
WALES coach Mike Ruddock is considering giving Gavin Henson, hero of Saturday's mouth-watering victory over England, the kicks on a regular basis. Ruddock will talk with his fellow selectors this week and high on the agenda ahead of their next Six Nations
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Injury woes for Wales
WALES replacement back row forward Ryan Jones has been ruled out of Wales' second Six Nations Championship game of the season against Italy in Rome on Saturday. Jones went on for Dafydd Jones in the 63rd minute against England, but damaged a shoulder
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Official opening for new school
A £12m school, the first be built in Newport for 32 years, will officially open tomorrow. A ceremony at St Joseph's RC High School in Newport will be attended by the minister for education and lifelong learning, Jane Davidson; the Catholic Archbishop
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Flippin' great
NO ONE knows exactly when the tradition of making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday began, but recipes for them feature in cookery books as far back as 1439. Shrove Tuesday is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent, the 40
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Parents to see last recorded images of their son
THE parents of missing Caldicot man James Nutley will travel to Tenby this week to view the last-recorded CCTV images of the young golfer. Jeff and Catherine Nutley are due to travel to the west Wales town on Thursday to view the CCTV. James Nutley, 25
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Ambulances fail to meet targets
FURIOUS Gwent councillors branded the latest ambulance response times "not good enough", and have demanded service improvements. Despite a Gwent-wide increase in the percentage of life-threatening calls responded to within eight-minutes, rural areas still
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I'm so lucky to be alive
A MOTORCYCLIST says he is lucky not to have died or been paralysed in a crash which left him hospitalised for seven weeks. Staff nurse James Slade, 32, was making his usual journey along Church Road, Risca to the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, where he
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Gwent erupts on Ruddock's glory day
IT WAS the moment a volcano of emotion erupted around Wales. The referee's whistle went and fans leapt to their feet in celebration at the Millennium Stadium, in pubs and clubs and in their homes. Wales had beaten England at home for the first time in
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Superb victory for Ruddock's warriors
AT last, at last Wales have done it. After 12 long years they have finally sent England packing in Cardiff, for the first time at the magnificent Millennium Stadium they have got the better of the old enemy. The wait was worth while, and not even England
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Injury woes for Wales
WALES replacement back row forward Ryan Jones has been ruled out of Wales' second Six Nations Championship game of the season against Italy in Rome on Saturday. Jones went on for Dafydd Jones in the 63rd minute against England, but damaged a shoulder
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Gav some of that!
A nation is today basking in the glory of Wales' first victory over England in Cardiff for 12 years - and they have found a new hero into the bargain. For Gavin Henson, just four days past his 23rd birthday, stepped up four minutes from the end of a heartstopping
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New statistics jobs will stay local
ALMOST all the 500 jobs being relocated to Newport's Office of National Statistics in the next five years will be filled by Gwent people. This was the good news delivered this afternoon by Len Cook, Britain's national statistician. Mr Cook said the workers
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Superb victory for Ruddock's warriors
AT last, at last Wales have done it. After 12 long years they have finally sent England packing in Cardiff, for the first time at the magnificent Millennium Stadium they have got the better of the old enemy. The wait was worth while, and not even England
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New statistics jobs will stay local
ALMOST all the 500 jobs being relocated to Newport's Office of National Statistics in the next five years will be filled by Gwent people. This was the good news delivered this afternoon by Len Cook, Britain's national statistician. Mr Cook said the workers
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Arson attacks down by 35%
ARSON attacks in Gwent are down by over a third. The region saw a huge drop in deliberate fires from 8,199 in 2003, to 5,255 last year - a fall of 35.9%. Firefighters think campaigns aimed at cutting arson are behind the success, but 88% of all fires
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Midnight trekkers raise £8,000
FIFTY Gwent people raised 8,000 for the Tsunami Appeal with a 21-mile walk through the night. The walkers left Tesco in Ebbw Vale at midnight on Friday to walk the 21 miles to Tesco in Maesglas, Newport. Seven hours and a number of blisters later, and
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Poverty's role in ill health
IT'S an emotive subject. Getting people off incapacity benefit and back to work is one of Tony Blair's top priorties. But for many people living in areas like Blaenau Gwent - which has the second highest level of long-term sickness in Wales - improving
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Community has festival fun
HUNDREDS of members of the Bangladeshi community in Newport celebrated a key Moslem festival yesterday. More than 400 people gathered at Maindee Primary School, Newport, to celebrate the Eid Festival. Eid Festival falls on the first day after the month
