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GRIFFITHS IN FRAME
WALES defence coach Clive Griffiths could be the surprise new front-runner for the position of Newport Gwent Dragons' coach next season. The job will be vacated at the end of this season -- or earlier -- after the decision by the Dragons' board last Wednesday
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Close Encounters
"The best view in the world" - who can argue with the sentiment voiced by the dean of St David's, the Very Reverend J. Wyn Evans. In the valley below his home, lies one of Britain's most beautiful and inspiring cathedrals. As the winter sun casts an almost
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Magazine launched on a high
A new magazine for Newport hit the city's streets on Saturday. Stilt walkers made sure shoppers didn't miss out on what is hoped will become a Newport favourite by directing them to the people handing out copies of NPLife, which is published by the South
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Biker hurt by booby trap
A TEENAGE motorcyclist suffered serious injuries when a wire was deliberately placed across a Gwent lane and caused him to come off his bike. The 15-year-old local boy was travelling along a bridleway off Thomas Ellis Way in Tredegar at about 12.30pm
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Thrilled to win right to fight for city seat
THE winning candidate in a controversial all-woman shortlist to succeed outgoing Newport East MP Alan Howarth was chosen yesterday. At a packed hustings run by the local constituency Labour party and held at the Ringland Labour club, 37-year-old Jessica
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Rundown areas set for £750,000 boost
CRUMBLING roads and areas blighted by graffiti are being targeted with a 750,000 cash injection as part of an urban improvement programme in Newport. Most of the money, it was announced by council leader Bob Bright, will be aimed at improving some of
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Heroes - County battle on
NEWPORT County produced a heroic display to keep Nationwide South juggernaut Grays at bay on Saturday as they grabbed a point in one of their best displays of the season. The Exiles had to withstand a second-half siege as Grays set about County like Tiny
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Dragons in good stead for Europe
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons made virtually certain of Heineken Cup rugby next season with their courageous 13-11 Celtic League victory over Ulster at Rodney Parade on Friday night. The Dragons team were without six members of the Wales squad, who were not released
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Rampant Newport run in eight
NEWPORT are the sole Gwent team who will be involved in Tuesday's Konica Minolta Cup quarter-final draw, an eight-try demolition of Glamorgan Wanderers at Rodney Parade on Saturday ensuring their place, while Cross Keys, Pontypool and Bedwas bowed out
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Luscombe faces fight for fitness
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons threequarter Hal Luscombe is fighting to be fit for Wales' Six Nations Championship game against France in Paris on Saturday. Luscombe, a regular in the side under coach Mike Ruddock, suffered a hamstring injury against Italy nine
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It's a new image in a flash...
HERE are Gwent's track superstars Jamie Baulch and Christian Malcolm as you have never seen them before. The two athletes, normally pictured in their running gear, posed for some shots wearing the latest fashions at a shoot in Newport. They were snapped
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Your chance to buy a masterpiece head
NEWPORT art-lovers will have the chance to snap-up original work by budding talents at a charity auction. A diverse range of artwork by staff and students of the University of Wales, Newport will be auctioned in aid of the Asian tsunami victims and children
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Wardens fail to get trained
ALMOST half of Newport's community safety wardens are unable to use their full powers because they have not been trained. Only 13 of the city's 21 wardens have the extra powers accredited to their role by Gwent Police last year. Newport council said the
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It's a big hand for charity knitter
FOR the last two years an 84-year-old Newport woman has picked up her knitting needles to support St David's Foundation Hospice Care. Every few months Phyl Child, of Anuerin Bevan Court, Duffryn, produces bagfuls of beautifully knitted cardigans, scarves
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Fire service warn about derelict flats
FIREFIGHTERS are warning that a block of asbestos-ridden derelict flats, now a target for young arsonists, is turning into a death trap. And residents living near the block in Trenewydd, in the Newtown area of the Ebbw Vale, are calling for it to be demolished
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Hunters vow poll revenge
DEFIANT pro-hunt campaignershave vowed to take their revenge on the Labour government at the ballot box. The warning came at a meeting of the Monmouthshire Hunt on Saturday which several hundred people turned up to support. It was the first meeting of
