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Newport gallant but Whites turn tide

STUTTERING form in the Welsh Premiership means Newport will now be turning their attention to an assault on the Konica Minolta Cup. That bid starts on Saturday with a home fourth-round clash against Merthyr as the Black and Ambers attempt to get something

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Werner finally lands top winter prize

American Brent Werner, an ever-present in Newport's New Year Classic, revelled in the rain to lift the trophy and in so doing denied Cornishman Chris Harris a hat trick of successive victories. The seventh staging of the event - the only outdoor winter

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'Block off the lanes'

RESIDENTS are calling for lanes between their Newport houses to be blocked off as they claim yobs and criminals are using them as escape routes. The call for action in the lanes in Maindee comes after a car was dumped there following a police chase on

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Footballer dies on pitch

SHOCKED friends paid tribute to a newly-married father who died of a suspected heart attack during a football match in Newport this weekend. Despite frantic efforts to save 37-year-old Peter Collier after he collapsed at Longbridge Fields in Risca he

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HORSMAN OUT OF SIX NATIONS

Wales coach Mike Ruddock has been dealt another devastating injury blow with the loss of prop Chris Horsman for this season's RBS 6 Nations Championship. Worcester forward Horsman faces ankle surgery later this week, and he is likely to be sidelined for

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'We must act to tackle rising toll of alcohol abuse'

THE director of a leading charity helping Gwent people fight alcohol problems said the numbers they are treating are just the tip of a very large iceberg. Gwent Alcohol Project sees around 1,300 people a year - but its director Peter Roberts said research

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County at the bottom

County replaced Carshalton at the bottom of Nationwide Conference South with a performance in keeping with their new status. The score suggests a narrow defeat, but this was a one-goal thrashing that would have been far more emphatic were it not for goalkeeper

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Outrage as playground is levelled

VISITORS to the site of the 1992 Ebbw Vale Garden Festival say they are angry over the demolition of a children's playground and removal of key sculptures like the Japanese arch. Joan Wilcox, 67, from Treowen, said: "I really am totally incensed by the

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Let games begin, say traders

HOSTING the 2014 Commonwealth Games would breathe new life into Newport, city businesses say. On Saturday we revealed how Newport, Cardiff and Swansea are teaming up with a view to bidding for the games and bringing them to Wales. The news that talks

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Police apologise to coach firm owner

POLICE apologised to the owner of a Newport coach company for failing to turn up when he called them after youths stoned his bus. Coach driver Gareth Tanner, 27, had a window shattered when a teenager from a group of around eight youths hurled a stone

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'I think I killed him' jury hears

A MAN accused of murder told a witness he thought he had killed someone, a jury was told today. And Paul Lewis, 55, who along with his partner Kathleen Carey is charged with the murder of Risca man Tony Jenkins, was seen soon after the alleged killing

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Pennock saves County from a far worse fate

"It could have been seven if it had not been for keeper Tony Pennock, and that would have been a fair result," said a furious Peter Beadle after Newport County's shocking display at Carshalton on Saturday. County, who had picked up just four points from

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CLEAR-OUT

NEWPORT Gwent Dragons coach Paul Turner is getting ready for a major clear-out as the management hold contract talks with a large number of players. Turner (pictured) has entered the crucial second half of his first season back 'home' and has not been

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Pub in paint brush with the law

IT'S a hot topic of conversation among people in the village of Castleton - their normally white or cream-painted local pub is now a shade called Jamaican Ginger. But pub managers who changed its colour to the orange-brown shade to brighten up their premises

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Crewman's death leads to inquiry

A CREW member died yesterday after going overboard from a ship in Newport docks. The man, thought to be of Cuban nationality and 43 years old, was a crew member on a multi-national freight carrier. He went overboard as the 18,000 gross tonnage freight