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Get moving and feel better
Our fitness expert Mary Sheppard takes a look at how best to get your energy levels rising. At this time of the year, our energy levels should soon be rising. We were programmed to hibernate - tucking up warm and cosy in the dark winter months. But now
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'We've had enough of yobs'
RESIDENTS in a Valleys town are joining forces with police to crack down on trouble-making youths. People in Blaenavon decided to form a Neighbourhood Watch group after being plagued by vandalism, verbal abuse from youths, under-age drinking and boy racers
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Protest over plan for supermarket
MORE than 700 people signed letters protesting against a supermarket planned for Abergavenny. Campaigners were out in force over the weekend in protest over plans for an Asda store on the cattle market site, and were planning to collect more signatures
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Do you know this man?
POLICE in Abergavenny issued this photofit of a man they want to question over an incident where a woman woke up to find someone in her bedroom. The woman, in her fifties, woke up to find the stranger in her bedroom at about 1.25am on March 12. She started
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Have a whale of a time
KEN BENNETT takes you on a worldwide tour of places you can watch whales at peace with the oceans ... The death of the majestic bottle-nosed whale that foundered in the River Thames and the death of the whale on the coast near Newport two years ago has
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It's a wrap as artist transforms trees
FOUR dead trees on a Gwent farm are being given a new life as works of art. Christine Long, who runs the organic Troy Farm at Mitchel Troy with husband Graham, was taken aback when she received an unusual request. Cardiff-based artist Philippa Lawrence
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Recommending the best
Rosemary Ward, of Gardening Which?, looks at what needs to be done in the garden this month Greenhouse cucumbers Gardening Which? grew more than a ton of cucumbers in our last trial, so we could recommend the best ones for you to try. Out of 15 varieties
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Tributes to rugby stalwart
ONE of Newport Rugby Club's greatest post-war players, has died at the age of 72 after a short illness. Glyn Davidge, a number eight forward who occasionally played flanker, made 270 appearances for Newport between 1952 and 1965. He captained the team
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Age is no barrier
Prime Time has teamed up with the government's Age Positive project to help kick age discrimination into touch. TODAY we throw down the gauntlet to local companies and individuals to challenge ageism, which affects one in five people in Wales. Together
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'Clarke still not listening to us'
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Gwent Police say plans for four more UK force mergers show the government is not listening. Charles Clarke's latest bid to create superforces focused on the East of England yesterday, where the government wants 13 local forces
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Nurse found dead in flat
DETECTIVES are treating the discovery yesterday morning of a woman's body at her Abergavenny flat as suspicious. The woman, named locally as Sarah Barker, a 32-year-old private nurse, was discovered at her Nevill Street flat at around 11.25am. After the
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Make space work for you
TV's Linda Barker looks at how to create the perfect home office It's fascinating how rooms evolve, isn't it? Once upon a time nobody would have dreamt of eating anywhere but the dining room. Now, I don't even have one in my house! Next on the evolutionary
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Taste Test - Wines of the World....
Our wine expert ALEX HAMILTON samples two red delights from Chile and France. Some glasses to warm up these cold evenings. As the winter evenings are still with us and seem to be getting ever colder, I have selected a budget, yet vibrant and juicy wine
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Competition....
Win a day for two at the RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff 2006. Bute Park, Cardiff, Easter Weekend April 15-17 Say it with flower shows! This is your chance to win two tickets to the first day of the fabulous RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff over Easter
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They're back
IT'S back to the domestic scene after the recent Welsh rugby traumas and Newport Gwent Dragons have received a major boost ahead of Saturday's Celtic League game against high-flying Ulster at Ravenhill. Wales captain Michael Owen and Welsh teammates Hal
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Enjoy enduring entertainers
Nigel Jarrett casts an eye over the next few weeks to help you plan your days and nights out. Enduring entertainers who have survived the vagaries of fashion are strewn fairly thickly among the offerings from local venues next month. Following Sian Phillips's
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Dentist going private affects 1,000
UP to 1,000 NHS dental places will be lost in Newport after a dentist announced he will only treat private patients after April 1. Dr Irwin Wright said his Stow Park practice will not sign up to a new NHS contract. He claims the contract will reduce the
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Flyer devastated at missed medal shot
CHRISTIAN Malcolm has admitted that he felt the 200m gold medal was 'there for the taking,' but just couldn't risk his long-term future. Newport sprinter Malcolm, was forced to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games last night after suffering a hamstring
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Mo will bring home a medal
NEWPORT light flyweight Mo Nasir has a guaranteed Commonwealth Games bronze medal after beating Pakistan's Mu Nisar in this morning's quarter-final. Nasir has been widely tipped for Games glory in Melbourne and now faces current Games silver-medallist
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Estate evacuated in gas leak drama
A GWENT industrial estate was closed off and workers evacuated following a seven-hour gas leak yesterday. Wern industrial estate in Rogerstone was cordoned off by police officers at about 11.15am yesterday. It is believed a digger operator accidentally
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Triumph for traders in parking fight
TOWNS in Monmouthshire are to keep their free car parks, after the county council yesterday backed down on plans to introduce parking charges. Town councils in Usk, Abergavenny and Chepstow, backed by traders, had been granted leave at the High Court
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Council must help - Robin Davey column
I'VE been waiting for the Six Nations Champio-nship to end to have a go at a massive local rugby issue - and it's got nothing to do with Wales, on or off the field. It's about Newport city council and their inability or unwillingness to do anything to
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The fruits of a productive life
AS I write these words, I stare out of the window for inspiration every few seconds towards the apple tree that we emasculated last autumn in the hope that it might perk up this year. It has reputedly spent aeons gathering lichen and putting forth lame
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Ready to rock for royal performance
PRINCESS Anne is set to meet some of Gwent's most talented musicians when she visits Torfaen's very own School of Rock. The young rockers will entertain their royal guest on her visit to Gwent in two weeks. The youngsters looking forward to their royal
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A trio of fine dishes
Easter - so much more than Easter eggs This month, I have prepared a symbolic trinity of Easter dishes. Using fish, lamb and eggs, here is everything you need for a modern uptake on the traditional Easter feast. I couldn't resist adding a few Cadbury
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Gold medal glory for Davies
DAVID Davies this morning added Commonwealth Games 1500m gold to the 400m freestyle bronze he won last week. Davies, who was the overwhelming favourite to win gold at Melbourne's Aquatic Centre, never looked in trouble on his way to glory. The withdrawal
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'We want daughter's death to help others'
GWENT teenager Claire Muggeridge's unexpected death due to epilepsy was among 1,000 such fatalities every year in the United Kingdom. Now her parents Graeme and Christine, of Garn Road, Nantyglo are backing calls for action to cut the death toll. Epilepsy
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Lighten up for spring
JANE HELMICH takes a look at some of this spring's must-have fashions. IT'S almost time to fling off those winter woolies and slip into something lighter and brighter for spring. Among those making sure you don't skate on thin ice when it comes to choosing
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Welcome...
IF you're stuck for ideas to update your wardrobe this spring then look no further. Prime Time teams up with Jane Torvill and Twiggy to find out what's hot this year. We also launch the Age Positive awards, with backing from the likes of John Humphrys
