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Booktown writes its own new chapter
IT WAS vaunted as a crucial step in Blaenavon's regeneration, the transformation from a mining town to literary beacon. But three years after the launch of Blaenavon as a booktown to rival Hay on Wye, almost half of the book shops are closed, and the
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Rees given shot at Scot for world belt
NEWBRIDGE lightweight Gavin Rees has been handed the chance to become Gwent's third and Wales' fourth world boxing champion. The big-punching 25-year-old has been matched with Scot-land's Martin Watson for the vacant WBU crown at York Hall, Bethnall Green
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Now we'll sing to save our school
CAMPAIGNERS fighting the proposed closure of a Catholic school in Newport are hoping to lobby a leading churchman and sing to him in a bid to save it. St David Lewis RC School Bettws Action Group wrote to Archbishop of Cardiff Peter Smith asking for a
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Sea to be Bill's resting place
TRIBUTES are being paid to a well-known Newport mariner and businessman who died after a long illness. Bill Dowds, who died last week aged 79, spent much of his life associated with the sea. After his cremation, Mr Dowd's family plan to spread his ashes
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Shutdown threat to public services
MAJOR disruption is expected across Gwent during a strike planned by public sector workers next week. Council offices, sports centres, libraries, cinemas, cemeteries and even public toilets will be forced to close if thousands of staff support the strike
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It's bronze for Mo
MO NASIR'S Commonwealth Games dream is over after the Newport boxer was beaten by England's Darran Langley in Melbourne this morning. Nasir led 7-6 after two rounds of the light-flyweight semi-final but Langley, silver medalist in the Games in Manchester
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'Drug rehab centre too near our school'
THREE teenagers met Wales' Children's Commissioner Peter Clarke to ask his advice on fighting plans for a drug rehabilitation centre planned near their homes. Blackwood teenagers Louisa Cavell, 16, her 13-year-old brother David and their neighbour Sarah
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We just can't believe our ears!
CUSTOMERS say a "ludicrous" decision to remove an anti-yob device from a Newport shop because it may infringe human rights will see the return of gangs of thugs. The Mosquito device fitted to the Spar shop in Caerleon Road succeeded in cutting anti-social
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Future's bright - Turner
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons coach Paul Turner, below, has issued an upbeat message ahead of the final run-in to the Celtic League season which gets under way again this weekend after the Six Nations Championship. The Dragons are bottom-but-one in the table,
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We can lay brother to rest at last
THE funeral of a Gwent man who died three days after being found injured on a doorstep will take place on Monday. Alec Howells, 39 of Blaendare Road, Pontypool, was found by a neighbour bleeding on the doorstep of his brother Chris Howells' home on Ashgrove
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Project brings hope to jobless
SOME of Gwent's unemployed are to be trained in engineering during the regeneration of the former Corus site in Ebbw Vale. The £3.5m contract for preparation works at the site was awarded to Hirwaun-based Walters. It included a social clause specifying
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Squash pair set for place in last eight
Gwent squash duo Alex Gough and David Evans look to be heading for the quarter-finals after their straight sets victory against South African pair Rodney Durback and Adrian Hansen. Gough and Evans won 10-8, 9-7, 10-8 in a tightly contested battle. Both
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Arson yobs razed labour of love
A HOBBIT-style turf shelter lovingly built by young people with learning difficulties was burned down by vandals. As care home owner Tony Edwards surveyed the wreckage yesterday he spoke bitterly of the "scum" who destroyed the work of vulnerable people
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Find us new homes with running water
THREE residents of a private caravan site in Risca say they are desperate to be rehoused. Debbie Francis, Kevin Jones and Garfield Alan Jeffries have all been living in mobile homes at Risca Caravan Site, off Commercial Road, for at least ten years. They
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Junkie torched crash car
A HEROIN addict who set fire to his car after being involved in an accident which left a young woman paralysed was jailed for 14 months yesterday. Pedestrian Meg Wilson, 21, from Monmouth, may never walk again after a collision with a car driven by
