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Cup joy for Gwent
IT was a good day for Gwent in the Konica Minolta Cup with five sides booking their places in round five. Premiership trio Ebbw Vale, Newport and Cross Keys overcame Caerphilly, Llanharan and Merthyr respectively while Division One East sides Blackwood
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Sutton 0 County 1
JASON Bowen's penalty just before the break was enough to secure the points for Newport County at Sutton. Bowen's strike gave County a deserved win after a hard-working, good all-round display away from home. The Exiles now sit in fifth place in Conference
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Help these proud Valleys...
SOME people talk - and write - a load of romanticised tosh when it comes to the mining industry. It's all too easy to see the past through rose-tinted glasses. For every story of proud pals working underground together, there are stories of lives
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Business' new bid for riverside site
A NEWPORT business which needs to move is making another bid to use a site despite meeting fierce opposition last time. Builders' merchants Robert Price has to leave Rodney Parade because of the regeneration of the city centre. Its present premises
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Meet the Gwent Dragons choir
EIGHTEEN months ago, they were a group of 80 hopefuls who thought they would support their local rugby region by trying out for a new choir. They included whole families, teachers, supermarket workers and hospital staff. They were young, they were
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Newport mob attack - four arrested
FOUR Newport youths were arrested yesterday in connection with a mob attack on a 16-year-old boy. The victim, a 16-year-old from Lliswerry, had his jacket and top ripped off him in the attack which happened on Lliswerry Road at 8pm on Saturday, January
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Cat with the hat on song
WITH the panto season almost over (oh yes it is!) there will be many families who feel that entertainment for them is in short supply. Worry not the YVP, a society that has been running now in Gwent for almost five years, have the ideal solution.
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Housing association looks for board members
GWENT-based housing association Melin Homes is looking to recruit three of its residents to become board members to have a say in its running. The board is the highest decision-making body in Melin, which has property across most of Gwent. Three
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Abertillery's £1.5m met celetrates it's first birthday
THERE were smiles all round yesterday as an historic Abertillery landmark celebrated its first birthday since a major revamp. It is one year since the Metropole Cultural and Conference centre reopened it's doors to the public after undergoing a £1.5
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Tintern A466 to reopen
THE main road through Tintern finally been reopens following a landslip earlier this month. The A466 was closed through the Monmouthshire village following the incident on January 15, in which 200 tonnes of debris slid onto the road following a night
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NEWPORT MURDER TRIAL: Jury shown blood-stained branch
JURORS in the trial of two men accused of murdering a Newport father were yesterday shown the tree branch allegedly used to beat the alleged victim during the fatal attack. Apprentice plumbers Kyle Dolling, 20, of Welland Circle, and Christopher Wood
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Left for dead - Blackwood man in unprovoked attack
A SAVAGE attack caused these horrific injuries - but a Gwent community's wall of silence means police have yet to catch the culprits. Tyrone Watkins, 47, a former engineer, from Cefn Fforest, Blackwood, spent nearly a month in hospital after he was
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Crash mum died because she didn't wear seatbelt - inquest hears
A MOTHER-OF-FOUR died because she did not fasten her seatbelt correctly moments before a car crash, an inquest heard. Kay Elizabeth Jones, 43, from Cefn Fforest, suffered severe chest injuries after being thrown forward into the back of the driver's
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Twin Canns in tune
TWIN sisters Claire and Antoinette Cann will be performing a programme of piano duets at Newport's The Riverfront at a lunchtime concert on Wednesday, February 6 at 1pm. Their virtuoso programme includes Partita No 3 by Michael Elliott, Polovtsian
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Pensioners' shock at exploding oven
AN ELDERLY Newport couple received a shock when their oven door exploded, leaving glass strewn across their kitchen. Les and Eileen Artess, of Dos Road, cooked their dinner on Tuesday evening and had gone into the living room afterwards to watch television
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Young boffins see study in print
YOUNG scientists at Ebbw Vale's Pontygof primary school were excited to see their study of the Ebbw River published in a national magazine this month. The children's study of the river from its source in the Brecon Beacons to Newport was published
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We can go up, says Thompson
Sutton Utd v County, today, kick-off 3pm NEWPORT County's unsung hero Glyn Thompson doesn't want plaudits, just promotion. The experienced former Fulham and Hereford United keeper has been arguably boss Peter Beadle's best ever signing since joining
