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Flood protection work starts
Work has started on protecting an Abergavenny street which has flooded six times in the last 18 months. Two properties on Station Road have had their living rooms swamped, two cellars have been deluged, structural damage has been caused and
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UK NEWS: Brand quits R2 show amid prank row
Play Video Russell Brand is resigning from his Radio 2 show in the wake of the controversy over calls made to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew
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Carter central to All Blacks
FLY-HALF Dan Carter was surprised to be lining up at inside centre for the Bledisloe Cup clash with Australia in Hong Kong but the New Zealand star insisted he is relishing the challenge. Carter, considered one of the finest stand-offs in world rugby
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UK NEWS: One dead as plane lands on tractor
A tractor driver escaped injury when a light aircraft landed on his machine, killing one passenger and seriously injuring the other, paramedics said. Emergency services were called to Seething Airfield, near Norwich, at about 1.50pm on Wednesday.
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Listed churches get cash boost
THREE Churches across Gwent are able to undertake much-needed repairs after being awarded more than £200,000 of Lottery money. Pontypool churches St Cadoc's and Mount Pleasant, along with Llantrisant's Church of St Peter, Paul and John have
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Council must make £5 million cuts - leader
CAERPHILLY council leader Lindsay Whittle said he is facing a tough test as the council faces having to make spending cuts of around £5million. Following the provisional Local Government settlement payment of £6.36m from the Welsh Assembly, which was
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'No lights off plans' - city council
NEWPORT council has moved to reassure residents there are no plans to turn off street lights in the city. The council say a number of enquiries have been made after other Welsh councils including Torfaen decided to turn half the lights off
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Residents have their say on street lights
TORFAEN residents can have their say about the council’s decision to switch off up to 50 per cent of street lights in the county by taking part in a public consultation. From October 29 residents can post their comments online at www.torfaen.gov.uk
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Church women give baby gifts
Women in Newport donated gifts to suffering children and their parents. Unwanted items for babies and children, such as toys, cotton wool, wipes, prams, cots and high chairs, were brought into Bethel Community Church, on Stow Hill in Newport, to be sent
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ARGUS COMMENT: Controversial offer
AN offer like the one at Escapade nightclub in Newport where you pay £5 and have as many drinks as you like on Wednesday nights was always going to be controversial. Hundreds of students packed the club when it first ran the promotion last week.
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ARGUS COMMENT: It's time to sit tight
IT’S hardly surprising in the current economic climate that house prices in Gwent and across the rest of the UK have taken a hammering. The annual rate at which house prices in England and Wales are falling nearly doubled during September to hit a
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Evans a winner in Finland
BLACKWOOD boxer Craig Evans is celebrating after returning from representing his country in Finland with a gold medal. The 19-year-old, who trains at Church Place Amateur Boxing Club in Bargoed, won the prestigious Tampere Cup to add to the winners belt
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GAS EXPLOSION: Investigation continues
INVESTIGATIONS are still under way to determine the cause of a gas explosion at a house in Blaenavon which injured three people. The blast occurred at an end terrace house in Hillside Avenue and blew off the front door and window frame. The injured
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Dragons aces aim for bullseye
Four Dragons stars were brought down to earth with a bump as they came face to face with 13 times world darts champion Phil Taylor. Rhys Thomas, Kevin Morgan, Gareth Maule and Shaun Connor took on Taylor in Porthcawl last week as part of a
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NEGLECT TRIAL: Workers 'not told' of needs
CARE assistants giving 24-hour care to a dementia sufferer were not told what condition he had or why he needed constant care, a court heard. Interview transcripts from two care assistants were read to jury members in the trial of seven people
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Glam gear up for Ashes fever
Glamorgan Cricket has confirmed that tickets for the much-anticipated first npower Ashes Test match will go on public sale on Monday. Ashes fever has well and truly descended on Cardiff and unsurprisingly, the demand for tickets for the England v Australia
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Plan to build new county hall
A NEW county hall is set to be built in Monmouthshire to house the authority's 450 staff, council chiefs decided. Staff have to leave the existing 30-year-old county hall in Cwmbran, currently shared with Torfaen county council, by March 2012 because
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FA Youth Cup: Forest Green 3 - County 4
COUNTY’S youngsters battled heroically to win a game in which they trailed 3-1 with a quarter of an hour remaining. Forest Green Rovers boasted a 25-match unbeaten run and with a trip to League One Cheltenham Town’s youth team for the winners in the
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Roger really is a special constable
Gwent Police’s longest-serving special constable is celebrating 44 years in service. Divisional officer Roger Smith, 63, from Newport, was the first special in Wales to drive a car with blue flashing lights and received an MBE in 1996 for services
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Employees spend less time travelling to work survey finds
The number of workers spending more than an hour travelling to the office has fallen for the first time in a decade, suggesting that ‘smarter’ schemes such as flexi-time were having an effect, new research has revealed. A study by the TUC showed a
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Hoani set for early debut
HOANI MacDonald, the latest Newport Gwent Dragons recruit from New Zealand, could go straight into the team for Sunday’s final EDF Energy Cup group game against Wasps at Adams Park. MacDonald arrived in Wales last Friday and was an interested onlooker
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6 foot 4 'thug' beat petite girlfriend - court hears
A MAN branded a "bully and a thug" was jailed for 20 months for giving his partner of seven months a beating in her Gwent home. The victim, 33-year-old Joanne Suter who lived in the Rassau area of Ebbw Vale, was five feet 10 inches tall and weighed
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Feeder show still on after bus blaze
GWENT band Feeder had thousands of pounds worth of instruments and equipment go up in flames after their tour bus caught fire. The band themselves were not amongst the 14 on board on the bus as it travelled between Glasgow and Lincoln in the
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Tovey hopes to fire young Dragons
DRAGONS Under-20s head coach Wayne Jones is urging his charges to stake a claim for national selection when they take on their Blues counterparts at Eugene Cross Park tonight (kick-off 7.15pm). Full back Jason Tovey and lock Ashley Sweet, who
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NEW INN DEATH: Tribute from the family of Kingsley Monk
THE family of New Inn murder victim today issued a tribute to a “loving” and “kind” man. Kingsley Monk, 45 from Maesygarn Road, Oakdale, died at the scene of an incident at driver recruitment agency Driverline 247, in New Road, after being fatally
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Daughter's death 'a tearing loss'
A PONTLLANFRAITH couple say they are broken-hearted after the death of their five-year-old severely disabled daughter. Claire and Dennis Orchard's daughter Rhiannon was completely dependent on them after her birth at Torbay Hospital, Devon.
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Blight defends County transfer policy
NEWPORT County chairman Chris Blight has defended the club’s extraordinary revolving door transfer policy after the shock release of Paul Hall and Justyn Roberts this week. The pair became the 11th and 12th players to leave the club since the
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MP welcomes new member of house
MEET Newport East MP Jessica Morden's latest constituent - her four-day-old baby boy. Little Ifan was born in the early hours of Saturday morning at the Royal Gwent hospital, weighing 8lb 9oz. He is a younger brother for Mali, 1, and
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Posties brave the cold for good cause
A TEAM of Chepstow posties are freezing their knees this winter in aid of charity. Seven postmen and one postwoman based at the Chepstow Sorting Office are wearing shorts until the beginning of April. On the way they will be raising money for prostate
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City youngsters get reading
Reading enthusiasts are clubbing together today to read as many words as they can as part of Newport’s Big Read. Readers can text or email the number of words they have read in, which could include recipe books, novels and text from the internet, and
