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Eisteddfod honour for Gwent men
TWO people from Gwent will be honoured by the Gorsedd of the Bards at this year’s National Eisteddfod in Wrexham. One of them will be an honorary druid for a ceremony on the Eisteddfod Maes on August 5. The 2010 Eisteddfod executive chairman
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Recycling target is almost in the bag
RESIDENTS in north Monmouthshire will have their rubbish collected once a fortnight from the end of the month. Black bag collections will change from weekly to fortnightly in Abergavenny and surrounding villages including Govilon, Gilwern,
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‘Sign up to horse chipping petition’ - charity's plea
MORE than 100 people have signed an online petition to date calling on the Welsh Assembly to enforce microchipping laws for horses and ponies. The Monmouth-based horse charity The Society for the Welfare of Horses and Ponies launched the campaign
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Friends hold big clean-up in park
MORE than 30 bags of rubbish and almost 500kgs of scrap metal were removed from Pontypool Park during a successful river clean-up. The event on June 1 was organised by the newlyformed Pontypool Park Friends group with support from staff at Torfaen
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Ex-Caerphilly mayor in final fundraiser
OUTGOING mayor of Caerphilly county James Fussell hopes to reach his fundraising target of £15,000 for his year in office. While St Martins councillor Mr Fussell has handed over the chains of office £3,000 short of the total, he has one more
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Airliner of the future unveiled
A VISION of future air travel, with seats that change to fit passengers’ body shapes, was presented by plane-maker Airbus in London. Air travellers in 2050 might fly in an ‘intelligent’ cabin and be able to read bedtime stories to their children
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Plans to hike Wales tuition fees rejected
PLANS allowing Welsh universities to increase their tuition fees to £9,000 have been rejected, the Education Minister has announced. A number of Higher Education institutions in the principality had applied to increase their rates - after the UK coalition
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£4m aid for tsunami-hit companies in Wales
WELSH firms whose business has been adversely affected by the Japanese tsunami and earthquake are to be given financial help. Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Skills Jeff Cuthbert has announced £4 million will be available for companies that have
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Welsh jobless total falls by 9,000
UNEMPLOYMENT in Wales has fallen by 9,000 in the three months to April, official figures have shown. The unemployment rate is now 7.9%, compared with a UK average of 7.7%. It means other areas of the UK such as north east England, Yorkshire and
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Monmouth's Shire Hall should be be market again - council
MONMOUTHSHIRE Council is recommending that Monmouth’s traditional marketmove back to its original home at the Shire Hall. The authority was forced to rethink its plans over the market’s future after it was moved from Agincourt Square to the
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Charity marks 25 years of making dreams come true
A NEWPORT youngster who enjoyed the trip of a lifetime thanks to the Make a Wish Foundation helped celebrate the charity’s 25th birthday yesterday. Six-year-old Michael Griffiths and his family were at the city’s Royal Gwent Hospital to mark
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Take That, Millennium Stadium
60,000 screaming fans packed out the Millennium Stadium on Tuesday night ready to party at the hotly-anticipated return of Take That in their Progress tour. Last time they visited Cardiff they were here as a four-piece but the crowds were even more
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Avenue Q, Wales Millennium Centre
RACE, sexuality, unemployment and finding your purpose in life aren¹t exactly the usual topics for a puppet show but then Avenue Q isn¹t exactly your usual show. Set in a fictional area of New York, Avenue Q bears more than a passing resemblance
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The Titfield Thunderbolt, Dolman Theatre
It’s “All aboard!” for classic comedy this week at the Dolman Theatre as Newport Playgoers Society take a direct route back to 1952 to revisit the Ealing Comedy Classic, “The Titfield Thunderbolt”. Recalling the early carefree days of the railway
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Dragons draw Hook's Perpignan
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have been drawn in the same pool as James Hook’s Perpignan in the group stages of the Amlin Challenge Cup. They will also face Aviva Premiership side Exeter Chiefs and Italian outfit Cavalieri Prato. The first round
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Arson-hit Chepstow playgroup finds new home
A CHEPSTOW playgroup which had its building destroyed in an arson attack has “pulled together” to make its new location a success. Little Acorns’ playgroup was run at a demountable building at Thornwell Primary School, Bulwark, but it had to be
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Farewell to media great from Gwent
TRIBUTES have been paid to Newport sports commentator Idwal Robling, who has died at the age of 84. Mr Robling, from Malpas, described as a “modest family man”, was a highly regarded BBC broadcaster, best-known for his work in football. He died on Thursday
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North Wales ‘glamping’ site is one of UK's best
YUMMY mummies are flocking to North Wales to go ‘glamping’ safari style. Hot Tub Safari in Pentre Mawr, near Denbigh, beat off competition from thousands of entries to be voted one of Sudocrem’s top ten ‘glampsites’ in the UK. A Sudocrem spokeswoman
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Newport youth centre in move to new HQ
A YOUTH organisation in Newport is set to move to a new home in Newport City Centre. Urban Circle is due to sign a lease with Newport council on an empty shop on Upper Dock Street where it hopes to restart its youth music workshops, according
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Caerleon has Wales' first 'excellent' school
STAFF and pupils at a Newport school are celebrating after becoming the first secondary school in south east Wales to be graded “excellent” under new inspection guidelines. Caerleon Comprehensive achieved top marks in the new Estyn framework
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‘Teamwork vital to fight domestic abuse' - police chief
WORKING together is imperative in tackling domestic abuse in Wales, Gwent’s chief constable told a conference yesterday. Chief Constable Carmel Napier joined Independent Police Complaints Commissioner for Wales Tom Davies to host the first
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Abergavenny man threatened to ‘gut’ bar doorman
AN ABERGAVENNY man told a bouncer he had a grievance with “I will gut you like a fish,” a court heard. Newport Crown Court heard Craig Osborne, 38, had previously admitted assaulting Mark Walters, a doorman at Abergavenny bar Auberge, in 2009
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Boss of Newport's Vittorio’s dies, 75
A WELL-KNOWN Newport restaurant owner has died aged 75. Vittorio Rizza, of Rogerstone, owner of Vittorio’s Restaurant, Stow Hill, died while in his home town of Cassino in Italy after contracting pneumonia. He had been in St Scholastica
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WADE'S WORLD: How kids can make your holiday better
THIS month, it’s about kids on holiday, but for those of you without children, it's worth hanging on because there's much they can teach everyone about getting more from your holiday. I have a five-year-old daughter, but before she came along I thought
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Robbery plot trio jailed for family’s gun ordeal
THREE Newport men were jailed yesterday for their part in a robbery where a Valleys family was terrorised by three masked gunmen. Wesley Kenny, of Traston Road, Joshua Henshaw, of Handel Close, and Steven Miles, of Elgar Avenue, were sentenced
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Potter: County have the magic
NEWPORT County’s new goalkeeper Danny Potter admits the prospect of a promotion push is what attracted him to the club. The 32-year-old former Torquay, Cambridge United and Stevenage stopper had five other offers on the table, but was convinced
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Store finally set for Abergavenny market site
A TEN-year campaign to build a supermarket in Abergavenny is over after Monmouthshire Council agreed to the £11 million project which will see the demolition of the cattle market to make way for Morrisons. Despite eleventh-hour pleas from
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Hundreds of Gwent OAPs ‘abused by their carers’
HUNDREDS of Gwent pensioners claim they have suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of their carers in the past two years. Gwent councils received 780 allegations of abuse against elderly people by those who were supposed
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Brown challenges Dragons
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons must have a team to match the new Rodney Parade stadium, says former benefactor Tony Brown. His company Bisley Office Furniture have taken over as headline sponsors of the Dragons and the new stand currently being built
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Newport Muslims launch anti-terror campaign
A COALITION of Newport Muslim groups yesterday launched a grassroots campaign that spells out why terrorism and extremism are against the teaching of Islam. The Council of Mosques and Muslim Organisations Newport has unveiled a leaflet entitled
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Tribute as Rudolf Hess’ Abergavenny guard dies
AN ABERGAVENNY man who guarded Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, when he was a prisoner of war in the town, has died. Joe Clifford watched over Hess from 1942 when he arrived at Maindiff Court Military Hospital and PoW Reception Centre
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Glam duo put Middlesex in a spin
GLAMORGAN spinners Dean Cosker and Robert Croft took three wickets apiece as Middlesex slumped to 102 all out, their lowest score in Twenty20 cricket, and their fourth defeat in five matches in the Friends Life t20 South Division. Glamorgan also struggled
