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Emphatic win on the road for County
NEWPORT County's impressive form in pre-season continued with an emphatic 3-0 win after Havant and Waterlooville. The Exiles were a class apart from their former Conference South rivals and led at half time thanks to Lee Minshull's firm header
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Newport pupils win awards and finish year with conga
A GROUP of children leaving a Newport primary school this term have received awards for their bravery in the face of illness and adversity. Around 60 pupils from Malpas Church Junior School's Year 6 class formed a conga line as they left school
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Newport teacher to step down after 36 years
A NEWPORT teacher who joined his school as a sixth former and returned to teach English for the next 36 years retires at the end of this term. Glyn Thomas, 57, started at St Julian's School on September 4, 1972, as a sixth form pupil where he won
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Oakdale woman who taught Calzaghe and the Manics retires
SHE taught Joe Calzaghe and the Manic Street Preachers and was always the last one to leave at the end of the day. But after 34 years, chemistry teacher Angela Puddifer will hang up her lab coat at Oakdale Comprehensive for the last time this term
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ARGUS COMMENT: Time for politicians to put up or shut up on PCCs
GWENT's Police and Crime Commissioner is making few friends among politicians. Having been lambasted by most Gwent MPs following the enforced retirement of former Chief Constable Carmel Napier, Ian Johnston is today criticised heavily by an influential
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Ex-Newport schoolboy champion boxer crashed landlord’s car while drunk
A FORMER schoolboy champion boxer wrote off his ex-landlord's Saab, dumped it in a bush and crashed another car which did not belong to him while drunk, a court heard. Professional Jerome Samuels, 19, of Westfield Gardens, Newport, was described
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Warning over social media hook-ups in wake of Cwmbran triple murder
AN ONLINE protection group has warned young people of the pitfalls of social network sites, after triple convicted murderer Carl Mills was found to have allegedly sexually groomed one of his victims. It comes after the Cwmbran fire triple murder
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Newport fun day for kids with rare condition
A NEWPORT family is holding a fun day to raise awareness of a rare condition that affects one in 30,000 children in the UK. The family of three-year-old Fallon Maynard decided to hold the event at the YMCA Conference Centre, Newport to highlight
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Firefighters tackle grass fire near Cwmcarn Forest Drive
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a large grass fire near a Valleys beauty spot this morning. South Wales Fire and Rescue’s Twitter feed said it was dealing with a grass and bracken fire above Cwmcarn Forest Drive since 5.30am this morning. The services
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Sevens spectacle throws up some tasty clashes
THERE are intriguing ties involving Newport, Cross Keys and Ebbw Vale as the trio vie to be inaugural Foster’s National Sevens champions on Sunday, Aug-ust 25. The Black and Ambers face fierce rivals Cardiff, Keys take on Bridgend, while the Steelmen
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Cleverly win would finally make him unavoidable
BOXING promoter Francis Warren believes other fighters will no longer be able to avoid Nathan Cleverly, once he’s defeated big-hitting Russian Sergey Kovalev. The pair meet on August 17 at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena with Cleverly’s WBO light heavyweight
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Gwent PCC ‘disdainful’ of scrutiny - MP
IAN Johnston is disdainful of MPs’ scrutiny and hasn't given concrete examples of why he got rid of Carmel Napier. That's according to an influential group of MPs who have slammed the Gwent police and crime commissioner on the forced retirement
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Porter’s return is as good as new signing says County boss
HAVANT AND WATERLOOVILLE v COUNTY (Today, KO 3pm) NEWPORT County AFC manager Justin Edinburgh believes the return of midfielder Max Porter will prove even more valuable than making a new signing. Former Rushden and Diamonds and Wimble-don man Porter
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County ace O'Connor out for start of season
NEWPORT County AFC’s hotshot striker Aaron O’Connor will go under the surgeon’s knife and miss the start of the new season. As revealed in yesterday’s Argus Sport, O’Connor had a scan with a specialist on his long-standing groin injury on Thursday night
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Mr Bond the man with the golden touch in the battle of Welsh trio
CHEPSTOW’S Liam Bond won his third successive South West order of merit tournament and then issued a chilling message to his fellow players. “I am playing better now than when I was on the European Tour,” said the Marriott St Pierre touring player who
