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Cost of Pontypool Christmas lights doubles
PONTYPOOL Community Council just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but didn’t realise that it would cost it twice as much as it had planned to wish a Nadolig Llawen too. As the Free Press previously reported, the community council had picked
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Date for Newport's Remembrance parade set
NEWPORT’S annual Remembrance Day service and parade is to take place on Sunday, November 10, arriving at the War Memorial in Clarence Place shortly before 11am.A parade will march from High Street across Newport Bridge to Clarence Place at 10.35am
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Four are named for Pill by-election
FOUR candidates are to stand in this autumn’s by-election in Pill after Newport council announced the nominations for the city seat.There were no surprises yesterday when Newport council published who would be running in the elections – with
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Luc Jones gets Dragons Euro call-up
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons have named scrum-half Luc Jones, son of director of rugby Lyn, in their European squad. The 19-year-old, who is currently playing for Bedwas in the Premiership, is in the region's extended 38-man squad for the Amlin Challenge
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Gwent Police choose man set to be next Chief Constable
GWENT Police have selected a ‘proposed candidate’ to become their new Chief Constable. Chosen in an interview process earlier today, Jeff Farrar is currently the temporary Chief Constable The decision will now be the subject of a confirmation hearing
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Newport shop to go along with bus station
NEWPORT’s bus station is heading for demolition as work is set to start on the redevelopment of the city centre this autumn.A bus station at Market Square is planned to open on October 28, the same day the old one shuts – but it won’
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Injury-hit Wales look to Football League for reinforcements
BELEAGURED boss Chris Coleman has been forced to call up a host of Football League players for Wales’ World Cup qualifiers against Macedonia and Belgium. Under-fire Coleman, whose contract ends in November, is without star men Gareth Bale,
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Newport drug dealer's appeal against length of sentence dismissed
Two men, locked up for running heroin between Reading and South Wales, have been told by top judges that they cannot complain about their jail terms.Dominic Eugene Isaacs and Damien Cadogan were sentenced at Reading Crown Court in April last year for
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Lee Selby set for European title clash
ST JOSEPH’S star Lee Selby is confident he can beat Leicester’s Rendall Munroe and claim the vacant European featherweight title after securing his British belt for keeps.The Barry boxer, who trains with Tony Borg in Newport, dispatched Cromer
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Sign the deal, Lewis urges regions
WALES' four regions are stuck between a rock and a hard place after being told by the Welsh Rugby Union that they are risking their futures if they refuse to sign a new participation agreement, writes Chris Kirwan.Newport Gwent Dragons, the Ospreys
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Wales tame England's Lions – Wales Under-18s 40 England Community Lions 10
FOUR players from Gwent played their part as Wales' Under-18s rugby league side kept up their impressive record in meetings with England Community Lions after a 40-10 win at Taff’s Well RFC. Three South Wales Scorpions in Monmouth’s Jordan Howells
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Newport soldier’s flying eye keeps his comrades safe
A FORMER plasterer who swapped his trowel for Army training has spent the last fortnight launching mini planes in the California desert. Lance Bombardier Lewis Taylor, of Tredegar, has been learning to operate the Desert Hawk III – a mini unmanned
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Lifetime achievement award for Abergavenny cycling godfather
ABERGAVENNY Festival of Cycling organiser Bill Owen has been honoured by Welsh Cycling with a lifetime achievement award.And there were a number of other winners from the town at the glittering event held at the Village Hotel, Cardiff, on Friday.Owen,
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Newport's Food Festival is a winner
WE ARE sometimes accused in some quarters of focussing too much on the negative. We would argue very much that that is not a true reflection and today we are more than happy to concentrate coverage on the fantastic weekend event that was Newport's
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Cross Keys' Rhys Jones in Wales sevens squad
CROSS Keys’ Rhys Jones and Cardiff’s Newport-born Alex Walker are both in the Wales squad which kicks off this season's HSBC Sevens World Series in Australia this week. Son of Newport Gwent Dragons forwards coach Kingsley Jones, the 26-year-old
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Police appeal after OAPs robbed in Cwmcarn
GWENT Police are appealing for help following a robbery which happened on Newport Road, Cwmcarn at around 11.30pm on Saturday 5th October. Two women, aged 68 and 75, were walking along Newport Road when they were approached by a man who grabbed
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Pontypool man's music set to help Valleys jobless
MUSIC workshops run by a man who once faced hardship are helping unemployed people in the Valleys.Kevin Webb, 47, knows how it feels to struggle, as in his twenties he found himself homeless on the streets of Texas.Back in the UK some years later, he
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Toby Faletau 'head and shoulders better than any other No 8 in Wales'
NEWPORT Gwent Dragons back rower Toby Faletau has been hailed as important to Wales as Adam Jones and Leigh Halfpenny by the legendary Martyn Williams. He believes the Rodney Parade side’s British and Irish Lions star is “head and shoulders above
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Alun Carter's new book charts Pooler's dramatic rise and fall
FOLLOWING his successful, critically-acclaimed and award-winning ‘Seeing Red’, Alun Carter’s new book, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Rise and Fall of Pontypool RFC’, published on Thursday, has been a labour of love for the ex-Wales and Pooler
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Convicted Blackwood paedophile sent messages to underage girl
A CONVICTED paedophile who exchanged 2,000 messages with young girls in breach of a court order was spared jail. Michael Harley, 25, was given a three-year community order last year after admitting sexual activity with a girl under 16, a court
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Cometh the war, cometh the man - and, on this occasion, cometh the orchestra. When you thought Shostakovich had said in his vivid Seventh Symphony (the ‘Leningrad’) all there was to say about the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he offers his
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Time to praise Newport council
WE ARE quick to criticise our local council when they do wrong, it’s not very often I hear praise when they do something right. Earlier this year we jumped on their backs for removing our regular residential road sweepers, when they put their plan
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Newport Chartist mural anger
THE PRE-EMPTIVE destruction of the chartist mural has left me seething; NCC knowing full well of the planned upcoming protest on Saturday have gone ahead and destroyed a representation of what arguably is the most important event to happen in this
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Miliband Socialist?
ONLY the politically naive and gullible could claim that Ed Miliband has any socialist credentials because he has promised a two year energy price freeze! (Especially when energy corporations can put up prices to compensate!) What would be socialist
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Whose history?
AM I living in cloud cuckoo land? I thought the Con Dems were trying to clear the deficit. I read in today’s paper that they intend to spend £10 million pounds to celebrate key events in British history as we have so much to learn from our rich history
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Many thanks
NOT a day goes by when you don’t read how hospitals have let patients down in one way or another - well this is the other side. My husband had an operation only a week ago at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He was admitted on the Tuesday and had
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Rubbish costs
IN SEPTEMBER’S Newport Matters, we’re told council funding is going to be cut, 13% this year, so it has to make some careful decisions on where to spend our money. While only 12 per cent of its budget comes from council tax, it failed to point out
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Cwmbran swimming club is hoping for £3,000 boost
A CWMBRAN swimming club is in with the chance of winning a £3,000 award. Cwmbran Otters Swimming Club has been shortlisted for a Lloyd’s bank community award. It is one of four community groups nominated from the Torfaen area.The club, which
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Duffryn High School, Newport held up as example of best practice in maths
A NEWPORT high school has been held up as a national example of good practice in maths lessons by schools inspectorate Estyn.In a report released today, Estyn praised Duffryn High School’s maths department for the range of strategies it has put
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Crosskeys photographer's pitmen pictures go on show
A PHOTOGRAPHER from Crosskeys has set out to track down the miners he photographed almost 30 years ago. Roger Tiley has been visiting shops and town centres, asking people if they recognise anyone in the photographs he took in the South Wales coal
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Newport 99p store will be biggest in UK
THE former Marks & Spencer site in Newport city centre could become the largest 99p store in the UK, the Argus can reveal. National retail chain, The 99p store submitted two planning applications to Newport City Council in June for the Commercial
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Exiles stars set to sit out Trophy tie
NEWPORT County AFC manager Justin Edinburgh will shuffle is pack for tomorrow’s Johnstone’s Paint Trophy tie at Crawley Town after his side earned a battling point at Bury. Edinburgh was delighted with the 0-0 draw at Gigg Lane that kept the
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YOUR MP WRITES: Torfaen MP Paul Murphy
I WAS encouraged to read that the Argus are supporting Age Cymru's campaign against "scams and swindles". More than 2,500 scams were reported to trading standards in Wales between February 2012 and February 2013. That's just the tip of the iceberg
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Dragons are getting their kicks out of in-form Jason Tovey
A COMMON post-match theme of 2012/13 was captain Lewis Evans bemoaning a lack of control by an inexperienced Newport Gwent Dragons side. Thankfully his successor Andrew Coombs isn't suffering the same fate after leading the region to three Rodney
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Dan Evans: There's plenty more to come from Dragons
DAN Evans has been an unsung hero of Newport Gwent Dragons' promising start to the season but the full-back claims he is only just hitting his straps, writes Chris Kirwan.The 24-year-old was in danger of missing the start of the campaign after undergoing
