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NEWPORT COUNTY 1 DAGENHAM 2

A FIRST half horror show, a missed penalty and a red card combined to see Newport County AFC slip to defeat to Dagenham and Redbridge. Two first half goals from the sensational Medy Elito, coupled with a horror penalty from Chris Zebroski and a

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Tredegar knifeman jailed for six months

A KNIFEMAN who used a blade to threaten a man who had previously told police he had assaulted him was jailed.Rhys Coughlin, 22, took the kitchen knife from his grandfather’s home then stood feet away from Phil Powell and said, “You are lucky

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Chepstow vintage club backs Imogen appeal

A CHEPSTOW organisation pledged its support towards an appeal to help a tot have a pioneering operation.The Chepstow and District Vintage Club will donate the funds raised from its tractor road run, which takes place on April 13, in aid of two-year-old

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Buckley goes under the knife ahead of Dragons return

HOOKER Rhys Buckley has undergone surgery on his right shoulder ahead of his summer return to Newport Gwent Dragons, writes Chris Kirwan.The 24-year-old is returning to Rodney Parade after two seasons in the English Championship with Doncaster and Moseley.Buckley

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FIRST PERSON: Painter, writer and more - Rex Moreton

Painter, photographer, antique dealer and now writer, LAURA LEA meets Rex Moreton who discusses his life of many talents. I was born in Southwold in Suffolk in 1928. I was evacuated to Gloucestershire with my sister. My mother sent us off to Stroud

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POLITICS FILE: ‘Planning legislation bid is undemocratic’

Could a proposed new planning system for Wales take major decisions about our local areas away from elected representatives? Politics File looks at the controversy over a new Welsh law.PROPOSED new laws could take decisions on big planning decisions out

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Stagecoach threaten legal challenge over 'unlawful' Wales cuts

WALES’ biggest bus operator, Stagecoach, today threatened a legal challenge over plans by the Welsh Government to make "brutal, flawed and unlawful cuts" to the country's concessionary travel scheme. The company has given the Welsh

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Gwent A&E units still fall short of target

GWENT’s two biggest hospitals recorded the best accident and emergency waiting times figures in Wales last month, while still continuing to fall short of the target. In what proved a difficult month for A&E units across Wales, those at Nevill

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Plea to find Rogiet axe man

A WOMAN who was threatened by a man with an axe in a Monmouthshire wood has spoken of her continued fear following a second reported sighting and pleaded with police to catch him “before someone is seriously hurt or killed”.The victim, who

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Newport bank analyst cleared of child rape charges

A NEWPORT banking analyst accused of raping a girl under 13 was cleared of all charges against him today. Lloyds employee Caleb Laughlin, 21, denied two counts of rape and a further count of sexual assault against the same girl. Mr Laughlin

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FIVE MINUTES WITH: Marshfield author and teacher Jennie Blatchford

If you had to be stuck in a lift with someone, who would it be and why?Richard & Judy. Then I could tell them all of the reasons why they should choose my book as the winner!What is your biggest fear?Flying. But my love for travelling is greater

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Wales ace Faletau set to be Dragons' impact sub

WALES star Taulupe Faletau is set to be a supersub for Newport Gwent Dragons against Connacht on Sunday afternoon but influential hooker Rhys Thomas faces three weeks on the sidelines. Number eight Faletau has been given time off by his region

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Anger mounts over Blaina fire station closure plan

A LEADING campaigner in the fight to save Blaina fire station from closure fears concerns about fire and rescue cover in Blaenau Gwent have not been taken seriously by fire chiefs.South Wales Fire Authority will be asked next Monday to approve in principle

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ARGUS COMMENT: Focus is on future Chartist memorial

THE FORMER Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams speaks for many when he describes the sadness he felt in the wake of the destruction of Newport's Chartist Mural. We of course saw it played out in all its anger at first hand all those months

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Man bailed over Abergavenny crash deaths of OAP couple

A MAN charged with causing the deaths of an elderly couple by dangerous driving appeared at Newport Crown Court yesterday. Harising Gurung, 45, is alleged to have caused the deaths of David and Mary Marshall while driving a Volkswagen Golf on the

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Thanks for cash

THANK you so much to everyone that donated to Cancer Research UK in memory of my late mum Edna Howells. You collected £335. Mrs R Price Windsor Road Newport

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Store delight

IT’S great news that Poundstretcher’s new store has now opened at Blackwood Gate Retail Park, bringing new jobs to Islwyn. With Labour’s 2012 council election pledge to review planning permission at Blackwood Gate delivered, there’s now every prospect

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Spending shock

BLAENAU Gwent council say they have no money for public services, like closing public toilets, but they can find money for two flag poles at £10,000 and employ a cleaning company from Yorkshire to steam clean around the church at a cost of £15,000

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Poll opinion

THE PEOPLE of Blackwood get a chance to show their opinion on the living wage and other Labour failures. When they go to the polls in the local by-election on April 24, it will be up to Labour and its candidate to convince the people of Blackwood

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Kind gestures

ON Sunday, November 13, my husband and I were on a flight from Bristol to Alicante when I developed stomach pains. There was a group sat around us from Newport. They all moved seats to give us three seats in a row which enabled me to lie down for

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RIP my hero

HOW sad to hear Tony Benn has died. What a fantastic person, an excellent speaker, brilliant debater a true parliamentarian, a man who stuck to his principles a true politician. The world is a poorer place with his passing, not like today’s politicians

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Beacon of light

TONY Benn is dead – we will not see his like again. He leaves a great hole in the British/Welsh political scene. He loved Wales and its people. During the 1980 steel strike, he was the only MP who joined our picket lines in Llanwern steelworks

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Newport trio to face trial for murder conspiracy

THREE Newport men accused of conspiracy to murder in an alleged drive-by shooting appeared before Cardiff Crown Court yesterday. Brogan Hooper, 20, Lewis Bridge, 23, Ryan Battersby, 24 are each charged with three counts of conspiracy murder and three

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I did not rape girl, says bank analyst

A MAN accused of raping a girl under 13 yesterday denied the allegations levelled against him saying it had “never happened”. Lloyds banking group analyst Caleb Laughlin was giving evidence before a jury after being charged with two counts of rape

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Becky James relishing Commonwealth Games battle

GWENT cycling star Becky James is relishing her Commonwealth Games battle against Olympic champion Anna Meares and British teammate Jess Varnish in Glasgow this summer.James, who won two gold medals at last year’s World Track Championships in Belarus

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UK Budget 2014

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County loan star Ian McLoughlin happy to put nightmare debut to bed

EMERGENCY loan signing Ian McLoughlin says he didn’t even know the names of his teammates when he made his Newport County AFC debut last week, writes Andrew Penman.The MK Dons goalkeeper, on loan at Rodney Parade until April 9, conceded four goals

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Three Monmouthshire schools to be built at same time

A TIMELINE to replace all four of Monmouthshire's high schools has been set out by the council, while work to reconstruct part of a primary school destroyed by fire in 2011 will finish earlier than expected.The plans mean the authority will end up

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Signalling problem causes train delays between Gwent and Cardiff

DELAYS of up to 20 minutes are reported on train services between stations in Gwent and Cardiff Central due to signalling problem at Cardiff Central. There is no estimate for the resumption of normal service. Services by on CrossCountry, Arriva

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One examiner's marking to be re-done in Welsh GCSE row

THE exam board at the centre of a row over GCSE English exam marks in Wales has said the work of one examiner will be re-done, but that almost all papers were marked correctly and accurately following a Welsh Government specification. A fortnight

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I need to get used to being an old head, says Harry Worley

HARRY Worley admits it will take time for him to get used to being one of the ‘old heads’ in the Newport County AFC defence aged just 25. With Byron Anthony missing due to a kidney infection, Worley was the senior man in the back three once

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'No agreement' that Welsh Government should fund valleys rail electrification

THE row over rail electrification of the Valley lines – and whether or not the Welsh Government will need to pay for some of it – continued to rumble on in the Senedd yesterday. The first minister Carwyn Jones said there was no agreement at any

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Newport teens ambushed youth for attack - court hears

A GROUP of Newport teenagers ambushed another youth and beat him up in an attack over a girl, Newport Crown Court heard yesterday. One of the teens lured Jacob Dorrington, then 17, from his home in Gaer on August 17 last year by suggesting they

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Thomas Trotter, St David's Hall

Where Wales leads, London follows. That was true at this lunchtime recital by international organ virtuoso Thomas Trotter, who ended his programme with Julius Reubke’s formidable Sonata in C minor, based on Psalm 94. Trotter will be including

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New £1 coin designed to beat fakes

A NEW 12-sided one pound coin based on the threepenny bit is being unveiled - and is said to be the hardest in the world to fake. Described as a "giant leap into the future" the new coin will replace the old one, after the Treasury announced that

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Cwmbran pupils hope Fresh Prince rap will save school

“THIS is a story all about how my school got flipped-turned upside down...” That is the opening line of a video made by pupils at a Cwmbran high school over plans to merge two Torfaen secondary schools to tackle falling pupil numbers. Fairwater

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I won't change my mind on David Pipe, says Exiles boss

NEWPORT County AFC manager Justin Edinburgh says he won’t reverse his decision to release captain David Pipe at the end of the season. Exiles skipper Pipe was told last month, along with midfielder Mike Flynn, that he would not be staying at

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Cycling star Becky James helps launch National Road Championships

DOUBLE world track champion Becky James returned home yesterday to help launch the 2014 British Cycling National Road Championships, which will be held in the hills of Monmouthshire this June. The Abergavenny ace revealed the routes for the

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Inquiry into Heads of the Valleys dualling begins

A PUBLIC inquiry into the dualling of the Heads of the Valleys Road between Abergavenny and Gilwern began yesterday.The inquiry, held at the Old School Community Centre, Gilwern, will consider three orders to amend the route and make improvements which

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Welsh ministers visit Newport primary to launch sports cash boost

GIVING children the confidence to take part in sport and getting them “hooked on sport” for life was the name of the game yesterday, as not one but two Welsh ministers visited a Newport primary school. Minister for sport and Newport East AM John

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Success of Amos and Dixon is firing up Dragons young guns

JAMES Benjamin says Newport Gwent Dragons' sizeable Wales Under-20s contingent are fuelled by the dream of following in the footsteps of Hallam Amos and Jack Dixon.The 20-year-old back row forward from Rogerstone is one of 13 Gwent youngsters that

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Ebbw Vale family adapting well to living green

A FAMILY who risked it all to move from their comfortable family home in Ebbw Vale to a sustainable one near Blackwood have said the risk has paid off- literally. Arthur Davies, his wife Sue and their daughter Bronwen moved to live at the award

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Dr Rowan Williams: Demolition of Chartist mural 'sad day' for Newport

ONE of the key figures of the Chartist comission, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams tells DAVID DEANS Newport should have plan for a lasting reminder of its proud Chartist history by the autumn. THE former Archbishop of Canterbury

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Welcome for Newport steel jobs

THE news that a steel factory has reopened in Newport and created 120 jobs has been welcomed by figures in politics and business. We reported yesterday that AIC Steel Limited bought the former Rowecord site and the factory officially reopened with