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  • Delay in teacher checks

    MORE than 100 teachers and assistants in Gwent must stay at home on the first day of the new school term because checks for criminal records are incomplete. The arrest of school caretaker Ian Huntley in connection with the murders of Cambridgeshire schoolgirls

  • Brave Vale denied by tough Ulster

    A BRAVE defensive display by Ebbw Vale kept them in touch with Ulster until the dying minutes before the Irish Province sneaked a late try for a 19-0 win. Tough tackling and a determined display from Vales forwards kept the former European Champions to

  • Newport crash in league opener

    Newport...........5 Bridgend.......13 NEWPORT crashed to a shock home defeat in their opening Celtic League game of the season at a disbelieving Rodney Parade last night. The Newport pack dominatied possession and enjoyed possibly 80% territorial supremacy

  • Attacks spark fears of taxi no-go areas

    PARTS of Newport could be ruled no-go areas for taxis, after a spate of attacks which risk the lives of drivers and passengers. In the latest incident a gang of youngsters threw stones at a taxi, carrying an elderly passenger, shattering one of the windows

  • Newport crash in league opener

    Newport...........5 Bridgend.......13 NEWPORT crashed to a shock home defeat in their opening Celtic League game of the season at a disbelieving Rodney Parade last night. The Newport pack dominatied possession and enjoyed possibly 80% territorial supremacy

  • Bus in hit-and-run crash drama

    A PENSIONER was injured when a car collided with the bus she was travelling on. The car driver then drove off without stopping. The 78-year-old woman was sent sprawling out of her seat by the impact. She needed hospital treatment for head and facial injuries

  • Watson's showdown heartache

    NEWPORT Wasps captain Craig Watson (pictured) has told of his personal heartache at failing to make the big Premier League showdown for individual riders at Manchesters Belle Vue stadium tomorrow week. Watson thought he had done enough to represent the

  • £30,000 'obsession'

    AN OBSESSION which has split a village for five years and left a Gwent man owing £30,000 in legal costs ended in crown court yesterday. But Arthur Edwin Turner-Thomas, 43, (pictured) says even that will not stop his battle to keep a tiny strip of land