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  • Friends in tribute to tragic Jenna

    SCHOOL pals of Jenna Baldwin (pictured) today pay their own heart-rending tributes to the tragic teenager. The 15-year-old's body was found in a shallow grave on Monday night, ten weeks after she went missing from her Abersychan home. Your Argus gave

  • Time right to beat NZ

    WALES will never have a better chance of ending their near 50-year barren spell against the All Blacks than at the Millennium Stadium today. Since Wales' last moment of glory against New Zealand way back in 1953, the big rivals from opposite ends of the

  • Pooler roar back to winning ways

    Pontypool......59 Blackwood....11 DIVISION One leaders Pontypool put behind them last weekend's defeat at Newbridge to run out convincing 59-11 winners against Blackwood at the park. Mark Jones returned to skipper the home side after a seven-week absence

  • Green Goddesses in action

    TROOPS were out in Gwent yesterday as the eight-day fire-fighters' strike got under way. A Green Goddess was called to a house in Pontypool after an oven exploded. Gaynor Phillips, aged 31, of Prince Street, Tranch, was cooking her five-year-old son James

  • Record crowd for Kiwi clash

    A RECORD crowd of 74,000 will watch Wales take on New Zealand at the Millennium Stadium today (2.30pm). That has always been the capacity of the ground, but the figure has been kept to 72,500 for safety reasons. But the final 1,500 tickets have now been

  • Hero Wharton bags vital goal

    Cwmbran Town....1 Port Talbot.............1 Skipper Sean Wharton snatched a late point at a rain-soaked Cwmbran Stadium last night when the home side stretched their unbeaten run to three matches. But the Gwent side could quite easily have been beaten

  • Prince Charles wows crowds

    THE PRINCE of Wales (pictured) may be 50- something, but he still has women falling at his feet. During a function to mark the 75th anniversary of the Gwent Association of Voluntary Workers at Blackwood Miners' Institute - which was also celebrating its