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  • Excellent

    NEWPORT is set to receive another massive boost to its growing reputation as Wales' fastest-growing sporting city. A huge £2 million rugby Centre of Excellence has been planned at Coleg Gwent's Nash College site that will be one of four such centres in

  • Bringing up baby in waste squalor

    A CWMBRAN couple who lost their first baby to cot death a year ago are again pleading with housing chiefs to find them a new home. Distraught parents Daniel Charles, 18, and Leanne Stock, 19, lost their one-month-old baby, Ieuan, last July. As the Argus

  • Bid to cure the doctor crisis

    HEALTH chiefs hope a new scheme will end the crippling shortage of family doctors in the Gwent Valleys. In March a special Argus investigation revealed the crisis in the Valleys, where there is no one to replace the many family doctors who want to retire

  • Don't desert Jude

    PONTYPOOL skipper Mark Jones has called on the club's players to rethink their boycott of any team run by benefactor Bob Jude next season. The Jude company running the club, Pontypool Premier Rugby Ltd., face a winding up move in the High Court next month

  • Trust to discuss 'bad' 999 cover

    WELSH Ambulance Trust bosses will be asked to explain the lack of emergency ambulance cover in Monmouthshire at a special meeting tomorrow. Chief executive of The Welsh Ambulance Service Don Page will meet representatives of the county council, Gwent

  • Did you see crash which killed man?

    POLICE are again appealing for witnesses to the car crash at Langstone on Sunday in which 24-year-old Paul Cutler died. Mr Cutler, (pictured) of Howe Circle, Ringland, was named by police yesterday morning. His family were still too distraught to speak

  • Heavenly plumage to preen in!

    IT'S one of the most colourful events in the sporting calendar - a day when the cameras are firmly trained on the spectators. Forget the fillies on the track - the real draw at Royal Ascot tomorrow will be the incredible parade of wacky and wonderful

  • Time for change, says Croft

    GLAMORGAN captain Robert Croft admits the new Twenty20 cricket competition may call for constant changes to strategy in the weeks ahead. Teams are still getting used to the 20 overs format and few have devised a real plan for it. Indeed, Northamptonshire

  • Discovery of body is shown on video

    JURORS in the Jenna Brookfield murder trial watched a video of Michael Baldwin showing police where he buried the teenager. For 35 minutes court room 1 sat in silence as the discovery of the 15-year-old's body was replayed on a police video. Yesterday

  • Thieves raid school

    EDUCATION equipment worth £1,400 was stolen from Duffryn High School, Newport. Police are appealing for information about the burglary, which happened on Monday night and was discovered early yesterday morning. Head teacher David Snashall said replacing

  • School blaze hits September return

    PUPILS of fire-gutted Rogerstone Primary School will not return for lessons at their old site this September. Instead, they will continue attending lessons at a former disused school - where one pupil was injured this month when a window broke. Rogerstone

  • Wales set for semi-final spot

    Wales 24 Argentina 18 WALES Under-21s are poised for a semi-final spot in this year's IRB World Cup following a battling 24-18 win over Argentina at Oxford last night. Chris Davey's side, who beat Scotland at Henley in their opener last Friday, need a

  • World will focus on birthday prince

    THE eyes of the world will be on Newport when Prince William celebrates his 21st birthday here tomorrow. Organisers have been inundated by requests from camera crews from three continents wanting to film the prince and his father as they visit a centre

  • Fagged out on tobacco road

    CANADIAN Phil Shaw arrived in Newport as he continued an epic journey across Britain and Ireland - by ski. The 36-year-old cross-country skier is travelling through most of the major towns and cities of the British Isles on roller-skis in a bid to raise