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  • Malcolm's cold break

    CHRISTIAN Malcolm's coach Jock Anderson believes that his man is still on track to claim a place in the Great Britain team for next month's World Championship... despite picking up a cold. Malcolm has had an enforced week off due to the illness but Anderson

  • £1.5m plan for hospital unveiled

    THIS is what a Newport hospital's new £1.5 million physiotherapy unit will look like. The new unit is to be built at St Joseph's Hospital in Malpas, after the plans were approved by Newport city council this week. HolderMathias architects, who are acting

  • Crows can fly high

    CWMBRAN Town can be successful under new boss Brian Coyne, insists former Crows temporary manager Roger Gibbins. And with a few additions to Cwmbran's modest squad, Gibbins believes that Gwent's only Welsh Premier League club can once again be a force

  • Race to rescued trapped caver

    RESCUERS bringing an injured woman out of a Gwent cave where she was trapped overnight were this morning racing to beat the clock. Tidal conditions meant the entrance to the caving system in Chepstow would be flooded by about 11am. Nine members of Wessex

  • Always in our hearts, say Jenna's parents

    AS MICHAEL BALDWIN begins a life sentence today for the murder of stepdaughter Jenna Brookfield, her parents spoke of their grief and shared pride in their tragic daughter. Baldwin, 36, formerly of Limekiln Road, Pontnewynydd, was sentenced yesterday

  • Give us a bus stop

    FEISTY pensioner Renee Griffiths is battling once more - and this time she's fighting for a bus stop. The 83-year-old widow, of Princess Street, Aber-tillery, is no stranger to campaigning, having already taken on the might of the government's Department

  • Organ donor battler wins top award

    A FORMER Newport man fighting to improve the organ donation system in his adopted country has won an important award. Andy Tookey began his campaign in New Zealand after his daughter Katie was diagnosed with a rare liver disease. He and his wife Janice

  • School's bid to survive blocked

    GOVERNORS at Abergavenny's Harold Road Junior School, are blocking a bid by their feeder infant school to become Church In Wales voluntary aided. Park Street Infants is one of two Abergavenny infant schools threatened with closure by Monmouthshire county

  • Driver 'put PCs at risk'

    A POLICE officer was dragged along the ground and a colleague injured as they tried to stop an attempted car theft, a court heard. Police Constable Stephen Jenkins was caught as John Ley, 20, of Hendre Farm Drive, Ringland, tried to drive away, Cardiff

  • My training's been verruca-d!

    RISCA 400m sprinter Jamie Baulch has had his preparations for this weekend's World Champ-ionship trials hit by a troublesome verruca. And the World and Olympic silver medallist jokingly blames fellow Welsh one-lap star Iwan Thomas. Baulch had the verruca

  • Laughing stock

    WALES captain Robin McBryde has admitted that Welsh rugby has become a laughing stock following their dismal run of eight defeats in a row. The icing on the cake came with a humiliating reverse against New Zealand last month but the Llanelli hooker believes

  • Foot slams Bush

    LABOUR veteran Michael Foot today condemned George Bush's administration as the worst US government for years. Speaking on his 90th birthday the former Labour leader and MP for Blaenau Gwent said the war in Iraq had been a "terrible mistake" and called

  • Waiting game for County

    NEWPORT County boss Peter Nicholas is keeping his options open about re-signing midfield pair Ryan Ashington and Kristian Dimond. Nicholas does not want to tie-up all the cash in his tight budget while his two top transfer targets - Chinese World Cup