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THE EDITOR'S CHAIR: Giving you what you want, how you want it

11:20am Thursday 23rd May 2013

YOU may have noticed we have been publishing a full-page reader survey in the Argus for the last couple of weeks.

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THE EDITOR'S CHAIR: A breath of fresh air in Newport city debate

2:26pm Thursday 16th May 2013

OUR interview earlier this week with Simon Gibson, the businessman heading the Welsh Government’s Newport city centre taskforce, stirred up something of a hornets’ nest.

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EDITOR'S CHAIR: Now work begins to secure Exiles' future

10:18am Thursday 9th May 2013

IT WAS beyond anything I have ever experienced at a football match.

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THE EDITOR'S CHAIR: County’s is the ultimate romantic sporting story

12:56pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

I’M not ashamed to admit I had tears welling up at Rodney Parade last Sunday.

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THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: Censorship? No way, you’d read all about it

3:20pm Thursday 25th April 2013

THERE has been an interesting debate on Twitter this week (and who knew the words ‘interesting’ and ‘Twitter’ would ever be used in the same sentence?) between a Newport city councillor and the campaigners Save Newport Art.

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THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: How much would you pay for news?

12:10pm Thursday 18th April 2013

IS NEWS free? It is an interesting question and one that is being debated increasingly across the newspaper industry at the moment.

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EDITOR'S CHAIR: Watching people celebrating Thatcher's death is sickening

6:30am Thursday 11th April 2013

THE idea of throwing a party to celebrate the death of a human being is, in my view, utterly repugnant.

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THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: Conference fixture pile-up is a disgrace

10:30am Thursday 28th March 2013

NEWPORT County AFC ply their trade in what is meant to be a professional league.

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THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: I am angry that local press has been ignored

10:32am Thursday 21st March 2013

THIS week we saw the three main political parties in Britain reach agreement on a Royal Charter for Press regulation in the wake of the Leveson inquiry.

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THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: Wake up, it’s time to restore Newport's pride

4:50pm Thursday 14th March 2013

THE following is a letter I received this week from Jonathan Thomas, the new landlord of The Lamb pub in Bridge Street, Newport. It is an impassioned plea to the powers-that-be and the people of Newport to come to the rescue of the city centre. It is a must-read and, I hope, the starting-point for a sensible, intelligent debate about Newport’s future.

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