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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: PCCs under scrutiny after Gwent's top cop retires

9:39am Tuesday 18th June 2013

The forced retirement of Carmel Napier exclusively revealed by the Argus last week has triggered a debate on whether the power of PCCs should be curtailed. Now a Home Office committee led by MP Keith Vaz will investigate the matter. DAVID DEANS, SOPHIE BROWNSON and NATALIE CROCKETT report.

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SCHOOL OF THE WEEK: St Julian’s School

12:40pm Thursday 6th June 2013

Situated in Heather Road, Newport, St Julian’s School has enjoyed a number of exciting changes recently, as KATH SKELLON reports.

BEHIND THE HEADLINES: 'Too many myths' about drink or drug-driving

7:30pm Tuesday 4th June 2013

FORCES usually run such campaigns in summer and at Christmas, as shown by the poster above Too many myths about drink or drug-driving Every month 23 people in Britain are killed and 108 are seriously injured by drink or drug drivers.

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WORK EXPERIENCE: Our reporter lives the Flashdance fantasy and goes welding

2:40pm Friday 31st May 2013

Inspired by Flashdance, RUTH MANSFIELD went to Coleg Gwent’s newly refurbished welding centre in Newport to try her hand at welding.

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FIRST PERSON: Freedom for Chepstow man so precious after POW trauma

6:30pm Wednesday 29th May 2013

Spending three years as a prisoner of war in Japan still brings back painful memories for Chepstow’s Arthur Selway but there is one place where he can always feel happy – home.

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Safer A465 could be at cost of wildlife

4:40pm Tuesday 28th May 2013

LAST week the final design for the scheme to dual the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road between Gilwern and Brynmawr was revealed.

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WORK EXPERIENCE: Our reporter takes to Newport's Transporter Bridge

1:40pm Friday 24th May 2013

EVER fancied working on Newport’s most iconic landmark? We sent DANIELLE SHERIDAN to try her hand on the city’s famous Transporter Bridge.

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FIRST PERSON: County-mad butcher’s recipe for success

3:40pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

He has been a butcher since he left school at 16.

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: ‘Shops, art and leisure can revive Newport’

5:16pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

With regeneration plans put into place to transform Newport’s city centre, SOPHIE BROWNSON, DANIELLE SHERIDAN and DEAN PROSSER asked the people of Newport what they would really like to see happen to regenerate it.

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Big demand for Welsh education means crunch time for planners

2:40pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

IN THREE years’ time pupils from Torfaen, Newport, Blaenau Gwent and Monmouthshire who want to go to a Welsh-medium high school in their catchment area could find they have nowhere to go.

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