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Discord over music funding

11:33am Tuesday 18th June 2013

AMONG the worst things about Newport City Council’s withdrawal of funding for Gwent Music Support Service, aside from the devastation caused to an absolutely fantastic and highly respected system, is that many children from outside Newport, in Monmouthshire, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent, are also suffering the consequences.

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Middle lane menace

11:33am Tuesday 18th June 2013

YES, you need to take another driving test. Mr Nigel Jarrett, of Chepstow, thinks it is OK to continually drive in the middle lane, so he obviously does not know the Highway Code.

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Drivers should obey the law

11:31am Tuesday 18th June 2013

ALTHOUGH I agree with much of what Mr A Greenhalgh has to say in his letter of June 12 about driving on the continent, I fail to see that being lenient with law-breaking motorists has anything to recommend it and would replace the issuing of a summons with an on the spot fine and automatic points on the licence.

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Threat to our health service

11:30am Tuesday 18th June 2013

I AM EXTREMELYworried about the NHS.

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Gwent Police : New approach needed at top

11:29am Tuesday 18th June 2013

I BELIEVE Jonathan Williams (June 17) has misinterpreted the phrase “Chief constables... are responsible to the public”, which he found on the Home Office website.

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Questions over PCC resignation

11:26am Tuesday 18th June 2013

ALTHOUGH a meagre layman with little or no knowledge of police, law or regulations, I feel compelled to respond to Mr Boyds’ continual derogatory remarks towards Ian Johnston and the position he holds.

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Royal Gwent staff are champion

11:24am Tuesday 18th June 2013

EIGHTEEN years ago, I wrote a letter to you about the Royal Gwent Hospital giving me new hips.

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Save mural for Newport’s future

4:31pm Monday 17th June 2013

NEWPORT Civic Society has been pleased to see the groundswell of support for retaining the Chartist Mural.

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Top cop should answer to us

4:29pm Monday 17th June 2013

CLLR Kirby asserts that Carmel Napier “was not an elected official. She was an employee of Gwent Police, so she is not accountable to voters for her private decisions”.

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So impressed by Gwent PCC

4:28pm Monday 17th June 2013

AS A PAST PCC sceptic, I have put my hand up to our police commissioner for his handling of the chief constable’s position.

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