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Funeral for murder probe tot

4:10pm Saturday 4th July 2009

FAMILY and friends will gather in Machen next week for the funeral of four-year-old Zoe-Ann David.

Monmouthshire family raise cash for diabetes cause

3:20pm Saturday 4th July 2009

THE FAMILY of an eight-year-old Monmouthshire girl with type one diabetes are raising money to help other children with the disease.

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Thieves con OAPs

2:00pm Saturday 4th July 2009

POLICE are appealing for information after two distraction burglaries were committed in Gwent within a couple of hours.

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MP slams £450k expenses secrecy op

SPEAKING OUT: Dai Davies

12:20pm Saturday 4th July 2009

A GWENT MP who uncovered the cost of blacking-out information on members’ expenses said the £450,000 spent on it was “lunacy.”

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Gwent students have Britney Spears to thank for TV slot

Is Britney Spears heading to Swindon?

11:20am Saturday 4th July 2009

WHEN Gwent students Simon Antoniw and Sally Lloyd heard about an appeal for people to appear in a programme about the ultimate Britney Spears fans they knew they fitted the bill perfectly.

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Original teacher helps mark Duffryn High School's 50th

MEMORY: Margaret Woodrow is filmed by Duffryn pupils

10:10am Saturday 4th July 2009

PUPILS at Newport's Duffryn High School helped celebrate its 50th anniversary year by interviewing one of its original teachers.

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Newport teens raise £6,000 in friends' memory

St Julians school Newport pupils who have been fundraising in memory of their friend Louis Price

8:10am Saturday 4th July 2009

A GROUP of Newport teenagers raised more than £6,000 for charity in memory of their friend who died last year.

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Body found in plane's undercarriage

A man's body was found in the undercarriage of a plane which landed at Gatwick Airport

10:53pm Friday 3rd July 2009

An investigation is under way following the discovery of a man's body in the undercarriage of a plane after it arrived from Africa, police have said.

Stolen drugs warning

8:10pm Friday 3rd July 2009

POLICE are appealing for information about prescription drugs believed to have been stolen in Abergavenny during the past couple of days.

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Top soldier believed Afghanistan campaign was 'right'

6:40pm Friday 3rd July 2009

THE most senior British Army officer to be killed in action for 27 years had said he was sure progress in the Afghanistan campaign was going in the "right direction’’ just weeks before his death.

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Common sense at last but a review of the rules shouldn't have been necessary it was bureaucracy gone mad. Here's to you Mrs Avery may you enjoy your allotment for many years to come.  − welshnannie

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So sanity has broken out. We all make mistakes and the best any of us can do is to change the mistake and apologise. Rogerstone Community Councillors now recognise they'd made an pretty daft error of judgement. The best way, now, to say 'sorry' to Mrs. Avery is to quietly knock on her door, (without the cameras and reporters being there), give her a new deck chair, a few clematis, and the offer by the coluncillors themselves that they will get their wellies on and erect some trellising for the plants to run over.  − Cleckandra

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