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  • Brave Newport fall to Leinster

    NEWPORT suffered more Irish heartache as they fell to their third defeat at the hands of Leinster in five weeks in a brilliant match at Donnybrook last night. Newport looked to be heading for a heavy defeat when they trailed 24-3 after only 19 minutes

  • Newport trio may be cited

    IRISH province Leinster are threatening to cite up to three Newport players after an incident near the end of last night's Celtic League quarter-final thriller at Donnybrook. Newport fell to a 34-22 defeat after another battling performance against Leinster

  • County's critical point of season - Benton

    NEWPORT County turn their attentions to another cup competition with their match at Walton and Hersham today (3pm). The Umbro FA Trophy doesn't have all the glamour of the FA Cup and there is no chance of fairytale clashes with Nationwide League clubs

  • Look who got his kit off!

    IT was a cold, windy and wet night. But for one man watching the FA cup tie between Newport County and Blackpool on Wednesday, emotion got the better of him. Ben Rafferty, (pictured) 34, of Jeddo Street, Pill decided he would add an extra bit of excitement

  • Gantry death firms' fines 'insulting'

    THE grieving widow of a Newport man who fell 80ft from a motorway bridge has blasted the fine against his negligent employers as "an insult to his memory". Yarm Road Ltd, of Hammersmith, west London, and Costain Ltd, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, were fined

  • Wife who killed husband is freed

    A NEWPORT mother-of-five jailed for stabbing her husband to death after a row has walked free. Anne-Marie Hayward, aged 53, of Llanthewy Road, had pleaded guilty at Cardiff crown court in May to the manslaughter of her husband John (pictured) on the grounds