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  • Newport pick big Simon as captain

    SIMON Raiwalui (pictured) is Newport's captain for the second successive season, with his big aim to take them into the Heineken Cup quarter-finals for the first time. The Fiji skipper and second row agreed to continue the role he successfully carried

  • Furnishers' £10,000 gift to homeless shelter

    GWENT'S largest furnishing company has come up with the cash to help save a Newport night shelter after an impassioned Argus plea. A cry of despair from those who are responsible for caring for the homeless went up last month after a night shelter run

  • Swimmer Bethan is Coole under pressure

    GWENT swimming torpedo Bethan Coole has plenty of laps left ahead of her in the pool. But as a veteran of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, she is the elder stateswoman of Wales' youngest ever swimming squad and in team manager Bryn Williams

  • Mean thief steals dead girl's flowers

    THE grieving family of a teenage girl who died four years ago today are distraught that flowers laid at the spot where she was found were stolen. Jenny and Basil Vaughan say they are angry and disgusted that anyone could take flowers in memory of their

  • What killed 'perfect' Steven?

    SECURITY guard Steven Short was a seemingly healthy 23-year-old with everything to live for. But a mystery illness led to multiple organ failure and his death on July 9 before he could marry the fiancee he had met on the Internet. Now, his stunned family