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Airport plan 'could bring 50,000 jobs'
A MAJOR international airport in Newport would bring up to 50,000 jobs to the area by 2030, it was claimed yesterday. The company that wants to create a new airport at Llanwern says its £2bn proposal could open by 2010 - just in time for the Ryder Cup
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Valleys to have new hospital
A NEW 100-bed hospital costing nearly £30 million is to be built in Ebbw Vale. Money for the new community hospital - which will cost an estimated £27.8 million - was announced by Assembly finance minister Edwina Hart in her draft budget speech yesterday
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The face of an evil rapist
AN "evil" fiend who preyed on a teenage girl, subjecting her to sexual abuse of almost every form, is today behind bars. Ex-security worker, 37-year-old Michael Dibble - 6ft 2in and weighing nearly 20 stone - raped and sexually assaulted the teenager
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'I'm so relieved our boy is safe'
A NEWPORT mum whose son was in Bali at the time of the bomb blast has told of her relief after speaking to him on the phone. Anne Hurley, of Wentloog, feared her youngest son, Kevin, (pictured) was injured in the explosion that devastated part of the
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Police bid to track sex pest
POLICE in Chepstow are searching for a flasher who exposed himself to two teenage girls as they walked back to school during their lunch break. The girls were said to be upset and shaken by the incident which took place in Welsh Street. Police say they
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'Unsafe cars' fear
POLICE in Newport are warning youngsters that they are putting themselves and others in danger by driving cars which should be destined for the scrapyard. Inspector Terry Wakeley, who is based in Alway, said officers were aware of a number of incidents
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Specialists to aid baby inquiry
POLICE investigating the death of a baby boy, whose body was found in a Gwent canal, have called in psychology experts. The body was found in a green holdall on a bank of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal at Newbridge, on Friday. He had been dead for
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Morris Minor's major run
GODFREY Crew's Morris Minor van is 32 years old and just keeps soldiering on ... In a sponsored run from Land's End to John O' Groats - almost 700 miles - the old van raised £1,532 in aid of the Wales Air Ambulance. Mr Crew, of Christchurch Road, Newport
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'Film' was just a hoax
AN elaborate hoax involving a Monmouth shop has featured in a special radio programme on urban myths. The spoof was started in 1999 by Stroud architect Danny Sullivan who wanted to raise the profile of a gothic house in the area and hit on the idea of
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Role is 'the one that she wants'
Leading lady: West End musical career comes full circle for local girl Role is 'the one that she wants' FORMER Caerleon comprehensive pupil Caroline Sheen started her West End career in the musical Grease, and now she has returned to the hit show in a
