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  • 'I aim to be top hot-shot'

    AMBITIOUS centre-back Jeff Eckhardt has put down a challenge to Newport County's strikers for the club's top goal-scorer accolade. The free-scoring 38-year-old is currently alongside frontman Neil Davis as the Exiles' joint top-scorer with seven goals

  • Simon's say

    NEWPORT'S inspirational captain during some of their recent golden years reckons that current Dragons coach Mike Ruddock will land the top job of Welsh national boss. And if Ruddock does not achieve his goal now should he eventually apply for it due to

  • You can leave your hats on...

    HOW far would you go for your favourite charity? Malpas firefighter Rick Evans, a 37-year-old ex-testicular cancer patient, persuaded six colleagues to join him in doing The Full Monty at Cardiff City Hall in aid of the Velindre Hospital Cancer Appeal

  • Newbridge hat-trick bid

    IT'S Gwent derby time again today with four of the county's Premier Division sides involved in matches against traditional rivals. Improving Newbridge host a Pontypool side which has slipped recently while lowly Ebbw Vale come up against Pandy Park visitors

  • He's my hero

    REBECCA Jones has her own personal Superman - a diabetes sufferer with only one lung. For although he suffers serious health problems, Bernard Howes, aged 57, sprang into action when he spotted a fire in the kitchen of his neighbour Rebecca's home. He

  • Whitehall comes to the people

    IT'S good to talk - especially when you are Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chancellor Gordon Brown, Home Secretary David Blunkett and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott aiming to reconnect with the people. The four most powerful men in Britain arrived in