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Stories for 25 February 2005

Gwent News

Falling wall crushed tot

A WALL collapsed and killed a toddler in his grandfather's garden, an inquest heard.  more...

Toddler killed as mum reversed

A TODDLER who died after being crushed under a car being driven by her mother had fallen or jumped from the back seat, an inquest heard.  more...

Students' bodies are works of art

STUDENT Samantha Swift will show off her body painting skills in London next week after scooping first prize in a Coleg Gwent competition.  more...

Traders warned to check food stocks

GWENT traders are being asked to check their stock carefully after the nationwide food scare over the food dye Sudan 1.  more...

'We won't do anything to hurt elderly'

NEWPORT'S social services chief defended the council's decision to axe meals on wheels claiming those who receive it are not among the most vulnerable of city residents.  more...

Police to monitor vandalised centre

POLICE patrols are to be stepped up after vandals targetted a centre for the visually impaired.  more...

Baldrick's cunning plan to see old ship

COMEDIAN and historian Tony Robinson had a cunning plan when he recently gave a show in Newport.  more...

Tranquility in a garden of peace

PEOPLE representing more than a dozen different nationalities and five religions yesterday symbolically mixed the soil to nurture a Tree of Peace.  more...

Fury over public's ban

TORFAEN council has come under fire for letting a group of students sit in on a confidential cabinet meeting.  more...

Gwent Picture Special

Students' bodies are works of art

STUDENT Samantha Swift will show off her body painting skills in London next week after scooping first prize in a Coleg Gwent competition. Her spectacular creation Wise Willow wowed the judges and a full house at Cross Keys campus drama studio during the second annual body painting event. Twenty-three students, four in their second year and 19 in their first, took part in the Myths and Legends themed event. The theatrical and media make-up students spent up to three and a half hours preparing the live models for the catwalk show. They also arranged the music, lighting and choreography. Students on the two-year diploma course are training for careers in the theatre, television or photographic studios. They learn to apply make-up for stage and film, including special effects such as aging, scars and wig-making. "It was a fantastic event and a chance for our students to show what they are capable of and to experience the thrills of competition work," said event organiser and tutor Maria Retter. Second year student Samantha, and runner-up Steven Rose, will now compete in the National Student Make-Up 2005 competition in London next Monday. Last year Coleg Gwent make-up and fashion student Raphaelle Fieldhouse became body painting champion at a championship in Austria which featured 161 artists from 36 nations. She was one of three judges of this year's Coleg Gwent competition, with theatre director Gordon Collins and film make-up artist Carolyn Hinds. The results were: 1 Samantha Swift, Wise Willow (model Charlotte Moore); 2 Steven Rose, Satan (model Scott Perry); 3 Jessica Dee, Swan Princess (model Amy Davies); 4 Cerys Tugwell, Singing Siren (model Lauren Talemi).   more...

Gwent Sport

Belle deal looks silent

CORTEZ Belle's planned loan move to Newport County was dramatically called off last night after his club, Chester City, ordered him back.   more...

FRENCH LEGEND WARNS WALES

IT'S a sign of the times when a country wins their first two Six Nations Championship games, but there is still widespread discontent and dissatisfaction.  more...

I'd leave Hopkins out for the count

TIME'S ticking on and I still haven't received official confirmation from the World Boxing Organisation that my fight against Brian Magee in Belfast on March 18 will be recognised as a world title defence.  more...

Wales target the talisman

BEWARE Betsen. That's the warning from Wales' defence coach Clive Griffiths ahead of Saturday's game with `Les Bleus' at the Stade de France.  more...

No looking back

KEVIN Morgan sums up the glorious uncertainty surrounding Wales' biggest Six Nations test so far this season against France in a cold and snowy Paris tomorrow.  more...

Mono Cinema

Life lessons on the court

JACKSON picks up the true story of a basketball coach who demanded excellence on and off the court and drops it clean through the hoop.  more...

Mono Day Out

Watching the wildlife

FOR a day of watching wildlife, the Gwent Levels Wetlands Reserve is ideal. The reserve has successfully attracted wild birds to the coast of South East Wales since its opening in 2000.  more...

Mono Eating Out

Spicy taste of the exotic

THE Misbah Tandoori in Priory Street, Monmouth, is a family-run restaurant which offers authentic Bangladeshi cuisine and is located in a grade II listed building in Monmouth.  more...

Mono Music

Enjoy volting ambition

"IT'S got a good beat, and it fills me with some anxiety," says Dick Valentine, frontman of psycho torture disco band, Electric Six.  more...

Doves are flying high

DOVES' biggest UK tour to date calls on Bristol and Cardiff next week. The band made their long-awaited return earlier this month when they released the single Black And White Town.  more...

Rifles shoot back after lengthy tour

WELSH punk band Martini Henry Rifles return to the green-edged sleaze pits of South Wales this weekend after a lengthy tour on the other side of the Severn Bridge.  more...

Big John aim to be noticed

NEWPORT band Big John are coming out from behind their alter-ego The King Pimm And The Hotdogs.  more...

Mono Performance

Elvis delivers hall concert

REGARDED as one of Britain's most influential songwriters, Elvis Costello comes to Cardiff's St David's Hall in May with The Imposters.  more...

Mike's cruising to make us laugh

WELSH West End star, television personality and award-winning comedian Mike Doyle is touring Gwent next month.  more...

Mono Spotlight

A taste of things to come - the people's prom

BANISH the last of the winter blues and enjoy a taste of things to come in this summer's Welsh Proms Cardiff Centenary season, when The People's Prom comes to Cardiff's St David's Hall on Friday, March 11, at 7.30 pm.  more...

Sport Six Nations

FRENCH LEGEND WARNS WALES

IT'S a sign of the times when a country wins their first two Six Nations Championship games, but there is still widespread discontent and dissatisfaction.  more...

Wales target the talisman

BEWARE Betsen. That's the warning from Wales' defence coach Clive Griffiths ahead of Saturday's game with `Les Bleus' at the Stade de France.  more...

No looking back

KEVIN Morgan sums up the glorious uncertainty surrounding Wales' biggest Six Nations test so far this season against France in a cold and snowy Paris tomorrow.  more...

Belle deal looks silent

CORTEZ Belle's planned loan move to Newport County was dramatically called off last night after his club, Chester City, ordered him back.   more...

I'd leave Hopkins out for the count

TIME'S ticking on and I still haven't received official confirmation from the World Boxing Organisation that my fight against Brian Magee in Belfast on March 18 will be recognised as a world title defence.  more...