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  • First-half show is enough

    NEWPORT County sealed a 2-0 win at Salisbury with a blistering first-half display before battening down the hatches after having defender Steve Benton sent off. Salisbury are rooted to the bottom of the Dr Martens League Premier Division and County certainly

  • Star billing at the castle

    EVERYONE thought Neil Maidman and Peta Evans (pictured) were just acting when they starred opposite each other as lovers. But it was a case of fiction mirroring reality as their on-stage chemistry was love in real life. And last weekend, it was a case

  • Response 'must be measured'

    SOME politicians are firmly backing military action against those who devastated the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Monmouth's Labour MP Huw Edwards (pictured) said: "I think it is right to join with the United States in taking the necessary action

  • Why school wants to ban boy

    THE chairman of governors at a school being terrorised by an ex-pupil says the decision to seek an anti-social order against him is "regrettable but inevitable". On Monday Newport magistrates issued a warrant for the arrest of a Torfaen boy, 15, who is

  • Very prickly subject this

    IT'S a green-fingered mystery which has excited Wales' top botanists. And some villagers are suggesting an X-file should be opened after something odd and spiky was found lurking in the undergrowth of a Swffryd garden. Householder Anita Jane (pictured

  • Cwmbran give landlords short-change

    CWMBRAN Town eased to a comfortable 2-0 League of Wales Cup tie win over landlords Port Talbot at the Victoria Road ground last night. Cwmbran's supremacy was rarely challenged as they kept a clean sheet for the second successive match and unbeaten in

  • Young wants to get it right

    WALES must shrug off their poor form at club level and get it right against Romania tonight, insists David Young (pictured). "Obviously the Celtic League has not been good and we've under achieved," said the captain. "But it's still at an early stage.

  • Hobby cost sailor his life

    AMATEUR sailor Ken Jones died practising the hobby he loved. The remarkable 81-year-old died after he fell overboard from his 14ft dinghy on Monday, while sailing at Llandegfedd Reservoir in Torfaen. A windsurfer plucked Mr Jones (pictured) from the water

  • Wales plays host to Euro cup final

    THE Millennium Stadium will host this season's Heineken Cup final on May 25. In a break with tradition European Rugby Cup organisers have announced the venue for the final at the start of the tournament. It gets under way next week, Newport at Newcastle

  • Wasps call on the services of Morris

    NEWPORT Wasps travel to Exeter Falcons tonight (7.30pm) with Reading Racer Phil Morris (pictured) guesting for injured Swede Anders Henriksson. Henriksson is still struggling with a badly injured ankle he picked up riding in Sweden, Maverick Tom Brown

  • Gwent invention aids sniffer dogs

    PROTECTIVE dog boots from Gwent have been sent for use by sniffer spaniels at the disaster sites in New York and Washington. And now unique flashing dog collars are also being lined up to be despatched to aid handlers in their efforts in the wake of the

  • Crows aided by Doughty's brace

    CWMBRAN visited Llanhilleth for a Fourth Division East game and were 21-5 winners. Cwmbran started well putting pressure on the heavy Llan pack and within ten minutes scrum half Mark Doughty went over for an opportunist try which was converted by outside

  • Gwent politicians give their views

    GWENT politicians are divided over whether the West should take military action against the perpetrators of the US terror attacks and the regimes which shelter them. PETER SHUTTLEWORTH reports. A PEACEFUL settlement needs to be made between the Western

  • Wales plays host to Euro cup final

    THE Millennium Stadium will host this season's Heineken Cup final on May 25. In a break with tradition European Rugby Cup organisers have announced the venue for the final at the start of the tournament. It gets under way next week, Newport at Newcastle

  • Sadness that spans the world

    A WORLD Trade Centre banker whose family originate from Gwent is feared dead, the Argus can exclusively reveal. Mark Ludvigsen, a New York employee of investment banking firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods was working on the 89th floor of the World Trade

  • Thomas senses sixth cap

    EBBW Vale prop Iestyn Thomas (pictured) is targeting next month's game against Ireland as his first Six Nations appearance for Wales. He wins his sixth cap tonight against Romania at the Millennium Stadium, but has yet to appear in a Six Nations game.

  • Town centre may get £1m repaving

    NEWPORT council's Cabinet is considering a £755,000 refurbishment programme for the Civic Centre after agreeing in principle to pay £1 million for new town centre paving. Cabinet members decided yesterday they needed a site visit to the Civic Centre's

  • Stars support cancer battle

    STAFF and customers at a Torfaen store will be in the pink for the next fortnight as they try to raise money for breast cancer research. For the fifth year running, Asda Cwmbran has joined the other 247 stores nationwide to launch its Tickled Pink campaign