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Stories for 31 January 2005

Gwent News

Twin's fight for life ends

A THREE-year-old twin has died after battling several illnesses brought on by a mystery virus.  more...

Prison service may rent vacant offices

A HOME OFFICE department is close to moving into the giant CS1000 building on Newport's Celtic Springs Business Park, it was revealed today.   more...

Government to consider surface men's payouts

THE government is to re-examine the case for paying chest disease compensation to ex-miners who worked at the pit surface.  more...

Choirs in concert raise a grand total

A VALLEYS tsunami appeal concert looks set to have raised more than £1,000.  more...

Valleys' workforce second on long-term illness list

BLAENAU Gwent has the second highest level of long-term illness in Wales.  more...

Teens' nightclub is proved drug free

TEENAGERS at a Cwmbran under-18s' nightclub were tested for drugs in a landmark operation for Gwent Police on Saturday night.  more...

Council to crack down on tippers

FLY-TIPPERS are being warned they will be penalised after an increase in rubbish dumping in a Newport lane.  more...

Health minister acts on mixed-sex wards

NEW health minister Brian Gibbons has launched an investigation into the practice of placing patients in mixed-sex wards at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.  more...

Aiming to ease tough times

NEARLY all Gwent's asylum-seekers are concentrated in Newport, and Hamid Biak is among around 300 who are awaiting a Home Office verdict on whether they can stay in the UK indefinitely.  more...

Mum in windows row with council

THE mother of a three-year-old autistic boy claims she's living a nightmare because she cannot stop her son climbing through the windows of her council home.  more...

Gwent Sport

Dragons: 'Unfair fight'

If Lansdowne Road was eerie and almost empty, Newport Gwent Dragons were just left empty after shipping seven tries and more than a half-century of points to international-packed Leinster last night.  more...

Star-less Dragons put to the sword

Leinster 55 Dragons 3  more...

Last gasp Bowen the bringer of joy

Newport County 1 St Albans City 0  more...

  
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