MANCHESTER UNITED are favourites to win the race to sign Cardiff City starlet Aaron Ramsey according to reports in the North-West.
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THE High Court was today asked to rule on the future of a headteacher jailed for leaving a fellow motorist in a wheelchair while driving as a "boy racer".
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INFLATION has surged at its fastest rate for almost six years in April – far higher than that predicted by analysts, according to official figures released today.
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The bodies of the youngsters were brought out of the wreckage on doors scavenged from what remained of their school building.
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GETTING to the top exam grade on the piano is an achievement for any teenager, but for Rachel Starritt being blind makes it even more momentous.ABBIE WIGHTWICK finds out how the teenager has become so good she rivals the talents of degree students at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff
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CARDIFF Devils are close to clinching another three signings for the 2007-2008 Elite League season.
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LAST week two senior judges strongly criticised a local authority that forced through the adoption of a baby girl, abandoned by her mother, against the wishes of her father.
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LIONS legend John Dawes insists Warren Gatland is a stand-out candidate to work alongside Ian McGeechan during next year’s tour of South Africa as it emerged the Wales boss is in line to join the coaching staff.
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SHE may still be on the road with Darcey Bussell as part of the Viva La Diva show but Katherine Jenkins is already planning her own tour.
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Magners League fixtures & results 2007-08
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IT’S an unlikely marriage of voices. But one that works remarkably well.
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Finally we have the much-lauded new film from the Wachowski brothers, Speed Racer.
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MARTYN WILLIAMS has escaped the surgeon’s knife and will only be sidelined for four to six weeks.
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A man who swung a dog on a lead around his head “like a lasso,” has been banned from keeping animals for life.
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THE future of WRU's new elite performance director Graeme Maw is in doubt just a few months after he was unveiled in the high profile role.
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TREHERBERT turned on the style in this last Division Two east game of the season against local rivals Ynysybwl in a treat which showed some wonderful running rugby but also well-disciplined forward power from the pack.
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AN Ebbw Vale family has been involved in the making of the Cardiff City fans’ FA Cup final song Do the Ayatollah!
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CYNON VALLEY rugby player Darren Morris has signed a new two-year deal with Guinness Premiership strugglers Worcester.
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COAL mining in the Cynon Valley officially came to an end this week – with Tower miners travelling to the bottom of their pit for the very last time.
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“THE dirtiest campaign Port Talbot has ever seen” – that’s the damning verdict of a Port Talbot councillor on the run-up to the council elections.
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A 20-year-old soldier who cheated death while serving in Iraq last year has been killed in a car crash in Oxfordshire.
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INJURY woe leaves battling Llanharan without a hooker.
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A “LOST” community is appealing for the only waste ground on their doorstep to be turned into for a village green – so children can finally play safely.
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MERTHYR made it a magnificent league and cup double with victory in the first ever BGB Youth Cup final in against Corby.
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AN UNBEARABLY close result at the Caerphilly council elections has left the borough in limbo.
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A SENSATIONAL end to this Silver Ball semi-final saw Tonmawr take the spoils after Bargoed fought back from a 19-0 deficit to lead 20-19 with just two minutes left on the clock.
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“WE will not be subscribing to village or playground politics, we will however be an effective opposition and when necessary we will have no hesitation in exposing the shortcomings of the Independent party.”
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OUTGOING Maesteg coach Gareth Brown has called for his club to combine with Bridgend Ravens to form one strong club capable of competing in the Welsh Premiership.
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A HEAD teacher has been arrested for a second time following new allegations against him under the Sexual Offences Act.
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A FORMER police officer appeared in court today charged with making and possessing indecent pictures of children.
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Wildfires fuelled by dry, windy weather destroyed about 50 homes on Florida’s central Atlantic coast and driving hundreds of residents away as the governor declared a state of emergency.
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WHO knew that a packet of white chocolate mice, sugar-free jelly, Hula Hoops and glass of squash, again without the sweet goodness, could cause so much trouble?
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GRAND Slam hero Shane Williams was last night named Wales Player of the Year.
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JAMES Harris will make his seasonal bow for Glamorgan in their LV County Championship match against Derbyshire.
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CARDIFF City boss Dave Jones today told how he will walk out at Wembley on Saturday thinking of his late father.
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A £44.7m private equity consortium takeover of Llanelli-based media group Tinopolis has been announced this morning.
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TREDEGAR completed their league programme with a convincing away victory at Rhydefelin scoring another four tries, claiming a bonus point to finish fourth overall in Division 2 East.
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IT’S a “new political dawn” for Blaenau Gwent as Labour lose control of Blaenau Gwent Council and prepare to be in opposition in the borough.
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COED travelled to relegation-bound Abertillery and returned with the points in what was a “job well done”.
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AN ANTI-ARSON campaign across Neath and Port Talbot comprehensive schools has won praise from Aberavon’s Assembly Member.
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FROM pit to podium, Glyn Roberts this week begins life as a Cynon Valley councillor.
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TON Pentre kept their Welsh League Division One title hopes alive with a six goal performance that almost makes relegation a certainty for the Tudor Park club.
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WITH both sides having secured mid table positions in Division Two East this rearranged league fixture was never going to get the pulses racing.
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A MOTHER and daughter launched a vicious attack on a group of women on a night out in Tonypandy, a court heard.
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GOVERNMENT minister Kim Howells broke Cabinet ranks to lay the blame for Labour’s national election debacle squarely at London’s feet.
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THE IRONMEN ended their season in superb style at Llangennech recording their fifth consecutive victory and leapfrogging the home side into a very creditable fourth place in Division One West. Merthyr gave debuts to highly-rated outside-half Alex Bowen from Cefn Coed and Dan Franks, the powerhouse young flanker from Cardiff University.
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“AFTER the initial five minutes of disappointment I recognised the public had spoken.”
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A DRAMATIC late goal by Benny Preece earned Bargoed promotion to South Wales Amateur League division one on the last day of the season.
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A 25-YEAR-OLD man appeared in court yesterday (Wednesday) charged with the murder of a man outside a Tredegar pub.
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BRIDGEND Ravens have suspended two players on suspicion of being involved in drugs.
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A FUNDING boost of £5m for a planned transformation of early-years education in Wales was yesterday denounced by head teachers as “wholly inadequate”.
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A TEENAGER today described in court how a father repeatedly stabbed his son following a drunken argument over chips.
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Robert Earnshaw is in talks over a £2.5million move from Derby to Nottingham Forest.
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A ship loaded with drinking water has docked in Barcelona as part of an unprecedented emergency plan to alleviate a drought triggered by rock-bottom rainfall.
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CITY for the Cup. And we’ve been here before. But only a handful really remember... the year 1927, and a Cardiff so different to today’s town that you know what LP Hartley meant when he wrote that “the past is a foreign country”.
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A WORKING Welsh dairy farm has diversified to become a conference centre with a leisure club and spa.
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Rugby reporter SIMON THOMAS analyses the pros and cons of Wales coach Warren Gatland becoming part of the British and Irish Lions coaching team in South Africa next summer
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PAUL Collingwood will play his 30th consecutive Test against New Zealand at Lord’s this week hoping to avert shoulder surgery as long as possible.
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icWales has teamed up with the organisers of the Porthcawl Elvis Festival to help find the Best Welsh Elvis.
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BOTH teams fielded weakened sides due to the unavailability of key players but they delivered an excellent game of attacking football on a greasy surface.
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POLICE are appealing for information following a late-night assault outside a Tredegar pub that resulted in the death of a 45-year-old man.
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MEMBERS of the Welsh Kempo Association have done it again.
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A NEW hard-hitting campaign to highlight the problems caused by dog-fouling in Cynon Valley is launched this week.
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MONTHS of delays to work on Port Talbot’s £110m peripheral distributor road could soon come to an end.
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AN ARTICLE in a mountain bike magazine has described Ferndale as a “town which has seen better days, inhabited by unhealthy people with even the pound shop having closed down”.
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PONTYPRIDD set up a thrilling climax to their league campaign by securing the double over champions Neath with a fine win at the Gnoll.
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A MENTAL health charity has been handed £1m to help stem the rising number of suicides in the Valleys.
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MERTHYR completed a treble of Youth titles this season with their fourth consecutive Heart of Wales District Cup win, writes David Williams.
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THE 2008 council elections brought about massive change to the face of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council.
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A DISQUALIFIED driver caught on a road in Pontlottyn was behind the wheel of a towed car after he had removed parts to raise money for his five children and pregnant wife.
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VISITORS, Llanbradach Social secured promotion for the second consecutive season with this win over neighbours Cascade.
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A MAGIC night at the Brewery Field saw the Crusaders put Featherstone to the sword in front of a club record crowd of 6,152.
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TEACHERS in Wales are enjoying greater freedom in their classrooms, thanks to the introduction of the Foundation Phase.
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A peace activist and prize-winning chutney maker got so drunk on free champagne at an award ceremony that he hit another guest with an empty bottle.
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PORTSMOUTH stars David James and Sol Campbell have both been declared fit for Saturday's FA Cup final clash with Cardiff City.
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A LEADING housebuilder painted a bleak picture of the property market today after revealing a “marked increase” in cancellation rates since Easter.
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A mother taken from a polygamist sect in Texas and being held as a minor in state custody has given birth to a baby boy who was immediately taken into protective custody.
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Ryan Sidebottom is vowing to continue his tried and tested methods for England after his efforts were rewarded with the Vodafone Player of the Year award.
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RURAL Affairs Minister Elin Jones followed in royal footsteps when she visited a Mid Wales sheep co-operative which Prince Charles encountered during his summer tour of 2006.
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THE URGENT fight against bluetongue is in full swing today as farmers call for a protection zone for Wales to allow vaccination to begin before disease-carrying midges hatch in the heat.
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A WORLD class violinist and a celebrated ballet company will be entertaining audiences in West Wales this weekend.
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“I HAVE always been an optimist, but I think I should have been a pessimist and then the little progress we have made would have made me happy.”
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THE Dragons last night confirmed the signings of Kiwi trio Tom Willis, James Arlidge and Grant Webb.
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ABERTILLERY Comprehensive School hosted their second rugby funday with more than 100 local primary school children taking part.
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TRIBUTES have been paid to a police officer who died last week.
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TWO village sides met in the semi-final of the coveted Aberdare Valley Jubilee Cup, producing a high-octane encounter at Y Parc.
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A CYNON Valley man has been cleared of violent conduct following a fight with two weapon-wielding Turkish men outside an Aberdare kebab shop.
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A MOTHER of four found lying in a gutter was so drunk she could not even see her nearby two-year-old son, a court has heard.
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YNYSHIR Albions have been crowned champions of the South Wales Senior League Division Two and promoted back to the First Division.
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THE opening day of the season in the First Division of the Thomas Carroll Welsh Club Cricket Conference saw Llantwit Fardre playing away against relegated Lisvane.
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A PENRHIWFER firm that crushed thousands of tonnes of waste without permission has been convicted – and had the proceeds of the crime confiscated – in a groundbreaking case.
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AN ENTIRE council estate has “gone batty” after workers discovered it has become a hangout for hundreds of protected pipistrelles.
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POLICE in Merthyr Tydfil last week arrested 50 people in the borough wanted in connection with offences ranging from drugs to organised crime.
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CONSIDERING United had won 51-3 at Rhymney a few weeks back, this bonus point defeat for the Brewers in the last game of the season showed a lot of character from the visitors.
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A MAN has been jailed after a vicious pub toilet attack.
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BETWS were crowned MacWhirter Welsh League Division Two champions on Tuesday evening, following a 2-0 success over Garden Village at Stafford Common, writes Tony Poole.
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A YOUNG father has died after falling from a minibus into the path of a car.
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A FOUNDATION phase-style outdoor learning project has already been taking place in Swansea. . . in the woodlands of Gower.
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