There will be no services after 1900GMT east of Newport on trains heading for Gloucester, Bristol, Southampton or London.

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Further east, Newport Gwent Dragons' birth was marred by in-fighting as Newport and Ebbw Vale briefly married and hurriedly divorced.

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He said that the station would broadcast to a potential audience of 800, 000 people, as far north as Merthyr Tydfil, across to Bridgend and east to Newport.

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