Locals shine at bowls tournament

The KZNCB Provincial team recently competed in Margate against 20 other provincial teams. The performer well, narrowly missing gold.

The winners Johannesburg Bowling Association outplayed them.

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Warning of SMS scam

There seems to be no end to the number of scams that are emerging in Newcastle and South Africa as a whole with each one becoming more intricate than the one before, designed to rob innocent people of their hard earned money.

The latest sacm involves the use of technology. A Newcaslte resident contacted the Newcastle Express after receiving an sms that he thought was too good to be true.

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Warning to business owners

The criminal element is on the increase in Newcastle with local businesses becoming the target of an armed robbery was the Newcastle Watch Centre.

Alfred Nunez, owner of Newcastle Watch Centre said that around 9am on a Wednesday morning a suspicious looking male entered the store. A sales lady assisted him but said that he did not look too keen on purchasing anything

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A cleaner look for Ward 9

Ward 9 in Osizwni received a mini facelift last Friday when about 50 FEDCON members embarked on a Clean up campaign to rid the area of garbage and promote cleaner living conditions.

The group hopes to make the campaign an on going event in the community with clean up operations taking place at least once a month.

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Two nabbed in citizens arrest

Fed up with crime, the local community apprehended two men who robbed a take away worker of more than R10 000.

According to the owner, who did not want to be named, she had sent an employee to the bank to do the morning banking." My employee had just and a few minutes later, I heard screams. She ran back into the shop and told me she had been robbed," she said.

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Arm action

Arm wrestling fanatic Reshal Singh of Glencoe SAPS, established the iron Arm Wrestling Club based in Glencoe in 2009. The club currently has 10 members and interest in this unusual sport is steadily building up as the public becomes more aware of it.

The idea to start a club came along when Reshal and fellow friends were invited to compete against top South African arm wrestlers at the Emerald Casino near Vereeniging in 2009.

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Fedcon welcomes members

FEDCON welcomed more than 300 new members to its party at Indabanhle School in Osizweni this past week.

These members come mainly from ANC and IFP but have chosen FEDCON as their new political home, saying that they firmly believe in the leadership and constitution of the party.

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