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Conservation experts faced with complex task of reconstructing 15th-century wine-trading vessel and have it on display within five years

Archaeologists have used freeze-drying to restore the ship's timbers before their return to Newport today.

Kokkinakis and murray made a stodgy start. had his marathon win the previous round taken its toll? the signs were not great as kokkinakis took the first set. the second was more encouraging for murray with flashes of that familiar brilliance but he faces some battle to keep his australian open hopes alive. andy swiss, bbc news. it's like a giantjigsaw puzzle. the remains of a medieval ship found in the river usk in newport are about to be put back together. it follows 20 years of painstaking restoration work on a ship that experts believe is as significant a find as the mary rose. tomos morgan...

The remains of a mediaeval ship found in the river usk, in newport, are about to be put back together. it follows 20 years of painstaking restoration work on a ship that experts believe is as significant a find as the mary rose. tomos morgan reports. this is a 1:10 scale model. this is a same scale person, about a six—foot tall person, so this gives you an idea of the size. at 30 metres long, weighing 25 tonnes, when it's fully rebuilt, newport will have the only 15th century ship on exhibit anywhere in the world. but with 2,500 individual pieces, the challenge now will be putting it back to...

AFTER two days of flooding, the Met Office has issued another warning for heavy rain covering Gwent in to the weekend.