Brew Wales (Free subscription) | yesterday
Part of an occasional series in which the latest pub closures/openings in and around Newport are mentioned. Errors and omissions accepted, if any readers have anything further to add please put them in the comments section. NB Comment moderation is enabled due to spam. Photo above is the former King's Arms, Belmont Hill (Enterprise Inns). Currently being converted into Indian restaurant . Newport Pub...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
A policy which sees the UK share organ donations with the EU has been criticised by some people on the transplant waiting list. In the past 10 years the UK has sent more than 300 organs to other EU states, but received only 120 in return. Stewart Rankin, from Rogerstone, near Newport, believes that the disparity has added 50% to his three-year wait for a new heart.
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Newport Pub Closures since 1997: Simpsons, High St, Closed – empty building Chartist Arms, High St – closed – premises converted into a restaurant Carpenters Arms, High Street – closed – freehold for sale Lloyds, Cambrian Rd, became Jarcals, then Tesco Extra. Beer quality has improved! Breeze, Cambrian Rd, closed, lying empty Newport Brewhouse, Market St, now a nightclub...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Flynn has been covering the case of a lady who has been getting some hassle off of council folk over her allotment. An so from his webshyte: The jobsworths on Rogerstone Council were forced to climb down in the face of a gale of public anger. The report I have had from tonight's meeting suggests that their about turn was anything but graceful. One councillor tried a sideswipe at me saying that I should...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 28/06/2009
Edith Avery said she was told by Rogerstone Community Council that her plot, just a few feet from her back door, would be cleared this week because she had not complied with regulations. Mrs Avery, of Cefn Road, Rogerstone, near Newport, south Wales, said it was "a shock and a worry" as she was given 14 days to clear the plot - a time limit which ends tomorrow - or the council would arrange...
Biogas Energy (Free subscription) | 25/04/2009
One of the makers of Marks & Spencers ready meals is to use its own food waste to power its factory in Newport, South Wales. RF Brookes, part of Premier Foods plc, has been awarded £500,000 by the Welsh Assembly government towards its own £5 million anaerobic digestion plant at its Rogerstone site. The facility is expected to [...]
Dylan Jones-Evans (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Had a phonecall tonight from a friend who runs a company in Cardiff. He told me that Novelis - the aluminium manufacturer in Rogerstone, Newport - is reviewing its operations and that 450 jobs may be under threat. Not only that, he is one of many suppliers waiting for payment and is worrying, quite rightly, that he may end up with nothing if, as happened with Budelpack Cosi in Maesteg, the parent company...
icWales (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
RICHARD Dinsdale was brought up at the Newport Golf Club course at Rogerstone and knows every blade of grass.
icWales (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
RICHARD Dinsdale was brought up at the Newport Golf Club course at Rogerstone and knows every blade of grass.
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
A BUS link taking passengers from the new Rogerstone station into Newport has been withdrawn, the operators say due to lack of use.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
A demonstration over the time it will take for a rail link between Rogerstone and Newport to open is planned.
icWales (Free subscription) | 28/09/2007
GWENT have won the Channel League title for only the third time – and did so in style demolishing Gloucestershire 11-4 over the tree-lined Newport course at Rogerstone.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2007
The family-run baker Warburtons officially opens it new bakery at Rogerstone near Newport.
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