Five members of Newport family killed on way to Mecca
Five members of a family from Newport have been killed in a taxi crash during a pilgrimage to Mecca in the Middle East.
Photography display by former Newport students
Work by photographers who started their career at the University of Wales, Newport is being showcased in a new exhibition.
Newport buses show support for Movember
Newport buses and their drivers are sporting moustaches in support of 'Movember' this month.
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Football development centre unveiled
UEFA football chief Michel Platini is in Wales today to officially open the new Wales national football development centre.
Dragon Park, in Newport international Sports Village, boasts two premium grade grass pitches and one third generation (3G) artificial pitch and a state-of-the-art headquarters building with changing rooms, training recovery zone and an administrative base for the Welsh Football Trust.
The first phase of Dragon Park, which has cost almost £5million, has been funded with investment including £2million from UEFA, £750,000 each from both the Football Association of Wales and Sport Wales, and around £400,000 through FIFA programmes.
The centre aims to improve the standard of football at all levels in Wales and will also be home to referees' training and be used by foreign academies and training for visiting professional clubs.
Wales team manager Chris Coleman and former players including Ian Rush and Neville Southall will be at the launch.
Newport landmark sold for £4m
Newport's Clarence House is in new hands after the 11-storey office block was bought at auction in London for just under £4m.
The tower block at Clarence Place, opposite the city’s historic art college building and overlooking Rodney Parade, has been bought by a property investment firm.
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West Wales village becomes nation's first 'electric car club'
by Megan BootMembers of Wales' first electric car club have taken to the roads for the first time. Cilgwyn Community Group will share the new Nissan Leaf as part of a community transport scheme. They were able to buy the car thanks to a £25,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund's Village SOS programme.
Turning over a new Leaf
Members of Wales' first electric car club have taken to the roads for the first time. Cilgwyn Community Group will share the new Nissan Leaf as part of a community transport scheme. They were able to buy the car thanks to a £25,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund's Village SOS programme.
It's hoped the scheme will become self-sustaining as more people join.
Community to share new electric car
Residents of Cilgwyn near Newport are launching Wales' first community electric car club. Members of Cilgwyn Community Group will unveil their first electric car, which will be available for the whole community to share.
The project is all thanks to a grant of nearly £25,000 awarded from the Big Lottery Fund's Village SOS programme.
Local residents will be able to book the new Nissan Leaf electric car online or over the phone at an introductory price of £2.50 per hour and five pence per mile. A software programme will work out what they owe.
'I don't think it's fair - the spaces are there for a reason'
Daybreak's Nick Dixon spoke to people using Magor Services on the M4 near Newport this morning, to hear what they thought about George Osborne's official car using a disabled parking bay there.
They told him "I don't think it's fair - the spaces are there for a reason", and they have no sympathy for the Chancellor - he "should know better."
A senior Conservative source told the Press Association that Mr Osborne's vehicle had reversed into the disabled bay while he was inside the service station, and that he did "not condone this in any way."
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Chancellor 'wildly out of touch with disabled people'
The disability charity Scope told the Daily Mirror that the incident where George Osborne's official car was parked in a disabled parking bay at M4 services in South Wales “shows how wildly out of touch the Chancellor is with disabled people in the UK”.
– Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity ScopeThey will see this as rubbing salt in their wounds.
Many are already struggling to make ends meet, yet the Chancellor’s response has been to cut vital financial support and squeeze local care budgets.
This picture tells you everything about George Osborne’s toxic attitude to benefits.
He talks about a broken system abused by scroungers – but has chosen to take advantage of it himself.
Osborne was in Cardiff to discuss childcare costs
While George Osborne was here, he told ITV News that there will be no tolls on any new M4 relief road around Newport.
The Chancellor said he hopes to give the go-ahead to a scheme that would improve the road in the next couple of months.
He came to Cardiff to meet parents and discuss UK Government plans to help working families with childcare costs.
He spoke to mothers and fathers about his recent Budget, which featured a package to subsidise a portion of childcare costs.
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Osborne's car caught in disabled parking bay
George Osborne has been photographed getting into his security car which was parked in a disabled bay at a service station on the M4. Daybreak's Nick Dixon reports:
Chancellor's car in disabled bay at Magor Services
George Osborne is facing a fresh backlash after his official car was photographed parked in a disabled space at an M4 service station near Newport.
The photograph, published on the front page of the Daily Mirror today, was taken on Wednesday at Magor services, as the Chancellor returned from an engagement at a nursery in Cardiff.
A senior Conservative source told the Press Association that the vehicle had been reversed into the berth while Mr Osborne was inside at McDonald's.
"George does not condone this in any way", the source said.
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