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Dame Rosemary Butler is standing down as the AM for Newport West at the next election, after a long and distinguished career. She was originally elected in 1973 as a Newport Labour Councillor for the Caerleon ward. She went on to become Mayor and deputy leader of the Council before being elected as the Labour AM […]
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As part of our summer activities this year Teresa Hughes and Helen Lofts are organising a Caerleon Labour Party coach trip to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Rally on Sunday 20th July. We’ll go through some of the most beautiful parts of England, and Tolpuddle is a pretty Dorset village in the Piddle valley – eight […]
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Rosemary Butler, Assembly Member for Newport West has welcomed the news that Newport has received over £14 million under the Welsh Government’s Vibrant and Viable Places funding scheme. The funding will be used in the regeneration of the city centre, and will be supported by both public and private investment. The projects that will receive […]
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Councillor Bob Bright, Leader of Newport City Council, had some very positive things to say when he performed the ground breaking ceremony in Friars Walk recently. He said that 2014 looked like being a momentous year for Newport. The demolition and site clearance for Friars Walk was just one of the signs that things are […]
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A great turnout by Caerleon and Newport West activists this weekend led to one of our fastest local newsletter deliveries in recent times! We delivered two sets of newsletters in Caerleon, one outlining how important it is to vote Labour on May 22nd (Jayne Bryant from Newport West is in a strong position to win […]
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Dame Rosemary Butler, Mayor Cliff Suller, Mayoress Christine Suller, Councillors Gail Giles and Paul Huntley and many others joined in the launch of this year’s Festival season at the Hanbury Quay with the raising of Owain Glyndwr’s flag over the Tower under the watchful eye of Sir Colin – a steel sculpture created for the […]
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Newport West MP Paul Flynn has reminded the Westminster government of the importance of the Roman remains in Caerleon. At Welsh question time he asked the government what they were doing to boost tourism in South East Wales. Wales Office Minister Stephen Crabb drew his attention to the Nato conference which will take place at […]
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We were asked to respond to the recent report of the Williams Commission on the proposed reorganisation of public services in Wales. One of the proposals is that Newport and Monmouthshire should be merged to become one local authority. We have written to Newport West Constituency Labour Party arguing that a totally different approach to […]
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Our branch secretary, Tony Jermyn, has written to Ed Miliband and the Labour Party’s Living Standards Commission asking them to support our call for an enquiry into the way the Tory Government acted during the miners’ strike in the 1980’s. The recent release of Cabinet papers relating to the strike has, in our view, reignited […]
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At a recent branch meeting Caerleon Labour Party members expressed concern at the way drivers park in Caerleon. In a a letter to the Newport Local Policing Unit our seceretary Tony Jermyn said that there are obvious and clear road safety issues around Caerleon which the Police are failing to deal with despite complaints from […]
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