Newport City Council has adopted new Wales-wide regulations for tattoos and piercings, requiring practitioners to pay for new licences.
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Illegal cigarettes and vapes worth £500,000 seized in Newport
Trading standards officers in Newport have seized illegal tobacco and vape products worth more than half a million pounds so far this year.
Could relaxed tip-booking rules help cut city’s fly-tipping problem?
Relaxing the booking policy for Newport’s tip could help increase recycling rates, a councillor has claimed.
Newport Council still facing budget pressures despite ‘positive’ funding settlement
Extra money for Newport’s public services is “positive news” but the city council still faces “significant cost pressures”, its leader says.
Club owner wins bid to offer later drinking at city venue
A club owner’s plan to sell alcohol slightly later at night will give him “more of a chance to compete” with other venues in Newport city centre.
Newport primaries could merge and move into new £18m school
A new “all singing, all dancing” primary school could be built in Bettws, where some pupils are in their third academic year without a permanent home.
Newport planners give thumbs up for new home
Newport City Council’s planning committee has renewed planning permission for a new home off Milton Hill, in Llanwern.
‘Major’ industrial units approved for outskirts of Newport
The transformation of Newport’s western outskirts looks likely to continue, with the planned construction of two “major” industrial units.
Planning row over bid to turn rural building into home
Converting a rural outbuilding into a new home would have a “significant adverse impact” on the surrounding countryside, council planners in Newport have warned.