Celebrate small businesses in Newport city centre this weekend and enjoy all this 👇 ✅ Free parking ✅ Newport Now voucher giveaways ✅ Live music ✅ Christmas markets ✅ Winter Wonderland ✅ Santa ✅ The most wonderful collection of independent retailers

It was a pleasure to be there for the opening of the Kestrel Way Play Area. May it be appreciated and treasured by the community for generations to come, creating lasting memories and shared joy.

Thanks to Newport Borough Brass Band for their fantastic Christmas by Candlelight Concert last Friday. St Woolos was packed out, and the band and choir were amazing. Also big up to Frosty the Snowman! Newport Borough Brass Band Mayor of Newport

💼 Newport’s budget consultation starts today: 🧹 £370,000 for extra teams for street cleaning and grass cutting 🏠 £2m for the housing budget 🧑‍🍼£1.9m for our vulnerable children and those in care 💷 third lowest council tax in Wales (out of 22) More to follow….

Today, the Labour council cabinet will consider the final proposals for the 2025/26 budget. Our final proposals are a bread-and-butter budget – a budget for the things that residents tell us matter to them all day, every day, and it includes… (1/3)

Key items from Newport council’s bread and butter budget we passed last night.

The council has moved onto the next stage of our 20mph listening exercise. This involves publishing a traffic regulation order (TRO) setting out where we are proposing to make changes to the speed limit. More - newport.gov.uk/newsroom/2025/…

Thrilled to have been shortlisted #CasnewyddIslwyn #NewportandIslwyn 🌹

Our official statement: elite rugby must stay in Newport Dragons RFC 🐉

Roads resurfacing update: Newport bridge is done and residents will start noticing the work starting on other roads across the city.

Today at Cabinet I announced £450,000 for a state of the art CCTV system for the city centre & start getting Newport ready for the 21st century by creating a Smart City & developing a digital twin. By harnessing the power of real-time data, we will make Newport safer & smarter.

From the bottom up, we will fight wealth inequality, so no Newport community feels left behind. This will be led by local groups 💪🏽. Duffryn will be the first to benefit, but it won’t be the last.

Lindsay Whittle has just said on the BBC that the Welsh Government has spent too much money in SE Wales. A bold opening gambit for the new Caerphilly MS. There has never been a candidate more relaxed at his count. He's been giving a sprawling interview for about 45 mins.

Delighted we can announce free car parking at council owned car parks across the city centre every Saturday between November 15 and December 27. Also, Newport Bus will support with launch of a £13 app-exclusive ticket that allows up to four people all-day travel across the city.

🚌 No more waiting in the rain ☔️ Officers worked hard to secure funding & roll out this significant programme of new bus shelters, and as Cabinet Member for Infrastructure I’m thrilled to see them going up around the city. Also great to see new bus stop signs up Newport City Council

Thanks to GWR for hosting their rail transport event last night, where I discussed the importance of delivering Newport’s promised new mainline Burns train stations. Also, I spoke on the importance of bringing forward Caerleon train station, following our recent Council motion 🚂

Bore da Wales 👋 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We've had a great morning in Newport with our member Julia Davies and Oxfam Cymru. Huge thanks to Jane Dodds AS/MS 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, John Griffiths MS and Anthony Slaughter for coming along to see us on the #TaxTheSuperRich tour.

Honoured to have received so much support and backing from our members. Huge thanks to candidates & members for making it an engaging, enjoyable selection process. I’m looking forward to supporting the team into the May elections, getting out and listening to our residents 🌹

Keep the date in your diary, Newport’s music trail is back next year. It’s free and across multiple venues across the city. Headliner is the one and only GLC. These are the first acts to be announced more to follow in the New Year.