River Ebbw News Today

Families living in Forge Mews have been trapped in their street since the Old Bassaleg Bridge into Newport was closed by the citys Labour-run authority amid safety fears.

A number of roads in Risca, Crosskeys and Abercarn will be temporarily closing tomorrow.

Bassaleg residents have been cut off for two years after a bridge was closed due to safety fears.

A tabby cat was left shaken and hoping to find their owner after they were rescued from a riverside in Newport.

The RSPCA are keen to reunite a cat with its owner after it was rescued from the bank of the River Ebbw late last night.

The bridge closed because it was supposedly at risk of collapse and experts were brought into advise on its reopening, but it emerged consultants were paid around £200,000.

Neighbours, who are even planning a second birthday party to mark the closure of Old Bassaleg Bridge, are furious at being left cut off from the rest of the city in Newport, Gwent.

RESIDENTS on a Newport street which has been cut off from the rest of the city by a bridge closure have hit out at nearly two years of what they see…

RESIDENTS living on a housing estate where a footpath recently collapsed into the river Ebbw near Newport say they are being let down by the council.

South Wales has been hit hardest by flooding, with railways blocked, homes left without power and parks, roads and bridges submerged.