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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.