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Newport, Wales
Newport ( ) is a city and Principal areas of Wales, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. The population grew considerably between the 2011 and the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, rising from 145,700 to 159,587, the largest growth of any unitary authority in Wales. Newport is the third-largest principal authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and List of Welsh principal areas, sixth most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, and the Cardiff Capital Region. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the city. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Areas Of Wales
The principal areas of Wales, comprising the counties and county boroughs of Wales, are a Subdivisions of Wales, form of subdivision in Wales. There are currently 22 principal areas in Wales, and they were established in 1996. They are a single-tier form of Local government in Wales, local government, each governed by a principal council. They replaced the previous two-tier system of Preserved counties of Wales, eight counties and Districts of Wales, 37 districts that were in place in Wales History of local government in Wales, from 1974 to 1996. Description For local government in Wales, local government, Wales is divided into 22 sub-divisions collectively called "principal areas" in the 1994 act. They may be styled as either a "county" or a "county borough". Each principal area is overseen by a "principal council", which may also adopt their principal area style, being called a "county council" () or a "county borough council" (). The basic framework of local government an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government In Wales
Local government in Wales is primarily undertaken by the twenty-two principal councils. The councils are Unitary authority, unitary authorities, meaning they are responsible for providing local government services within their Principal areas of Wales, principal area, including education, social work, environmental protection, and most highway maintenance. The principal areas are divided into Community (Wales), communities, most of which have an elected community council. The services provided by community councils vary, but they will typically maintain public spaces and facilities. Local councils in Wales are elected; the most recent 2022 Welsh local elections, local elections in Wales took place in 2022, and the 2027 Welsh local elections, next are due to take place in 2027. Governance Local government is generally supervised by the (devolved) Welsh Ministers, who allocate funding of the majority of local government yearly revenue and capital settlements. The Government of Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newportonians
:''See also :People from Newport, Wales'' This entry lists notable people who were born, lived or worked in Newport (''Newportonians)''. Arts, literature and media * Keith Baxter (actor) * Alison Bielski (poet) * Rev Augustus Buckland (writer) * James Coombes (actor) * Jack Crabtree (contemporary British artist) * Charles Danby (actor) * Josie d'Arby (actress and television presenter) * Gareth David-Lloyd (actor) * W. H. Davies (poet, tramp) * Dirty Sanchez (actors based in Newport) * Lisa Diveney (actress) * Aimee-Ffion Edwards (actress) * Adrian Finighan (newsreader reporter and journalist) * Valerie Gearon (actress) * Peter Greenaway (film director) * Harry Greene (trained as an engineering draughtsman at Newport College of Art) * Fred Hando (writer, artist and schoolteacher) * Lyn Harding (actor) * Anne Hegerty (TV celebrity, '' South Wales Argus'' journalist 1980s) * Frederick William Horner (playwright, publisher and politician) * Colin Jeavons (actor) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Welsh Principal Areas
This is a list of the 22 principal areas of Wales giving their most recent date of creation and the style by which they are known. The population and density are from the Office for National Statistics The Office for National Statistics (ONS; ) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. Overview The ONS is responsible fo ... estimates. See also * List of Welsh areas by percentage of Welsh-speakers Notes References {{Geography of Wales Principal areas of Wales Principal areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Wales East (Senedd Electoral Region)
South Wales East () is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, when the National Assembly for Wales was created. Each constituency elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the D'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation. County boundaries The region covers the whole of the preserved county of Gwent and part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is mostly within the South Wales Central electoral region and partly within the South Wales West region. Electoral region profile The region is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayne Bryant
Jayne Bryant is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government since July 2024. Since May 2016 she has represented Newport West in the Senedd. Background Bryant was born in the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. She attended St Julian's Comprehensive School and completed her studies at Keele University, graduating with a degree in History and Politics. Political career She contested the Wales European Parliament constituency as the second-place candidate on the Labour list in 2014, but was not elected. She was subsequently selected as the Labour candidate for Newport West for the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election and was re-elected in at the 2021 Senedd election. She chaired the Senedd's Standards of Conduct committee from 2016 to 2021. In 2017 she was one of the founders of the Purple Plaques scheme of public markers for remarkable women who lived in Wales. Bryant supported Mark Drakeford in the 2018 Welsh Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour (), formerly known as the Labour Party in Wales (), is an autonomous section of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 1922, every National Assembly for Wales, Assembly and Senedd election since 1999, and all elections to the European Parliament in the period 1979–2004 and in 2014. Welsh Labour holds 27 of the 32 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament, 30 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd and 576 of the 1,264 councillors in Local government in Wales, principal local authorities including overall control of 10 of the 22 principal local authorities. It has longest winning streak of any political party in the world and has been described as "by some distance the democratic world's most successful election-winning machine". Structure Welsh Labour is formally part of the Labour Party, not separately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (Welsh Politician)
John Griffiths (born 19 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who previously served as Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development from 2011 to 2013. Griffiths has represented the constituency of Newport East in the Senedd since 1999. Education Griffiths studied law as a mature student at the University of Wales. Professional career Before his election to the Senedd, he was a practising solicitor (criminal law, personal injury and general civil litigation). Political career He is a former councillor on Gwent County Council and Newport CBC. He is a member of Labour's National Policy Forum, the Co-operative Party, Workers' Educational Association and Full Employment Forum. He is a committed republican, and a member of the ISTC trade union. Griffiths has been a Member of the Senedd for Newport East since 1999. His political interests include economic development, social inclusion, education and Europe. In the Senedd he was appointed Deputy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The Senedd
A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituency, Senedd constituencies, and twenty to represent the five Senedd electoral regions, electoral regions of the Senedd in Wales. Each person in Wales is represented by five MSs: one for their local constituency (encompassing their local area where they reside), and another four covering their electoral region (a large grouping of constituencies). Wales's five electoral regions are Mid and West Wales (Senedd electoral region), Mid and West Wales, North Wales (Senedd electoral region), North Wales, South Wales Central (Senedd electoral region), South Wales Central, South Wales East (Senedd electoral region), South Wales East and South Wales West (Senedd electoral region), South Wales West. A holder of this office was formerly known as an assembly member (AM; plural: AM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Jones (politician)
Ruth Lorraine Jones (born 23 April 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport West and Islwyn since 2024. Before the 2024 constituency boundary change, she had been the MP for Newport West since winning the seat at a by-election in April 2019. Background Jones was educated at Duffryn High School in Newport. After training at Cardiff University, she worked as a physiotherapist in the National Health Service from 1983, eventually managing children and adult learning disability services for the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Political career Jones became involved with the professional body and trade union Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) as a steward, a regional steward, then a member of the CSP Council. In 2007 she was elected president of the Wales TUC for two years. In 2016 she became a full-time senior negotiating officer for the CSP. Jones joined Labour "when Tony Blair was leader", has "decla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party, often referred to as Labour, is a List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum. The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. It is one of the Two-party system, two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom; the other being the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Labour has been led by Keir Starmer since 2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 2020, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. To date, there have been 12 Labour governments and seven different Labour Prime Ministers – Ramsay MacDonald, MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Attlee, Harold Wilson, Wilson, James Callaghan, Callaghan, Tony Blair, Blair, Gordon Brown, Brown and Starmer. The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Morden
Jessica Elizabeth Morden (born 29 May 1968) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 until her election to Parliament. Early life and career Born in Surrey, England, Morden grew up in Cwmbran and educated at Croesyceiliog School before reading Medieval and Modern History ( BA) at the University of Birmingham. In 1991, Morden worked for Huw Edwards, MP for Monmouth. Between 1992 and 1995 she worked for Llew Smith, MP for Blaenau Gwent. Before becoming an MP, Morden was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 to 2005. She organised some of Labour's election campaigns for the 1997 election. Parliamentary career Morden was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Newport East in the 2005 general election by the all-women shortlists method. She was elected as the first female MP in South East Wales with a 6,800 majority. Morden served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
