NEWPORT'S booming brewery, Tiny Rebel is looking for venues for a new bar in the city centre.

Tiny Rebel Brewery founders, brothers-in-law Bradley Cummings and Gareth Williams, say they wants to be part of the positive change in Newport.

The news comes after the duo attended a St David’s Day reception in Downing Street on Monday evening with wives Laura Cummings and Hannah Williams on the invitation of prime minister David Cameron.

Mr Williams said: “It was fantastic and very surreal. It’s an honour to meet the prime minister and to have five minutes with him for him to try a few of our beers.

“It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He came into the room and spoke to a few of the suppliers because they were serving our drinks for the evening. I managed to shake his hand and give him a brief history of the business and that we were based in Newport.”

Mr Williams added the brewery, which runs the Urban Tap House in Cardiff city centre and which saw its turnover grow to £1.2 million last year, are always looking to move forward and that they “definitely want to be in Newport”.

He added: “It’s just about finding the right location in Newport, we are looking at venues. With everything happening in Newport, with all the positives, we’re just looking to be a part of it.”

Also invited to the reception on Monday evening were founder of Newport-based GoCompare Hayley Parsons, headteachers Alyson Mills of Lliswerry High and Heather Vaughan of St Woolos Primary, ITV political editor Adrian Masters, of Newport, Newport’s Laura Tenison, founder and managing director of JoJo Maman Bebe and South Wales Argus editor Kevin Ward.

Welsh celebrities including Paralympic athlete Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson, Songs of Praise presenter Aled Jones and stage star Connie Fisher were also on the guest list.

The celebrations included Welsh produce such as beef, cheese and cakes prepared by Welsh catering company Graham Tinsley and Tiny Rebel Brewery beers.

The Prime Minister told his guests: “This for me is not just a celebration of Wales and a celebration for Welsh people across our country, and indeed across the world.

“It is also for me a personal celebration. I’ve been doing some research into my relatives, and my grandmother on my mother’s side was a Llewellyn. And I went a little bit further back and I found that her grandfather was actually called Llewellyn Llewellyn – he was a tin plate maker in Glamorgan. So I think that’s real Welsh heritage.

“But I think this is actually a good year to celebrate the success of Wales, not least because when we think of Wales there is obviously so much in the arts and culture and sport, the beautiful countryside, the extraordinary coastline, the incredible industrial heritage – there are so many things to celebrate.”

Mr Cameron said the “industrial future” of Wales should be celebrated and “not just the great and proud past”, as he named Airbus as one of the country’s economic successes.