A NEWPORT city centre bar is to stay open until 3.30am every morning under the new 24-hour drinking laws.

Revolution, on Griffin Street in Newport city centre, is a two-storey vodka bar with a lounge area, courtyard garden and large dancefloor.

It is the latest in a line of pubs and clubs to apply for later opening hours under the new round-the-clock drinking rules.

Revolution's owners, Inventive Leisure, were given the council go-ahead for later hours, allowing the bar now to serve alcohol and play music until 3am every day including Sundays, and stay open until 3.30am.

The day before British Summer Time begins, the bar wants to stay open even later - meaning drinkers leaving the premises at 4.30am. A 40-year-old man, who asked not to be named, lives in one of about 18 flats opposite the bar.

He said: "I have problems with the noise now. In the last couple of months noise levels have gone through the roof."

He did not know about Revolution's application for later hours but said: "The later hours will definitely make things worse."

Stow Hill councillor Peter Davies said disillusioned residents saw little point in speaking out against 24-hour drinking applications in the city centre.

He feels the new Licensing Act leaves little opportunity for residents to have their say. Councillor Davies said: "The council steamrollered through the Bassment club on Stow Hill for 24-hour drinking despite the local opposition. Since then I don't feel the views of people are being represented, so there is little point in fighting the hours change."

He says residents in Newport's Stow Hill ward already suffer, with cars screeching past their homes in the early hours of the morning from Wednesday to Saturday.

"Now it will be at the beginning of the week, too," he said. At the moment, Revolution is open until 12.30pm on Sunday, 1am on Monday and Tuesday and until 2am Wednesday to Saturday.

The vodka bar refused to comment until it received official notification of the change.