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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Public must hear Friar's Walk debate

9:20am Tuesday 16th June 2009

WE were baffled when we learned that a Newport Council cabinet meeting to discuss the ditched Friars Walk shopping scheme was to be held behind closed doors.

Council U-turn over Friars Walk debate

9:13am Tuesday 16th June 2009

NEWPORT Council has made a u-turn so that a key debate today can be held in public, after an approach by the South Wales Argus.

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FRIAR'S WALK: Newport looks for future of city shopping

11:22am Thursday 11th June 2009

DEBENHAMS says it is still interested in coming to Newport despite the scrapping of the Friars Walk shopping centre scheme.

Friar's Walk plan shelved

12:47pm Wednesday 10th June 2009

A MAJOR shopping scheme which would have helped transform Newport city centre is being ditched, as JANE HELMICH exclusively reveals.

EDITORIAL COMMENT: Friars Walk effort not all wasted

1:40pm Wednesday 10th June 2009

IT gives us no great pleasure to report today on the decision by Newport City Council to ditch developer Modus Corovest and its plans to build the Friars Walk shopping centre.

FRIAR'S WALK: Hope for other schemes

1:30pm Wednesday 10th June 2009

FRIAR'S Walk was one of the victims of the credit crunch along with The Edge, a housing development on the riverfront, and some other residential schemes.