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COMMENT: Even Tories don’t care about police commissioners

EDITORIAL COMMENT: Any excuse for Post Office sell-off

12:40pm Thursday 6th September 2012

IT STRIKES us as a bit peculiar that the government policy to introduce police and crime commissioners seems to have been forgotten by the very people who proposed it.

PASSPORT OFFICE: AM slams minister's 'phantom jobs' claim

8:50am Wednesday 29th June 2011

THE Government minister who oversaw the reduction in jobs and functions at Newport's Passport Office is being "hypocritical and misleading" in suggesting that staff set to lose their jobs could find other public sector  work in South Wales, says an AM.

Anger as passport jobs detail revealed

FEARS: Union rep Ben Rapier

3:10pm Thursday 23rd June 2011

THE process for staff to reapply for their jobs at the scaled downNewport passport office has begun.

Passport office decision set for Monday

10:40am Friday 20th May 2011

THE fate of the Newport Passport Office is to be announced on Monday, the Argus can exclusively reveal.

PASSPORT OFFICE: Minister’s apology after leaflet uproar

CAMPAIGN: Government plans for the passport office have led to protests on the streets of Newport

11:40am Wednesday 11th May 2011

A CABINET minister apologised after ‘redundancy leaflets’ were delivered to Newport Passport Office in full view of staff.

PASSPORT OFFICE: Union fury over redundancy leaflets

‘UTTER INSULT’: Union branch secretary Anne-Louise McKeon-Williams

9:50am Tuesday 10th May 2011

THE passport service was condemned yesterday after boxes of redundancy leaflets were left at the front of its Newport office in full view of staff arriving for work.

First Minister slams passport office impact report

SUPPORT: First minister Carwyn Jones

2:10pm Saturday 26th March 2011

THE study into the economic impact of closing the Newport Passport Office does not make a robust case for closure and is technically deficient, says Assembly First Minister Carwyn Jones.

PASSPORT OFFICE: Think again over closure, says Hain

UNITED WE STAND: From left; Rosemary Butler AM, Peter Hain shadow Welsh Secretary, Anne-Louise Mckeon-Williams PCS Branch Secretary at the Passport Office and John Griffiths AM

1:13pm Friday 18th March 2011

THE Shadow Welsh Secretary called for a final rethink over proposals to close the city’s passport office ahead of the closure consultation coming to an end today.

D-day looms for passport office

WARNING: Matthew Evans

10:20am Thursday 17th March 2011

THE leader of Newport council yesterday made a last-ditch appeal to save the passport office in a letter to the woman who will decide its fate.

Study backs closure of passport office

2:59pm Sunday 13th March 2011

THE LONG awaited study into the economic impact of closing Newport Passport Office backs the move by the report's authors, the Identity and Passport Service.

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