Pub fire closes road
Pub fire closes road
The A41 south of Newport was closed between the Sheriffhlaes and Great Chatwell junctions due to a fire at the old Countess Arms pub in the early hours of this morning.
Traffic was being diverted via A518 to Donnington then A4640 back to the A5 or M54 .
The road was re-opened around 7:30am.
Pic:Newport SNT
Gordon White
Julie Cappleman
That’s been disused for years
Ayden Smith
Andy Abbotts
Someone just found a place to build new houses!
Jenny Weston
James Carney such a shame
Nicholas-John Roberts remember the champagne opening evening
Nicola Zaman
Gagandeep Dhatt
Iris Chambers
One way was back open this morning. Newport to Weston way.
Steve Stokes
And coming soon an application to knock it down and build houses on the site…..
Rob Matthews
Meg Bulmer
Punch taverns by any chance?
Becky Sleigh
Kevin Richards thought this would not be long till this happened. Would of thought it would of happened years ago.
Amazing how many old pubs get torched ….then some little slimy corporation makes £100000s on new houses ….funny that
Lisa Pullenger Lewington
Shame was a great pub!
Would’ve made lovely home.But now many more homes maybe built on it.sadly.