The main municipal leisure sports facilities are based at Newport Centre in the city centre, Newport International Sports Village at Liswerry and the Newport Active Living Centre at Bettws.

Caleb had appointed Julie CEO of his company, the Newport Group, and in order to give the group an image make-over, Julie decided to launch a magazine, Newport Living.

* Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia, United States

Her alcoholism was fueled by working closely with a man whom she had a crush on, Newport Living magazine editor Carter Buckley, who also drank too much.

In conjunction with this milestone occasion, a song was written by a City native and formally adopted by Newport News City Council in July 1989.

They spent several years honing their craft in Newport News ; their song " Oh Virginia " tells the story of their " second home.

The band performed the song live for the first time at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio in early 2005.

Davis may be heard playing on the 1973 CBS album Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival Live at Carnegie Hall on the song " Young Man with a Horn ".

Newport is the subject of a 2010 song " Newport ( Ymerodraeth State of Mind )", a parody of the Alicia Keys song " Empire State of Mind.

They dedicated the song to Victoria Beckham, which resulted in them being summoned by the Newport mayor's office, who also objected to the title of their album, Safe as Fuck.

GLC spoofed the show in a song called " Newport Bouncers ", and posted a video on YouTube containing visual and audio excerpts from the original documentary.

She sang a duet of this song with Dylan at Newport Folk Festival in 1964, as can be seen in The Other Side of the Mirror ( film ).

A recording of Dylan performing the song at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival was included on the compilation album, The Bootleg Series Vol.

At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves ' solo in Ellington's song " Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue " contained 27 choruses ; the publicity from which is credited with reviving Ellington's career.

* A notable performance of this song was that of Anita O ' Day at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, captured in Bert Stern's film Jazz on a Summer's Day.

He was a pre-finalist for the new song competition at the 2004 Newport Folk Festival, and has been the recipient of a PLUS Award from ASCAP in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2012.

During this tour, Jimmy Tee played one song " The Heimlich Manoeuvre " with Full Scale Revolution in Fremantle at the Newport Hotel on 6 June 2010.

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1976 ), an Amtrak train that began running between Newport News, Virginia and New York in 1976.

Welsh sides that play in English leagues are eligible, although since the creation of the League of Wales there are only six clubs remaining: Cardiff City ( the only non-English team to win the tournament, in 1927 ), Swansea City, Wrexham, Merthyr Town, Newport County and Colwyn Bay.

* Mercury ( Newport ), a newspaper in Rhode Island

Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), originally Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company ( NNS & DD ), was the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001.

Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.

In the 1990s, the company spun off its semiconductor products as Conexant Technologies ( CNXT ), which is publicly traded and based in Newport Beach, California.

Oldest Sabbatarian Meeting House in America ( Seventh Day Baptist ), built in 1729 in Newport, Rhode Island, now owned by Newport Historical Society.

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.

Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke ( 1609 – 76 ), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.

Hudson-Kam and Newport hypothesize that in a pidgin situation ( and in the real life situation of a deaf child whose parents were disfluent signers ), children are systematizing the language they hear based on the probability and frequency of forms, and not, as has been suggested on the basis of a universal grammar.

Such Sweet Thunder ( 1957 ), based on Shakespeare's plays and characters, and The Queen's Suite, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, were products of the renewed impetus which the Newport appearance helped to create.

In 1592, Newport captured the Portuguese carrack Madre de Deus ( Mother of God ), valued at £ 500, 000.

Her true professional career began at that 1959 Newport Folk Festival ; following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez ( 1960 ), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, who produced many albums by folk artists.

The Naval Academy Preparatory School ( NAPS ), in Newport, Rhode Island, is the official prep school for the naval academy.

** Newport ( Monmouthshire ) ( UK Parliament constituency ), former constituency

** Newport ( district ), former local government district

Desegregation can also result from additional suits brought by Negro plaintiffs against school boards in Newport News, Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Norfolk.

The Newport-based destroyer picket escort Kretchmer has arrived back at Newport after three months' patrol in North Atlantic waters marked by mercy jobs afloat and ashore.

The Newport Playhouse presents `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, directed by Wallace Gray.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

With capacity to produce up to 5, 000 engines a year by 100 specially trained personnel, like traditional Aston Martin engine production from Newport Pagnell, assembly of each unit is entrusted to a single technician from a pool of 30, with V8 and V12 variants assembled in under 20 hours.

The 1974 Australian America's Cup Challenger was named " Southern Cross " KA 4 representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club and was defeated 4-0 sailing off Newport Rhode Island by " Courageous " US26 sailing for the New York Yacht Club.

Southern Cross became the trial horse for the 1977 Australian Challenger " Australia " KA 5 representing the Sun City Yacht Club that was defeated 4-0 sailing off Newport Rhode Island by Courageous US26 sailing for the New York Yacht Club.

In July 1780, 5, 000 veteran French troops led by General Comte Donatien de Rochambeau arrived at Newport, Rhode Island to aid in the war effort.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

* 1895 – The first U. S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.

The largest is Aquidneck Island, shared by the municipalities of Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth.

In 1644, Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport united for their common independence as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, governed by an elected council and " president ".

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

* 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.