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RICHARD EDEN: Viscount bows to pressure over bike tyre recycling plan By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 22:34 BST, 21 June 2024 | Updated: 22:40 BST, 21 June 2024 e-mail View comments Since their sumptuous, three-day wedding in 2022, when 190 guests feasted on Albacore tuna and salt marsh beef, Viscount and Viscountess Newport have been a blur of action. They have hatched bold plans for the 12,000-acre family estate on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border which Alexander Newport now controls, celebrated the birth of their first child — and still found time to track down auction house treasures and host friends in their 'ruby-red dining room' with its splendid cut-glass candelabra. But, judging by the howls of outrage emerging from their home village of Weston-under-Lizard, Alexander and Eliza Newport may soon hear some innovative, and quite possibly abrasive, suggestions for what precisely they can do with their cut-glass candelabra.

It's all a result of the Newports' latest proposal — to convert a disused barn on the edge of the village into a 'bicycle tyre and inner tube re-purposing facility'. Alexander and Eliza Newport (pictured) may soon hear some innovative, and quite possibly abrasive, suggestions for what precisely they can do with their cut-glass candelabra They have hatched bold plans for the 12,000-acre family estate on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border A proposal for a nuclear re-processing plant could scarcely have generated such disgust. One lo.



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