Article: CITY CAMPUS BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO AN ANCIENT RIVER SITE; The new building transforms the area, but pays tribute to its past with a modern design which resonates with the maritime past of the area. It provides a fitting new chapter in the long history of the site.

WHEN students start arriving at the new City Campus of the University of Wales, Newport, when it opens next year, they will be following in the footsteps of diverse groups of people - including prehistoric hunters, tribes of warriors and Roman soldiers- who have been drawn to this area of the river bank for millennia.

"The site of the university's new campus is rich in history," says Dr Ray Howell, Reader in History at Newport University and the Director of ...

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