A young girl from Newport has won the first Newport Festival of Words poetry competition.

Justice Mansfield, aged 10, a pupil at St Patrick’s RC Primary School, was thrilled to be chosen as the winner.

Her poem, titled "Newport - The Place to Be," is now displayed in the city centre.

It has been reproduced in full on a giant book in John Frost Square by Friars Walk, to help promote the inaugural Newport Festival of Words.

The festival, which has attracted authors from across the country, takes place in the........

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