When the exhibition closed the clock was reassembled in Newport's John Frost Square where it became a visitor attraction.

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Prior to the right-hander's first pitch, public address announcer John Frost introduced "Lieutenant Mitch Harris" to generous applause from the red-clad crowd.

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But in March it was announced that plans to revamp Newport's shopping centre with the Friars Walk development for John Frost Square had been approved.

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New pledge signatories announced today include Joyce and Bill Cummings, Ray and Barbara Dalio, John Paul DeJoria, Phillip and Patricia Frost, Harold and Sue Ann Hamm, Vinod and Neeru Khosla, Rich and Nancy Kinder, Edward W. and Deedie Potter Rose, Lynn Schusterman, and Annette and Harold Simmons.

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Among the guests speaking to Sir David Frost were the Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid and the leader of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith.

BBC: Sunday 09 June 2002

David frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, and John Whiting, tax policy director at the Chartered Institute of Taxation, analyses the main parties' VAT policies.

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