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Man gets his arm stuck in Newport postbox

Firefighters were called to free a man who got his arm trapped in a post box in Newport.

Published Sep 25, 2014

A crew from the town was called to High Street at about 8.10pm yesterday.

Firefighters using specialist equipment spent about 15 minutes at the scene.

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