newsreel: brought the threat - to newport sands and their answer is to ban vehicles.een parking on newport beach for decades, paying a small fee. this was the scene last summer, but the beach's popularity has caused problems. pembrokeshire coast national park authority has decided to purchase the entrance to the beach and the land near the sand dunes where cars have traditionally been parked, at the cost of £125,000. we have illegal overnight camping, littering, safety issues where cars drive where children are playing, for example, there. therefore, we were given the opportunity of purchasing the land and we took advantage of that opportunity and immediately stopped vehicles from coming onto the beach. the former owner told me there had been dangerous near—misses on the beach. the beach became more and more popular and sadly, like everything else, a minority spoilt it for the majority because they used to drive on the beach, took no notice of what we were trying to do, and on one occasion we nearly had a fatal accident. one couple i spoke to had driven onto the beach