Two Newport Town Councillors were mugged in separate attacks while on holiday last week.
The town’s deputy mayor, Councillor Dan Ashley, was attacked while walking on a beach in Scarborough.
He told the Advertiser that he was enjoying a walk along the beach, only to feel a sudden hit on the back of the neck.
He was knocked to the ground before his wallet, and £80 cash, was stolen.
The second attack happened last week when Councillor Phil Norton was on holiday with his family in Majorca.Councillor Norton was out shopping with his 15-year-old daughter when three men approached him.
He said: “This guy wanted to sell a watch to me, as they do when you are on holiday, but I didn’t want it and he started to get nasty.
“Then two other guys came over and it was down an alleyway and I had my daughter with me.
“I just handed them the money, I think it was about €50, because I didn’t know what they were going to do. It was really frightening.”
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