Farewell to Aberfan campaigner Enos
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A COMMUNITY will pay its last respects today to a former Merthyr Tydfil councillor and campaigner.
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Farewell to Aberfan campaigner Enos Sims
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A COMMUNITY will pay its last respects today to a former Merthyr Tydfil councillor and campaigner.
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Trelewis man wins compensation case against Merthyr Council after falling cable damages his car
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A VINTAGE vehicle was the source of a civil headache for Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council.
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Merthyr Tydfil League
icWales (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
IN the Premier Division Abercanaid and Bluebirds shared the points in a 10-goal thriller.
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Midday assault on teen near supermarket
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
A TEENAGER suffered injuries to his face in a daytime attack near a Valleys supermarket.The assault on the 17 year old from Treharris, happened near Tesco at Tramroadside North, Merthyr Tydfil, on October 2 between 11.30am and 12.30pm.
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Profile of Huw Lewis
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
In the second in a series looking at those aiming to be elected as the next leader of Welsh Labour Party, Left Foot Forward profiles Huw Lewis, Assembly Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, and the only backbencher to stand. Born in the town of Aberfan, Lewis often describes the impact ...
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Braving the storm
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
In one deprived community, residents have always had it this bad. But Karen Day finds that the full impact of the recession won't hit them until public spending cuts start to bite The economic gloom that is blighting communities across Britain has had little impact on the Gellideg estate in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales. Despite obvious signs in the town a mile or so down the hill, life here goes on...
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Tributes paid to former Merthyr Tydfil town clerk
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
IN his role as Merthyr Tydfil town clerk at the time, Selwyn Jones’ response to the Aberfan disaster has been described as “pivotal”.
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Siberians sell coal to the Welsh
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Regulations mean new steam train must run on fuel from 3,000 miles away instead of the mine three miles up the road The local mine is a mere three miles away and is clearly visible from the offices of the Brecon Valley Railway in Merthyr Tydfil. But regulations about how it can be transported mean that coal for the railway's newly converted steam train comes not from the south Wales valleys but from...
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Dr TJ Dyke remembered
This is my truth (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Some of the newest houses in Merthyr are to be found on Thomas Dyke Close between Penydarren and Galon Uchaf, close to the site of the old Penybryn waterworks. Thomas Dyke was Medical Officer of Health for Merthyr Tydfil from 1848-1894. He was born in Merthyr in 1816, apprenticed to the surgeons at the Cyfarthfa [...]
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Top Celtic wrestling returns to Merthyr
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
AFTER a two-year absence Celtic Wrestling returns to the heart of Merthyr Tydfil with their Highway To Hell show at the Gurnos Club on September 10.
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New measles case confirmed in Merthyr
icWales (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
ANOTHER person has been confirmed to have measles in an outbreak on the Gellideg estate in Merthyr Tydfil.
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What the new Climate Camp Cymru can do for Wales
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
We'll protest against opencast mining and ensure the Welsh Assemby's 2020 pledges are met … so why not join us? When members of the UK's first Camp for Climate Action pitched up next to Drax power station in 2006 , they can scarcely have realised how far things would come in just a few years. This year the Climate Camp movement is spreading right across the world, with Camps springing up in...
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Hain drops in to Gurnos to bring news of scheme
Merthyr Express (icWales) (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
WELSH Secretary Peter Hain chose Merthyr Tydfil as the venue to announce a £1bn Welsh Assembly initiative aimed at creating more than 2,000 new jobs for 18 to 24-year-olds.
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Lessons from the heartland
donpaskini (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Jonathan Rutherford, writing about how the left is 'in a state of intellectual disarray' , argues that "the centre left now faces an epochal task of constructing a political economy and philosophy that has broad electoral appeal and which is able to contest the Liberalism of the Labour right and the right wing communitarianism of the Conservatives." Rutherford says that the way to achieve...