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As I walk about the small town in the South Wales valleys that I now call home, I sometimes reflect on how vibrant and alive this place once was. I am not going back too far with my memories, but today the town is dying.

When I first came here to Blaenavon there was a butcher, a baker, a shop that sold all manner of things including the candlesticks, a number of florists, newsagents, hairdressers, greengrocers selling fresh fruit & veg, a plethora of book shops, cafe's ranging

The latest swingers from Bridgend, Nathaniel Pritchard and Kelly Stephenson

UK - Suicide hot spot Bridgend in wet windy Wales claimed its 15th and 16th swingers today.

Two young cousins from Bridgend have been found hanged within hours of each other. Nathaniel Pritchard, 15, from Bridgend, died in hospital.

Kelly Stephenson, 20, who had been told her cousin was in a serious condition, was found hanging whilst on holiday in Kent.

Local MP Madeleine Moon will raise Internet use issues with police. She worries

RC Bishop: Priests have needs too

Most Rev Peter Smith

CARDIFF Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have accused the Government of using new equality laws to force them to end the priesthoods privilege of using alter and choir boys to satisfy their sexual needs.

The bishops of England and Wales said that proposals to ban “indirect discrimination” against priests who have had the same needs as the everyone else.

Requesting an exemption, the Archbishop of Cardiff, the Most Rev Peter Smith,

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