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Switch-off for main road lights - BBC News
BBC News
Switch-off for main road lights
BBC News
Several councils around Wales have already turned off street lights, but Powys and Blaenau Gwent had to switch some back on following complaints.
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£4million contract to bring jobs to valleys firm - South Wales Argus
£4million contract to bring jobs to valleys firm
South Wales Argus
NEW JOBS are being created in Blaenau Gwent thanks to an Ebbw Vale company winning a £4million contract. Wil-Mor-Wil, which is based at ...
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Social worker faces conduct hearing in Wales over alleged sexual relationship - Communitycare.co.uk
Social worker faces conduct hearing in Wales over alleged sexual relationship
Communitycare.co.uk
It is alleged that David Bowen took "intimate photographs" and sent suggestive text messages to the woman while working for Blaenau Gwent Council. ...
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Date set for Blaenau Gwent housing transfer - South Wales Argus
Date set for Blaenau Gwent housing transfer
South Wales Argus
COUNCIL houses in Blaenau Gwent will be transferred to a new social landlord in June. The council has now set June 21 as the date when the ...
Tredegar bus site could get domestic abuse refugeSouth Wales Argus
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£2.3 million boost for Valleys - South Wales Argus
£2.3 million boost for Valleys
South Wales Argus
A group was set up, consisting of Blaenau Gwent executive members, town and community councillors, Communities First representatives and GAVO among others ...
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Valleys are no oasis for Meg Mathews - BBC South East Wales
BBC South East Wales
Valleys are no oasis for Meg Mathews
BBC South East Wales
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2009 found that Blaenau Gwent - the county which includes Ebbw Vale - had the highest rate of joblessness in ...
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Watchdog probes Blaenau Gwent Council bosses - South Wales Argus
Watchdog probes Blaenau Gwent Council bosses
South Wales Argus
During an exempt section of a Blaenau Gwent Council full council meeting on November 19, councillors were presented with a report into the senior management ...
Good Morning Wales - WLGA explains purchase of wheelie bins with micro chipsDeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
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Good Morning Wales - WLGA explain purchase of wheelie bins with micro chips - DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Good Morning Wales - WLGA explain purchase of wheelie bins with micro chips
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Steve Thomas, Chief Executive, Welsh Local Government Association,told Good Morning Wales, “It's a pilot scheme in Blaenau Gwent at the moment. ...
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'Pay as you throw' fear as councils plant spy microchips in our bins - WalesOnline
'Pay as you throw' fear as councils plant spy microchips in our bins
WalesOnline
In Wales, Blaenau Gwent and Denbighshire councils have admitted to buying the bins, in response to Freedom of Information requests made by the campaigners. ...
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Archbishop of Cardiff's fear at Merthyr sixth form plan - BBC News
BBC News
Archbishop of Cardiff's fear at Merthyr sixth form plan
BBC News
... in their Catholic deanery area, which takes in parts of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf as well as Merthyr Tydfil county borough. ...
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Foots strategy could have averted bank crisis - Scotsman
Telegraph.co.uk
Foots strategy could have averted bank crisis
Scotsman
Mr Davies, who represents Blaenau Gwent where Mr Foot was MP until 1992, said the 1983 manifesto was "prescient and before its time in calling for the ...
Former Labour leader Michael Foot diesBBC News
Welsh Labour leader's praise of 'great thinker'South Wales Argus
Former Labour Leader Foot Dies4RFV
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Farewell to a giant of socialism - South Wales Argus
Farewell to a giant of socialism
South Wales Argus
Polemically brilliant and capable of both biting rhetoric and scholarly insight Michael Foot continued to thrive in his Ebbw Vale (later Blaenau Gwent) ...
New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworksEnvironmental Expert (press release)
Blaenau Gwent MP tells of Foot's 'socialist achievement'South Wales Argus
Former Labour leader Michael Foot diesSouth Wales Argus
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Farewell to a socialist giant - South Wales Argus
Farewell to a socialist giant
South Wales Argus
Polemically brilliant and capable of both biting rhetoric and scholarly insight Michael Foot continued to thrive in his Ebbw Vale (later Blaenau Gwent) ...
New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworksEnvironmental Expert (press release)
Chris McLaughlin An intellectual giant who was the Labour Partys guiding lightScotsman
Blaenau Gwent MP tells of Foot's 'socialist achievement'South Wales Argus
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Labour Party candidate in Airdrie and Shotts will be chosen from all-women ... - Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser
Labour Party candidate in Airdrie and Shotts will be chosen from all-women ...
Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser
In 2005 they lost their fifth-safest seat in the UK, Blaenau Gwent, following a row over an all-women list. Peter Law left the party, ran as an independent ...
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Pupils use silenceagainst plan to scrap sixth forms - WalesOnline
Pupils use silenceagainst plan to scrap sixth forms
WalesOnline
Consultations are under way in Merthyr and Blaenau Gwent over proposals to boost prospects for young people. The area has some of the poorest academic ...
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Tributes pour in for Michael Foot, the Labour legend - Irish Independent
Tributes pour in for Michael Foot, the Labour legend
Irish Independent
He later represented Ebbw Vale (1960-83) and Blaenau Gwent (1983-92), both in Wales. He was employment secretary between 1974-76 under Harold Wilson and ...
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Weather hits ambulance response times - South Wales Argus
Weather hits ambulance response times
South Wales Argus
While heavy snow affected the whole of Gwent for several days in January, Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent fared worst in terms of ambulance response, ...
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Welsh Labour leader's praise of 'great thinker' - South Wales Argus
Times Online
Welsh Labour leader's praise of 'great thinker'
South Wales Argus
Labour's parliamentary candidate for Blaenau Gwent, Nick Smith, said: "I first met Michael some 25 years ago and he has been a good friend and support to me ...
Former Labour leader Michael Foot diesBBC News
Michael Foot: More than a politician, a man of deep principleIndependent
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Blaenau Gwent MP tells of Foot's 'socialist achievement' - South Wales Argus
Blaenau Gwent MP tells of Foot's 'socialist achievement'
South Wales Argus
By South Wales Argus Newsdesk » DAI Davies, the independent MP for Blaenau Gwent, which replaced Mr Foot's old constituency of Ebbw Vale, said: "It's a pity ...
New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworksEnvironmental Expert (press release)
Torfaen MP pays tribute to Foot - 'a great Socialist and a fine Gwent MP'South Wales Argus
Former Labour leader Michael Foot diesSouth Wales Argus
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Welsh Labour leader's praise of 'great thinker' - South Wales Argus
Welsh Labour leader's praise of 'great thinker'
South Wales Argus
Labour's parliamentary candidate for Blaenau Gwent, Nick Smith, said: "I first met Michael some 25 years ago and he has been a good friend and support to me ...
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Torfaen MP pays tribute to Foot - 'a great Socialist and a fine Gwent MP' - South Wales Argus
Torfaen MP pays tribute to Foot - 'a great Socialist and a fine Gwent MP'
South Wales Argus
He was a true socialist, never wavering in his views, and he had a particular affection for Gwent, representing Ebbw Vale (Blaenau Gwent) after the death of ...
New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworksEnvironmental Expert (press release)
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BREAKING NEWS: Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies - South Wales Argus
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BREAKING NEWS: Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies
South Wales Argus
MICHAEL Foot, ex-Blaenau Gwent MP and former leader of the Labour Party has died at the age of 96. Mr Foot was first elected as an MP in 1945, ...
Former Labour leader Michael Foot diesBBC News
Former Labour leader Michael Foot diesThe Press Association
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Welsh tributes for Michael Foot - BBC News
BBC News
Welsh tributes for Michael Foot
BBC News
Born in Plymouth, he was made freemason of Plymouth Devonport and Blaenau Gwent. He may have been born in Plymouth, but he was a giant of Welsh politics. ...
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Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies - BBC News
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Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies
BBC News
... footsteps of his great political mentor Aneurin Bevan. He served the south Wales valleys constitutency - which became the Blaenau Gwent seat - for 32 years.
Foots strategy could have averted bank crisisScotsman
Welsh Labour leader's praise of 'great thinker'South Wales Argus
Former Labour Leader Foot Dies4RFV
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New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworks - Environmental Expert (press release)
New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworks
Environmental Expert (press release)
The Works in Ebbw Vale, South Wales combined green compost - taken from households in the local region of Blaenau Gwent - with colliery spill and basic ...
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