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Celtic Weekly Newspapers is a series of seven weekly newspapers published in south Wales by Media Wales Ltd (formerly Western Mail & Echo Ltd), part of Reach plc. The titles in the series are: Cynon Valley Leader; Glamorgan Gazette; Gwent Gazette; Merthyr Express; Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer; Rhondda Leader; Rhymney Valley Express
The paper was founded as the South Wales Argus and Monmouthshire Daily Leader on 30 May 1892. An early description of the paper reads, "The South Wales Argus, the only evening paper printed and published in Newport and Monmouthshire was established in 1892, and the South Wales Weekly Argus and Star of Gwent the only weekly paper printed and published in Newport, was established in 1829.
In 2011 Blaenau Gwent had the highest level of severe child poverty in Wales, as revealed in statistical data published in a report by Save the Children. [ 10 ] According to the 2011 Census , 5.5% of the county's 67,348 (3,705 residents) resident-population can speak, read, and write Welsh , [ 11 ] with 7.8%, or 5,284 residents, being able to ...
Blaenau Gwent incorporates most of the area of Aneurin Bevan's old constituency and other areas as population expansion has been low or negative following the 1960s. The constituency was created in 1983, twenty-three years after Bevan's death, from the upper part of the former Abertillery constituency, the town of Brynmawr from Brecon and Radnor, and Bevan's old Ebbw Vale seat with the ...
Gwent Archives (Welsh: Archifau Gwent) is the local records office and genealogy centre, based in Ebbw Vale, South Wales for the historic county of Monmouthshire. It covers the modern local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent , Caerphilly County Borough , Monmouthshire , Newport and Torfaen .
Blaenau Gwent & Rhymney saw the highest number of mineworker pensioners receive the uplift in Wales with 1622 pension scheme members in the constituency. Smith welcomed this saying: “My fellow coalfield MPs and I have been campaigning for a fairer deal for mineworkers for a long time, it is fantastic to see our Labour government righting this ...
Circulation rank for Welsh daily newspapers, 2024 [10] [11 ... Gwent Gazette 17 Abergavenny Chronicle ... Welsh Academic Press is a publishing house established in ...
The county council was abolished in 1996 and Blaenau Gwent became a principal area with county borough status, with the council taking over the functions previously performed by the county council. [4] Borough status allows Blaenau Gwent to give the chair of the council the title of mayor.