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Blaenau Gwent

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Blaenau Gwent (pronounced) is a county borough in Wales, sharing its name with a parliamentary constituency. [1]

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Abertillery

Abertillery (Abertyleri, meaning mouth of the River Tyleri) is the largest town of the Ebbw Fach valley in what was the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Alun Davies (politician)

Thomas Alun Rhys Davies (born 12 February 1964) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician.

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Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin Bevan (15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee ministry from 1945-51.

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Blaenau Gwent (Assembly constituency)

Blaenau Gwent is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Blaenau Gwent (UK Parliament constituency)

Blaenau Gwent is a constituency in South Wales created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nick Smith of the Labour Party.

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Blaenau Gwent by-elections, 2006

Two by-elections were held for the constituency of Blaenau Gwent in Wales following the death of Member of Parliament and Assembly Member Peter Law on 25 April 2006.

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Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council (Cyngor bwrdeistref Sirol Blaenau Gwent) is the governing body for Blaenau Gwent, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.

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Blaina

Blaina (Y Blaenau) is a small town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the unitary authority of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire.

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Brecknockshire

Brecknockshire (Sir Frycheiniog), also known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, and a former administrative county.

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Brynmawr

Brynmawr (sometimes hyphenated to Bryn-mawr) is a market town and electoral ward in Blaenau Gwent, South Wales.

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Caerphilly County Borough

Caerphilly (Caerffili) is a county borough in southern Wales, straddling the ancient county boundary between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.

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Coity Mountain

Coity Mountain (also spelled Coety Mountain, Welsh: Mynydd Coety) is a flat-topped mountain in the South Wales Valleys, between Blaenavon and Abertillery.

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County borough

County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.

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Dai Davies (politician)

David Clifford Davies (born 26 November 1959), commonly known as Dai Davies, was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Blaenau Gwent constituency in South Wales from 2006 to 2010, representing the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group.

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Districts of Wales

In 1974, Wales was re-divided for local government purposes into thirty-seven districts.

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Ebbw Vale

Ebbw Vale (Glyn Ebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales.

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Gwent (county)

Gwent is a preserved county and a former local government county in south-east Wales.

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ISO 3166-2:GB

ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2010

The fifty-fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom was the legislature of the United Kingdom following the 2010 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.

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List of Welsh areas by percentage of Welsh-speakers

This is a list of subdivisions of Wales by the percentage of those professing some skills in the Welsh language in the 2011 UK census.

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List of Welsh principal areas by area

This is a list of principal areas of Wales ordered by area.

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List of Welsh principal areas by population

This is a list of principal areas of Wales ordered by population.

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Llanelly

Llanelly (Llanelli) is the name of both a parish and community in the principal area of Monmouthshire, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire, south-east Wales.

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Llew Smith

Llewellyn Thomas Smith (born 16 April 1944) is a former Welsh Labour Party politician.

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Local government in Wales

Since 1 April 1996, Wales has been divided into 22 single-tier principal areas for local government purposes.

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Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

Margaret Beryl Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (born 22 May 1955) is a British Labour Peer and previously a trade union official and Labour politician.

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Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Member of the National Assembly for Wales

The National Assembly for Wales is composed of 60 members known as Assembly Members or AMs (in Welsh: Aelodau'r Cynulliad or ACau).

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Michael Foot

Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales.

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Monmouthshire (historic)

Monmouthshire, also known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.

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Nantyglo

Nantyglo is a village in the ancient parish of Aberystruth and county of Monmouth situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Blaina and Brynmawr in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent.

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Nick Smith (British politician)

Nicholas Desmond John Smith (born 14 January 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaenau Gwent since the May 2010 election.

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ONS coding system

In the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics maintains a series of codes to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Peter Law

Peter John Law (1 April 1948 – 25 April 2006) was a Welsh politician.

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Powys

Powys is a principal area, a county and one of the preserved counties of Wales.

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Principal council

A Principal council is a local government authority carrying out statutory duties in a principal area in England and Wales.

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Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries.

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Torfaen

Torfaen (Tor-faen) is a county borough in Wales within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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Tredegar

Tredegar (pronounced) is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in southeast Wales.

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Trish Law

Patricia Law, née Bolter (born 17 March 1954) was the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice AM for Blaenau Gwent in Wales between 2006 and 2011.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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United Kingdom general election, 2005

The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.

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Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)

In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welsh Labour

Welsh Labour (Llafur Cymru) is the part of the United Kingdom Labour Party that operates in Wales.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaenau_Gwent

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