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Port Talbot

Index Port Talbot

Port Talbot is a town in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. [1]

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A4241 road

The A4241 (also known as Port Talbot Peripheral Distributor Road (PDR)) is a distributor road serving Port Talbot, Wales.

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Aberafan Centre

The Aberafan Shopping Centre is the only indoor shopping complex in Port Talbot, Wales.

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Aberavon

Aberavon (Aberafan) is a settlement in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.

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Aberavon (Assembly constituency)

Aberavon is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Aberavon (UK Parliament constituency)

Aberavon (Welsh: Aberafan) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Aberavon Beach

Aberavon Beach, also known as Aberavon Sands is three-mile (5 km) stretch of sandy beach on the north-eastern edge of Swansea Bay in Port Talbot, Wales.

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Aberavon Green Stars RFC

Aberavon Green Stars Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Aberavon, Wales, UK.

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Aberavon Quins RFC

Aberavon Harlequins RFC (nicknamed "The Mighty Quins") is a Welsh rugby union team located in the Fairfield area of Port Talbot, a few minutes away from the town centre and Aberavon.

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Aberavon RFC

Aberavon RFC (Clwb Rygbi Aberafan) is a rugby union club located in the Welsh town of Port Talbot, although the club's name refers to the older settlement of Aberavon which lies on the western side of the town.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Afan Forest Park

The Afan Forest Park (formally and locally known as Afan Argoed Country Park) is a forest park in Britain.

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Afan Lido F.C.

Afan Lido Football Club is a football team based in Port Talbot playing in Welsh League Division One.

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Alan Durban

William Alan Durban (born 7 July 1941) is a Welsh former international footballer and manager between the 1970s and 1990s.

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Allan Martin (rugby union)

Allan Jeffery Martin (born 11 December 1948) is a former Aberavon RFC and Welsh international rugby union player.

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Andrew Vicari

Andrew Vicari (born Andrea Antonio Giovanni Vaccari, 20 April 1932 – 3 October 2016) was a Welsh painter working in France, who established a career painting portraits of prominent people.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Apollo Cinemas

Apollo Cinemas was a locally focused, independently owned multiplex cinema operator in the United Kingdom.

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Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales (Trenau Arriva Cymru) (ATW) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operates the Wales & Borders franchise.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Baglan Bay

Baglan Bay (Welsh: Bae Baglan) is a part of the Swansea Bay coastline and a district of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.

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Baglan, Neath Port Talbot

Baglan is a village in Wales, named after Saint Baglan.

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Bars and Melody

Bars and Melody (B.A.M.) are a British pop duo consisting of rapper Leondre "Bars" Devries and singer Charlie "Melody" Lenehan.

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Bernard Fox (actor)

Bernard Lawson (11 May 1927 – 14 December 2016), better known as Bernard Fox, was a Welsh actor.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Blaengwynfi

Blaengwynfi is a village in the Neath Port Talbot area of South Wales.

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Britain's Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent (often abbreviated to BGT) is a British talent show competition, and is part of the ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell.

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Britain's Got Talent (series 8)

Series Eight of Britain's Got Talent, a British talent competition series, began broadcasting in the UK during 2014, from 12 April to 7 June on ITV; because of England's international friendly with Peru, the show took a break on 30 May to avoid clashing with live coverage of the match.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bryn

Bryn (which is Welsh for hill) is a component ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Bryn, Neath Port Talbot

Bryn (English: Hill) is a village and community in Neath Port Talbot County Borough in Wales.

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Bryncoch

Bryncoch is a suburb of the town of Neath in Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales.

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Bus station

A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers.

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Cadw

Cadw (a Welsh verbal noun meaning "keep/preserve") is the historic environment service of the Welsh Government and part of the Tourism and Culture group.

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Captain Beany

Captain Beany (born Barry Kirk c. 1954) is a Welsh eccentric and charity fundraiser in Sandfields, Port Talbot, Wales.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Cardiff City F.C.

Cardiff City Football Club (Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in the city of Cardiff, Wales, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.

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Cân i Gymru

Cân i Gymru (English: A Song for Wales) is a Welsh television show broadcast on S4C annually.

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Chain Home Low

Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II.

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Chris Jenkins (powerlifter)

Christopher Jenkins is a Welsh powerlifter and martial artist.

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Christopher Evans (businessman)

Sir Christopher Thomas Evans (born November 1957) is a Welsh biotechnology entrepreneur.

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Christopher Painter

Christopher Painter is a composer who was born at Port Talbot, South Wales in 1962 and studied music at University College, Cardiff.

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Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot FRS (10 May 1803 – 17 January 1890) was a Welsh landowner, industrialist and Liberal politician.

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Cimla

Cimla is a suburb of the town of Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

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Clive Jenkins

David Clive Jenkins (2 May 1926 – 22 September 1999) was a British trade union leader.

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Coast guard

A coast guard or coastguard is a maritime security organization of a particular country.

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Colin Pascoe

Colin Pascoe (born 9 April 1965) is a Welsh former professional footballer.

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Collector road

A collector road or distributor road is a low-to-moderate-capacity road which serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Connect2

Connect2 is a five-year project run by Sustrans beginning in 2006 to develop new walking and cycle routes in 79 communities around the UK.

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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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Croeserw

Croeserw is a village of approximately 1,380 inhabitants in Neath Port Talbot County Borough.

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Crynant

Crynant (or Y Creunant) is a village in the Dulais Valley in Wales.

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Cwmafan

Cwmafan (Cwmafan), sometimes known as Cwmavon in English, is a large village and community in the Afan valley in Wales, lying within Neath Port Talbot County Borough.

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Cwmllynfell

Cwmllynfell is the name of a village, community and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.

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Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot

Cymmer (Cymer) is a small village in Neath Port Talbot in Wales, set on a hillside in the Afan Valley near the confluence of the River Afan and the River Corrwg.

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Deadweight tonnage

Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (TDW) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry, not its weight, empty or in any degree of load.

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Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was a United Kingdom government department.

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Di Botcher

Di Botcher is a Welsh actress born in Port Talbot.

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Dic Penderyn

Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), known as Dic Penderyn, was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil who was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831.

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Digital audio broadcasting

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services, used in many countries across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.

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Dirty Sanchez (TV series)

Dirty Sanchez is a British stunt and prank TV series featuring a group of three Welshmen and one Englishman harming themselves, and each other, through dangerous stunts.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (British English) or divided highway (American English) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation.

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Duke of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, is a substantive title that has been created three times for members of the British royal family since 1726.

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Dyffryn School

Dyffryn Comprehensive is a split-site 11–16 years comprehensive school based in Neath Port Talbot, with the first two years being based in the 'lower' school, and the last three based in the 'upper'.

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Easter

Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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First Cymru

First Cymru is an operator of bus services in South West Wales.

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Freddie Williams (speedway rider)

Freddie Williams (12 March 1926 – 20 January 2013) was a motorcycle speedway rider from Wales who was World Champion on two occasions.

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Geoffrey Howe

Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British Conservative politician.

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George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy

Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, PC (29 January 1909 – 22 September 1997) was a British Labour Party politician and Speaker of the House of Commons.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Glamorganshire was a parliamentary constituency in Wales, returning two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the British House of Commons.

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Glan Afan Comprehensive School

Glan Afan Comprehensive School (in Welsh: Ysgol Gyfun Glan Afan) was a mixed comprehensive school which served the town of Port Talbot, Wales, and its surrounding areas for 120 years.

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Glyncorrwg

Glyncorrwg is a village in the Afan Valley, in southern Wales.

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Glynneath

Glynneath (Glyn-nedd), also spelt Glyn Neath, is a small town, community and electoral ward lying on the River Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holiday celebrating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Goytre

Goytre is a village near the town of Port Talbot, south Wales.

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Goytre United F.C.

Goytre United Football Club is a Welsh football club based in Goytre, near Port Talbot.

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Great Western Railway (train operating company)

First Greater Western Limited, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western railway franchise.

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Heart Wales

Heart South Wales is a British Independent Local Radio station serving South and West Wales.

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Hengwrt

Hengwrt (Old Court) was a mansion near Dolgellau in Meirionnydd, Gwynedd. It lay in the parish of Llanelltyd near the confluence of the River Mawddach and River Wnion, near Cymer Abbey.

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Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (11 February 180017 September 1877) was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.

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High Hopes (Welsh TV series)

High Hopes is a sitcom made in Wales, produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan for BBC Wales and is set in a fictional area of the South Wales Valleys called Cwm-Pen-Ôl (which is Welsh for 'Backside Valley').

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Holy well

A holy well or sacred spring is a spring or other small body of water revered either in a Christian or pagan context, sometimes both.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Intermodal freight transport

Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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James Hook (rugby union)

James William Hook (born 27 June 1985) is a Welsh rugby union player, who currently plays for Pro14 club the Ospreys.

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John Leland (antiquary)

John Leland or Leyland (13 September, – 18 April 1552) was an English poet and antiquary.

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Keith Barnes

William Keith Barnes AM (born 30 October 1934) is a former Australian international rugby league footballer and coach.

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Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Lliw Valley

The Borough of Lliw Valley (Welsh: Dyffryn Lliw) was one of the four local government districts of West Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 to 1996.

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Lloyd Langford

Lloyd Langford (born 6 August 1983) is a former Port Talbot blacksmith turned comedian, comedy writer and voice artist.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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M4 motorway

The M4 is a motorway which runs between London and South Wales in the United Kingdom.

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Manchester Piccadilly station

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England.

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Margam

Margam is a suburb of Port Talbot in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, close to junction 39 of the M4 motorway.

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Margam Castle

Margam Castle is a large Victorian era country house, built in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890).

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Margam Country Park

Margam Country Park is a country park estate in Wales, of around 850 acres (3.4 km²).

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Margam Stones Museum

Margam Stones Museum is a small Victorian schoolhouse near Port Talbot, South Wales, which now provides a home for one of the most important collections of Celtic stone crosses in Britain.

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Martyn Ashton

Martyn Ashton (born 2 December 1974) is a Mountain Biker who is paralysed from the waist down.

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (20 December 1899 – 1 March 1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor who was influential in the Reformed wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century.

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Media Wales

Media Wales Ltd. is a publishing company based in Cardiff, Wales.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Michael Locke (stuntman)

Michael Richard Locke (born 13 March 1979, Port Talbot, Wales), better known as Pancho, is a professional stuntman and a member of the Dirty Sanchez crew.

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Michael Sheen

Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Mountain bike trials

Mountain bike trials, also known as observed trials, is a discipline of mountain biking in which the rider attempts to pass through an obstacle course without setting foot to ground.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.

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Nant Ffrwdwyllt

Nant Ffrwdwyllt (sometimes known as Nant Cwm Farteg) is a stream that runs through Cwm Dyffryn, within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, from the village of Bryn, through the village of Goytre and the district of Taibach in Port Talbot, to the sea.

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Nation Radio Wales

Nation Radio Wales is a regional radio station, broadcasting to South Wales on FM and in West and North East Wales on DAB.

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National Express Coaches

National Express is an intercity and InterRegional coach operator providing services throughout Great Britain.

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National Theatre Wales

National Theatre Wales is the English language national theatre of Wales, and the UK’s youngest national theatre company.

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Neath

Neath (Castell-nedd) is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales with a population of 19,258 in 2011.

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Neath Guardian

The Neath Guardian was a local weekly newspaper published between 1925 and 2009 covering Neath, Wales, and the surrounding area.

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Neath Port Talbot

Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales.

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Neath Port Talbot College

Neath Port Talbot College (NPTC) was a further education institution established as two campuses in Port Talbot and Neath in Wales, United Kingdom.

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Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council

Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council is the local governing body for Neath Port Talbot, UK.

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Neath Port Talbot Hospital

Neath Port Talbot Hospital is a non acute secondary care 270-bed hospital located in Port Talbot, Wales.

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Neath Port Talbot Steelers

Neath Port Talbot Steelers are a rugby league team based in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan.

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Newport, Wales

Newport (Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northcliffe Media

Northcliffe Media Ltd. (formerly Northcliffe Newspapers Group) was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe, owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications (Y Swyddfa Gyfathrebiadau), commonly known as Ofcom, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Ospreys (rugby union)

The Ospreys (Y Gweilch), formerly the Neath-Swansea Ospreyshttp://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbynation/rugby-news/tm_objectid.

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Particulates

Atmospheric aerosol particles, also known as atmospheric particulate matter, particulate matter (PM), particulates, or suspended particulate matter (SPM) are microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in Earth's atmosphere.

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Passion Play

The Passion Play or Easter pageant (senakulo) is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trial, suffering and death.

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Paul Potts

Paul Robert Potts (born 13 October 1970) is a British tenor.

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Peg Entwistle

Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle (5 February 1908 – 16 September 1932) was a British-born stage and screen actress.

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Philip Burton (theatre director)

Philip Henry Burton (30 November 1904 – 28 January 1995) was a Welsh born American teacher, who went on to become an acclaimed radio producer and theatre director.

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Pontrhydyfen

Pontrhydyfen (or Pont-rhyd-y-fen) is a small village in the Afan Valley, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales.

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Port of Port Talbot

The port of Port Talbot is located on the River Afan estuary next to Port Talbot Steelworks in the industrial town of Port Talbot, South Wales.

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Port Talbot (electoral ward)

The electoral ward of Port Talbot in Neath Port Talbot county borough covers the town centre of Port Talbot and the district of Pen-y-cae.

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Port Talbot Parkway railway station

Port Talbot Parkway railway station is a railway station in Port Talbot, Wales.

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Port Talbot Steelworks

Port Talbot Steelworks is an integrated steel production plant in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, capable of producing nearly 5 million tonnes of steel slab per annum, making it the larger of the two major steel plants in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.

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Port Talbot Town F.C.

Port Talbot Town Football Club (Clwb Pêl Droed Port Talbot) is a Welsh football club from Port Talbot.

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Reach plc

Reach plc (formerly known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher.

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Reel Cinemas, UK

Reel Cinemas are a chain of multiplex cinemas based in the United Kingdom.

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Rhod Gilbert

Rhodri Paul Gilbert (born 18 October 1968) is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award.

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Rhys Taylor

Rhys Francis Taylor (born 7 April 1990) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for National League side Tranmere Rovers on loan from AFC Fylde.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton, CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Hibbard

Richard Hibbard (born 13 December 1983), is a Wales international rugby player currently playing for the Dragons.

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River Afan

The River Afan (Afon Afan) is a river in Wales whose river valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan.

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River Neath

River Neath (Afon Nedd) is a river in south Wales running south west from its source in the Brecon Beacons National Park to its mouth at Baglan Bay below Briton Ferry on the east side of Swansea Bay.

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Rob Brydon

Robert Brydon Jones, (born 3 May 1965), known professionally as Rob Brydon, is a Welsh actor, comedian, radio and television presenter, singer, and impressionist.

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Robert Blythe (actor)

Robert Blythe is a Welsh actor and UK voice over artist born in Port Talbot in Wales and brought up in Tan y groes St in that town.

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby League Conference

The Rugby League Conference (RLC) (also known as the Co-operative Rugby League Conference as a result of sponsorship from The Co-operative Group), was a series of regionally based divisions of amateur rugby league teams spread throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sandfields, Port Talbot

Sandfields (Welsh: Traethmelyn) is a mainly residential district of Port Talbot, Wales.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot

Seven Sisters (Blaendulais: source of the (river) Dulais) is a village in the Dulais Valley, Wales, UK.

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South Wales Evening Post

The South Wales Evening Post is a tabloid daily newspaper distributed in the South West region of Wales The paper has three daily editions - Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire and is published by South West Wales Publications, part of the Local World group.

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South Wales Main Line

The South Wales Main Line (Prif Linell De Cymru), originally known as the London, Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway or simply as the Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway, is a branch of the Great Western Main Line in Great Britain.

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South Wales Miners' Museum

The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales coalfield.

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South West Wales Publications

South West Wales Publications (SWWP), part of the Northcliffe Media, is a regional newspaper publisher based in Swansea.

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Speedway World Championship

The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest-ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world, run under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).

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St Mary's Church, Aberavon

St Mary's Church, Aberavon, is an Anglican church in Port Talbot, UK.

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Sunderland A.F.C.

Sunderland Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

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Sustrans

Sustrans is a UK sustainable transport charity.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Swansea Bay

Swansea Bay (Bae Abertawe) is a bay on the southern coast of Wales.

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Swansea Bay Radio

Swansea Bay Radio is a British Independent Local Radio station serving the Swansea Bay area of West Wales.

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Swansea City A.F.C.

Swansea City Association Football Club (Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Abertawe) is a Welsh professional football club based in Swansea, Wales, that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football.

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Swansea Sound

Swansea Sound (Sain Abertawe) is a British independent local radio station broadcasting to Swansea Bay area of West Wales, aimed at a core 40+ demographic.

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Taibach

Taibach or Tai-bach (Little Houses) is a suburban district of Port Talbot, Wales.

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Taibach RFC

Taibach Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Taibach of Port Talbot in Wales, UK.

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Tata Steel RFC

Corus Rugby Football Club was a Welsh rugby union clubs based in Port Talbot.

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The Gospel of Us

The Gospel of Us is a 2012 Welsh drama based on the Owen Sheers novel of the same name and the three-day Passion play that Michael Sheen acted in at his home town of Port Talbot in April 2011.

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television programme, that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies starring Elisabeth Sladen.

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The Valleys (TV series)

The Valleys was a British reality television series based in Cardiff, Wales and broadcast on MTV.

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The Wave 96.4 FM

96.4 The Wave is a British Independent Local Radio station that serves the Swansea Bay area of West Wales.

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Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of South Wales

The University of South Wales (Prifysgol De Cymru) is a public university in Wales, with campuses in Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd and Dubai.

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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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Wales Rally GB

The Wales Rally GB is the largest and most high-profile motor rally in the United Kingdom.

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Welsh Football League Division One

The Welsh Football League Division One, known as the Nathanielcars.co.uk Welsh League First Division for sponsorship reasons, is a football league in South Wales.

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Welsh Premier League

The Welsh Premier League (Uwch Gynghrair Cymru) is the national football league for Wales.

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West Glamorgan

West Glamorgan (Gorllewin Morgannwg) is a preserved county and former administrative county of Wales, one of the divisions of the ancient county of Glamorgan.

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West Wales lines

The West Wales lines (Welsh: Llinellau Gorllewin Cymru) are a group of railway lines from Swansea through Carmarthenshire to Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

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Westminster Chapel

Westminster Chapel is an evangelical free church in Westminster, central London.

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William Abraham (trade unionist)

William Abraham (14 June 1842 – 14 May 1922), universally known by his bardic name, Mabon, was a Welsh trade unionist and Liberal/Labour politician, and a member of parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1920.

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William Evans (Wil Ifan)

William Evans (22 April 1883 – 16 July 1968), better known by his bardic name of Wil Ifan, was a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1947 to 1950.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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XS (radio)

XS was a community radio station serving the Neath Port Talbot county borough.

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Ystalyfera

Ystalyfera is a former industrial village in the upper Swansea Valley, on the River Tawe, about north-east of Swansea.

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1950 Individual Speedway World Championship

The 1950 Individual Speedway World Championship.

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1953 Individual Speedway World Championship

The 1953 Individual Speedway World Championship.

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2013 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2013 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 19th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 68th FIM Speedway World Championship.

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References

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

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