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Tredegar

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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. [1]

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A Bit of Tom Jones?

A Bit of Tom Jones? is a 2009 Welsh comedy film written, produced and directed by Peter Watkins-Hughes.

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A. J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin, MBChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.

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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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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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Anterior (band)

Anterior was a five-piece metal band from Tredegar, Wales.

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Arthur Henry Williams

Arthur Henry Williams (December 4, 1894 – October 4, 1968) was a Canadian trade union organizer and politician who served in both the Ontario legislature and the House of Commons of Canada on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

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Baron Tredegar

Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Bedwellty (UK Parliament constituency)

Bedwellty was a county constituency in Monmouthshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

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Bedwellty House

Bedwellty House is a Grade II-listedhttp://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-1862-bedwellty-house-tredegar house and gardens in Tredegar, in the Sirhowy Valley in south-east Wales.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Ben Cross

Ben Cross (born Harry Bernard Cross; 16 December 1947) is an English stage and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

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Bert Gray

Albert Gray (23 September 1900 – 16 December 1969) was a Welsh international footballer who played as goalkeeper for various clubs in the 1920s and 1930s, including Oldham Athletic, Manchester City, Tranmere Rovers and Chester.

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Berwyn Price

Berwyn Price (born 15 August, 1951) is a former Welsh international athlete.

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Black Dyke Band

Black Dyke Band, formerly John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known brass bands in the world.

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Blaenau Gwent

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

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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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Bradley Dredge

Bradley Dredge (born 6 July 1973) is a Welsh professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.

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Bretons

The Bretons (Bretoned) are a Celtic ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France.

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Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band

The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band was formed in 1881.

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British and Irish Lions

The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for any of the Home Nations – the national teams of England, Scotland, and Wales – and Ireland.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Bryan D. White

Bryan David White (born 9 February 1936 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire Wales; died 12 May 2017 in Winscombe, Somerset, England) was General Secretary (1978–1984) and Chief Executive Officer of the Loyal Order of Moose in Britain (1984–2001).

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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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Cardiff North (UK Parliament constituency)

Cardiff North (Welsh: Gogledd Caerdydd) is a UK constituency in the city of Cardiff represented since 2017 by Anna McMorrin of the Labour party.

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Cardiff RFC

Cardiff Rugby Football Club (Clwb Rygbi Caerdydd) is a rugby union football club based in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.

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Cefn Golau

Cefn Golau is a disused cholera cemetery situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, and located between Rhymney and Tredegar in south-east Wales.

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Chapel

The term chapel usually refers to a Christian place of prayer and worship that is attached to a larger, often nonreligious institution or that is considered an extension of a primary religious institution.

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Christopher Meredith

Christopher Meredith (born 1955) is a poet and novelist from Tredegar, Wales.

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Cliff Wilson

Cliff Wilson (10 May 193421 May 1994) was a Welsh professional snooker player.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Community (Wales)

A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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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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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Country park

A country park is an area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment.

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Cow (public service announcement)

Cow, also titled Only Stwpd Cowz Txt N Drive, is a 30-minute public service announcement film directed by Peter Watkins-Hughes with assistance from Gwent Police and Tredegar Comprehensive School.

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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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Dame school

A dame school was an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries.

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David Morgan (cricket administrator)

Frederick David Morgan OBE DL (born 6 October 1937) is a cricket administrator who is the former president of the International Cricket Council.

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Denzil Williams

Denzil Williams (born 17 October 1938) is a former Wales international rugby union player.

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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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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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Douglas McKie

Prof Douglas McKie FRSE FRIC FSA (1896–1967) was a British chemist and science historian.

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Dutch garden

The Dutch garden is distinguished by its dense atmosphere and efficient use of space.

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Ebbw Vale (UK Parliament constituency)

Ebbw Vale was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ebbw Vale RFC

Ebbw Vale Rugby Football Club (Clwb Rygbi Glyn Ebwy) is a Welsh Rugby Union Club based in the town of Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales.

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England and Wales Cricket Board

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales.

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European Commissioner

A European Commissioner is a member of the 28-member European Commission.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Franchising

Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organisation as a strategy for business expansion.

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Garyn Preen

Garyn Vernon Preen (born 25 October 1991) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a winger for Evesham United.

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George Cording

George Ernest Cording (1 January 1878 – 2 February 1946) was a Welsh cricketer.

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Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Glamorgan County Cricket Club (Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Glyn Parry (historian)

Glyndwr John Robert Parry FRHistS was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire on October 31, 1953.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Great Britain national rugby league team

The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league.

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Grimethorpe Colliery Band

Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a brass band, based in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England.

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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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Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 14 December 1966) is a retired Danish politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015.

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Henry Morgan-Clifford

Henry Morgan-Clifford (1806 – 12 February 1884) was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Historic counties of Wales

The historic counties of Wales are sub-divisions of Wales.

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House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency)

Islwyn is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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J. B. Joyce & Co

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James J. Davis

James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Welsh immigrant who became an American businessman, author and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Jason Strange

Jason Strange (born 8 October 1973 in Tredegar, Wales) is a former Welsh rugby union player and now coach.

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John Lewis (footballer, born 1955)

John Lewis (born 15 October 1955 in Tredegar) is a former Welsh football player.

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Jonathan Evans (politician)

Jonathan Peter Evans FRSA (born 2 June 1950) is a former Welsh Conservative Party politician and Chairman of the Welsh Conservative Party.

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Labour movement

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

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Labour Party (UK)

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

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Leader of the Labour Party (UK)

The Leader of the Labour Party is the most senior political figure within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom.

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Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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List of Greek mythological figures

The following is a list of gods, goddesses and many other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion.

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List of International Cricket Council presidents

The following is a list of presidents of ICC (International Cricket Council), the international governing body of cricket.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Loyal Order of Moose

The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888, with nearly 1 million men in roughly 2,400 Lodges, in all 50 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces as well as Bermuda; along with its female organization, Women of the Moose with more than 400,000 members in roughly 1,600 Chapters in the same areas and the Loyal Order of Moose in Britain these organizations make up the Moose International.

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Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band, formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Caerphilly and consisting of James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar), Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and Sean Moore (drums, percussion, soundscapes).

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Mark Colbourne

Mark Lee Colbourne MBE (born 9 November 1969) is a former Welsh paralympic-cyclist, who competed for both Wales and Great Britain.

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Mark Jones (rugby, born 1965)

Mark Alun Jones (born in Tredegar) is a Welsh dual-code international professional rugby union, and rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal.

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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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Men's chorus

A men's chorus or male voice choir (MVC) (German: Männerchor), is a choir consisting of men who sing with either a tenor or bass voice, and whose music is typically arranged into high and low tenors (1st and 2nd tenor), and high and low basses (1st and 2nd bass; or baritone and bass)—and shortened to the letters TTBB.

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Merthyr Town F.C.

Merthyr Town Football Club (Clwb Pêl-droed Tref Merthyr) is a Welsh semi-professional football club based in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.

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Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.

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Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway

The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, also known as the Heads of the Valleys line, was a railway line which operated between 1860 and 1958 between the Monmouthshire town of Abergavenny and the Glamorgan town of Merthyr Tydfil in South East Wales.

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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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Mid and West Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

Mid and West Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies.

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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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Moose International in Great Britain

The Moose International of Great Britain Association (formerly known as The Grand Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose in Great Britain) is a fraternal service organisation, which was run by the Grand Council from 1926 to 2013 until it was replaced by the National Management Committee.

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Moses Russell

Moses Richard Russell (20 May 1888 – 18 December 1946) was a Welsh international footballer, who played most of his career with Plymouth Argyle.

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National Coal Board

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the public health services in the United Kingdom – the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – as well as a term to describe them collectively.

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Natural Resources Wales

Natural Resources Wales (Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru) is a Welsh Government sponsored body, which became operational from 1 April 2013, when it took over the management of the natural resources of Wales.

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Neil Kinnock

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh Labour Party politician.

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Nerys Hughes

Nerys Hughes (born 8 November 1941) is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles, including her part in the BBC TV series The Liver Birds.

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Newport County A.F.C.

Newport County Association Football Club (Clwb Pêl-droed Sir Casnewydd) is a professional association football club based in the city of Newport, South Wales.

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Newport Docks

Newport Docks is the collective name for a group of docks in the city of Newport, south-east Wales.

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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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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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Nicki McNelly

Nicola McNelly (née Calder; born 1 May 1962) is a British Anglican priest.

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Nicky Wire

Nicholas Allen Jones (born 20 January 1969), known as Nicky Wire, is the lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.

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Ontario (electoral district)

Ontario was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1997.

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Orpheus

Orpheus (Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation) is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Orvault

Orvault is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

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Patrick Jones

Patrick Jones (born 1965) is a Welsh poet, playwright and senior sibling of Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers.

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Penydarren

Penydarren (Penydarren) is a community in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales.

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PGA European Tour

The PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Senior Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour.

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Phil Williams (Welsh politician)

Professor Philip James Stradling Williams (11 January 1939 – 10 June 2003) was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist.

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Philip Weekes

Philip Gordon Weekes (12 June 1920 – 26 June 2003) was a Welsh mining engineer.

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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.

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Plymouth Argyle F.C.

Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England.

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Pogrom

The term pogrom has multiple meanings, ascribed most often to the deliberate persecution of an ethnic or religious group either approved or condoned by the local authorities.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Prime Minister of Denmark

The Prime Minister of Denmark (Danmarks statsminister; literally "Minister of the State") is the head of government in the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Ray Reardon

Ray Reardon, (born 8 October 1932) is a Welsh retired snooker player who dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning six World Championships, and is remembered as one of the best players of the 20th century.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Richard Fothergill (ironmaster)

Richard Fothergill (1758–1821) was an ironmaster in South Wales and the founder of the Fothergill dynasty of ironmasters.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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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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Samuel Homfray

Samuel Homfray (1762 – 22 May 1822) was an English industrialist during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, associated with the early iron industry in South Wales.

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Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 2nd Baronet (4 February 1760 – 5 December 1846), was a Welsh soldier and politician, the MP for Brecon and County of Monmouth.

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Sirhowy River

The Sirhowy River (Welsh language: Afon Sirhywi) is a river in Wales and a tributary of the Ebbw River.

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Sirhowy Valley

The Sirhowy Valley is an industrialised valley in the eastern part of the Valleys region of Wales.

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South Wales East (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

South Wales East is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies.

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South Wales Metro

The South Wales Metro is a proposed integration of heavy rail and development of light rail and bus-based public transport services and systems in South East Wales around the hub of.

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Stephen Kinnock

Stephen Nathan Kinnock (born 1 January 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberavon at the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

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Stuart Lane

Stuart Lane (born 12 November 1952) is a former international rugby union player.

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Texting while driving

Texting while driving, also called texting and driving, is the act of composing, sending, reading text messages, email, or making similar use of the web on a mobile phone while operating a motor vehicle.

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The Citadel (1983 miniseries)

The Citadel is a 1983 BBC television adaptation written by Don Shaw from A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, which was originally published in 1937.

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The Citadel (novel)

The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics.

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The District Nurse

The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and 1987.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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The Hungry Earth

"The Hungry Earth" is the eighth episode in the fifth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 22 May 2010 on BBC One.

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Tracey Moberly

Tracey Moberly (born Tracey Karen Wood, Tredegar, South Wales, 1964; formerly married as Sanders-Wood) is an interdisciplinary artist, author and radio show host, and was also a co-owner of the Foundry in London.

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Tranmere Rovers F.C.

Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England.

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Tredegar General Hospital

Tredegar General Hospital was a community hospital in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales providing rehabilitation and GP in-patient care with 85 full and part-time staff and 58 beds in two wards.

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Tredegar House

Tredegar House (Welsh: Tŷ Tredegar) is a 17th-century Charles II-era country house mansion in Coedkernew, at the western edge of the city of Newport, Wales.

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Tredegar House Country Park

Tredegar Park (Parc Tredegar) is a large municipal park located near the housing estates of Duffryn, Maesglas, and Gaer in the city of Newport in South Wales.

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Tredegar Iron and Coal Company

Tredegar Iron and Coal Company was an important 19th century ironworks in Tredegar, Wales, which due to its need for coke became a major developer of coal mines and particularly the Sirhowy Valley of South Wales.

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Tredegar Iron Works

The Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, was the biggest ironworks in the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and a significant factor in the decision to make Richmond its capital.

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Tredegar Ironsides RFC

Tredegar Ironsides Rugby Football Club is a rugby union, from Tredegar in South Wales.

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Tredegar Medical Aid Society

Tredegar Medical Aid Society was founded in Tredegar in South Wales.

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Tredegar RFC

Tredegar Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Tredegar.

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Trefil

Trefil is a small village in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, south Wales.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Secretary of Labor

The United States Secretary of Labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the U.S. Department of Labor, exercises control over the department, and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

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University of Glamorgan

The University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg) was a university based in South Wales prior to the merger with University of Wales, Newport, that formed the University of South Wales in April 2013.

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Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington (Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Vincent Cronin

Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Vogon

The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—initially a BBC Radio series by Douglas Adams—who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route.

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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 national football team

The Wales national football team (Tîm pêl-droed cenedlaethol Cymru) represents Wales in international football.

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Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team (Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) competes annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland.

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Walter Conway

John Walter Conway (1873 – 1933) was the distinguished Secretary of the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in South Wales.

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World Snooker Championship

The World Snooker Championship is the leading snooker tournament both in terms of prestige and prize money.

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1974 British Commonwealth Games

The 1974 British Commonwealth Games were held in Christchurch, New Zealand from 24 January to 2 February 1974.

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1978 Commonwealth Games

The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 3 to 12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec.

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2012 Summer Paralympics

The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 14th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that took place in London, United Kingdom from 29 August to 9 September 2012.

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References

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

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