ABERAVON AM David Rees has written to the Council to demand more details about the Afan Lido task and finish group. The Assembly Member wants to know what the Council’s task and finish group will be asked to do, and when it will release its findings. The move comes just weeks after the Council’s...
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AFAN LIDO campaigners have made their final case in front of a crowded public meeting at the Four Winds. This is the last public meeting they will hold before they hand in a petition containing thousands of signatures to Neath Port Talbot Council’s consultation on the rebuild of the leisure centre. Local councillors Ted...
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Steelworks bosses say crucial new work will go ahead - and that's pleased Labour men
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A NEW group has been set up on the social networking website Facebook in response to the council’s four-week consultation period on the Afan Lido rebuild. The brainchild of Gary Owen, 49, from Margam, who runs porttalbotlife.co.uk, the group is called Port ‘Talbot People Against Inferior Rebuild of Afan Lido’ and already boasts more...
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LEADING politicians have condemned plans to close seven of the nine Remploy factories in Wales, including the plant in Swansea, with the potential loss of 272 jobs for disabled workers. Remploy workers demonstrate in Swansea. Aberavon MP Hywel Francis and AM David Rees said in a joint statement: “We deplore the closure of two-thirds...
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THE WELSH Heritage Minister Huw Lewis has refused to step in to save Port Talbot’s Customs House and Royal Buildings from demolition. Campaigners had been hoping for a last minute reprieve for the historic buildings with the help of the Welsh government. Bethan Jenkins AM reacted angrily to Huw Lewis’s refusal to intervene in...
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ABERAVON MP Hywel Francis has pledged to support the local campaign to save Customs House from demolition. Port Talbot MagNet had asked Dr Francis for a statement last week, following the news that Coastal Housing chief Tim Blanch had said saving the facade of the building would cost £1m and would be impractical. But...
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Meyrick Sheen, Richard Burton’s brother Graham Jenkins and Hywel Francis MP were among the many mourners at the Cwmavon funeral of photographer Peter Knowles today. Peter had been a family photographer in Port Talbot for more than 40 years, following in his father’s footsteps, and was often called Mr Port Talbot locally. Officiating minister...
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A SANDFIELDS man who has been nominated for two top awards says he can’t afford to attend the ceremonies and has asked Neath Port Talbot Council for help. Hotel manager Peter Bush, 23, has been nominated for a Hotel Catey – a top hotel industry award – and a national St John’s Ambulance award,...
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THE first annual lecture in Port Talbot in memory of Richard Burton is expected to have a big turnout, according to joint organiser Hywel Francis, the MP for Aberavon. It will take place tomorrow night (Tuesday, October 4). “The Richard Burton Lecture by National Theatre Wales director John McGrath has attracted a lot...
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