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Merthyr Express @merthyrexpress

The Merthyr Express is a weekly newspaper distributed in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales.

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Councillor Clive Jones said he doesn't accept at all that they behaved unreasonably walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

Controversial HMO plan to go ahead as council accused of acting 'unreasonably'

Councillor Clive Jones said he doesn't accept at all that they behaved unreasonably

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A councillor said that it has been an eyesore for two years since people were moved out and they thought something would happen sooner walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

Eyesore flats with structural problems to be knocked down and rebuilt

A councillor said that it has been an eyesore for two years since people were moved out and they thought something would happen sooner

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It is hoped that the new facility at Afon Taf will be open in the spring walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

Council given £1m towards a new 3G pitch at a valleys school

It is hoped that the new facility at Afon Taf will be open in the spring

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The new trains are being rolled out across the South Wales Metro and are set to bring in quicker and more frequent journeys for passengers walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

'Absolutely lovely' The Valleys lines get their first sight of electric trains

The new trains are being rolled out across the South Wales Metro and are set to bring in quicker and more frequent journeys for passengers

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Taxpayers have been left with bills of "hundreds of millions of pounds" walesonline.co.uk/news/polit…

Restoration of opencast mines 'woefully short' of what was promised

Taxpayers have been left with bills of "hundreds of millions of pounds"

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In video footage shared by South Wales Police officers arrive at the family home and Brown is immediately pointed out to police by relatives at the scene walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

Moment man fled family home after stabbing wife 3 times

In video footage shared by South Wales Police officers arrive at the family home and Brown is immediately pointed out to police by relatives at the scene

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Taxpayers have been left with bills of "hundreds of millions of pounds" walesonline.co.uk/news/polit…

Restoration of opencast mines 'woefully short' of what was promised

Taxpayers have been left with bills of "hundreds of millions of pounds"

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South Wales Police issued a warning over rogue traders operating in Welsh towns walesonline.co.uk/news/polic…

Police warning after man drives woman, 80, to bank for 'overpriced' work

South Wales Police issued a warning over rogue traders operating in Welsh towns

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These five Post Offices across Wales are some of the 115 across the UK that are at risk of closure. walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-ne…

The full list of Post Offices in Wales at risk of closure

These five Post Offices across Wales are some of the 115 across the UK that are at risk of closure.

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Ceirion Galliers died from injuries he sustained during a crash in which he was a pedestrian walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

'One in a million' teen fatally hit by a car days after turning 18

Ceirion Galliers died from injuries he sustained during a crash in which he was a pedestrian

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Ceirion Galliers died from injuries he sustained during a crash in which he was a pedestrian walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

'One in a million' teen fatally hit by a car days after turning 18

Ceirion Galliers died from injuries he sustained during a crash in which he was a pedestrian

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The council's cabinet heard the trust owes the council £641,000 which is fully provided for walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

Welsh council owed whopping £640,000 by trust that ran its leisure services

The council's cabinet heard the trust owes the council £641,000 which is fully provided for

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Merthyr Tydfil Council is facing additional costs as a result of the A465 Heads of the Valleys dualling scheme walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

A465 Heads of the Valleys works leave council with £100k school transport costs

Merthyr Tydfil Council is facing additional costs as a result of the A465 Heads of the Valleys dualling scheme

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The comment was made as councillors met to agree to charge a 200% premium on properties left empty for more than a decade in the county walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

'Not fair' people are living on streets when houses sit empty

The comment was made as councillors met to agree to charge a 200% premium on properties left empty for more than a decade in the county

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An application for the Cefn Isaf flats in Cefn Coed is set for a decision soon walesonline.co.uk/news/local…

Plan revealed to demolish old Merthyr flats and build 40 new ones in their place

An application for the Cefn Isaf flats in Cefn Coed is set for a decision soon

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Phillip Hill's body was found after people heard his daughter screaming for help walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

Dad dies in freak fall at beauty spot

Phillip Hill's body was found after people heard his daughter screaming for help

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Richard Tudor, 32, returned to the Angel Inn, in Troedyrhiw, in Merthyr Tydfil, armed with a knife and a red lensed torch before being dragged to the floor by people in the pub walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

Man armed himself with knife after argument over Covid vaccines

Richard Tudor, 32, returned to the Angel Inn, in Troedyrhiw, in Merthyr Tydfil, armed with a knife and a red lensed torch before being dragged to the floor by people in the pub

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And the county where prices have dropped the most may come as a surprise walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/…

Latest house prices for Wales show 'upward trend' with one exception

And the county where prices have dropped the most may come as a surprise

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One passenger was 'reduced to tears' as she travelled on a bus her dad regularly drove walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…

Classic Welsh buses from another era spotted back on the streets

One passenger was 'reduced to tears' as she travelled on a bus her dad regularly drove

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Taylor Swift-obsessed 10-year-old Poppy Gardiner, has undergone 20 operations in her short life and her mum can now tell when she needs urgent medical attention, just by changes in her smell and the way she looks, long before any symptoms walesonline.co.uk/news/healt…

Mum says daughter's 'smell' told her something was wrong

Taylor Swift-obsessed 10-year-old Poppy Gardiner, has undergone 20 operations in her short life and her mum can now tell when she needs urgent medical attention, just by changes in her smell and the...

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