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A couple of weeks ago Transport for Wales invited people to come along to Swansea Bus Station to give their views on the routes that buses in the city should take, once TfW takes over full responsibility for decisions from…
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George Bowring: murdered by Welsh magic
The Victorian writer R.D. Blackmore, if he’s remembered at all today, is known for his three-volume novel Lorna Doone. It’s an adventure story, set on Exmoor in the seventeenth century, about the feuding and violent Doone clan and the love…
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Bye bye, Brinley
Doedd y newyddion am farwolaeth Brinley ar 3 Awst ddim yn syndod – roedd yn 96 mlwydd oedd ac yn fregus yn dilyn strôc – ond daeth ton o dristwch mawr drosto i, o feddwl yn ôl dros y blynyddoedd…
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Dawn dweud
Bu tipyn o sôn yn y wasg yn ddiweddar am sgiliau ‘dawn dweud’ neu ‘medrau llafar’, neu ‘oracy’, i ddefnyddio’r gair Saesneg anhardd – y gallu i fynegi eich hun mewn ffordd rugl a gramadegol, ac i wrando ar yr…
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The Tower of the Nets
How many Swansea people, when they stroll along the sea wall past the Observatory (the Tower of the Ecliptic) in the Maritime Quarter stop to look closely at the diminutive building that sits on its own on the other side…
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Deep in Carmarthenshire
If you’re in love with green – I mean chlorophyll-saturated green, the lightest and deepest greens that nature can offer – there are fewer better places to find it than north-west Carmarthenshire. To wander through the fields and woods on…
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Tigers and dragons
What connects the histories and cultures of India and Wales? As it turns out, a complex nexus of links that have intertwined for centuries and continue to do so today. This is the theme of Tigers and dragons, a truly…
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Pentre Ifan o’r diwedd
Cyhoeddodd y diweddar John Davies yn 2010 lyfr o’r enw Cymru: y 100 lle i’w gweld cyn marw, gyda lluniau gwych gan Marian Delyth. Wrth i’r blynyddoedd wibio heibio, dwi’n dechrau becso am y bylchau personol sy’n bod o hyd…
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Avebury and the unknowable
This week we spent a few hours in Avebury in Wiltshire. The modern village sits beside (and partly upon) the largest Neolithic stone circle in Britain. It was my first visit since my parents took me to see it in…
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Against SUVs
A couple of weeks ago the campaign group Transport & Environment published a report explaining how the height of SUVs increases the risk of injury and death to pedestrians, especially children. It seems that the bonnet height of these vehicles…