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It completed the hat-trick around an hour later, adding Islwyn as well as Merthyr and Rhymney.

Welsh assembly election results: Labour makes gains at expense of Plaid 2011

I started work in 1968 as a draughtsman in Hymac in the Rhymney valley, south Wales, when Hymac and its hydraulic excavator was JCB's main competitor.

Letters: Ideas, patents and the yellow digger 2011

The quadruple for Labour was completed over an hour later with Gwyn Price winning Islwyn and Huw Lewis holding on to Merthyr and Rhymney – before Keith Davies managed to oust Plaid's Helen Mary Jones from her Llanelli seat.

Welsh assembly election results: Labour makes gains at expense of Plaid 2011

Boyce, 25, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and Scanlon, 31, from Rhymney, Gwent, died on Thursday when their armoured vehicle struck a makeshift bomb in Helmand province.

British soldiers killed in Afghanistan named by MoD 2011

The lowest percentage was at Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney with 67.2 per cent.

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Dwyfor Meirionnydd had the highest percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more GCSEs grade A*-C or equivalent, 66.2, whilst Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney was the constituency with the lowest percentage at 41.1.

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Wayne David, the Labour MP for Caerphilly, has welcomed the decision of Post Office Ltd to "look again" at the future of Gilfach Post Office in the Rhymney Valley.

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Al Iguana said ... nop, the Rhymney Valley Express leads with the story today, and dug out various Labour MPs/AMs to comment on how despicable the Council are, and it then descends to a full-on attack on the Plaid administration, they put money into Icelandic banks too!

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During the financial year 2006/2007, married couple Lynne Neagle, AM for Torfaen, and Huw Lewis, AM for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, claimed just under £24,000 for accommodation costs between them, despite living a 40-minute drive away from the Senedd in Merthyr Tydfil.

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Montgomeryshire was the constituency with the lowest percentage of pupils of compulsory school age entitled to free school meals at 9.3 in 2007, while Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, and Rhondda had the highest percentage at 27.6.

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