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The Defence of Rorke’s Drift on the 22nd and 23rd of January 1879, was an epic battle in the British struggle for southern Africa. 155 ordinary men displayed extraordinary gallantry.
St Dwynwen's Day is celebrated in Wales on 25 January. But who was St Dwynwen? St Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, which makes her the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine. Dwynwen lived during the 5th century and was one of the prettiest of Brychan Brycheiniog's 24 daughters.
It was a cold, dark night and I was driving along the Valley between Neath and Resolven. Suddenly, out of nowhere, came the howling of a pack of hounds. A monstrous horde of yelling, yelping dogs was all around me — BUT I COULD SEE NOTHING.
It was a cold, dark night and I was driving along the Valley between Neath and Resolven. Suddenly, out of nowhere, came the howling of a pack of hounds. A monstrous horde of yelling, yelping dogs was all around me — BUT I COULD SEE NOTHING.
The wind whipping round the Rhigos mountain on Friday turned the banners carried by miners marching to mark the closure of their colliery into sails where red predominated. It seemed like nature's tribute to an event that underlined the way, against all the odds, they saved a colliery when Britain's coalfields were put to the sword in the early 1990s.
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