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Media Wales
Media Wales Ltd. is a publishing company based in Cardiff, Wales. As of 2009 it was owned by Reach plc (formerly known as the Trinity Mirror Group). It was previously known as the Western Mail & Echo Ltd. History The ''Western Mail'' was founded in 1869 by the 3rd Marquess of Bute as a Conservative newspaper. In 1893, the original building in St. Mary Street was destroyed by fire and a new building was opened also in St Mary Street two years later. In 1928 the Western Mail Ltd amalgamated with David Duncan & Sons, who published the ''South Wales Daily News'' and the ''South Wales Echo'', which was established in 1884. The merged company became Western Mail and Echo Ltd. and because of the merger ''Evening Express'' and ''South Wales Daily'' News closed. In 1960, the newspapers left St Mary Street and moved to Thomson House, Cardiff. On 1 October 2007 Western Mail and Echo Ltd changed its name to Media Wales, and in 2008 Media Wales moved from Thomson House in Havelock Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geograph
Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland. Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features of each 1 km × 1 km (100 ha) grid square in the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the Irish national grid reference system.Hawgood D. Geograph or supplemental (June 2007) (accessed 13 March 2008) There are 332,216 such grid squares containing at least some land or permanent structure (at low tide), of which 280,037 have Geographs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Wales Daily News Feb 7 1872
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Wales
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary Street/High Street
St Mary Street ( cy, Heol Eglwys Fair) and High Street ( cy, Heol Fawr) are major commercial streets in the Castle Quarter of Cardiff city centre, Wales, which form a major thoroughfare running south from the gatehouse of Cardiff Castle. High Street begins at the junction of Castle Street on the A4161 and ends at the junction of Church Street and Quay Street, from where St Mary Street begins until the roundabout at Callaghan Square on the A4160. In the 21st century, the thoroughfare has become the location for a wide variety of pubs, bars, restaurants, cafes and coffeeshops. Notable buildings past and present Present buildings * House of Fraser, formerly Howells department store * Cardiff Market * Hodge House * Prince of Wales Theatre (now a pub) * High Street Arcade * Morgan Arcade * Royal Arcade * Royal Hotel Former buildings * Cardiff Town Hall, demolished * Cardiff Gaol, demolished to make way for Cardiff Market * The first Cardiff Free Library Cardiff (; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhymney Valley Express
Rhymney (; cy, Rhymni ) is a town and a community in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. With the villages of Pontlottyn, Fochriw, Abertysswg, Deri and New Tredegar, Rhymney is designated as the ' Upper Rhymney Valley' by the local Unitary Authority, Caerphilly County Borough Council. As a community, Rhymney includes the town of Rhymney, Pontlottyn, Abertysswg, Butetown and Twyncarno. Rhymney is known to many outside Wales as a result of the song "The Bells of Rhymney", a musical adaptation of a poem by Idris Davies. Etymology The town is named after the Rhymney River, whose name derives from the Welsh word ' "auger" + ', a derivational noun ending. History The countryside around present day Rhymney would have been very different in the early 17th century. A new parish of Bedwellty had been formed in 1624, covering the lower division of the Wentloog Hundred, in the county of Monmouth, a hilly district between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhondda Leader
The ''Rhondda Leader'' is a weekly newspaper distributed in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales. The tabloid newspaper is published on a Wednesday by Media Wales which is owned by the UK's largest newspaper corporation, Trinity Mirror. Part of the Celtic Weekly Newspapers Celtic Weekly Newspapers is a series of seven weekly newspapers published in south Wales by Media Wales Ltd (formerly Western Mail & Echo Ltd), part of Reach plc. The titles in the series are: *''Cynon Valley Leader'' *''Glamorgan Gazette'' *''G ... series, which publishes eight other titles in South Wales, the ''Leader'' was founded in 1899. History The ''Rhondda Leader'' was first published in 1899 and nine years later became the ''Rhondda Leader, Maesteg, Garw and Ogmore Telegraph''. The ''Porth Gazette'' was published from 1900 to 1944 and during that period there was a newspaper called the ''Rhondda Socialist''. The ''Rhondda Gazette'' was also in circulation from 1913 to 1919 while the ''Rhondda Clari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer
() (colloquially: Ponty) is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Geography comprises the electoral wards of , Hawthorn, Pontypridd Town, 'Rhondda', Rhydyfelin Central/Ilan ( Rhydfelen), Trallwng (Trallwn) and Treforest (). The town mainly falls within the Senedd and UK parliamentary constituency by the same name, although the and wards fall within the Cynon Valley Senedd constituency and the Cynon Valley UK parliamentary constituency. This change was effective for the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, and for the 2010 UK General Election. The town sits at the junction of the and Taff valleys, where the River Rhondda flows into the Taff just south of the town at War Memorial Park. community recorded a population of about 32,700 in the 2011 census figures. while Pontypridd Town ward itself was recorded as having a population of 2,919 also as of 2011. The town lies alongside the north–south dual carriageway A470 between Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil. The A4054 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merthyr Express
Merthyr Tydfil (; cy, Merthyr Tudful ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydfil, daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, who according to legend was slain at Merthyr by pagans about 480 CE. generally means "martyr" in modern Welsh, but here closer to the Latin : a place of worship built over a martyr's relics. Similar place names in south Wales are Merthyr Cynog, Merthyr Dyfan and Merthyr Mawr. History Pre-history Peoples migrating north from Europe had lived in the area for many thousands of years. The archaeological record starts from about 1000 BC with the Celts. From their language, the Welsh language developed. Hillforts were built during the Iron Age and the tribe that inhabited them in the south of Wales was called the Silures, according to Tacitus, the Roman historian of the Roman invaders. The Roman i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwent Gazette
Gwent may refer to: Places *Kingdom of Gwent, a post-Roman Welsh kingdom or principality which existed in various forms between about the 5th and 11th centuries, although the name continued in use later *Gwent (preserved county), a preserved county in Wales *Gwent (former administrative county), a Welsh local authority between 1974 and 1996 **The operational area of Gwent Police *Gwent, a Celtic region which at one time covered part of modern-day Hampshire in England People *Gwilym Gwent, adopted name of Welsh-born American composer William Aubrey Williams (1834–1891) *Richard Gwent (died 1543), a chaplain of King Henry VIII and official in the Church of England Other uses * Coleg Gwent, a further education college in Wales *A card game in ''The Witcher'' novels by Andrzej Sapkowski ** A card game in the 2015 video game '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'' ** '' Gwent: The Witcher Card Game'', a 2018 video game based on the card game See also * {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glamorgan Gazette
, HQ = Cardiff , Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974) , Origin= , Code = GLA , CodeName = Chapman code , Replace = * West Glamorgan * Mid Glamorgan * South Glamorgan , Motto = ("He who suffered, conquered") , Image = Flag of Glamorgan, Flag adopted in 2013 , Map = , Arms = , PopulationFirst = 326,254 , PopulationFirstYear = 1861 , AreaFirst = , AreaFirstYear = 1861 , DensityFirst = 0.7/acre , DensityFirstYear = 1861 , PopulationSecond = 1,120,910Vision of Britain Glamorgan population , PopulationSecondYear = 1911 , AreaSecond = , AreaSecondYear = 1911 , Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynon Valley Leader , a Welsh hero of Arthurian legend
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Cynon may refer to: Cynon Valley * Cynon Valley, one of the South Wales Valleys * River Cynon, the river which gives its name to the Cynon Valley * Rhondda Cynon Taf, an administrative area in Wales created through the merger of the former districts of the Rhondda, Cynon Valley and Taff-Ely * Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency), a UK constituency that serves the Cynon Valley * Cynon Valley (Assembly constituency), a Welsh Assembly constituency that serves the Cynon Valley People * Cynon ap Clydno Cynon ap Clydno or in some translations KynonIn her translation of ''The Mabinogion'', Guest uses the spelling Kynon, but in the notes to her translation she acknowledges the character as Cynon ap Clydno or Cynan was an Arthurian hero from Welsh m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Weekly Newspapers
Celtic Weekly Newspapers is a series of seven weekly newspapers published in south Wales by Media Wales Ltd (formerly Western Mail & Echo Ltd), part of Reach plc. The titles in the series are: *''Cynon Valley Leader'' *''Glamorgan Gazette'' *''Gwent Gazette'' *''Merthyr Express'' *''Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer'' *''Rhondda Leader'' *''Rhymney Valley Express'' The '' Neath Guardian'' - which also had a Port Talbot edition - was part of the series until its closure in October 2009. See also *List of newspapers in Wales This is a list of newspapers in Wales. It includes historical and current titles. Free newspapers are marked with a *. West Wales Chronicle * '' The Aberdare Leader'' * '' The Aberdare Times'' * ''The Aberystwyth Observer'' * '' Aberystwyth Time ... External linksicWales: Around Wales {{Trinity Mirror Newspapers published in Wales Newspapers published by Reach plc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
