1972 a Rescue, the Cracked M4 and City: All in a Week's News
South Wales Echo › March 03, 2009
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After helping to rescue a friend trapped in a quarry, nine-year- old Rhondda boy Leslie Davies climbed an electricity pole, burned his hands on an insulator and crashed 25ft to the ground.
His three friends ran for help, but when the emergency services arrived Leslie, from Pontygwaith, had disappeared.See the full content of this document
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1972 a Rescue, the Cracked M4 and City: All in a Week's News
He was finally traced when a police car carrying one of his friends called at his home.
He was taken to hospital, where experts said he was "very lucky to be alive".A 50ft crack had appeared in the million-pound-a-mile M4, which had been opened just three months earlier.Workers rushed to repair subsidence on the main South Wales- ...See the full content of this document
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