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1979 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27 Floods cause misery in South Wales, a BEM for coalman Albert and much more make the news 32 years ago this week Now for the bill - and it's millions Millions of pounds worth of damage was caused by raging floods in South Wales - at least three people, probably four, died and thousands of homes were ravaged by water.
Unlike the last great floods 20 years ago, this time the valleys bore the brunt of the damage with more than two thousand homes damaged in Mid Glamorgan alone.See the full content of this document
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But areas of Cardiff near the River Taff also suffered and today the Secretary of State for Wales, Nicholas Edwards, was visiting stricken areas.
In Merthyr, two pensioners died when a wall of water 10 feet high smashed into their cottage home.The wave w...See the full content of this document
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